SS8 - The Guessing

[Jo Zebedee]

Some really good story beginnings in there. I'd love to read more, especially @Jo Zebedee, @sinister42, and @johnnyjet.

I might pop it up as a freebie on the blog. I'd go for the mailing list but everyone keeps determinedly following the blog so I might just embrace it.

Glad you liked it, @Vaz!

Who wrote mine!

 

[Coast]

Who wrote mine!

*Raises hand from the back of the classroom*

Mine was number 2

 

[Jo Zebedee]

*Raises hand from the back of the classroom*

It was excellent! Thank you

 

[Shyrka]

Since everyone is now coming clean I have to confess that I still haven't finished writing my assignment.

I'm still working away when I get the time but it has turned into a leviathan of a thing - last I looked, it was 31k words and still rising.

...

Sorry.

 

[Dan Jones]

Time to 'fess up. I wrote number 9, for @Ihe.

Bit of a departure for me, but I enjoyed writing it thoroughly. I only hope it was an enjoyable read.

And thanks for my story, Chrisp! It really was quite different to what I'd expected from you, and from what I expected from the brief. I like surprises

 

[Ihe]

Aaaaah, so it was you. I failed to give kudos for it. I thoroughly enjoyed it. TA.

 

[Dan Jones]

Aaaaah, so it was you. I failed to give kudos for it. I thoroughly enjoyed it. TA.

Thank you. I do genuinely hope you liked it. The brief was absolutely brilliant and took me in directions I never would have taken without it. I enjoyed writing it to the point of having another Chronner (who didn't do SS8) beta read it for me.

 

[Ihe]

We're all obsessive maniacs here, so I understand.

 

[hopewrites]

I turned mine in half done. Still working out a few things, but I've started and deleted the next paragraph 8 times already so it might stay stalled out.. sorry.

 

[Shyrka]

I turned mine in half done. Still working out a few things, but I've started and deleted the next paragraph 8 times already so it might stay stalled out.. sorry.

I considered submitting mine half-finished, maybe with a 'to be continued' kind of ending, but since I tend to write with an 'I'll fix it in post' attitude, there were too many things at the beginning that didn't make sense the way things panned out.

 

[Abernovo]

Hmm, suppose I should admit to being responsible for story number 4.

Responded to Phyre's request for somebody to speed write.

 

[Ragandar]

I should probably state mine too, eh.

I wrote #15 for DG Jones. (I'm guessing Chrisp meant #14, which you guessed, DG. Haha.)

Glad you liked the formatting flourishes. I had to think on how to represent other people's voices for so long, heh.

 

[hopewrites]

Hmm, suppose I should admit to being responsible for story number 4.

Responded to Phyre's request for somebody to speed write.

That was you!?
*spinning hug of giggly delight*
You nailed those female voices and the MC is So~~~~~ me! Hopeful cynicism. Absolutely loved it!
Thank you thank you!

 

[Abernovo]

You're welcome, @hopewrites.

 

[sinister42]

Here's my whole story. I realize it might be annoying to read it in pieces on the critiques forum.

 

[Phyrebrat]

Sorry I've not been a very good custodian the past few weeks but I have had no data conection other than on my phone, and posting the stories from there would have been a massive undertaking.

Congratulations and thanks to all of you who entered. A special thanks to Aber who took up the challenge of the most specific, hardest request and delighted its recipient.

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