Discussing the Writing Challenges -- November and December 2010

[TheDustyZebra]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

"The color of your coat offends me, sir --" slap, slap, slap "-- I challenge you to 75 words at dawn. Name your friends, and mine shall call on them at their lodgings."

Hehehee. Heh heh , hahahah! (chortling)

I like DustyZebras killer pens, too.

Aww, thanks!

Now to be fair to the pens, I don't know that they are killers--it might just be a hostile takeover!

I love the duel challenge, too, but like Chris I would prefer that it take place at a more civilized hour, such as the crack of noon.

 

[Sephiroth]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Just hold it in Scotland during midwinter, then -- when the crack of dawn is noon (and it's dark again by half past two).

 

[HareBrain]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

24 hours with no new stories. And there are still two previous winners, one two-times-runner-up, and two of the people I've previously voted for (not the same as the winners) still to post, as well as several other regulars I can think of.

All I can think is that they're all watching the Tour de France.

 

[Erin99]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Tour de France? I can safely say for one of the previous winners it's the World Cup. I should know, I'm living with him right now.

And when he makes up his mind about which entry to enter, he'll post it. He puts a huge amount of pressure on himself to write to the standard to which he holds himself.

 

[HoopyFrood]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Eh up, then, some of us have very annoying (well, no, I love it really) and stupidly longer things to write. There's a part of my brain, though, even as it writes in a completely different format, whirring away trying to make up something short and Disguise-y.

 

[Sephiroth]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

And when he makes up his mind about which entry to enter, he'll post it. He puts a huge amount of pressure on himself to write to the standard to which he holds himself.

Uh... I do?

It's not like it's any pressure. I just don't like my stories, so far.

You've read them. You should know they aren't up to scratch.


(And I didn't exactly hold myself to any great standard last month -- I wrote my story when half asleep, edited it over the next half hour or so, and posted it before I rushed off to catch a plane. Which, looking back, is one reason why I didn't get any votes. )

 

[HareBrain]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Is the World Cup still on? At least someone had the good sense to get Wimbledon out of the way before the TdF started.

 

[Sephiroth]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

I believe the TdF passes somewhere near where Leish and I are staying for two weeks from this Thursday. We could go there, watch a bunch of dudes ride past on bikes, and then go home again.

If we really wanted to.

 

[Precise Calibre]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

I think the summer is definitely going to be taking its toll on the participants starting with this month. Any of our US contestants might still be on hiatus in regards to the 4th of July... except me, of course.

 

[HareBrain]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Well, what better day to write than July 4th? Isn't that all about some bit of writing or other?

 

[Sephiroth]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Now, see, that is strange. One of my stories-that-I-don't-like contains a quote from said piece of writing.

 

[Precise Calibre]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Was it about said piece of writing being a disguised treasure map?

 

[Erin99]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Oh, I liked that film, PC! I'm a Nicholas Cage fan.

 

[Sephiroth]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

I wish it were, PC. And I wish I'd written it six years ago. Knowing how Hollywood pays its writers, I might even have made enough money for a weekend in Skegness.

 

[HareBrain]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

A disguised treasure map? No, surely it is a plain and open map to the greatest treasure of all: freedom from tyranny.

(I didn't watch the film, but if something like that line wasn't in it, I'll be very surprised.)

Anyway, this is all obviously a sign that Seph should post that story.

 

[Sephiroth]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

LOL, HB. Amazingly, I don't recall a line like that. I didn't expect to like the film, but it turned out to be something of a fun romp.


But alas, said story is my least favourite of the three-and-a-half versions I've written.

 

[Precise Calibre]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

No, actually it lead to an underground treasure vault literally chocked full of precious baubles from all over the world. Oddly enough, the intro scene for the vault was executed with an unconventional lighting system - a trough filled with flammable oil - nothing like exposing the world's greatest treasures to that form of rapid oxidation immediately after opening the vault....

 

[Erin99]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Well, since we've slightly wandered off topic, yes! I heartily agree (ooh, so much so I posted an adverb!), Seph should post his story, or at least the version he prefers.

And he should post the other versions of it next month, after the challenge closes.

 

[mygoditsraining]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

I'm confused. We're talking about the Goonies, now, right?



On the TdF note, one of the people I work with is going on a holiday for the exact purpose of sitting watching people cycle past. Madness!

 

[Precise Calibre]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

The first version of the story I was going to post I personally thought was better than the one I posted... it just wasn't even remotely Scifi or Fantasy and only tacking on some weak stereotype would have made it so, which I felt would have been cheating.