Discussion -- July 2011 Challenge

[TheDustyZebra]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

Ahem, PM, I know it's too late, but you're missing an "n" there. More I shall not say.

 

[Perpetual Man]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

Ahem, PM, I know it's too late, but you're missing an "n" there. More I shall not say.

Ooops! That's what happens when you are in a rush and you miss-spell something.... you just don't have the time to check, and end up making an arse of yourself...

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

Holy history, P-man! Maybe one of the mods will get a bug up their backside and fix it.

 

[Perpetual Man]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

I can but hope...

If not, well it's a bummer but I'll put up with it

 

[chrispenycate]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

Well, I'm quite happy to insert a one byte binary word, but was assuming that was ASCII – which is of course seven bit. So it isn't. Or perhaps, as the upper case "A" lines up, it's ASCII with a leading zero, which would make a lower case "n" 01101110. And put it between the? (you seem to have an "n" in "Spurring".)

 

[Perpetual Man]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

This is starting to get far to clever for my brain this time of night, I'm beginning to get confused with what I've done, and I saw it right there. In black and white. I hope we soon get to the bottom of it.

Got to say that some of Chris's word play (I hope it was word play) was close to genius there.

 

[RJM Corbet]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

Shakes head in bemusement ...

 

[Perpetual Man]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

It seems rather quiet around here at the moment.

I've got three (four) stories lined up at the moment. I have not tried to do things this way for quite a long time, and think my out put was better when I worked on a few ideas rather than just one.

Ironically I'm pretty sure I'm going to go with the first one, but I'll ponder things for a few more days.

And as far as comments go, here's the next little batch:

01001011 01100001 01110010 01101110 (Karn) – Another well presented tale, in which the tale is part of the story, though we do not hear the actual tale. It is an aspect of this month’s challenge that works really well, and I had not considered. A last desperate mission, with the robot carrying the information that is needed. A tale that is well worth hearing I believe.

01010000 01001101 (PM) – What a cracking tale from PM, a history lesson showing the moment that the robots said “no.” for the first time. Thinking about the enormity of this is quite mind bending, the first time a programmed machine refuses to do what it was designed for... and PM manages to convey this well.

01010100 01100101 01110010 01100101 01110011 01100001 (Teresa) – As I’ve already mentioned this one is not hard to see that I liked it. There is some excellent word usage in the piece, ranging from Lilliputian Assassin, to the way it sees itself as clockwork, not because of the way it is made, but from the ticking of the countdown to termination. And still, that last line slays me.

01100111 01100001 01101100 01100001 01111000 01111001 (Galaxy) – Slightly gory, but having a strong humour running deep through the tale. I can almost see the robot standing there, hearing the masters words, but not seeing the headset and taking the words as a command. Oops. They often say you should be careful what you say in front of children, obviously that applies to robots too. Excellent.

 

[Parson]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

And Parson, are you trying to figure out the symbolism of my story, or my avatar?

Your avatar.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

Your avatar.

Ah. Well that's a long story in itself. The short answer is that I've always liked spiderwebs. (Not so much the spiders, which generally get escorted out of the house.) I think the kind of web that you see in my avatar is beautiful. And naturally the palace of a goblin princess would have cobwebs festooning all the dark corners. How could it be otherwise?

A longer answer is that spiders spin their silk and weave their webs. Webs is an old word for tapestry or weaving. Folk and fairy tales often involve spinning and weaving, particularly the stories where women fill all the big roles, as heroine, villainess, and wise woman/fairy godmother. The prince may come in at the end with a glass slipper or to kiss the girl, but the women have set all the events in motion. Sometimes it is the girl who rescues the prince, or her seven or nine or twelve brothers. So in my mind webs are very much a fantasy element, but they are also featured in the stories that I love best because they tell of women's strength and courage without having to rewrite the stories to put the girl in the boy's role.

There is a lot more, but I'd be here all day to explain it all, and it would take us a long way off the topic.



So to return to the topic: Thank you again, Perp. And I admire your courage in taking on the task of turning all the titles into binary. I wonder if this is going to be harder than finding all the quotes from Kipling to go with your assessments of the stories last month.

 

[No One]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

If not for the 300 word challenge, I might've sat on my entry for a while yet and toyed with a couple of other ideas. As it is, this one just sort of rolled off the cerebral tongue, so in it goes!

 

[paranoid marvin]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

01010100 01101000 01100001 01101110 01101011 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01010000 01100101 01110010 01110000 00100001

 

[Ursa major]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

As this is, in part, a Fantasy site, shouldn't we be using Hex?

 

[Perpetual Man]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

My pleasure PM!

Ursa - you might be surprised, but one of my entries (probably one of those I'm not going to be going with) is in hex... (although I did two versions)

 

[Starbeast]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

Hello everybody.

I thought I'd give the 75 Word Challenge a try. I like the theme, "ROBOTS". That's what put the hook in me.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

That figures.

 

[alchemist]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

Hello everybody.

I thought I'd give the 75 Word Challenge a try. I like the theme, "ROBOTS". That's what put the hook in me.

You hould try the 300-worder now. It's about big shining lights (although that's only one interpretation).

Oh, welcome, and good effort there.

(and there's a bunch of writers in the photo competition now. What's going on this month?)

 

[Starbeast]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

Hey Marvin.

I enjoy most robot stories, but not everything. I'm probably one of the few people who didn't get into Robotech or the Transformers. I'm more of a classic robot fan, like B9 from Lost in Space. But I do like good deal of today's robots from anime series Bubblegum Crisis, and droids from Star Wars (for examples).

 

[Starbeast]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

You hould try the 300-worder now. It's about big shining lights (although that's only one interpretation).

Oh, welcome, and good effort there.

I'll check it out, thanks.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Re: Discussion July 75 Word Writing Challenge

Welcome to the Challenge Starbeast. I warn you , you will find this thread addictive!

Why not try the 300-worder too , you can have as many robots as you like in that.