DISCUSSION -- December 2014 75 Word Writing Challenge

[Cat's Cradle]

Looking forward to the next challenge but SS Stories? Did I miss something?

Hey, Sancho! Here is the link to the on-going Secret Santa writing event, in the Workshop.

http://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/550046/

You can read a little about what's involved. These aren't held monthly, but seem to occur at fairly random intervals every few months. They're advertised well in advance of any deadlines for the events. There will likely be another one held in the spring, I would think. Please feel free to join the next one, that would be great! (I think it may be too late to join this one...but I am still unsure of a fair number of things here at the site, and don't want to say that with any certainty; there would have to be an extra story-request floating around, and there'd be little time to finish a story for the current SS.) Hope this helps! CC

 

[willwallace]

Congratulations to TJ and Victoria on the tie. I gave my vote to Victoria, in a close decision. Great stories from all this month.

 

[Sancho]

Hey, Sancho! Here is the link to the on-going Secret Santa writing event, in the Workshop.

http://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/550046/

You can read a little about what's involved. These aren't held monthly, but seem to occur at fairly random intervals every few months. They're advertised well in advance of any deadlines for the events. There will likely be another one held in the spring, I would think. Please feel free to join the next one, that would be great! (I think it may be too late to join this one...but I am still unsure of a fair number of things here at the site, and don't want to say that with any certainty; there would have to be an extra story-request floating around, and there'd be little time to finish a story for the current SS.) Hope this helps! CC

Many Thanks CC
This looks interesting, I will definitely look out for the next one.
Cheers

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Wow! You guys really are dedicated.
I was already silently agreeing with your first post... "Head thuds quietly" just with the next 2 challenges.
Hopefully things will quieten down once past the inspirational Eggnog ;-)

It is a lot. I think this will be my last secret santa (although I'd hope to keep up the challenges) as I just am up to neck in writing for the foreseeable future, let alone work that actually pays the bills... So, newblood would be good for the thread!

 

[Boneman]

Congratulations to both of you! Nothing to separate these two, can't we have two votes??? In the end, and by the whiskiest of whiskers, my vote went to TJ, for being a smidgeon more noir...

 

[Cat's Cradle]

So, newblood would be good..

Although I do want to reassure you, Sancho, that despite springs' comment there is now very little vampiric activity revolving around the Secret Santa writing events; most of our..blood-thirsty writers have moved on to the other challenges, so..no worries!!

Springs, sorry to hear your tenure in the SS events may be coming to an end, but the books (and life) of course come first! So looking forward to Abendau's Child! CC

 

[Jo Zebedee]

We can't turn the newbys over to the vampires anymore? That's not fair.

 

[Sancho]

We can't turn the newbys over to the vampires anymore? That's not fair.

Now you're scaring me...[he says running, screaming for a clove of garlic and a spikey chair leg]

 

[Juliana]

Now you're scaring me...[he says running, screaming for a clove of garlic and a spikey chair leg]

Word vampires, Sancho. You scare them away with a delete button and a corroded hard drive...

 

[Sancho]

Word vampires, Sancho. You scare them away with a delete button and a corroded hard drive...

Phew...thanks for putting me right.
All the same, I am cooking bolognaise tonight...loads of Garlic

 

[StilLearning]

Sincerely sorry for not maing the main poll, but I've managed to find atime to vote in the tiebreaker. Thanks for the mentions guys, and congrats to the Judge and Victoria. Back to xmas madness!

 

[Bob Senior]

Howdy,
Thank you A. Fare Wells for the bronze.
Thank you Starbeast for the listing.

It was fun getting back to the writing challenge,
Paw said next month he will not pull any punches.

Victoria got my vote both times and I forgot to thank her for the review, so thanks Victoria.

Bob S.

 

[Starbeast]

You're very merrily welcome Bob. More "Paw" adventures! Wheeee!

 

[chrispenycate]

As I couldn't seem to vote from the bosom of my family, and the coach home ended up taking three hours more than on the timetable, I got home after eleven, and had to dash to the poll to vote for her honour.

Thus I didn't post my short list of:- alchemist, DG Jones, Juliana, Parson and Robert Mackay.

And thank you Sancho for liking my piece - I certainly won't be putting it in the to 'improve your seventy-five' words thread…

Oh, and I voted for the judge again in the tiebreaker.

 

[Phyrebrat]

I had both Victoria and TJ on my favourites list, but as TJ made it onto my shortlist, I have voted for her Honourable Worshipfulness Countess Judge of the Blessington Baronies.

pH

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Wow. I came back expecting to see a solid victory for The Judge, followed by a very respectable second place for Teresa Edgerton, with several folks, perhaps myself included, tied for third. Imagine my shock at participating in a runoff election. That is a very great honor. Thanks are due to all those kind folks who said nice things about my offering. I have cast my tie-breaking vote for The Judge (the only legal thing I can do, but it would be unseemly for me to omit this gesture.) Allow me to state my admiration for the very clever way in which the author was able to mislead the reader, without cheating, while maintaining the proper voice for the challenge.

 

[Parson]

The Judge receives my vote again, and the vote is as close as it can be. Forty-one votes with a twenty-one, twenty split for Victoria.

Chris! a mention?! Thanks so much. I didn't expect my poem to gather much attention at all, and now there are 2 shortlistings!

 

[Mr Orange]

crikey another vote! thanks a lot ursa major. and thanks for all the listings, long and short, and mentions honourable or not. 5 votes is a record for me so pretty chuffed with that!

i got the 12 days of christmas stuck in my head and for some reason thought it'd be fun to shoehorn a noir story into it. first draft was pretty easy but then realised it wasn't at all festive. so there was a good couple of weeks of rewriting and then i still wasn't happy as the middle of the story just wouldn't go together. after a lightbulb moment when i realised eleven, ten and eight could become elven, tentative and ain't, the story finished itself up nicely...

oh and i voted for the judge again, if i haven't already mentioned that somewhere...

 

[mosaix]

Well both Victoria and TJ were on my short list. The problem with trying to separate them is that they are so different and therefore difficult to compare. I must have read hem both a dozen times now and still and decide.

So, it's a flip of a coin. And it comes down ... heads - Victoria. Sorry TJ.

 

[Juliana]

Thank you to Chris for The shortlisting!