Discussion -- August 2014 75-Word Writing Challenge

Okay so here comes part two.

Kerrybuchannan: The stubbornness of wanting to maintain ones innocence can make us strong. Thats what I take from this short.

Nixie: Innocence is deadly in a universe of war. The writer paints an image of merciless destruction of innocent beings. Harsh.

Telford: A sweet tale of love between two old friends.

Michael Colton: The shows a childs view of a world that is always changing.

Kylara: The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few in this tale of playing god.

Remedy: Aliens abducting a dog? Or a child either way this story pulls on the heart strings. One can feel the characters confusion.

Void: A strong first attempt, does innocence help light the way in times of need? A visual story with a clever end.

A. Fare well: Reminds me of a scene from the orginal Transformer movie (1980s) guilty of being innocent. Pushing forth the idea that it is just there to be corrupted.

Alchemist: A dark tale of psyhic power and murder. I enjoyed the visual and viseral nature of this one.
 
Azzagorn, that's a really interesting take on my piece. It's not what I had in the front of my mind when I wrote it, but you have inadvertently tapped into something intense I keep deep inside me relating to a person very close to me. You might have just levered the lid off my subconscious with your review. Thank you.
 
TheDustyZebra said:
And, sadly, I have to admit that I never did find TJ's last one even when she said it was there. Someone will have to clue me in so I can bang my head on a wall.
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OK, the title was Interview with the Countess du Carla which I hoped would make everyone think of Interview with the Vampire, if only subconsciously. She is, I hope you did get, a vampire herself, discussing her family's blood like wine. (I actually used real wine-tasting descriptions, and at one point was going to call it Interview with a Haemophile, being a play on oenophile -- a lover or connoisseur of wine -- but thought better of it!) Anyway, who is the most famous vampire -- Count...? Now look at her name and rearrange the letters...
 
I've got a slight problem with my story, and I'm hoping the mods might be able to help.

Half the story is a mathematical formula. Yes, there's still a story in there.

Problem is, how many words is a mathematical formula? Word informs me I'm at 75 words total, but I've fallen foul of excessive verbiage before.

I've put loads of spaces into the formula, so it's not like 300 characters = 1 word.

eg: P = (100/1 = 100) = (100) x (100) / 100 = 100% I'm counting that as 13 words. I'm erring so far on the side of caution I'm about to fall off the other side.
 
I was expecting to sit this one out again as sci-fi is so hard for me to come up with something; people here are so clever regarding sci-fi and I always feel a bit of a failure trying to conceptualise something sci-fi. Altho' fantasy is also difficult, its fluid definition allows me more freedom so I usually manage to get something in there.

In a private exchange with Springs, recently, I commented that I find the harder, more restrictive genre/themes easier!

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Thanks for your review Azzagorn! I particularly enjoyed your clever take on the theme in your short (even if it was a little stomach churning!).

I really like the voice that comes across in yours Phyrebrat, I could really visualise your character through that alone!
 
Teresa Edgerton said:
I remember back in the old days when people used to put anagrams or acrostics in their stories or their titles, or other word games or secrets hidden in the text. It was fun to figure them out. Is anyone doing that these days? I know the The Judge had one last month, but no one noticed until later when she mentioned it to some of us privately.

As for the mini-reviews, I think the more people who do that the merrier. They are a good starting point for discussions. Maybe I am remembering the discussions in the first year or so as more lively than they actually were, but it would be nice to revive the spirit of the old discussion. And now that we have the "Like" button, people can express their appreciation of the reviews without a thread full of "thank yous."
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T.E. a couple of months ago I did a fantasy story and the lead character was a dragon named Nogard. I thought surely someone would notice that Nogard was dragon spelled backwards, but no such. I guess we need to hint about such things.
 
I got that one Parson ;) Just never got round to saying oooh clever in the thread hah!
 
Oh, that was clever, Parson! Maybe some future Challenge could include the necessity for there being a trick in each of our stories! I wish we had caught your dragon ruse! :)

Ah, good, Kylara at least figured that one out!
 
I noticed that too Parson, again, just didn't comment on it.
 
Parson hangs his head. Was he really expecting people to say something just because he thought he was being clever?o_O
 
Hah, I was totally intending on mentioning it, but I got rather dragged away. It was clever, and I felt rather clever once I had worked it out. :)

I often put in exceedingly obscure references, so obscure in fact that often I can't even remember what they were upon reading them a couple of weeks later!
 
Right, there's mine up. After a busy couple of months I hope to be able to start finding the time for more concentrating on the old writing front again. There seems to be an awfully big pile staring at me....
 
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