DISCUSSION -- December 2014 75 Word Writing Challenge

[Phyrebrat]

The challenge is up, and surprise, surprise, I didn't go for horror

Best of luck

pH

 

[Juliana]

Ooh, fun. I like it.

 

[Parson]

Phyrebrat: You may not have gone for horror, but I'm shaking in my boots at the thought of a seasonal noir.

 

[Cat's Cradle]

Wonderful, Phyrebrat! LOVE the genre choices. Good stories so far! I have one done, but it's dark and depressing..and the Festive Season, in theory at least, is light and happy.
I'm trying to figure out if I should try another one that is happier...ahhh, I don't know! Well, I'll figure this out.

 

[Phyrebrat]

Sorry @Parson - but come on, this is better than horror, right?

@Cat's Cradle I'm sure there are plenty of folk for whom the Festive Season isn't light and happy; just look at what the dreadful scriptwriters of Eastenders manage to inflict on their cast each year.

pH

 

[ratsy]

Good one Phyre. My first thoughts went pretty gruesome so I will see if I stick to that or do the groaner I was thinking of

 

[Ashleyne]

I'm gonna like this competition. Nice choices, phyrebrat. I'm feeling festive already

 

[HareBrain]

I can just hear Robert Mackay's being read in the voice of that guy off Dragnet.

 

[mosaix]

I can just hear Robert Mackay's being read in the voice of that guy off Dragnet.

You're giving your age away now, HB.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Jack Webb. (Giving away my age.) Yes, I think I'll be hearing his voice narrating a lot of the stories.

Very good stories so far! I haven't even a glimmer of an idea.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Love it, Juliana -- that's quite a case to have to solve!

I do have an idea (!) which I am frantically trying to work out before someone else gets to it. I know that nobody ever gets to the ones you (or at least I) think are the most obvious that way, but this has just got to be an exception to that.

 

[Juliana]

Thanks TDZ!

Good luck with the idea. And isn't that always the case? We think our idea is glaringly obvious, and we'd better hurry up, but in the end no one ends up doing anything like it. Or else we think it's incredibly unique and that's when there are several similar stories...

 

[Remedy]

Thanks TDZ!

Good luck with the idea. And isn't that always the case? We think our idea is glaringly obvious, and we'd better hurry up, but in the end no one ends up doing anything like it. Or else we think it's incredibly unique and that's when there are several similar stories...

Oops, I just did that with mine, I was convincing myself that loads of people would choose the same subject... I could never have the patience of our end posters, they must have nerves of steel!

 

[Juliana]

Nice entry, Remedy!

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Nothing biographical in mine. Nothing at all. Whistles.

Great entries, everyone!

 

[Juliana]

'Tis the season for the scatterment, and all that jazz...

 

[Remedy]

Thanks Juliana. I agree springs, wonderful all round.

Brilliant choice Phyrebrat!

 

[chrispenycate]

Oops, I just did that with mine, I was convincing myself that loads of people would choose the same subject... I could never have the patience of our end posters, they must have nerves of steel!

I always consider that anything I write will be different enough from anybody else's interpretation it won't confuse people. Well, any more than I regularly confuse people.

 

[alchemist]

Despite having perused Wikipedia all evening, I still can't get past opening a story with a simile about the leg length of the broad who just walked into my office.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Oops, I just did that with mine, I was convincing myself that loads of people would choose the same subject... I could never have the patience of our end posters, they must have nerves of steel!

I think a majority of us end-posters just don't think of anything until the end -- there's only one I know with nerves of steel.