Discussion -- June 2011 Challenge

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Well I have the nourishment portion down. I have an idea and the bare bones of my story ready to go. Now the only thing that is holding me back and absolutely killing me is the part about writing it in the style of Kipling. UG!

I have spent the better part of the day, well the part of the day I didn't devote to teaching myself python, to skimming many of Kipling's works and I am still at a loss. Further I am afraid that my effort is doomed to sound more like Poe than Kipling. Truly this is a challenge.
 
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If writing this challange is hard, imagine rating the stories! To decide which 40ish stories sound a)most Kiplingish and b)the best in terms of subject and flow!

It hurts my noggin!
 
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If anything this month's challenge may hurt Chris's chances of being a repeat winner - more than a few of us will hesitate to cast a vote his way, I imagine, leary of the next torture he may set upon us....
 
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I'm going to throw my hat in the ring for The Just So Stories as well... I adore The Cat That Walks By Himself (and my first possible entry is an offshoot from it). But last night I sat down and read Thy Servant, A Dog and now I'm torn... shed a tear when Ravager died :(
 
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It's barely May 31 here. However, if a moderator in an appropriate region of the world wants to open the Challenge at the stroke of June 1, he may do so.
 
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Blimey, you miss a couple of days and everything goes mental. Eight pages of June chat and t'ain't even June yet! :D
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There are so many posts that I missed reading some, including yours. :eek:

But the answer, of course, is that June is bust in, out all over**, as they allegedly said in the state just north of Texas before it was a state. (Which apart from being somewhat contradictory, hasn't been the advice regarding posture for, well, ever; give or take those times when gender-subterfuge is involved.)




** - I'm not quoting the exact words of the song as I understand the music industry is very hot on copyright infringement. Honest. :rolleyes:
 
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Well I think I have found my selection to emulate. I have chosen "This Side The Styx" from Early verse. It is from a collection of his Poetry and Prose volume 17 published in 1906 and is one of his more um plain english written poems. :) I will of course be writing my own completely new original piece while trying to stay true to the style, flow and essence of the title chosen. I will probably bomb horribly.
 
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Uhcheewowawa! Not visiting here on the Lord's Day and then not on Memorial Day (US holiday) I would never have guess the 148! posts in the June Discussion thread. Chrispy: Congratulations and ARRGH! It would be easier writing in the style of "Popeye! the Sailor"

Kipling is only a modern paragon of what literature should be like. The Parson may have to go and hide until July.
 
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That would be easy, Parson, although one might expect an overabundance of entries with spinach as their favoured nourishment. (Or olive oil. Or Wimpys.)
 
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Parson I felt the same way at 1st but the idea has grown on me. After a couple of days I think I might be halfway up to the challenge. Also I just noticed your in Iowa. Small world as I also suffer the same burden. What part if I might ask? I currently dwell in Cedar Falls and when writing and the family let me spending away my time slaving under the watchful eyes of my History professors. The upside is access to the Rod Library and all the wonderful tomes. :) Including Kipling.
 
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Parson I felt the same way at 1st but the idea has grown on me. After a couple of days I think I might be halfway up to the challenge. Also I just noticed your in Iowa. Small world as I also suffer the same burden. What part if I might ask? I currently dwell in Cedar Falls and when writing and the family let me spending away my time slaving under the watchful eyes of my History professors. The upside is access to the Rod Library and all the wonderful tomes. :) Including Kipling.
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Well, I live in the far Northwest corner of Iowa, almost midway between Sioux City and Sioux Falls. I am guessing that you are attending UNI. A school I almost attended once. I'm always amused at our European friends referring to college as uni when I think about UNI.

My little town has no library, but any town with a library certainly has volumes of Kipling. As this unbelievably long thread has shown they are easily available on line as well. So that should not be any excuse. I consider Kipling a genius. The things that I've read by him have always struck me as being both simple and profound. He tells a good story, in a memorable way, with real insight for living. Not an easy task at all.

So how does a poor Parson measure up? :confused:
 
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It seems to have a detrimental effect on me; the more Kipling I research, the more despair I feel.


I am woefully unequipped mentally and creatively to perform this task. *sigh* My mind just cannot wrap around RK's style. :p
 
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Well, based on what little I've read (thanks, Google Books), his sentences tend to be long and meandering, and full of little detours, like this, and the words themselves tend to be simple and easily understood.
 
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MstrTal said:
Further I am afraid that my effort is doomed to sound more like Poe than Kipling. Truly this is a challenge.
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Don't worry about that -- I have noticed, in reading many Kipling poems that I had never run across, that he does bear a striking resemblance to some Poe! I couldn't get Annabel Lee out of my head through quite a few of them. Of course, being a huge Poe fan, I don't consider that a detriment.
 
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Ha ha! The bath/glass of wine combo has done its magic. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!

In a bit.

*taps foot*
 
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