DISCUSSION THREAD -- October 2024 -- 75 Word Writing Challenge

Thank you everyone, this is very cool. There are some entries you think you might have a chance to do well with, and others where your story makes you kind of happy when you're done, and where you think that that is its own reward… this entry was one that I liked, and that would have been enough. But I'm really pleased it seems to have resonated with people.

Thank you, TJ, for the Best Title Award, that I gladly share with mosaix. I laughed when I thought of the title, and its double meaning. (And ColGray's title is terrific - might be a much longer story you could write from this entry, ColGray... using that title, of course!)

I want to add Parson, Christine Wheelwright, ColGray, and The Judge to my 'Thank you!' list, for your mentions. :)

I want to mention that I've had many-many Challenges over the years (many) where I had trouble meeting the genre (when it was something new to me), or theme; I feel bad that I mentioned in my voting post that I thought some stories missed one or the other of these. I actually have no idea in this Challenge if I met the genre, because it was something I'd never tried before; and judging whether or not other people may have missed should have been something I kept internally, that would be reflected only when I made my lists and voted. We enter the Challenges, I think, for fun, to stretch our writing muscles, or for camaraderie, and we just try to do as well as we can with the genre and the theme, and in getting our ideas down on the screen. Hope I didn't offend anyone.

I will try to come up with an interesting pairing for the genre/theme for next month. It's always the hardest thing in the Challenges for me, coming up with the new prompts, should I win. Thanks to everyone who Challenged this month, or who didn't, but still read and voted. CC
 
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The poll closed "some time" ago** and, officially, we have a winner:

Congratulations, Cat's Cradle!​
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** - Getting old and having been at a Convention over the weekend combined to affect my memory and force me to go to bed early... and my body doesn't care that the clocks went back here in the UK: if it feels like one in the morning it is still one in the morning....
 
Ursa major said:

** - Getting old and having been at a Convention over the weekend combined to affect my memory and force me to go to bed early... and my body doesn't care that the clocks went back here in the UK: if it feels like one in the morning it is still one in the morning....
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:LOL:
 
Thank heavens that the poll can be closed automatically...

...and that I was awake enough a few days back to calculate (eventually *cough*) the correct closing time (as the system does not accept a time as an input, only the number of hours, days, etc., to go before it closes.)
 
I have insomnia really bad right now, and it completely slipped my mind to say well done @mosaix for your four votes, and silver (I was certain we'd end in a tie-breaker), and well done @Laura R Hepworth, and @The Judge for taking the joint-bronze.
I think I have my choices for genre and theme; I'll think about it tonight, and send a note to TJ tomorrow to see if it would work. Nothing too tricky, hope that'll be okay, CC
 
Congratulations @Cat's Cradle that was a very fine story.

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My own story was a mash up of what I saw in 50's pulp SF. Only a passing nod to real science with larger than life main characters who seemed to have the answer for everything and they were usually industrialists. --- That line of thinking led me to consider Elon Musk, as a kind of model of that (I'm not sure about his basis in science, it might be pretty good.) and so his name was an homage: Eli Much.
 
Cat's Cradle said:
I have insomnia really bad right now, and it completely slipped my mind to say well done @mosaix for your four votes, and silver (I was certain we'd end in a tie-breaker), and well done @Laura R Hepworth, and @The Judge for taking the joint-bronze.
I think I have my choices for genre and theme; I'll think about it tonight, and send a note to TJ tomorrow to see if it would work. Nothing too tricky, hope that'll be okay, CC
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Thank you and congrats on the win!

@THX1138 You are most welcome! I enjoyed the unexpected twist at the end.

Thank you @Ian Fortytwo, @ColGray, and @Aethel for the votes!
 
Well done @Cat's Cradle -great stuff, would love to see a copy of that flyer ...I bet it was in the style of early 20th century communist propaganda, with a horde of machines triumphantly bearing their gears and wielding spanners at the sunrise;)
Congratulations
 
Congratulations CC!

I don't think there's much mistaking where my inspiration came from this mongh. I love that song, and hope I did it some kind of just with my story. A reverse kind of optimism.
 
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