Writing Contest #20

[Jud]

The theme for this months contest is...
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"Old Photographs"

Maximum 200 words :o)

PM all entries to me by 12th December, please do not post entries here. As far as I am aware there is still a £5 amazon voucher up for grabs to the winner.

Have I missed anything?

[David]

Why is it 150 words Jud?

[Jud]

Why not?

It was originally 150 words and then we crept up to 200 so I'm bringing it back down.

[David]

That's a bugger, I'd already written it :~(

Back to the desktop then!

[Jud]

Oh no! I'm sorry. You didn't specify so I picked a word count. I can put it back up to 200 words if you like and then make the next one 150

[Patti (baconater)]

You're too nice Jud.

I'd have made him re-write it. :D

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

So the final score is 200 words yeah? :)

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "You're too nice Jud.

I'd have made him re-write it. :D"

That's such a teacher type stance. Thank you Jud :~)

[Marc]

Takes me 150 words just to clear my throat...

[David]

Does it have to be new or can we foist some old stuff?

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Marc wrote: "Takes me 150 words just to clear my throat..."

Theres a topic for the next competition!

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Nah, too phlegmy!

[Patti (baconater)]

David wrote: "Does it have to be new or can we foist some old stuff?"

New!

[Marc]

Rosemary (the Fourth Plinth) wrote: "Nah, too phlegmy!"

oh I don't know it stretches the old membraney

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "David wrote: "Does it have to be new or can we foist some old stuff?"

New!"

Bugger.

I already have 147 words on old photographs:

http://atangledrope.blogspot.co.uk/20...

[David]

You could have added 53 words and made it new.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

I've just been wondering what a drope is!

[David]

David wrote: "You could have added 53 words and made it new."

Well, not new exactly - slightly refurbished. More like putting an extension on a house.

[David]

Rosemary (the Fourth Plinth) wrote: "I've just been wondering what a drope is!"

Sort of like a Pope, but not quite so turgid.

[Jud]

I am too nice, but I like being too nice. I'll get mean when I have kids and have to tell them what to do and do my best to ruin their fun in everything.

My mum always says she has my best interests at heart but I don't believe it.

[Bill]

I've finally admitted to myself the one huge factor in my story writing abilities.

...I have none!!!

Saying that, I've decided to enter this months comp anyway.

^_^

good luck everyone!

[Patti (baconater)]

Looking forward to reading it Bill!

[Marc]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "I am too nice, but I like being too nice. I'll get mean when I have kids and have to tell them what to do and do my best to ruin their fun in everything.

My mum always says she has my best intere..."

I would prefer a parent to say that than 'don't do as I do, do as I say'...

[David]

My entry is in :~)

[Marc]

don't own a camera, not a sentimentalist about that sort of thing so probably won't enter this one

[Jud]

You could do a cynical entry Marc, let out your unsentimental side

[Marc]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "You could do a cynical entry Marc, let out your unsentimental side"

Side? It's front, back & internal too :-)

[Jud]

Ok, so let your unsentimental self loose

[Marc]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Ok, so let your unsentimental self loose"

cameras just not making any flashbulbs go off in my noggin. I have written a couple of flash fiction stories on cameras, maybe that exhausted the juices on that one

[Jud]

Ah well, I guess I'll let you have a holiday form the contests

[Patti (baconater)]

You're too nice, Jud.

Authors don't respond well to 'nice'.

Git yer arse in front of your pc and write a story about an old photograph RIGHT NOW, Marc.

[Marc]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "You're too nice, Jud.

Authors don't respond well to 'nice'.

Git yer arse in front of your pc and write a story about an old photograph RIGHT NOW, Marc."

No, shan't :-)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Uh-oh. Patti will be doing her teacher voice in a minute.

[David]

Oh dear! Have I selected a rubbish theme? :~(

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I think its a very good one. Can't wait to see what develops...

[David]

Very good :D

[Marc]

David wrote: "Oh dear! Have I selected a rubbish theme? :~("

not at all, just something I've written about a couple of times & exhausted for me personally

[David]

I can understand that.

To be honest, I find coming up with a theme harder that writing about them.

[David]

I find that been given a theme, title or anything like that is almost guaranteed to make my mind go blank(er).

[Jud]

There's nothing to say that you can't pick 'freestyle' as the theme if you win.

[David]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "There's nothing to say that you can't pick 'freestyle' as the theme if you win."

Ah, but to win I have to enter. So I'll just have to wait until a contest comes along which matches whatever is meandering through my brain at the time.

[B J]

Surely it's not too big a challenge to knock out 200 words on any topic under the sun. It's only a bit of fun, not something by which the quality of our 'serious' writing will be judged.

[Marc]

B J wrote: "Surely it's not too big a challenge to knock out 200 words on any topic under the sun. It's only a bit of fun, not something by which the quality of our 'serious' writing will be judged."

yeah it usually takes me all of 10 minutes in a lunch break at work. But this theme I've done and got nothing.

[David]

B J wrote: "Surely it's not too big a challenge to knock out 200 words on any topic under the sun. It's only a bit of fun, not something by which the quality of our 'serious' writing will be judged."

A bit of fun?

First you have to get the plans all drawn up and approved. Then the foundations dug and the scaffolding put up, then you have to get the word-layers in and make sure that all the punctuation meets the latest EU stipulations.

Then there is all the plumbing in of the plot and the rewiring of the characters to do.

I mean you shove a protagonist in there without the joist-work to support it and the whole tale could could crashing down around you theme.

[Marc]

I normally start with how best to subvert the challenge and proceed from there...

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Some of us are guerilla writers though David - break in under cover of darkness and scribe illegally

[David]

Rosemary (the Fourth Plinth) wrote: "Some of us are guerilla writers though David - break in under cover of darkness and scribe illegally"

Tsk.

The story police will be after you, if you aren't careful.

Always make sure you have a fast getaway written, just in case.

[B J]

I've clearly failed to appreciate the true intellectual level and literary significance of this thread.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Have you written proper blueprints for the story. And brought in a reputable firm of story architects?

[David]

B J wrote: "I've clearly failed to appreciate the true intellectual level and literary significance of this thread."

Intellectual level?

Isn't that like a spirit level, only with thought bubbles?