Discussion 75 Word Challenge -- MARCH

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Also rage @ the forum formatting. Is there a way to get things to indent (like at the start of a new paragraph) ?
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. . . .If you are set on indenting, you can do it like this. (Highlight to see how I did it.) But I don't know if the invisible part is invisible for everyone who views it, or if you would consider it worth the trouble.

It's easier to go with the rest of us and skip a line between paragraphs.
 
Finally got a chance to read everything so far all I can say is WOW it will definitely be difficult choice to chose the best...

juelz
 
Teresa Edgerton said:
. . . .If you are set on indenting, you can do it like this. (Highlight to see how I did it.) But I don't know if the invisible part is invisible for everyone who views it, or if you would consider it worth the trouble.

It's easier to go with the rest of us and skip a line between paragraphs.
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Hah! What a cheat!

I think dialogue lends itself to the 75 word challenge as you can pack a lot of emotion in a few dramatic phrases, have some character interaction and then pad the rest with flowery descriptions
 
chrispenycate said:
...Now, we have 52 entries, and reliables Boneman, Culhwch, Parson, StormFeather, The Judge and Ursa major, plus recent reliables Highlander and The Spurring Platty, have not yet submitted; ...
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Wouldn't want to disappoint you so I have just submitted my effort - didn't think I would be able to come up with an entry this month as I have been busy at work and play...
 
And I've submitted one. Work has been getting in the way. I used up most of my uncanny/weird thoughts a couple of months ago when the theme was similar. So I can at least say I have participated once again. Now finding time to read all the entries...
 
Old reliable, Parson, checking in with a story. That was so hard!!!! I don't think like this at all. I'm sure I got magical realism right. But "uncanny" is so nebulous to me, that I'm not sure that any of the entries are.

I would use uncanny this way: "It's uncanny how the baby always knows when I lay her down." When I goggled it I got some Freudian mumble jumble. So maybe we can say that like Freud some things appear smarter than they really are.
 
Teresa Edgerton said:
It's something we all learned when Mouse formatted a story to look like a Mouse. (Although in her case it was far more clever. You should look it up on the Roll of Honour.)
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Not just a pretty face, me. Or should that be 'not even a pretty face'? :confused:;)

Thanks, Teresa. You give me too much credit. :eek:
 
Parson said:
When I goggled it I got some Freudian mumble jumble.
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If you had gone past the Wikipedia article to some of the dictionary definitions, you might have been less confused. Ah well.

I must say that the first two paragraphs of your story surprised me, Parson.
 
Well, :eek: I didn't really say anything. :eek: Did I? :eek:

Honestly, I was thinking about the way books take us to places we wouldn't otherwise go, or experience. And how if we actually lived in the story how things might actually turn out. But for me it was definitely pushing the line a little.
 
Very likely.

Welcome to the Writing Challenge and to the forums, Luiglin! (And I like your story very much.)
 
Thanks for the welcome and the story like :)

Came here via a page off a page off Joe Abercrombie's site. Spotted the challenge and had a go.

Been writing stuff on and off for many years. Near as I've got to anything out there for the public has been a selected entry in a rpg scenario finals competition some years back.

Halfway through my first real manuscript. Whether it turns out any good is immaterial at the moment, I'm just enjoying the writing :)
 
Welcome to the Chrons, Luiglin. First post and a corker of an entry.:)
 
And one of the late posts may have just solved my very-long-short-list problem.

If a story sends a shiver up my spine, then I gotta vote for that one.

One just did.
 
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