Discussing the Writing Challenges -- November and December 2010

[The Judge]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Thanks for the congrats -- and congrats to Teresa whose piece fully deserved to win. Actually, congrats to everyone.

And with a yo ho ho the August challenge is now up there.

 

[Mouse]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Mouse, I like Princess the best of your other four, and Chameleon is a nice one that I think you would have worked into another great one if you hadn't abandoned it so soon, but I still think the one you chose was best. And of course, your anagram flummoxed me, and I look for those things!

Thankies!

Proposed new rule: "In future, authors are required to underline all words that form part of any hidden meaning.

I did! July was the only month where I'd underlined the title.


Congrats to The Judge! Time's going to be difficult. I can only think of that rabbit.

 

[Culhwch]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

And with a yo ho ho the August challenge is now up there.

I'm not going to lie, TJ, I'm disappointed the theme isn't 'Pirates'.

 

[The Judge]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Well, shiver me timbers. *adjusts eyepatch and parrot* I shall just have to walk the plank for misleading you...

 

[Boneman]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Well, the moment I saw the title, I was going to invade Ursa's territory, and have the story of Stein who invents a time machine, goes back and commits a crime, but returns to his own time and the statute of limitations has passed. The judge's ruling is: "A niche in time saves Stein".

Then I realised I'd read this as a short story in the seventies!!

Back to the drawing board...

 

[Ursa major]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

I did! July was the only month where I'd underlined the title.

Really...?


*cough*


Oh, and Congratulations, TJ!



By the way.... Given this month's topic, we ought to persuade Rosemary to enter. (With an 'Erb 'n' Fantasy. )

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

Time.






Time.







Time.









Time?!!!!???!!!!









Is this some kind of a joke??


Love it.

 

[nixie]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- July & August

I missed the vote due to my stupid computer deciding to breakdown

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Two entries for August already, and they are both very good.

I wrote a story last night. It's a nice little story, and I like it. Probably I would have been satisfied with it a few months ago, before I knew how darn good everyone else would be, but now I suspect it is going to be my "extra" story that I post after the competition is over—unless inspiration hits me and I realize I can tell the same story a lot better.

 

[Devil's Advocate]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Haven't checked in for a few days, so a belated congratulations to The Judge. Good things come in 5'3" packages...

Nice theme, too.

 

[onebigpotato]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Reasons why I'm scared this month:

1. You're all really good writers
2.* The theme uncountable interpretations, permutations, exclamations, expectations, lol-inducer-ations (ok I made that one up) that I know someone will come in here and make a mockery of whatever I write
3. I've already thought of such a vast amount of time related sayings that story fragments haven't even begun to appear. e.g** "Time makes fools of us all", "She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes", "The tortoise & the hare"

I'm screwed!

*For an enjoyable time, read this item in the accent of a sterotypicial African-American Baptist Preacher from Southern USA
**I very quickley ran out of examples despite having thought of many that day

 

[The Judge]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Well, that's it. I'm not going to post this month. Not only do I not have any ideas (yes, I set the blinking theme -- you didn't expect me to have thought about it, did you?) but it's clear from the first 6 entries that the standard has not only remained as high as ever but has improved yet again.

I'm screwed!

You and me both!

I should have stuck with the damn pirates...

 

[Devil's Advocate]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Write about a procrastinating pirate, then...?

 

[crystal haven]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Congratulations, The Judge, for winning the challenge.

 

[mosaix]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Excellent contribution, Crystal. - I don't know how people manage to come up with such high quality in such a short space of time.

 

[paranoid marvin]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Congratulations to The Judge. I guess sometimes ideas come to us quickly and sometimes take a while to warm up before coming to the boil.
As for me , the second an idea comes into my head , it's down in print (or type). I usually start with a satisfactory finishing line and work backwards ; is this unusual?

 

[Chel]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Congrats, Judge!

...and well, this time I had an idea, a different one than what I normally do. So I started working on that, and while doing so the story I posted sort of crept up on me and ambushed me and I wrote it in about 10 minutes. I ended up on 75 words exactly, and took that as an omen.

 

[Sleepless]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

well done Judge, thoroughly deserved.

 

[Boneman]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

I'm clueless, at the moment, my muse has gone on holiday. I guess it will take time...

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Well, that's it. I'm not going to post this month ... it's clear from the first 6 entries that the standard has not only remained as high as ever but has improved yet again.

Because, of course, having won last time with your stunning poem, you have so much reason to be intimidated.

I'd never really given much thought before to Leda and the Swan. I always thought, "A swan? Really?" and left it at that. Besides, all the paintings I had seen were dreamy and romantic, just lovely Leda looking at the lovely swan floating in the water, so I certainly never thought of it as a rape.

But when I read your poem, I realized how large and frightening a swan can be, and you described the rape in terms so vivid and horrifying, that I felt I really understood the story for the first time.