Discussion -- 300 Word Challenge #10

Cheers Perp ... please 300 mods an image next time where I can write something amusing ... well amusing to me anyway ;)
 
Perp! :D :D Thank you. (Love the rhyming comments!)

Glen said:
Was it something I said? I am very pleased you chose to go ahead. It is good to have my story next to such a top-notch piece. I love the prose-poetry voice of the bird. Wow.
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It's cos it was so good and told from the bird's POV! I was like noooo! I can't compete with that!
 
Luiglin said:
Cheers Perp ... please 300 mods an image next time where I can write something amusing ... well amusing to me anyway ;)
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I think there was amusing stuff could have been drawn out - the mad steampunk professor? A deranged bird? A museum of weird artefacts, including a hand with a mind of its own. ;)
 
springs said:
I think there was amusing stuff could have been drawn out - the mad steampunk professor? A deranged bird? A museum of weird artefacts, including a hand with a mind of its own. ;)
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It was probably just me this month. I harder I tried to come up with something amusing the more forced it sounded.
Damn just had a good idea where I could have used future versions of the Dark Lord and his minion ... Blackadder style ... store that away for next time :)
 
Mouse said:
Perp! :D :D Thank you. (Love the rhyming comments!)
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That reminded me -

It's a long time since I did the comments in a particular style, in fact the last ones I remember was when I did everyone's name in binary.

Perhaps I should try and come up with something for next months 75 worder...
 
Ratsy – I like that the scientist seems blissfully unaware that his work playing God with the next generation of humans is very similar to his last project playing God…

Hoopy – Very disturbing. The format added to the overall vibe. I found myself reading it multiple times, first all together, and then each line separately.

David – The rise of crow-based society after humans fall to the zombie apocalypse? And to my American ears it sounds like you are naming the weapon after my favorite president.

Stormcrow – I like the way that by telling the current situation from the point of view [FONT=&quot]of an enslaved human, the reader can fill in everything that led up to this point.[/FONT]
 
Mouse said:
It's cos it was so good and told from the bird's POV! I was like noooo! I can't compete with that!
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Thanks a million, but your story easily competes. You have a proper story and a voice, and mine is just a bit of comedy nonsense. Good luck with the comp.
 
Got mine up and I don't think anyone needs to worry about their story being a stretch away from the image.
At least not more than mine. I guess my head is usually in the stars though. :)
 
Thanks for your comments Tywin; "I like.." is always encouraging to read!:)
 
Another reminder -- COUNT THE WORDS, PEOPLE!! Another good story has had to take flight and roost elsewhere because it came over word count.

And although it wasn't a factor in this case, another reminder -- CHECK HYPHENATED WORDS REALLY ARE ONE WORD NOT TWO! If you can't find it hypenated or as one composite word in a legitimate source (ie a dictionary), check with a mod, or better yet count it as two words and/or don't use your entire allotment of 300. Better come in at 295 and have room to spare than get your work removed.
 
well got my story up.... first time i've had my laptop switched on in a wifi-able location for a while...

certainly have been a lot of different takes on the pic.... some really good stories too...
 
The Judge said:
Another reminder -- COUNT THE WORDS, PEOPLE!! Another good story has had to take flight and roost elsewhere because it came over word count.

And although it wasn't a factor in this case, another reminder -- CHECK HYPHENATED WORDS REALLY ARE ONE WORD NOT TWO! If you can't find it hypenated or as one composite word in a legitimate source (ie a dictionary), check with a mod, or better yet count it as two words and/or don't use your entire allotment of 300. Better come in at 295 and have room to spare than get your work removed.
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Alas, that was me. I counted a dozen times, both auto-word-count and manually. I swear it was under the limit. But it was at least seven words over the limit, before counting hyphenated words.

Promises to ensure his stories are under the legal limit before they're allowed out in public again. Sigh.

Goes back to counting his crows before they're hatched.
 
The Judge said:
Another reminder -- COUNT THE WORDS, PEOPLE!! Another good story has had to take flight and roost elsewhere because it came over word count.

And although it wasn't a factor in this case, another reminder -- CHECK HYPHENATED WORDS REALLY ARE ONE WORD NOT TWO! If you can't find it hypenated or as one composite word in a legitimate source (ie a dictionary), check with a mod, or better yet count it as two words and/or don't use your entire allotment of 300. Better come in at 295 and have room to spare than get your work removed.
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My microsoft word counted the hyphenated words as 1, and it wasn't until I pulled it into scrivener (which counted them as 2) that I was clued in and did a bit of editing.
 
sorry to hear it david.. what a rotten birthday present.

peace out, aussie dude..
 
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