Sekrit Santa 33 1/3

[Glisterspeck]

Awesome! Thanks.

 

[jastius]

What do you mean by ick and angst Jastius? Is the MC not allowed to worry about things or go anywhere slimy?

just not having an over all maudlin tone is all.. splashes of seriousness rather then wallowings of despair... .


(actually phyrebrat, i thought you more like robert downey junior in "Heart and Souls" ... or perhaps phoebe cate in "drop dead fred" ... all that tape, and your red tape... )

 

[ratsy]

Hey Glisterspeck, I think my word counts were around 2800 for the first one and 3400 for the second..it is where the story took me. Mine might be a little shorter this time depending on how much other writing I am doing.

 

[Tywin]

On further reflection (and less beer). I would like to reduce the requirements on my request if possible.

Just a story including sharks somewhere in it and a protagonist with an embarrassing personal problem.

Lasers, robots, robot-laser-sharks... all can wait for a different venue.

 

[hopewrites]

What some people find embarrassing others would not. You could end up with a very interesting tale.

 

[jastius]

just not having an over all maudlin tone is all.. splashes of seriousness rather then wallowings of despair... .


(actually phyrebrat, i thought you more like robert downey junior in "Heart and Souls" ... or perhaps phoebe cate in "drop dead fred" ... all that tape, and your red tape... )

okay, okay.. if he must absolutely without question wallow, at least please put some rubber boots on him while he is in the mire.
(didn't know happy was so hard to do...)

 

[David Evil Overlord]

Happy isn't hard to do...well, unless it's a dystopian kind of happy...they're never happy...

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Happy isn't hard to do...well, unless it's a dystopian kind of happy...they're never happy...

Or if they are the society will use it against them.

 

[jastius]

thinks about being happy being held against someone as a punishment.... hmmmmmmm.

 

[hopewrites]

thinks about being happy being held against someone as a punishment.... hmmmmmmm.

Been there. Not a fun place. One becomes furtive with ones happiness, hiding it from view lest it be stolen away.
Happiness then becomes an unsafe thing, and one does ones best to avoid it.

Which makes life hellish for one who is perpetually hopeful.

 

[jastius]

Been there. Not a fun place. One becomes furtive with ones happiness, hiding it from view lest it be stolen away.
Happiness then becomes an unsafe thing, and one does ones best to avoid it.

Which makes life hellish for one who is perpetually hopeful.

but then they have taken away your happiness by letting you take it away from yourself...keep your happy hope, because hope wins out overall. but sometimes it takes so very long.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Heading toward the end of the month, so here's the list so far:

hopewrites
Mith
ratsy
Victoria
jastius
DEO
Perp
monsterchic
Glisterspeck
chrispy
Tywin
Phyrebrat
Remedy

Anyone else want in?

 

[Phyrebrat]

Whilst I can't speak for him, I think Stormcrow might be blue if he misses this. However, he's not been around for a while. Nothing in the 75 or 300 challenges from him.

It would be ideal if he - or someone - came in, as there would then be an even number of entrants.

pH

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Well, I can always come up with something if I'm needed, though there are plenty of other things I need to be writing.

Umm, ok, I should know these things, but stormcrow is a he?

 

[hopewrites]

I dont see how even numbers matter when drawing lots... and as far as I know he is. Might have been mentioned in the playroom somewhere. Or I imagined it. I do tend to hang around with you lot in my dreams more often than I admit.

 

[ratsy]

I am looking forward to this. My WIP has taken a pause as I realized I need to revamp a whack of it so maybe this will refresh me.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

I dont see how even numbers matter when drawing lots...

Err...no, actually, you're quite correct. I do tend to confuse myself on that, sometimes, but it's just a round-robin, not a straight back-and-forth trade.

 

[jastius]

dusty i will help if the numbers don't mix if you want..

 

[TheDustyZebra]

I don't think that would help, since you're already in the numbers.

Unless you're offering to drop out, in which case the answer would be NO! You're stuck. (Well, I suppose if you had a good excuse, like springs, but not just for numbers.)

 

[jastius]

whispers soto voice (i was offering to write extra if you needed to make up numbers..... shhh!)


of course i want to do it dusty.. the worse things get around here the more i need to write my stories. so everything happening lately .. (moving cause of being evicted ... having my rent stolen, my storage broken into.. being sued ..mail tampered with both out going and incoming... pipes burst.. utilities cut off .. new landlord having a police warrant out for him, car vandalized, phone on fritz and my cat running off so i have to crawl under bushes in minus forty weather while singsonging here kitty kitty until she deems me sufficiently humiliated to reappear....) just makes me more anxious to get writing.