Discussion Thread -- September 2017 -- 75 Word Writing Challenge

[Calliopenjo]

CONGRATULATIONS, URSA MAJOR!

Thank you JohnyJet for liking my story. I appreciate it.

Thank you, everyone, for reading my story.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Congratulations to Ursa major on a stunning victory, way ahead of the pack.

(A tip of the hat to DragonAether for the vote.)

 

[Starbeast]

Congratulations Ursa major
(I didn't check the polls until I voted. Way to go bro.)

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I'd like to mention that the Reviewers did a wonderful job too.

@Victoria Silverwolf
@Parson
@Perpetual Man

 

[mosaix]

Congratulations, UM!

 

[Perpetual Man]

Congratulations Ursa. It has been quite a while since I saw you cut loose with quite so much style and panache, so a very deserved win.

 

[Perpetual Man]

Quick insert: As far as I can ascertain these are all the inspirations for the stories.

Fill in the blanks or correct me:
(I think I might have the one by Perp right)

Ashleyene – Little Bo Peep

Cathbad – Little Red Riding Hood

Luiglin – Jack and Jill

Vaz – Three Little Pigs

Victoria - Goldilocks

Danny – Wee Willie Winkie

BigJ – Ring a Ring a Rosie

Nixie – Little Miss Muffet

Dave – The Cat and The Fiddle

Calliopenjo - Pinocchio

Hope – Little Jack Horner

Cul – Snow White

Travis – Hickory Dickory Dock

Wruter – HELP!

CC – The Emperor’s New Clothes

Parson- Humpty Dumpty

Peter – Round and Round the Garden

Shyrka – Snow White

Perp – Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.

DAXS – Little Red Riding Hood

Hugh - Cinderella

SB – Curious George/ Rin Around the Rosie

Chris - Rapunzel

Old Man Steve - HELP

Heijan Xavier - Cinderella

Farntfar – Tom Tom The Piper’s Son

Bob – A well selected few

DEO – Red Riding Hood

LittleStar – Frere Jacques

Phyre – 3 Little Pigs

Joshua Jones – Twinkle Twinkle Little star

Mosaix – Pied Piper/Rumpelstiltskin

Johnnyjet – Little Miss Muffet

HazelRah – The Owl & The Pussycat

Stable – Pop Goes the Weasel

Cody - Aladdin

Ursa – Rock a Bye Baby

Dragon Aether – Old MacDonald

Aber – Goldilocks

TJ – Greek Myth?

TDZ – Rip Van Winkle

TitaniumTi – Ding Dong Dell

Mad Alice – Sleeping Beauty

 

[Peter V]

Thank you for the mention johnnyjet, the near miss LittleStar and the shortlist HazelRah

and of course congratulations to a worthy winner Ursa major

PV

 

[Phyrebrat]

Wow. Congratulations Ursa; that's a landslide victory if ever there was one!

pH

 

[Cat's Cradle]

Congratulations Ursa, on the convincing victory! Clearly a story we awl could get behind.

Thank you johnnyjet and Ursa for the listings! Finally, our reviewers are always incredible - thank you Victoria, Parson, Perp, and Shyrka for the effort and time you put in each month.

 

[Ursa major]

I shudder to think what we're in for now.

Well, I had thought of a topic of Cake, with a genre of...












...Kipling.

(Not that this would have got past the Guardians of the Challenge.)

 

[Ursa major]

Wow. Congratulations Ursa; that's a landslide victory if ever there was one!

pH

I'm pretty sure that this is the first time I've been in double figures, so I'm amazed at getting this many votes.

 

[Perpetual Man]

Congratulations Ursa, on the convincing victory! Clearly a story we awl could get behind.

Thank you johnnyjet and Ursa for the listings! Finally, our reviewers are always incredible - thank you Victoria, Parson, Perp, and Shyrka for the effort and time you put in each month.

Thanks for the thanks CC, not that I put that much effort in each month anymore First time I have done comments in far too long.

 

[Shyrka]

Gah, I'm really sorry for not getting around to voting - I was so busy trying to catch up with the last batches of reviews that the deadline was upon me before I realised. Mercifully, it looks like it probably wouldn't have made much difference anyway. I hadn't decided 100% either way, but I was certainly considering voting for Ursa's anyway...

 

[nixie]

Congratulations Ursa

 

[The Judge]

Congratulations, Ursa! That's one very emphatic win!!


Apologies for not doing my usual shortlistings and thanks last night. We were out gallivanting all evening (a lecture on the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Hampshire, though it was mainly about Hyde and Titchfield Abbeys, with Thomas Wriothesley -- aka Call-me-Risly -- as baddie-in-chief) and before and after there were a couple of things that came up that needed dealing with quickly, so I didn't have time to do anything but a speedy re-read of all the stories (fortunately I'd read them all twice before) and then vote.

I can only echo Phyrebrat, Parson and TDZ this month, that to me a good many of the stories failed to incorporate the genre and of those that did, quite a few appeared more re-tellings rather than the real events which lay behind the later stories, and then on top of that there were several whose stories I couldn't recognise, which made it difficult for me to assess or even understand them.

Anyhow, my vote went to Vaz, who I thought nailed genre and theme best, but I tussled for a while over Phyrebrat's three not-piggies (I clearly have a fondness for the wolf, as the story's one I've used in the past) and TDZ's Rip Van Winkle.

A pocketful of thanks for the mentions, shortlistings and near-things Cathbad, nixie, Parson, farntfar, Phyrebrat, CC, johnnyjet, Starbeast and Ursa, and a full ring of beautiful roses for the lovely votes Aber and Wruter!

Quick insert: As far as I can ascertain these are all the inspirations for the stories.

Fill in the blanks or correct me:

TJ – Greek Myth?

Eek! There was me thinking I was a bit heavy-handed in pointing out the story, and it's clear I completely missed the boat with some people.

Hint, the big clue is in the title, Perp: Ring a Ring O'Sacrifice. I admit word count meant the original phials in the pockets had to go, as did the hydra's sneezing, but I did manage to smuggle in "rose" in the first line, and falling -- even if not down -- at the end!

 

[Danny McG]

I was somewhat dismayed a few days after posting my entry "Dinner Bell" and I realised from the reviews that nobody could 'get' the relevant Nursery Rhyme.
That's why I had to do a quick reply (I think to Parson?) to name the rhyme.

I had a story about a man named Willie (with a winking eye) running through town in the evening, he was warning people to get their children safely to bed.

Wee Willie Winkie

Come on!!! Somebody must have got it before I felt obliged to name it
Words for Life - Wee Willie Winkie

 

[Joshua Jones]

Congratulations @Ursa major on your well deserved victory. Can't wait to see what non-Kipling pain you have in store for us next month!

 

[The Judge]

I had a story about a man named Willie (with a winking eye) running through town in the evening, he was warning people to get their children safely to bed.

Wee Willie Winkie

Come on!!! Somebody must have got it before I felt obliged to name it

Nope! In my defence, I've heard of the WWW name but the rhyme itself isn't one I know/can recite. I read Perp's list with interest as it told me some of the ones I didn't get, and among others I could kick myself for not getting Peter's round and round the garden, which I did know, and it would have been a contender for my vote if I had cottoned on. (My excuse -- I've no children, so I'm having to dredge up memories of the rhymes told to me REDACTED years ago!)

 

[nixie]

I was somewhat dismayed a few days after posting my entry "Dinner Bell" and I realised from the reviews that nobody could 'get' the relevant Nursery Rhyme.
That's why I had to do a quick reply (I think to Parson?) to name the rhyme.

I had a story about a man named Willie (with a winking eye) running through town in the evening, he was warning people to get their children safely to bed.

Wee Willie Winkie

Come on!!! Somebody must have got it before I felt obliged to name it

I got it straight away. My idea came from an episode of Countdown, they were discussing origins of nursery ryhmes and one of the theories, Miss Muffett- Mary Queen of Scots, Spider- John Knox.

 

[Joshua Jones]

I was somewhat dismayed a few days after posting my entry "Dinner Bell" and I realised from the reviews that nobody could 'get' the relevant Nursery Rhyme.
That's why I had to do a quick reply (I think to Parson?) to name the rhyme.

I had a story about a man named Willie (with a winking eye) running through town in the evening, he was warning people to get their children safely to bed.

Wee Willie Winkie

Come on!!! Somebody must have got it before I felt obliged to name it
Words for Life - Wee Willie Winkie

To be honest, I have never heard of that one prior to this challenge. I cannot blame it on a lack of children, though. Perhaps it is more popular on your side of the pond? Or perhaps I didn't have a real childhood...