Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35711173-20190702085504/@comment-35711173-20190702175628

Christian,

I wrote the story using a Leshy as the monster and then wasn't satisfied. If you disregarded details like Hermann was about to be tortured and then be eaten, it would have actually been rather cute. The point where I went to a complete stream of consciousness rewrite was the point where you noted the story is improving. Ironically, I spent far less time on the second part of the story than the first.

You are absolutely right on the lack of detail on the battlefield and the forest. I can picture a woman in the river. I don't know that sort of forest or that sort of battle. What little I could channel came from one Wikipedia article on an old-growth forest on the Polish-Bielorussian border and the old movie Alexander Nevsky. I'll take this as a growth opportunity.