DISCUSSION THREAD -- November 75-word challenge

[Perpetual Man]

Sounds like someone has Ursa-itis.

 

[chrispenycate]

Sounds like someone has Ursa-itis.

An inflammation of the Ursa- how embarrassing

I've generated all ideas and characters
But, for a reason unbeknownst to me
The words wish to be born tetramic'ly
When all men know the Bard's enduring texts
Require five feet for locomotion.
More; something primal in my brain insists
'An it have meter, then it ought to rhyme'.
Though final rhyming couplet now exists
Preceding rhymes would not be so sublime
This author stubbornly persists.
It will get finished, and on time.

 

[Perpetual Man]

Springs – an excellent start to what has to be considered one of the hardest challenges in a loooong time. There is a feel of the modern world infringing on the past, which I guess catches the style perfectly, and the idea of one name stealing the work of the other by getting them hammered is both fun, and has implications as reality is changed.

Juliana – I was just entranced when I first read this one, I loved the idea of it, fitting in so perfectly with the time, but just the right amount of words that transformed it effortless into something more, my favourite being an almost casual reference to solar sails.

Stormcrow – And punk rock takes a step back in time. It’s a fun piece, but perhaps more insightful too, if someone bedecked as rottenly as our time traveller may well have been it’s not surprising he was found guilty and burned at the stake. Loved the lyrics, very apt.

Reiver33 – And history gets rewritten once again as a time traveller offers an underhand change in the world. Richard III keeps the throne after all, but in a manner that does not change the established facts. Now we know the truth, I just wonder where Reiver found the hidden texts eh? How many other times has this happened. Could it be all that we know is wrong?

Starbeast – Something completely from leftfield. Just a few lines that twist perception and make you try and unravel their hidden meaning. The fire comes from the reader trying to unknot the meaning. Pure genius. (More seriously fully understand your situation this month SB, but said it before a month without one of your enteries just does not feel right.)

 

[HoopyFrood]

Hah, what a choice! All I can think of is all the ruddy Tudor rebellions I had to learn during my A levels. It might actually turn out to be useful!

(Also, you should definitely go for Jacobean Tragedy next time, that would be awesome. The Spanish Tragedy is one of my all time favourite texts.)

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Springs – an excellent start to what has to be considered one of the hardest challenges in a loooong time. There is a feel of the modern world infringing on the past, which I guess catches the style perfectly, and the idea of one name stealing the work of the other by getting them hammered is both fun, and has implications as reality is changed.

QUOTE]

Perp, you find layers I never knew things had. thanks ever so much.

 

[Juliana]

Perp, thank you for the comments!
Might just have to print them up and pin them to my board for motivation on 'down' days!!

Seriously, thank you very much for always taking time to do this, its fantastic getting your feedback...

 

[Kylara]

Honestly, I have no idea at all what to write, at the moment all I can think about is dragons, and they aren't particularly tudorpunk!

 

[Luiglin]

Honestly, I have no idea at all what to write, at the moment all I can think about is dragons, and they aren't particularly tudorpunk!

How about a mechanical dragon powered by serfs rather than steam?

 

[Kylara]

Haha first time I read that through I read it as a mechanical dragon powered by smurfs...

 

[Bowler1]

I'm not over the moon with my posting, HB has not made it easy this month. I'm not 100% sure what the correct brief is, so I just chucked some zombies in for luck. They always seem to go well on Chrons.

 

[Grinnel]

Zombies with steam-powered ray guns?

 

[Bowler1]

Zombies with steam-powered ray guns?

Now you tell me...

I luv RAY GUNS, even steam powered ones...

 

[Luiglin]

Haha first time I read that through I read it as a mechanical dragon powered by smurfs...

That would also work methinks.

 

[EricWard]

Tudorpunk? Is that a thing?

I may just cop out and have Henry VIII with a green mohawk and safety pins through his nose.

 

[Abernovo]

Honestly, I have no idea at all what to write, at the moment all I can think about is dragons, and they aren't particularly tudorpunk!

Kylara, what can be more Tudorpunk than a dragon? The Tewdwr dynasty originally came out of Wales.

See, there's usually an excuse for a dragon.

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

I don't think I'll be joining the 75 this month, peeps. First off, I'm at a disadvantage for not having been able to plan for this for the first week, due to my internet being shut off since before Halloween. And second, the Tudor period is not one I'm very good at writing about. The height of Spain's power and all that...yeah. Not even the Golden Age of Piracy.

 

[kshRox]

I don't think I'll be joining the 75 this month, peeps. First off, I'm at a disadvantage for not having been able to plan for this for the first week, due to my internet being shut off since before Halloween. And second, the Tudor period is not one I'm very good at writing about. The height of Spain's power and all that...yeah. Not even the Golden Age of Piracy.

Oh!!!!! (smacks palm to forehead)

I thought this was the late 60's early 70's when cars began to shift from more four door sedan's ta' tudor sports coups and hatchbacks!!!!

Thanks for pointing this out Karn!

(actually, I did have to look up tudor before submitting an entry )

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

The thing is, I had an idea of what Tudor period was, but I did have to make sure, and as I suspected, it was around the time of Columbus to just the outer fringes of the 17th century. Trouble is, what's considered to be the Golden Age of Piracy was not until the second half of the 17th century, what with the rise of pirates such as Calico Jack, Black Bart, Edward Teach, you get the idea.

Jean Lafitte was far, far later. 19th century, and I suspect the last famous pirate of the Caribbean.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Tudorpunk? Is that a thing?

I may just cop out and have Henry VIII with a green mohawk and safety pins through his nose.

Aww man, there goes another idea!

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Tudorpunk? Is that a thing?

I may just cop out and have Henry VIII with a green mohawk and safety pins through his nose.

That would be awesome! I wonder what Columbus would be dressed like? I suspect that he would have to have flame-orange hair and eyebrow piercings....