Writing Challenge Discussion -- January 2011

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

And now you'll be left with more time to wonder whether you couldn't have posted something better.

(Note that I haven't yet read your entry this month, so the above is not a comment on its quality, but only on Author's Doubt.)

So, Ursa, no benefit of the doubt here?


It's not at all bad, H-girl.

 

[Mouse]

Very nice, Boneman! Except I burst into song half way through. Do do that voodoo
that you do so well...

 

[Perpetual Man]

Thanks Boneman, I'm not going to be able to get that out of my head now...

Another couple of excellent ones have come in, it's going to be another really hard month...

 

[No One]

Another couple of excellent ones have come in, it's going to be another really hard month...

To use the parlance of our times - what he said.

 

[StormFeather]

Boneman - love it! My favourite film as I grew up! I'm going to have to go off and watch it again now . . .

I just can't get an idea to develop at all. Still, off for a long, child free weekend on Friday with the girls, where I'm unlikely to have internet access. Hopefully, inbetween the obligatory drinking and subsequent hangovers (it's for a friends 40th) I might get some inspiration.

 

[digs]

Boneman - love it! My favourite film as I grew up! I'm going to have to go off and watch it again now . . .

Me too! And that song is like my favourite part of it.

 

[sloweye]

Look, can someone please write something rubbish, voteing on this is just going to be to hard

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Look, can someone please write something rubbish, voteing on this is just going to be to hard

I thought I did already.


Well, maybe it's not actual rubbish, but it is pretty standard and generic. There's better entries this month than mine.

 

[sloweye]

My short list is already... well, everyone

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

My short list is already... well, everyone

Surely you think some are better than others?


I already have TE on my list for the emotional aspect she brought out.

 

[sloweye]

Well Perps is top so far but its a close call with all really

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

A close call with all, hm?

 

[R M Tobias]

Hello and HNY to all.

It's good to see so early in this new era that we have a labyrinthine selection of stories to choose from.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Well, after saying that it generally takes me half an hour or so to write a story once I have the idea, I've wrestled with one for three days this time -- and then posted a totally different one! I think this is the first time I've had a true alternate. I finished the first one but just didn't quite like one line and couldn't decide if I liked the whole thing anyway. So, true to form, this second story was a half hour job.

 

[Perpetual Man]

Well Perps is top so far but its a close call with all really

Well that put a smile on my face first thing in the morning on what looks like its going to be quite a hard day. Thanks Slow (I know it won't stay on top but...)

Just read R M Tobias' now that's a really clever one, which means it's yet another one I like far too much. Can we cancel the voting this time around and everyone wins?

 

[The Judge]

Oi, TDZ! There's some of us here what take exception to that quote! And that kind of story! (And lab rats aren't smarter than us. They just have even sharper teeth. )

 

[J Riff]

Well I was going to post but Chel's story deleted the internet.

 

[Chel]

Well I was going to post but Chel's story deleted the internet.

In this company, I'm sure someone can do it! Counter-revolution?

 

[R M Tobias]

Always make backups!

 

[Allanon]

I dont want to be pedantic, but what are the rules on publishing someone else's work? Surely, Boneman, you must need to reference this if you intend to use it!! But I do like it and my wife and I danced to the ballroom song from the Labyrinth at our wedding.