Discussion - May 2015 100-Word Anon Writing Challenge (#6)

[Kerrybuchanan]

Couple more good stories now. Enjoy.

 

[mosaix]

Twenty seven entries! Well done Kerry!

Not long to go now. Really must start work mine.

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

Thank you, Mosaix.

The clock is ticking: two days to go now so get writing guys!

 

[Dan Jones]

Kerry, you must be exhausted writing all these stories

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

It's tough, DG. Mimicking so many different styles keeps me on my toes!

 

[willwallace]

A Midsummer Night's Cleave- What starts out looking like a mischievous story quickly becomes deadly serious, with a terrifying ending.
Ripple- An ethereal creature searching for perfection finds it only within herself.
Time to reflect- The freedom to be together will come at a high cost. Is Miranda willing?

 

[chrispenycate]

Hmm, indeed, not long to go. Perhaps I should get to work, having promised? Writing work, that is (or at least inspiring Kerry to write). Not limericks, or noting we're already a record, even without a last-minute rush:-


Ratsy's 100 word (Aug/Sept 2014)
Theme: That Old Chestnut
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy or speculative.
Submissions 22
Votes 22

November 2014
Theme: The Last of Its Kind
Genre: Science Fiction or Fantasy
Submissions 14
Votes 16

December 2014.
theme: "The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. You that way: we this way."
Genres allowed are:
Any Speculative genre (So, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic Realism, etc).
Submissions 19
Votes 21

Feb 2015
Theme : The Cloud
Genre : Anything Speculative ( Science Fiction , Fantasy , etc.
Submissions 23
Votes 22

March 2015.
Theme: Family
Genre: Horror
Submissions 22
Votes 24

World class penner of Lim'rick, anon
Now bids you reflect or write on
Miss Muffeting words
Like arachnified curds
For time's spiderlike soon octagon.

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

Thank you, Chrispy! Wow, a record-breaking month! Great to see it all laid out like that, and a limerick to boot. Bravo

We are up to 28 now. I live in hope of a couple of last minute entries (or 3 or 4?) to break the big 3-0. Anyone?

Also if someone who hasn't entered (and doesn't plan to enter) would like to pm me, I am looking for a Red Herring for this month. Otherwise it might have to be me.

 

[Juliana]

Ooh, we have stats now! Thanks for that @chrispenycate, now we're a proper grown-up challenge and all.

 

[ratsy]

Chrispy, you just moved this from a dusty corner of the Chrons to a legitimate challenge...I may even have to come up with a story to throw my hat in the ring

I miss the old title...but then people may have expected me to actually run it or something so nevermind...

We sure have had some strange themes..That old chestnut, "The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. You that way: we this way." Now if that isn't a challenge, I don't know what is!

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

Legitimate?

Jeesh, I'm outta here.

*burns rubber across the car park attempting a fast and furious quick getaway*

 

[chrispenycate]

You'd prefer an illegitimate challenge?

But yes, it's not only that I live in dusty corners, more that I lived through them before they were dusty - or before Dusty left us to matern. Perhaps I'm something of a dusty corner myself.

And I thought I'd got over limericks too.

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

I think limericks must be addictive. I'd never written one in my life before I came on here, but now I keep on thinking up great first lines to challenge myself.

Or perhaps they're contagious. Atchoo!

 

[Dan Jones]

I was quite tempted to write a limerick about this very challenge, but couldn't think of anything to rhyme with "challenge". Except perhaps blancmange. I'll stick it on the WiP pile.

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

Don't forget, everyone, that the challenge ends at midnight tomorrow!

It would be great to see a last-minute rush of stories.

 

[Luiglin]

I was quite tempted to write a limerick about this very challenge, but couldn't think of anything to rhyme with "challenge". Except perhaps blancmange. I'll stick it on the WiP pile.

A quick search only really brought up Falange as a rhyme but seeing as this is the name of the old Spanish fascist movement I'm not sure how amusing the end limerick would be.

 

[farntfar]

The challenge of 100 word
has evolved from something absurd
It starts off anonymous
But Kerry's eponymous
and naming of names is deferred.

 

[Dan Jones]

Surely history is awash with amusing ditties about fascism?

The Grandiloquent Soviet Stalin
Was the Communist Party's main darling.
He listened to Tupac
While filling the Gulag
And drinking fifteen pints of Carling.

Fun and historically accurate.

 

[Luiglin]

I agree, just couldn't see where the 100 anon could be linked to the Spanish fascist movement all within a limerick. Now there's a challenge

 

[Dan Jones]

All you have to do is win, Luiglin, and set that as the next theme...