Discussion thread -- seventy-five word challenge October 2013

[Juliana]

Note to go along with my story:

Do not, under any circumstances, go out alone on a dark night in Englewood.

Hardly your intention, but do you realize I've been humming 'Teddy Bear's Picnic' half the morning since reading your post on this thread?!

 

[TheDustyZebra]

So you had to come here and give it to everybody else? Gee, thanks!

 

[chrispenycate]

Have you any white chocolate and macadamia nut cookies on your person? Let me put this another way. Get some white chocolate and macadamia nut cookies. Pronto. The delivery address for the Staff Room will be telepathically sent to you as and when you have filled the requisite pallet.

Can I take it from this her honour is a potential white chocolate sink? When I get assortments the dark ones always disappear first, followed by the milk leaving a pathetic little residue if unloved white.

Or maybe it's only acceptable in cookies?

 

[TheDustyZebra]

We should get together on that assortment thing -- mine goes the other way around!

Any kind of chocolate is acceptable in cookies. And, well, anywhere, really.

 

[The Judge]

Ooh, yes. Send me the white ones. Dark chocolate -- spit spit -- is the spawn of the devil and can only be brought to the side of the saints in cake, and even then it needs to be leavened with a lot of cream, or in small amounts in (not on) biscuits.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

TheDustyZebra -- A series of clever double entendres gives an unusual structure to this witty tale of mutual seduction.

mosaix -- The author uses a subtle, gentle style to tell this story of emotions that are profound without being melodramatic.

MattC -- Through the use of a matter-of-fact narrator, the reader is offered an unique view of the fate we all face.

Tywin -- Vivid details bring this account of the world's oldest (and possibly eternal) profession to life.

 

[Mr Orange]

phew.... got mine up. it's a bit, well, dark...

and i feel a bit drained...

time for a cup of tea.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Mr Orange -- Psychological terror is used to create a truly frightening horror story.

 

[paranoid marvin]

An early entry for me this month - what am I going to do for the next 3 weeks!!

 

[Tisiphone]

Early posting for me this month and what a fun theme...

Some fab entries in already....

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

paranoid marvin -- A perfect pastiche of a folk ballad offers us the timeless themes of love and death.

Tisiphone -- Fine sensual details bring a ancient myth to life, in such a way that the reader is both enticed and forewarned.

 

[jastius]

whoa! some really dark and sensual reading here... i will have to rethink my casper the ghost story. uber cool stories out, though.

 

[Mr Orange]

Thanks for the review victoria

The image of my story was so vivid in my mind I struggled to get rid of it after I posted!

 

[Bowler1]

An early entry for me this month - what am I going to do for the next 3 weeks!!

The 300?

100 Words a week and you'll be fine.

 

[Remedy]

Welcome, Remedy.

Cheers Springs.

There are 20 entries so far and 20 days to go - How many do we usually end up with?

So many excellent tales. Does anyone have a really good method for when its time for voting? - or is it just a case of re-reading everything and battling with yourself over which one is best?

 

[chrispenycate]

Cheers Springs.

There are 20 entries so far and 20 days to go - How many do we usually end up with?

So many excellent tales. Does anyone have a really good method for when its time for voting? - or is it just a case of re-reading everything and battling with yourself over which one is best?

There are at least 42, and the maximum we've managed was 75. Call it around fifty. You can read some of the previous challenges to get an idea.

And no, there is no simple way of voting. At the best, you're comparing apples with eggs; at the extreme it's oranges with billiard balls or hand grenades. Diversity in all things. Some go with the story that stays with them, myself I have a spreadsheet (for which I have been mocked in the past, but which enables me to start my preparation for voting from the first piece submitted). Essentially, yes, it's a question of eliminating a large number of excellent but disparate constructions and mentioning a very few (long term residents will tell you why you shouldn't vote for me, but mentions are always appreciated) and ultimately reducing to one ultimate. Harder than the writing.

But in itself an exercise in judgement.

 

[Tywin]

Thanks for the review Victoria, as always you make my stories sound classier than they are

 

[Hex]

Thanks, Victoria

 

[TheDustyZebra]

TheDustyZebra -- A series of clever double entendres gives an unusual structure to this witty tale of mutual seduction.

Thanks, Victoria!

I think I'm going to have to seriously consider all of my writing in light of your reviews -- this is, I believe, the second or possibly the third time that you've remarked on "unusual structure" for one of mine. It's entirely possible that I have a style that I've never even been aware of! Niche market, perhaps?

 

[alchemist]

Thanks, Victoria!

I think I'm going to have to seriously consider all of my writing in light of your reviews -- this is, I believe, the second or possibly the third time that you've remarked on "unusual structure" for one of mine. It's entirely possible that I have a style that I've never even been aware of! Niche market, perhaps?

Yeah, people with dirty minds!!