Writing Challenge Discussion -- January 2011

[Hilarious Joke]

Thanks TE, I was pretty sure it had been dealt with before but wasn't quite prepared to look back through all the pages to find out!

I feel like I've been given a late Christmas present! YAY FIVE EXTRA WORDS!

 

[Mouse]

Mouse, I think Revolution was a song by the Beatles, about how everything's gonna be alright.

I only know the T-Rex one!

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

I only know the T-Rex one!

Really? Revolution WAS a Beatles song, Mouse.


You say you want a revolution, well, you know...


But when you talk about destruction...don't you know you can count me out. You know it's gonna be alright....

 

[Precise Calibre]

I think I've stewed over this month's entry longer than most. The time comes to see if my delay was warranted or if it shall call for failure.

Is it "he who hesitates is lost" or "haste makes waste"?

 

[J Riff]

Ohhhh man...I saw T-Rex... it was hysterical- straight out of Spinal Tap. Didn't know they covered that one though.

 

[GreenKidx]

Well, thank you very much TheEndIsNigh! That was a large part of my focus.

 

[HareBrain]

Ohhhh man...I saw T-Rex... it was hysterical- straight out of Spinal Tap. Didn't know they covered that one though.

Mouse was talking about "Children of the Revolution", written by Marc Bolan, not the Beatles song.

 

[J Riff]

Ohhhh good. If you remember the scene in Spinal Tap where the bass player gets stuck in the plastic tube...that's kinda what happened to Bolan that night.
On topic- Dozmonic garnered a laugh (it's a bloody wheel...) and Talysia's (the music began again) is cool.

 

[HareBrain]

Ohhhh good. If you remember the scene in Spinal Tap where the bass player gets stuck in the plastic tube...

I remember all the scenes in Spinal Tap. What cultured, discriminating person doesn't?

 

[Boneman]

Well, the swelling kept me away for the last two days*, but I'm pleased to have put tunes into people's heads...

It is an obvious take, obviously, but the freedom offered by not having to do a scifi/fantasy story was there, and I couldn't think of anything else! The usual brilliant entries... choosing is such a bittersweet event monthly. How many votes do we get, seeing as it's the start of a new decade? New Year? New Month?


*Bilateral inguinal hernia repair... That surgeon lied about the amount of pain afterwards...

 

[The Judge]

How many votes do we get, seeing as it's the start of a new decade? New Year? New Month?

One. It's back to a starvation diet after the excesses of Christmas.

(And good to see you back. Play up the pain you're in and you might avoid getting slapped for a while...)

 

[Precise Calibre]

They may not have lied so much as your pain threshold is lower than he expected

Hope you feel better soon, though.

 

[The Judge]

Finally stopped tinkering with mine and posted -- such a relief to have an open genre for once, since mine doesn't fit into anything, really. A kind of something hidden this month, but only kind of.

I wondered whether people might have been a bit jaded (aka hungover) in the first few days of the New Year, but the stories have flooded in -- up to 37 and it's only the 10th. Looks like it might be a record-breaking month.

As for the stories themselves, too many good ones to mention. I'm not sure about the historical accuracy of Chris's Agrarian Revolution, though... (led by one William Till?!) And it looks to me as if poor HareBrain is working too hard...


And I've just read this thread from the start again, and I realise I never said thank you to Storm and TDZ for their comments on my Iphegenia poem, my reserve for last month. So thank you. I also forgot to say how much I liked digs's second alternative.

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Interestin' entry, Y' Hon'a. Added t' me list, y' be.

 

[HareBrain]

And it looks to me as if poor HareBrain is working too hard...

While someone else had her feet up watching Doctor Zhivago ...

(At least, I cast Rod Steiger's Komorovsky as your main character. In his big fur coat and hat. And you didn't have to spend any words describing him!)

I'm amazed how quickly they've come in this month, and so many good ones too.

 

[The Judge]

Well, ta for that, Karn. Much appreciated.


Hmmm. Doctor Zhivago. Fitting, since I am, of course, a dead spit for Julie Christie... Actually, would it ruin my Chrons cred if I admitted never having read the book nor seen the film? But interesting that you see him as Komorovsky and that Komorovsky is a lawyer.

 

[Mouse]

Bella Donna...

Cap'n Barnes? Yes please.

 

[J Riff]

I thought Chris' story was pretty spiff- selling the idea of crop rotation to the peasants..? I have to go look up the exact meaning of raconteur.

 

[chrispenycate]

I thought Chris' story was pretty spiff- selling the idea of crop rotation to the peasants..? I have to go look up the exact meaning of raconteur.

Um; something hidden in title? But a "raconteur" is a tale teller.

It was the first time since we started the challenge that I actually had spare words. So I used them.

 

[Allanon]

A quick question, i have a story ready to post, I've tried tinkering with it and can't improve it, although i'm sure to ask at the end of the month for suggestions. And I tried other things to get another story but keep coming back to this one. So it's the one i'm posting. However, I don't want to give the story away too easily because you're not supposed to know what you're reading till the last word. I'm not saying people jump straight to the end of stories but you know what it's like when you scan something. Do you think I should make it a light colour then people would have to highlight it to read it at the end?