Discussing the Writing Challenges -- November and December 2010

[HareBrain]

Really good, Mosaix. I wondered when I set the theme how many different interpretations of contact we'd get -- and you've put them all in one story! One for the shortlist I think.

 

[Ursa major]

Well if mosaix's story doesn't get on my shortlist, we're in for a real treat with the entries this month.

 

[mosaix]

HB, UM many thanks. I normally submit on day 1 or 2 but this month I though I'd give it a little more depth of thought. It all came in a rush in about 10 minutes.

 

[Parson]

Parson: Think inside the box. Or chest if you prefer.

Well, when I first read it, I thought "It's a birth." But then I was flummoxed by John Hurt.

 

[The Judge]

Parson, Moonbat's post might give you a clue (my bolding...)

I always wonder why people mention John Hurt by name and not by Character name (obviously if the Alien were real it then it wouldn't be Mr Hurt but his character, I guess no one remembers his name, only the actor who played him) brilliant entry though Tein, very funny.

 

[No One]

Parson - regarding TEIN's entry. Will it help if someone (or no one) added the name of Ridley Scott to the mix?

As for mine, it's meant to be largely ambiguous.

*D'oh! and TJ just stepped on me

 

[Parson]

Ahh! Movie trivia. I stink at that. When my wife and I see a flick, (once a year? counting DVDs) I often have to ask her if that's the same character we saw earlier in the movie. (Why only once a year? Because what I like in movies she generally doesn't, and vice versa.)

Thanks for the help Your Honor,and No One. [that sounds weird to thank no one.]

 

[J Riff]

Well it's good to know there's still people who don't know every gut-bursting detail of ALIEN.,, let alone the sequels.
This 75-word format....soon, world control will belong to Chrons...
....75 words?? You mean a Chronstory.
How many 75-worders could one fit in a fat paperback? 400? I might purchase such a tome. For reading on the bus. Or, just whenever I felt like reading 50 stories an hour.

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

Well it's good to know there's still people who don't know every gut-bursting detail of ALIEN.,, let alone the sequels.
This 75-word format....soon, world control will belong to Chrons...
....75 words?? You mean a Chronstory.
How many 75-worders could one fit in a fat paperback? 400? I might purchase such a tome. For reading on the bus. Or, just whenever I felt like reading 50 stories an hour.

Actually I preferred the Wrenching version. It gives the reader the visual impression whilst subliminally suggesting a actual physical response.

As to your book. I've been thinking along these lines myself. IF I had the time I would investigate the possibilities.

As a start lets have a poll.

 

[10101000]

DFM wrote an interesting one about Female contact with a strange Alien. I liked the visuals I got.

 

[Deathfrommassive]

DFM wrote an interesting one about Female contact with a strange Alien. I liked the visuals I got.

Thanks, I like the foreboding feel of yours.

Karn, yours made me laugh.

 

[nixie]

I haven't chosen a guy for this years bonfire. Thinking J Riff as he keeps picking on Wally only kidding

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

Beadchaser: interesting. Do you have a lot of dreams like that?

Have you Introduced yourself in the introduction threads?

 

[beadchaser]

re dreams: no, not often. That one stands out peculiarly amongst others.

re introduction: oops, no, I haven't. I shall remedy that promptly

 

[J Riff]

Wally is not Chron's Wally, but in fact, Wally Skarper, generic ne'er-do-well character who was recently reborn in response to the space-faring mop-woman of Mouse. Wally is currently working on the space-tug/garbage scow Grubworm, as a janitor.
Nixie, there were some fabulous books about Scotland at the thrift store t'other day and I thought of you. )

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

Just in case any contributors to the challenge missed it :-

http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/529379-would-you-allow-your-75-stories-to-be.html

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Oh lord, I made a promise not to write a poem this time, and Chris started!

I pity the interstellar insurance guys and lawyers who try for us, indeed.

 

[chrispenycate]

Limericks aren't poems; they're doggerel. I did consider sonnet form, but the rhyming scheme worked so well as it was…

Besides, fourteen lines in seventy-five words requires a lot of serious polysyllabics.

While the limericks made do with silly Poly's cab.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Well, I didn't exactly consider mine to be poetry, either!

I have noticed that making scansion come out right does force one to track down words with more syllables. Gosh, I have two lines and only eleven words left, they'd better be big ones!

 

[The Procrastinator]

More good entries, yes including the poems, but I have to say, Bookstop I love it!