Discussion - February 2011 - 75 Word Challenge

[Aun Doorback]

I will manage to get mine written. It's sitting at 61 words now – surely I must be able to improve it with the remaining ration?

Interesting to know though what the smallest word count entered for a 75 worder! It might be brilliant at 61!

 

[Mouse]

I think we've had a ten worder or something like that. Right at the start of the comp during the 'escape' theme, if I remember rightly.

Also had one with just a title, but that doesn't count.

edit: it was 19 words. http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/foru...-sephiroth-wins-a-decisive-2.html#post1390310

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Oh dear, I think that's me disqualified. Oh well, you live and learn. I shouldn't have been so dumb!

We haven't disqualified anyone for that yet, but we strongly discourage it, and if it happens too much, or it happens too often with the same person, we might get a lot tougher.

 

[Aun Doorback]

I think we've had a ten worder or something like that. Right at the start of the comp during the 'escape' theme, if I remember rightly.

Also had one with just a title, but that doesn't count.

edit: it was 19 words. http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/foru...-sephiroth-wins-a-decisive-2.html#post1390310

Nice one! Thanks Mouse

 

[Parson]

Mosaix,

I didn't see that coming. Great story. I even understood it, which sometimes I don't.

 

[mosaix]

Mosaix,

I didn't see that coming. Great story. I even understood it, which sometimes I don't.

Thanks, Parson. That was my fourth attempt at a story this month, somehow I found the theme unusually difficult.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

I think we've had a ten worder or something like that. Right at the start of the comp during the 'escape' theme, if I remember rightly.

Also had one with just a title, but that doesn't count.

edit: it was 19 words. http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/foru...-sephiroth-wins-a-decisive-2.html#post1390310

Well, to be fair, the one with just the title counted THEN -- it just doesn't count NOW.

 

[crystal haven]

So many wonderful stories, so difficult to choose. These are my favourites, so far.

Scott R. Forshaw – The Butcher of ol’ Howfen
Stormcrow – Why we seldom see fairies . . .
Nixie – Man’s Best Friend
MemoryTale – The Seeker
Boneman – The Long Wait
TacticalLoco – Long Term Fidelity
Kaladan – Consequences
Teresa Edgerton – The Dead Can Weep
Moonbat – In loving memory of the spoken word
HareBrain – Woodwitch

 

[TacticalLoco]

Thank you, Crystal.
So many good ones as always.

 

[stormcrow]

Crystal - thank you; I'm glad you liked it. I found the image of the stone in yours so very sad. Nicely done.

What an amazing collection of tales so far!

Harebrain - magical and very, very dark. Really like this.

 

[HareBrain]

Thanks Stormcrow and Crystal. This must be the latest I've ever posted, and I was wondering if anything would come to me (especially as the intimidatingly good entries accumulated). Luckily, over the washing up, something did.

 

[High Eight]

We haven't disqualified anyone for that yet, but we strongly discourage it, and if it happens too much, or it happens too often with the same person, we might get a lot tougher.

Thanks, people - I'll know better in future.

 

[David Evil Overlord]

So, where do we vote on the 75 worders?

 

[hopewrites]

in the thread that will be made for it once voting starts, which it hasnt yet. has it?

EDIT: no it hasn't

Contest ends at 11:59 pm GMT, February 23 2012


Voting Ends at 11:59 pm GMT, February 28 2012

 

[David Evil Overlord]

I searched, but did not find it.

If voting hasn't started, that would explain why I couldn't find it.

*Goes off to curse February, a month that is clearly way too long.*

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Yes, those pesky 28 days, I quite agree.

... What's that you say? Twenty-nine???

Ridiculous, I tell you!

 

[TacticalLoco]

Tempus fugit!
Been caught a couple of times myself.
Probably will be again.
Not necessarily such a bad thing...

'Time is the crucible in which we burn.' - Captain captain Jean Luc Picard

 

[reiver33]

"They say time is the fire in which we burn." Doctor Soran (Star Trek: Generations)

 

[David Evil Overlord]

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." Ford Prefect, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

 

[Warren_Paul]

Yes, those pesky 28 days, I quite agree.

... What's that you say? Twenty-nine???

Ridiculous, I tell you!

What! February has been stealing days again? Somebody should do something about that...