b.read.crumbs : Lost in the Forest of Excess Verbiage

My prompt this month is the fairy tale “The Yellow Dwarf.” I’d never read it before Julie and I started working from The Blue Fairy Book, and apparently no editor ever read it, either. It’s filled with disparate characters and fizzling plotlines that spoil the fun of reading. Julie and I chose the name breadcrumbs for our newsletter because we hoped to provide a trail through the mistakes and misfortunes we’ve traversed so that others on the writer’s path can avoid same.

I could have used a trail...