Discussion Thread -- JULY 2020 -- 300-Worder Writing Challenge (#38)

[Luiglin]

Congrats @M. Robert Gibson.

Thanks for the vote @Land Under Wave and for the mentions folks.

This entry started out as Lovecraftian horror and ended up as a poor joke. I should have stayed with the strange lights in the woods.

 

[-K2-]

This entry started out as Lovecraftian horror and ended up as a poor joke. I should have stayed with the strange lights in the woods.

I think you're really shorting yourself. It was a clever tale that would fit well with a more fun (instead of dark) fantasy story. That's something too many folks of big series tend to forget. Imagine a spoof on LotR with a bunch of gags. If it was played straight, as though all the misadventures were taken seriously, it could be a riot.

K2

 

[Luiglin]

I think you're really shorting yourself. It was a clever tale that would fit well with a more fun (instead of dark) fantasy story. That's something too many folks of big series tend to forget. Imagine a spoof on LotR with a bunch of gags. If it was played straight, as though all the misadventures were taken seriously, it could be a riot.

K2

Thanks but I really needed more words to make it more effective. Couldn't quite get it like I wanted.

 

[Cat's Cradle]

It's a bit late in the game, but I wanted to thank @-K2- for the wonderful picture - your amazing photo inspired a great Challenge, -K2-, CC

 

[Peter V]

Congratulations @ M. Robert Gibson on a fine win and certainly recognition to @ Parson for an equally worthy story, which was within a whisker of a vote. I was quite surprised not to find myself waking up to a tie break vote.

Thank you to @ Provincial and @ The Judge for kindly voting for me.

In truth my story was pretty much a single draft, late effort to hit the deadline and quite a different style to my usual offerings. It was such a good picture, offering a wealth of ideas and I am quite disappointed that I did not have the time to really do it justice.

 

[Phyrebrat]

@-K2-

Just getting around to catching up on the 300 worder - and your bafflement of my story.

Thanks for the kind words. I just wanted to create a tone, romanticising ancient Egypt and trying my hand at a bit of Bradbury imagery. It ended up more a prose poem(ish).

Just to say though; it was all to be taken literally. I had this image of Ancient Egypt as a deciduous Old English Forest which Howard Carter ruined when he came along in the early 1900s.

I knew it’d be a tough shot due to the dense writing but once you get that idea in your head...(well, you know how it goes).

Thanks especially to @Ursa major and @Guttersnipe for the votes and for @The Judge’s special award.

The rest of you can burn for not voting for me AFAIC

congratulations also to @M. Robert Gibson

pH

eta oops (re thread)

 

[The Judge]

Ooh, that's interesting! I read the trees as real but that they'd been destroyed by the building of all the pyramids etc, but the trees' spirits still lingered and were planning to rescue Egypt from the tombs themselves, shutting all the evilness away somehow, so I couldn't quite grasp Carter's sacrilege in opening the tombs!

 

[johnnyjet]

By the way, how many Clifford D. Simak novel and story titles can you find in my story?

Regarding my story, "Being Clifford Simak," this was inspired by the scene being reminiscent of a typical Clifford Simak story setting and the bright light reminding me of a portal. Since there were no takers on guessing how many Clifford Simak novels and stories were mentioned in my story, there were 19, as follows:

The Big Front Yard
All Flesh is Grass
Over the River and Through the Woods
Way Station
Construction Shack
Tools
The Autumn Land
Time and Again
Highway of Eternity
Worlds Without End
I Am Crying All Inside
Huddling Place
Immigrant
Shadow World
All the Traps of Earth
Mirage
Dusty Zebra
Brother
Neighbor

 

[Ashleyne]

@-K2- , @Parson , and @Victoria Silverwolf , all of your comments have added a little something special to the competition. You deserve adulation most highest.



A huge thanks to @BT Jones , @Parson and @Joshua Jones for adding my story to your listings.

I ginormous @Starbeast , @johnnyjet , @Cat's Cradle , @Danny McG , @Ian Fortytwo and @Iwroteathing for the votes. This is one of my more abstract stories and I’m thrilled you enjoyed it.



A massive congratulation to you, @M. Robert Gibson, for a fantastic victory.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Many congratulations!

 

[Danny McG]

Further to my story about skeletons breaking free of their host bodies

Roll dem — @Danny McG : I actually found quite a bit in this story that made it much more than just a fun romp, like how people felt compelled to get dogs. The whole bone/skeleton thing was wonderful.

I have just found this online, it seems I'm not the first to think of it

 

[Phyrebrat]

I just realised there’re loads of posts I didn’t say thank you or like.

Apologies. Should now be rectified.

pH