DISCUSSION THREAD JULY 2020 75-WORD WRITING CHALLENGE

[Provincial]

Thanks for the outlines, @Parson and @Victoria Silverwolf.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Luiglin demonstrates the importance of clear communication.

 

[Luiglin]

I'd like to take this opportunity to offer absolutely no apology at all for the bad pun.

Glad, that's out. It's a weight off my mind. The relief is palpable.

 

[AMB]

That's the spirit, @Luiglin. Never apologise.

 

[Danny McG]

I'd like to take this opportunity to offer absolutely no apology at all for the bad pun.

Glad, that's out. It's a weight off my mind. The relief is palpable.

I am now dithering whether to post my entry now, there are some similarities, or write a new one.

Nah! I've messed about with it for three days so I'm going to enter it

 

[Luiglin]

I am now dithering whether to post my entry now, there are some similarities, or write a new one.

Nah! I've messed about with it for three days so I'm going to enter it

Go for it.

 

[Danny McG]

I'm in, trying a play on words with my last line

 

[Mad Alice]

If theres anyone who wishes to participate in the Secret Santa story exchange event in the workshop but hasn't yet put up a story request could they pop over to the workshop and get their story request in, please and thank you.

 

[Starbeast]

The muse was upon me early this time. So I sauteed it, grilled it and wrote it out. Then it crawled away and hopped over the backyard fence..

 

[Parson]

@Luiglin .... What’s in a word .... Luiglin writes a treatise on the importance of diction, or perhaps the impudence of youth.

@dannymcg .... Lady in red .... A story to remind us that not all leather has the same amount of desirability.

@Daysman .... A Human Puzzle .... Daysman has a puzzle which puts me in mind of trying to deal with an infinite Rubik's Cube.

@Justin Swanton .... Age's End .... J. S. writes of hopeless end to a dystopian energy crisis.

@TheEndIsNigh .... An Introduction .... Which is as accepted as a happy cheary pun; no really!

@Starbeast .... Sword of the Werewolf Queen .... StarBeast reminds us that innocence must end for everyone.

@Ashleyne .... OUT OF THEIR ELEMENTS .... Ashleyne displays her props as a pitch woman for a reality fantasy Fairy show.

 

[Justin Swanton]

Ta for the mention Parson. I hadn't meant my story to be a hopeless as all that. Technology is at an end but humanity is not. Personally, I think our best chance for survival is to revert to a pre-industrial civilisation once fossil fuels run out and green energy has shown it can't work alone (cf Planet of the Humans). The human race did just fine for millennia without technology and can do so again.

 

[Ambrose]

Absent technology the tale-maker entertains only a sparse few round the campfire. No books.

 

[Justin Swanton]

Absent technology the tale-maker entertains only a sparse few round the campfire. No books.

Plenty of books! (humanity from cave men to the Enlightenment)

 

[Ambrose]

And then, without technology what happens? Do we live only on the products of our forebears?

 

[Justin Swanton]

And then, without technology what happens? Do we live only on the products of our forebears?

No. On what we make ourselves. But this is getting off-topic. Back to the thread.

 

[Parson]

@BT Jones .... The Last Elemental .... BT helps us to remember that it can be too late to pay attention and that there is such a thing as diamond dust. BOOM!!

 

[BT Jones]

@BT Jones .... The Last Elemental .... BT helps us to remember that it can be too late to pay attention and that there is such a thing as diamond dust. BOOM!!

Thanks as ever @Parson. This one came to me yesterday. Speaking of puerile, I had a rather juvenile one about Earth, Air, Fire & Water's jealous contemporaries drinking in a bar and sharing their gripes, but I didn't feel that it fitted the genre. It was more Weird fiction. Should that kind of thing come into my thinking?

 

[Danny McG]

And then, without technology what happens? Do we live only on the products of our forebears?

There were three bears,
And their only product was porridge

 

[Luiglin]

@dannymcg not even I would come out with a pun that bad. My hat's off to you, Sir.

 

[Joshua Jones]

There were three bears,
And their only product was porridge

*slow claps*