Discussing the Writing Challenges -- November and December 2010

[StormFeather]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Mouse - absolutely brilliant! Made me laugh, even before I'd actually read it . . . and then I liked it more.

 

[Mouse]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Thankies!

 

[Deathfrommassive]

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Tick tock

 

[mygoditsraining]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Tick tock

Great, now I have that bloody Kesha song stuck in my head.

 

[Precise Calibre]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Aww that was cute. Been a long time since I've seen a poem shaped like its subject. Cute and dark at the same time; I like it! Now I just need to find a girl like that who's not goth...

As a note of interest, I entered this month without a real aim at winning anything. I just wanted to pop my little riddle in for fun's sake.

 

[HareBrain]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Aww that was cute. Been a long time since I've seen a poem shaped like its subject.

Funny enough, the only other one I can think of was "The Mouse's Tale" by Lewis Carroll, which is shaped as a tail. Inspiration maybe? At any rate it's nowhere near as inventive as a whole mouse, complete with a pointy little nose and two eyes. Really well done!

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Awesome, Mouse.

 

[Parson]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Mouse --- Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant! You really do cute and dark at the same time better than anyone I know!

Gives a sinister turn to my entry as well.

 

[The Procrastinator]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Very very cute, Mouse! You're on my short list. So are you for that matter Parson. (Actually maybe everyone on this page is...)

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Well, I have not a clue yet of who to vote for. My lack of internet service day-to-day is most distressing; it interferes with all I wish on Chrons.


Then again, it keeps the place running smoothly, my absence does. Perhaps if I have the luxury of being at this house tomorrow I shall have decided who's door I open and whose doors remained locked to me. All I need is the pishsalver.

 

[Ursa major]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

I have, at last, come up with an idea. All I have to do is now is write the words.

So no problems there, then....

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

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Ursa, you're far better off to gain an idea without writing than to write without an idea, believe me.

Performing an author's work without having any ideas is just not the write thing to do.

 

[chopper]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

another dialogue-heavy entry from me. a good way to work though: if you present one half of a conversation, you leave the reader to imagine the other 75 words...

 

[Culhwch]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Excellent point, chopper....

I have a story. I don't necessarily like it, but at least I have it there if the twenty-third rolls around and none other presents itself to me.

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Whoa...

I could sell you a few words I have in storage to fill in the gap if you like.

Some guy in Australia was selling them of cheap on Frubay just before the end of the last challenge, so I bought a few dozen.

 

[Parson]

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Ursa, you're far better off to gain an idea without writing than to write without an idea, believe me.

Not sure I agree with this. One of the gifts/challenges of being a Parson is that Sunday comes round every week. So.... You need to apply the seat of your pants to seat of your chair and start writing. Sometimes drivel appears, but often after a while something clicks, inspiration comes, and "Praise the Lord!" there is a message for the faithful this week.

 

[Mouse]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Aww that was cute. Been a long time since I've seen a poem shaped like its subject. Cute and dark at the same time; I like it! Now I just need to find a girl like that who's not goth...

Cute and dark, eh? I'll take that.

Funny enough, the only other one I can think of was "The Mouse's Tale" by Lewis Carroll, which is shaped as a tail. Inspiration maybe? At any rate it's nowhere near as inventive as a whole mouse, complete with a pointy little nose and two eyes. Really well done!

Thank you! I have seen the Lewis Carroll poem, but anybody can do just the tail, right? I figured I might as well do the whole mouse.

Although I've just looked up the poem again and wish I'd thought to change the size of the text too!

Awesome, Mouse.

Thanks, Teresa!

Mouse --- Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant! You really do cute and dark at the same time better than anyone I know!

Again with the cute and dark! Thank you, Parson.

Very very cute, Mouse! You're on my short list. So are you for that matter Parson. (Actually maybe everyone on this page is...)

Ta muchly!

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

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Not sure I agree with this. One of the gifts/challenges of being a Parson is that Sunday comes round every week. So.... You need to apply the seat of your pants to seat of your chair and start writing. Sometimes drivel appears, but often after a while something clicks, inspiration comes, and "Praise the Lord!" there is a message for the faithful this week.

Perhaps true enough, but it does not work very well with the general population.....

 

[Rand]

re: Discussing the Writing Challenges -- August & September

Not sure I agree with this. One of the gifts/challenges of being a Parson is that Sunday comes round every week. So.... You need to apply the seat of your pants to seat of your chair and start writing. Sometimes drivel appears, but often after a while something clicks, inspiration comes, and "Praise the Lord!" there is a message for the faithful this week.

Truth. It's a lot easier to edit an unpolished, or uninspired, work into something good than it is to edit a great idea which was never written. The words are the thing and the whole of the thing.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

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Plus, Parson, you have the advantage of a captive audience! Well, not to say that they couldn't get up and leave if it really stunk, but they aren't terribly likely to, and anyway they all show up with no regard for whether you had a good idea or not.

(And I dare say most all of them will still tell you "good sermon" either way...not that I'm trying to keep you awake nights wondering.)