Discussing the Writing Challenges -- November and December 2010

[J Riff]

Re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- September and October

Yes, I remember Atomic Fire Balls...awful hot cinammon stuff... but how do you get that little TM* character in there? Funny.
Can't choose. No idea, have no clue who to plunk for this time. Hopeless.

 

[Mouse]

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Next time, perhaps you ought to be aiming for 80 words....


Mwhahahahahahhahahahahaha!

Eviiiiiiil!!

 

[Ursa major]

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Evil? What? Me...?



<--- * Looks innocent *

...but how do you get that little TM* character in there?

You get ™ by holding down the Alt key and typing 0153 on your numeric keypad.

Or you could use the Character Map app; ™is near the bottom of the available Verdana characters.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

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Or, if you have a Mac, you just hold down the alt key and type 2. ™*™*™*™*™

The alt key on a Mac is a wondrous thing.

 

[chrispenycate]

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Or, if you have a Mac, you just hold down the alt key and type 2. ™*™*™*™*™

The alt key on a Mac is a wondrous thing.

Only if you have an American keyboard on your Mac; with a Swiss one that gives you a “ inverted comma, different from shift 2's " inverted comma. You have to go alt shift x to get a ™. I have no idea what it would be on a British English Keyboard, but different again. © is easy, ® is in there somewhere, but I never use it so I don't know where –

And I'm not even sure you're going to see these as I send them.

Aren't standards wonderful?

 

[Ursa major]

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To put your mind at rest, Chris, I saw all four special characters (“™©®).

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

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Next month's theme: computer keyboards.

No? Too boring?

Less than 24 hours now, before this month's Challenge closes.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

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Thanks to RSliwinski for teaching me all kinds of brand names for American confectionary I never suspected existed. A clever and funny entry.

Hey, he's got a couple in there that even I haven't heard of--I'll have to make him give me some for Halloween!

 

[Ursa major]

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Less than forty minutes to go. (Plenty of time for a late entry or two.)



EDIT: Ignore that nonsense. As Teresa points out below, there's one hour twenty-three minutes to go at the time of this edit.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- September and October

I've switched to GMT, and I've got it at an hour and half to go.

 

[Ursa major]

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Your quite right, Teresa: we're on BST (supposedly summer time, in spite of the autumnal weather) for another week here in the UK.


But at least it stirred Cul into getting his entry posted. (That's my story and I'm sticking to it. )

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

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The October Challenge is over. We have a poll and an URL for the poll, but I can't do the fancy manipulation so that the link says "Vote Here."

To vote in the poll, click on the link below:

October Writing Challenge - TRICK OR TREAT - Poll | Polldaddy.com (poll 3972786)

 

[J Riff]

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Mercy me. (Re-reads stories) Hmmm. Well. ( Shrugs) Uhhhmm..
Mull, mull.......... ponder...

.... *
well, take Mosaix to the leader. Twas difficult. Veryy hard choice, I fain would lie down now.

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

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Mosaix for me too.

I have to confess, there were some entries I just didn't get.

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

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I had my old agonized decision this month between Seph and SF myself, but in the end I went along with SF.



I wonder what next month will bring....?

 

[sloweye]

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My vote went to HJ, can't put my finger on it... but it made me go....... Ooooooo.

 

[chopper]

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i didn't have time to write one (too busy wrestling with a different word-count). but hopefully i can find time to read them - and vote.

 

[nixie]

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Here is what came to me after posting my entry,

The Announcement
Almighty Lord Lucifer, has announced liberal licence offering wickedly evils vicious evils, to revellers in costumes knowing one raver takes riotous entertainment as torture.

 

[BaileyD]

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I love it when you realise you're under budget. Like when Ursa messed with my mind and I was writing my stories to 70 words. When I realised I had five more to play with it was the best thing ever. Five more words?! I can turn this into an epic!!

This is indeed a great exercise.

 

[nixie]

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Some really good stories this month but in the end I went for Cul's Witching hour. Drunken louts expecting to have some fun, aren't they in for a rude awakening.