Discussion thread - SEVENTY-FIVE WORD WRITING CHALLENGE July 2013

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Huge thanks to Victoria for the vote, and TDZ for the mention! And P Man for the review.


Edit: and my own...

Shortlist

Starbeast
Lenny
RoninJedi84
The Judge

The votegetter

RoninJedi84
 
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I had a long list that was almost half the entries this month! That was only achieved by discounting some that I really liked. Wonderful stories, as ever, but this month I found myself absolutely loving so many of them. You people are great. :)

I got it down to a short list of:

paranoid marvin
Moonbat
Sleepy Dormouse
The Judge

The vote went to The Judge.
 
mosaix said:
Going to be very difficult to choose this month.

I tried to write an entry this month without using the letter 'e'. It is so difficult. Thought I'd done it a couple of times but going back over found at least four or five!. I gave up in the end. How that guy wrote a fifty thousand word novel without an 'e' is beyond me.
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he used an old style typewriter and sawed off the e key if i am thinking of the same guy. its pretty hard to enter a letter e word without any e key..

one newspaper editor did something similar to a reporter that used colons and semicolons too much.. the editor sawed the semicolon key off of the reporters typewriter..

i suppose you could always take the letter e button off your keyboard. i would recommend using a comprehensive thesaurus.
 
Thanks for the listing TDZ :)

After much deliberation I have made my choices

Hex - (self)Discovery of the Ancients - the oldest self help book ever

Victoria - Contamination - the ultimate population control with deep meaning

Abernovo - Finding out the Hard Way - cool, felt like small part of big story

Mosaix - Survival of the Fittest - cool idea, well "executed"

But my Vote...again...goes to

Boneman - Blank Canvas - knocked it out of the park again this month for me. It tugged at me emotionally and was beautiful. For that reason you have my vote.
 
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Shortlist, shorter list, vote:

Tywin
stormcrow
Dream Walker
ratsy
cab
MPorter
Moonbat
Phyrebrat
mosaix
The Judge

I can't remember the last time whittling my lists down was this hard!

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Thanks for the mention, alc, and thank you, as always, to the wonderful comments from Perp, SB, and Victoria!
 
After some serious contemplation, I managed to get down a short list of four.

Glen and TJ's last line wonders were in the Gang of four, and I adored ChrispenyCate's idea and delivery - it would have got my vote - however...

...Mosaix will be getting my vote: taut and streamlined. A few seconds of action, yet satisfyingly complete.
 
Starbeast, Victoria, Perpetual Man, thankyou, for the reviews! oh, my... so very sweet ones too. Electrifying, Starbeast?
Victoria Silverwolf, mysteriously evocative?
Perpetual Man, building a mythos of hope?
oh, my...like i mean, wow.. just wow... you guys are so very kind. seriously thankyou.
 
Firstly: Starbeast and Perp - you always manage to make my stories sound so much better than I think they are, and I really look forward to your reviews.


Secondly: immutable thanks to ratsy for the vote - unexpected and extremely uplifting to get it, after a very sad day, so thank you twice!!
 
Thanks for the listing Lenny!

And Boneman I am sorry you had a sad day. Great entry again!
 
So, my vote. I've tried to be parsimonious this month, rejecting typos, or ones I didn't feel fit the theme, which made me feel mean, but at least I've got a shorter shortlist... These are they:

Springs: I've always wanted to turn the clock back, so this one resonated.

Tywin: What a way to be press-ganged!

Ratsy: The last line is brilliant.

Starbeast: Attitudes the inventor didn't see coming was incredibly well done in 75 words.

Abernovo: I want a longer story!

Reiver 33: more press-ganging, and I love the infererences.

Perpetual man: has to be read aloud, no other way.

Alchemist: I'm unsure if there was an affair going on here, but what a payoff...

Novazero: How does it end? You can't just stop there!

The Judge: writes horror? What has the world come to? Great title, as well.

There was virtually nothing to separate these stories, but there can be only one, and after a lot of agonising, I went for Alchemist, for the (at least to my interpretation) two stories in one.
 
Thanks for the mention BM (and the kind words about the reviews earlier).

Just slipping my shortlist in, but no vote yet, and something a little more serious to begin with.

Nothing is certain yet but I may have to withdraw from the Chrons to some degree. I'm still going to look in and do my best to enter the challenges and do the book reviews I've been doing but the comments may well have to stop. I really enjoy doing them, but am more than happy that the will continue with Victoria and Starbeast who both do an excellent job in their own styles.

Sometimes the real world infringes a little too much.

Anyhoo, the shortlist:

Karn

Redman

Ratsy

Victoria

Starbeast

BigJ

Paranoid Marvin

Moonbat

DEO

NovaZero

Cul

BM
 
Thanks for the vote, Boneman. (I might explain what I intended the story to convey after the voting)

And sorry to hear about your difficult days, Boneman and P Man.
 
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