Discussing the Writing Challenges -- November and December 2010

[onebigpotato]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Ah my poor naieve forum friends. Taking words hostage, really? Who'll pay for their release, the government of Wordopia? The lord of Wordland? Perhaps the Great King of Words End? No, no my friends I tell you this, numbers, take numbers hostage. Numbers are pleantiful, they easily multiply and come in hundreds and thousands. Despite this apparent pleantifulness, people will still pay you for numbers. My accountant charges me to give him numbers. The government charges me for having numbers, the lottery promises me numbers but just takes my money.
I leave you with this, gather all your numbers, fractions and decimals, intergers and real, negative, positive and zeros too. We'll make them pay, numbers will rue, RUE the day they made their calculated invasion.

 

[J-WO]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

----<----Vote for me or I shoot the Smilies!

 

[Culhwch]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

1) Aren't they frownies?

2) Go on, shoot them, see if I care. And if you think I'm bluffing, check every single one of my posts.

 

[J-WO]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Blimey, I've picked the wrong guy to mess with, I see. This could end up like the thread equivalent of Die Hard.

But surely no one wants dead, erm... frownies on their hands!

 

[Culhwch]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

I dream of a world where all emoticons have ceased to exist. My methods so far have been non-violent, but if you wish to wash your hands with the blood of these frownies, I'll not stop you.

 

[The Procrastinator]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

I believe someone is Procrastinating.

 

[Culhwch]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Look who's talking...

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Procrastinating no more. We have 45 stories!

Excellent contribution, Culhwch.

(Although I do think you might have waited until he knocked off at least a few little faces. The world would have been a better place.)

 

[J-WO]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Consider it done, y'Highness. I've thrown them in a bag and I'm off down to the river...

 

[Culhwch]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Procrastinating no more. We have 45 stories!

Excellent contribution, Culhwch.

Oh my God, they escaped! (Wait, that theme is long gone...)

Glad you liked it. This one was the second I wrote. The idea (the title, in fact) came on reading back through some of the more recent entries last night, and the rest came together remarkably quickly - as opposed to my first effort, which was akin to torture to write. I was torn, because the first (kinda) continued in the same world as my previous two - but the link was tenuous at best. Plus I learnt my lesson from last month...

 

[digs]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Although there have been months where I felt my story would be just perfect if only I had another ten ...

I think you've discovered the secret, Teresa! Write as if you had only 65 words, then the extra 10 will seem like unimaginable luxury.

 

[Culhwch]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

I think you've discovered the secret, Teresa! Write as if you had only 65 words, then the extra 10 will seem like unimaginable luxury.

I have a six-word story ready, just waiting for the right theme. Of course, upon writing I'm sure it will become a hundred-word epic...

 

[Ursa major]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

If you have a six-word story, Cul, here's just the place for it:

http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/33432-6-word-story.html
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And you've already posted three times in there, so you shouldn't be daunted.

 

[Culhwch]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

I don't want to waste it where it's not going to get any votes!!

 

[Ursa major]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

* Ursa mours his 451, now-ineligible, posts in that thread. *

 

[Culhwch]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

I don't mean that your posts were wasted, of course...

 

[Ursa major]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

I should hope not. They're all teetotal.









(Not even shorts....)

 

[No One]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Just a thought (inspired particularly by Mouse's entry though this applies to several others as well) but surely it would be in Mouse's best interest to reveal the hidden...whatever it is...for the following reasons:

A) it's not a case of deliberate ambiguity, but an addition to the story.

B) judging by others' comments it sounds like a clever addition.

C) I'm clearly deficient and will not likely spot...whatever it is...before the voting poll closes.

All of which might bear an influence on the final judging and, taking this responsibilty very seriously as I am, I don't want to see someone shooting themselves in the foot for being smarter than me

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

A few more interesting stories, and a good one by Cul, but I must sadly report none that have swayed my decision to change my previous decision for my vote for this month for the challenge for stories.


Yes, I said "for" four times. It's befitting for such a word.

 

[Culhwch]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Did we ever decide if we were going to close the poll two days early again to allow for a tie-breaker, or just run any necessary tie-breaker on the first and second of the new month?