DISCUSSION -- March 2014 75 Word Writing Challenge

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Mr Orange -- The fact that a person from our past may change into someone completely different is pointedly portrayed in this wry comedy.

holland -- The appeal that great dangers may have to our sense of adventure is vividly shown in this intense story.

stormcrow -- Through the use of telling details, a completely new version of an age-old incarnation of an abstract concept is brought to life.

TacticalLoco -- This sobering account of an all too possible near future is sure to have a profound impact on all readers.

 

[stormcrow]

Thank You Victoria! - (I do hope so!)

 

[alchemist]

Thanks for the review, Mort. Looks like the regular reviewers have competition...

 

[Cat's Cradle]

Thank you everyone for the kind words! I am beaming...it's been 20 years or more since I've tried to write anything, and to be mentioned here is so lovely, and especially when there are so many wonderful entries! I'm so excited to see what new stories and poems the balance of the month will bring!

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Azzagorn -- This stately interior monologue reminds one of a dramatic soliloquy from one of Shakespeare's great tragedies.

 

[Droflet]

Thanks for the review Perp. You're a superstar.

 

[Perpetual Man]

Ah, there you are. Come on over here and join me once more. Don’t feel as though you are interrupting, we’re all friends here, allow me to introduce to this little huddle.

stormcrow - Well, I have to say I like this young lady straight away. Very fetching and she reminds me of... Well I can’t say. However she does show just how well a concept can be expanded. Is she just a woman named after death, or a representation of the same, or in being what she is does she become something greater? It’s enough to make one’s brain hurt.

TacticalLoco - Oh, now this, this is just so sad. What could be more tragic than the loss of the written word, the fall of imagination. Everything eaten away by works that are all the same, tomes being stripped bare like flesh from bones by an endless rush of zombies. What a brilliant but horrendous metaphor. The dead rising, it just does not seem right, I do not like zombies, it feels as though a job is not being done properly.

Azzagorn - A bleak and dispassionate view of death. And it carries a very big truth. Death is little more than the end of life and nothing more. Imbuing it with characteristics, form and personality is little more than trying to bring understanding, acceptability to something that just is... well just is.

Oh excuse me, something about that last comment made me feel funny, as though I have said something that challenges the very nature of my existence. I think I need a little lie down. Please enjoy yourself.

Have a glass of wine, try the truffles... I shan’t be long.

 

[TacticalLoco]

As always, genuine thanks to Victoria and perp for the fantastic comments.

Victoria, as one participant has already said here, I hope the idea of fantasy can be stretched enough to allow my quirky story to fit into this months challenge.

And perp, you are so right. I fear we are losing the gift of 'the word' rapidly. Less books are read each year, it seems. Not to mention, I do like zombies either.

 

[HareBrain]

I feel the need to confess that I read TacticalLoco's title as "Death of an Ant Farm".

Which I suppose, since it turns out he hasn't used it, at least gives me one idea.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I often misread a thread title in the World Affairs forum in some bizarre way, and wish that might have been the discussion, since it would be so much more interesting than the reality.

 

[Hex]

Oooh, TSP. That is clever.


Thank you for the fabulous reviews, Victoria and Mort

 

[Bowler1]

Oooh, TSP. That is clever.

I second that, well done TSP.

 

[stormcrow]

Thank You for your positive comments Mort!

 

[Starbeast]

Whoa. Twenty-one stories in five days.

I've got three ideas. But they seem to go no where.

Wait....................I'm suddenly being inspired by a song I'm listening to, right at this moment. Hmm. Let's see how it looks on paper.

Pardon me folks. I have another idea.

Exit, stage right.

 

[Cat's Cradle]

Really nice, TSP, wow!

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Hope you all are satisfied. That is my entry for the month, take it or leave it, really...considering what I had to work with.

 

[Bowler1]

Hope you all are satisfied. That is my entry for the month, take it or leave it, really...considering what I had to work with.

Library computers aren't that bad... or are they?

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

If only that WERE available to me...no, I am currently using a first-gen IPad.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

I use the ipad all the time for the challenges, and know people who part-write novels on a Smart phone - keep practising with the touch keyboard, Karn, and you'll be a pro next month. Or buy a cheap bluetooth keyboard - I got one for a fiver in a remainder bin.

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

I much prefer a real PC and Works 9.

Well, despite all I said, I went through with it anyway...nothing to it this time. None of my own lore, none of my own worlds, nothing like that.