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Ashes · Mar 30, 2016

See the last thread. Follow the damn trail. All the way to its ghastly end.

Where's the last thread? Here.

Closed for entries. Voting is now open:

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Applemancer
Cyan
felon
FlowersisBritish
James Joyce [ineligble - he's dead jim]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mike M
MilkBeard
Mu Cephei
Rabindranath Tagore
Schlocky
Sober
Tangent

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Previous Challenge Threads and Themes

Nezumi · Mar 30, 2016

So, is this anonymous now, or what?

Ashes · Mar 30, 2016

Nezumi said:
So, is this anonymous now, or what?

Ooh that reminds me that I have to do a secondary.

Applemancer · Mar 30, 2016

Neat, I found one of these threads before the deadline. I look forward to finally participating.

Maklershed · Mar 30, 2016

KarneeKarnay · Mar 30, 2016

Applemancer said:
Neat, I found one of these threads before the deadline. I look forward to finally participating.

+1 I look forward to taking part.

FlowersisBritish · Mar 30, 2016

I just woke up from a coma and I'm so confused by this thread, by this world. I'm going back to bed.

MilkBeard · Mar 30, 2016

Creative Grey Area

Nezumi · Mar 30, 2016

I think my favorite thing about this thread is how we skipped ahead in time 1800 challenges

MilkBeard · Mar 30, 2016

Nezumi said:
I think my favorite thing about this thread is how we skipped ahead in time 1800 challenges

I just realized. The number is a mixture of writing challenge #19 and the current, #186.

Inception

grey matter blown

Maklershed · Mar 30, 2016

Either that or the secondary is that your story is set in 1986. That'd be cool. :b

Nezumi · Mar 30, 2016

1986 - "The year of the great creative depression "

Dandy Crocodile · Mar 30, 2016

So it's Creatively Bankrupt not The Grey Area?
What's the word count?

Freeza Under The Shower · Mar 30, 2016

Oh no, now I have to read the entries in the previous one.

*puts giant booze flask to mouth*

Cyan · Mar 30, 2016

Ashes, what have you done?!?!

You might want to put at least enough info for total newbies to figure out the basics.

Ashes · Mar 30, 2016

Basic info for newbies and oldies alike:

* No word count - aim for 1500 words
* Theme: The Grey Area - Use as inspirational starting point or stick to it like glue
* send me your entry in a pdf form via pm
* I'll chuck all entries into a single pdf anthology.
* Vote for your top three
* read along with others and try and guess who wrote what

Dandy Crocodile · Mar 30, 2016

Ashes said:
Basic info for newbies and oldies alike:

* No word count - aim for 1500 words
* Theme: The Grey Area - Use as inspirational starting point or stick to it like glue
* send me your entry in a pdf form via pm
* I'll chuck all entries into a single pdf anthology.
* Vote for your top three
* read along with others and try and guess who wrote what

Awesome. Thanks for clarifying!

Nezumi · Mar 30, 2016

Are you sure you want PDFs? You can't unify the formatting then.

Ashes · Mar 30, 2016

Send it however you guys want. I will be doing the least amount of work that I can get away with.
If you want to be safe, stick to popular fonts.

Sober · Mar 30, 2016

Just do what Cyan did last time and just format them all to the same text and spacing and whatever.

Anonymous though eh, sounds like I gotta get on this.

MilkBeard · Mar 30, 2016

This will be fun

mu cephei · Mar 30, 2016

I didn't take part in the last one (I think), but I know I read them, and I was really terrible at guessing who wrote what, I'm not sure I got any right. It was much more difficult than I expected.

FlowersisBritish · Mar 30, 2016

Huh, i could have sworn I dreamt this thread.

StMeph · Mar 30, 2016

FlowersisBritish said:
Huh, i could have sworn I dreamt this thread.

Who's to say you didn't?

Mike M · Mar 30, 2016

mu cephei said:
I didn't take part in the last one (I think), but I know I read them, and I was really terrible at guessing who wrote what, I'm not sure I got any right. It was much more difficult than I expected.

Everyone's batting average on it is pretty terrible.

Nezumi · Mar 30, 2016

Pretty sure last time I got like two guesses right.

Mike M · Mar 30, 2016

Last time I got everybody right.

FlowersisBritish · Mar 30, 2016

Oh wow, I forgot about that. Pretty impressive Mike. And we had a pretty big pool that round too. Doubt this'll be as big, so getting them all right should be no problem for you again this time.

Mike M · Mar 30, 2016

FlowersisBritish said:
Oh wow, I forgot about that. Pretty impressive Mike. And we had a pretty big pool that round too. Doubt this'll be as big, so getting them all right should be no problem for you again this time.

It helped that I was the one everyone was sending them to.

FlowersisBritish · Mar 30, 2016

Mike M said:
It helped that I was the one everyone was sending them to.

Too late. Challenge has been issued. 100% accuracy or fail Mike.

Edit: Also I'm a draft in. ha! Finally beat you Mike!

Ashes · Mar 31, 2016

Mike M said:
Last time I got everybody right.

Not true. You said my story was by Piano.

MilkBeard · Mar 31, 2016

Freeza Under The Shower · Mar 31, 2016

You know, I was thinking during 50 shades of grey: "this would be better if Grey was a vampire". Dat theme, yo.

edit: also Aliens V Cobra: 'You're the disease. I'm the cure." *explodes xeno* And obviously the acid results in senseless death and destruction.

Applemancer · Apr 1, 2016

What if 50 Shades of Grey was a thriller about a woman who blackmailed the CEO of a popular Christian publisher with secretly recorded audio logs of his super kinky BDSM relationship with her?

mu cephei · Apr 1, 2016

MilkBeard said:

Cyan · Apr 3, 2016

Reminder that there'll be a writing hangout in about an hour and a half. Details half an hour prior.

Cyan · Apr 3, 2016

Oh we're back. Ok, hangout starting now! Quote for link:

MilkBeard · Apr 4, 2016

Finally got something solid down to work with. I actually have two stories, but decided on the second one I came up with. I might write out the other one anyway just for the heck of it.

Schlocky · Apr 5, 2016

I think I have actually finally completed one of these on time! It's only taken 2ish years of lurking :/

Nezumi · Apr 6, 2016

Hey Ashes, do we get grace periods or is the countdown final?

Ashes · Apr 6, 2016

Nezumi said:
Hey Ashes, do we get grace periods or is the countdown final?

Who's asking? o.0

Why?

Nezumi · Apr 6, 2016

Ashes said:
Who's asking? o.0

The one who always needs the grace period because she puts off starting until the very last minute because she can only work under soul crushing pressure.

Ashes said:
Why?

See above

Ashes · Apr 6, 2016

Maybe there will be... Maybe there won't.

Nezumi · Apr 6, 2016

So mean >_<

MilkBeard · Apr 8, 2016

*tumbleweed*

Dandy Crocodile · Apr 8, 2016

I have an idea I could work for this, but I'm working on my big-ass final thesis tonight so I'm afraid I'm gonna be all written out.

tirminyl · Apr 9, 2016

Oh crap. I thought I had more time!

Cyan · Apr 9, 2016

Taking a break in between finishing a giant work project and starting my usual Friday reports. Maybe I'll do some writing.

Tangent · Apr 9, 2016

This is hard.

Nezumi · Apr 9, 2016

I'm trying to finish this on time but if there is no grace period I might fail miserably

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