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FlowersisBritish · Dec 17, 2014

Theme - Connections

2000 word Limit

IMPORTANT EDITSo due to the holiday season and it being pretty busy for everyone. I'm giving a short extension to everyone in the thread.
The new deadline to submit your story will be SUNDAY DECEMBER 28TH AT NOON PACIFIC!!!

In addition the new deadline for the reading will be TUESDAY DECEMBER 30TH 11:59 PM PACIFIC!!!

All other rules are still in effect. End of important edit.

Submission deadline Friday December 26th. by 11:59pm pacific.
Voting ends Monday 29th by 11:59 pacific.

Each deadline has a six hour grace period, so long as you get the story in within three hours of the deadline you're good.

Secondary Objective: Characters can speak only once! Each of your characters get one chance to speak, whether it be a short sentence or a long and dramatic monologue is up to you.

Submission Guidelines:

- One entry per poster.
- All submissions must be written during the time of the challenge.
- Using the topic as the title of your piece is discouraged.
- Keep to the word count!

Voting Guidelines:

- Three votes per voter. Please denote in your voting your 1st (3 pts), 2nd (2 pts), and 3rd (1 pt) place votes.
- Please read all submissions before voting.
- You must vote in order to be eligible to win the challenge.
- When voting ends, the winner gets a collective pat on the back, and starts the new challenge.

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Previous Challenge Threads and Themes

Mike M · Dec 17, 2014

Ooooh, that secondary!

*Shakes fist*

Gazoinks · Dec 17, 2014

I wasn't going to do anything except vote since this is the first time I've got around to participating in one of these, plus I'm working on finishing up a book, but... That secondary objective! I might have to whip something up, I feel ideas flowing a bit.

Cyan · Dec 17, 2014

Man, what the hell at that secondary. I'm already scared. :/

Mike M · Dec 17, 2014

Cyan said:
Man, what the hell at that secondary. I'm already scared. :/

Eh, already have a bunch of workarounds.

Cyan · Dec 17, 2014

Mike M said:
Eh, already have a bunch of workarounds.

Well sure, you've already written two drafts by now!

Mike M · Dec 17, 2014

Cyan said:
Well sure, you've already written two drafts by now!

I gotta make up for lost time!

HeelPower · Dec 17, 2014

The key word "connections" seems incredibly vague.

I can't make sense of it at all.

It could be almost anything.

But I guess that's the point.

Zweizer · Dec 17, 2014

I pretty much never use dialogue so that secondary is perfect for me~

The main theme is hella vague though. Hmm...

Nezumi · Dec 17, 2014

Nice secondary. I already know how to deal with it. Now I only need to find a way to connect it with the theme...

Charade · Dec 17, 2014

:O tough secondary. Now to tackle it somehow...

Nezumi said:
Nice secondary. I already know how to deal with it. Now I only need to find a way to connect it with the theme...

I see what you did there

LaMagenta · Dec 18, 2014

I'm with everyone, very excited about that second theme. But I foolishly volunteered to make Xmas dinner :S Not sure if I'll get around to writing, maybe on the last day again?

Cyan · Dec 18, 2014

karenq0506 said:
I'm with everyone, very excited about that second theme. But I foolishly volunteered to make Xmas dinner :S Not sure if I'll get around to writing, maybe on the last day again?

Join the writing meetup on Sunday.

LaMagenta · Dec 18, 2014

Cyan said:
Join the writing meetup on Sunday.

What time is it at? I'm hosting an ugly xmas sweater party Sunday. Maybe I can join a lil bit.

Charade · Dec 20, 2014

Think I finally have an idea

karenq0506 said:
What time is it at? I'm hosting an ugly xmas sweater party Sunday. Maybe I can join a lil bit.

It's usually 2-4 pm pacific time.

Mike M · Dec 20, 2014

Charade said:
Think I finally have an idea

Good god, how can you live this way?

If I don't have a finished draft by Wednesday, I start panicking and wonder if I should just skip the week :/

Cyan · Dec 20, 2014

Charade said:
It's usually 2-4 pm pacific time.

Yep, that's the plan!

Nezumi · Dec 20, 2014

Mike M said:
Good god, how can you live this way?

If I don't have a finished draft by Wednesday, I start panicking and wonder if I should just skip the week :/

You do know that YOU are the exception to the rule here though, don't you?

Charade · Dec 20, 2014

Mike M said:
Good god, how can you live this way?

I'm slow, okay!!

timetokill · Dec 20, 2014

Hmmm. I may have a germ of an idea for this one. I missed the last thread. Maybe I'll get a shot to participate in this one.

Mike M · Dec 20, 2014

Nezumi said:
You do know that YOU are the exception to the rule here though, don't you?

FlowersisBritish · Dec 21, 2014

Mike M said:
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Lol I haven't even started my thing yet and it's my challenge

Cyan · Dec 21, 2014

Hangout in one hour!

blakep267 · Dec 21, 2014

when you say Speak only once, this is for dialogue, or would narration be considered speaking? Im pretty sure I get the objective, but just wanted to make sure

Mike M · Dec 21, 2014

blakep267 said:
when you say Speak only once, this is for dialogue, or would narration be considered speaking? Im pretty sure I get the objective, but just wanted to make sure

Interpret it however you want.

I, personally, am sticking with the letter of the law while showing complete disregard for the spirit : P

FlowersisBritish · Dec 21, 2014

blakep267 said:
when you say Speak only once, this is for dialogue, or would narration be considered speaking? Im pretty sure I get the objective, but just wanted to make sure

If it is within quotations, that is the dialogue. It's vague so you can roll and exploit as much as you'd like.

Cyan said:
Hangout in one hour!

I'll probably show up at the tail end of that.

Cyan · Dec 21, 2014

And here's the link! Quote to see:

On in a little bit.

Charade · Dec 21, 2014

Argh, not going to be able to make it

Nezumi · Dec 26, 2014

Merry Christmas everyone!

Question: Am I the only one who finds it kind of difficult to coordinate this challenge AND Christmas? What would be the general opinion on postponing the deadline a couple of days?

Cyan · Dec 26, 2014

Nezumi said:
Merry Christmas everyone!

Question: Am I the only one who finds it kind of difficult to coordinate this challenge AND Christmas? What would be the general opinion on postponing the deadline a couple of days?

I'd say if we were going to do something like that, make it a week so we're still on the proper schedule for the next one. Up to the thread creator, I suppose.

Mike M · Dec 26, 2014

Cyan said:
I'd say if we were going to do something like that, make it a week so we're still on the proper schedule for the next one. Up to the thread creator, I suppose.

Nooooo, a week will throw off my writing group/creative writing challenge alignment : (

Nezumi · Dec 26, 2014

I don't need an entire week either. But I surely know that the earliest time I'll be able to sit down to write my story will be Sunday afternoon (early Sunday morning for US folks)

FlowersisBritish · Dec 27, 2014

I was about to post a thing, but if a lot of people want to postpone a week(making it next friday) I can do that. But this is the last day, and we'd have a new challenge by tuesday. So I dunno. If there's a lot of people that feel they could use an extra week then I'd be for postponing, I'll be up till 4 or five am eastern, so I'll wait till then to see what the general consensus is.

If you're on the fence about it, then really the question I have to ask is "Do you have something prepared?"

EDIT: OOOOOOOOOOR weird idea, people don't usually post their reactions till monday and such, so we could just give a temporary increase to like Sunday afternoon, since the holidays are pretty legit reasons to not be able to write. I know I've been busy with christmas shopping and such. Most people seem to do their readings the last minute, so postponing till sunday doesn't seem like it would hurt people toooooo much.

Valhelm · Dec 27, 2014

Oh my god, I thought that the deadline was on the 29th. I'll try to finish and submit within three hours.

Edit: I'd fully support postponing for a week. I'm doing the secondary objective too, which makes this difficult.

Derwind · Dec 27, 2014

Jeez, I always seem to miss these threads. Always find out about them after the deadline.

Mike M · Dec 27, 2014

Fortunately the holidays didn't affect me much, because I am a cold and unfeeling automaton who does not know your human feelings such as "joy," or your primitive notions of "family" and "togetherness."

Open Channel
Usual password, 969 words.

What's actually going on is open for interpretation, I was attempting to be ambiguous on purpose.

Derwind said:
Jeez, I always seem to miss these threads. Always find out about them after the deadline.

1. Subscribe to this one.
2. Check it out when it updates with the new challenge.
3. Um... I guess we just skip straight to profit in this case.

Cyan · Dec 27, 2014

FlowersisBritish said:
EDIT: OOOOOOOOOOR weird idea, people don't usually post their reactions till monday and such, so we could just give a temporary increase to like Sunday afternoon, since the holidays are pretty legit reasons to not be able to write. I know I've been busy with christmas shopping and such. Most people seem to do their readings the last minute, so postponing till sunday doesn't seem like it would hurt people toooooo much.

Could potentially work as well, yeah. But better make up your mind quick! We got a little over an hour to the deadline...

Valhelm · Dec 27, 2014

Any sort of extension is fine with me.

FlowersisBritish · Dec 27, 2014

Nezumi said:
I don't need an entire week either. But I surely know that the earliest time I'll be able to sit down to write my story will be Sunday afternoon (early Sunday morning for US folks)

Derwind said:
Jeez, I always seem to miss these threads. Always find out about them after the deadline.

Cyan said:
Could potentially work as well, yeah. But better make up your mind quick! We got a little over an hour to the deadline...

Valhelm said:
Any sort of extension is fine with me.

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN TEMPORARY EXTENSION FOR THE HOLIDAYS!

NEW DEADLINE FOR THE STORIES WILL BE SUNDAY DECEMBER 28TH AT NOON PACIFIC!!!

BY EXTENSION THE READING DEADLINE WILL ALSO BE EXTENDED BY ONE DAY! SO TUESDAY DECEMBER 30TH 11:59 PM PACIFIC!!!

Hope everyone uses their time well. I might use mine to redo a story. I have a thing, but I'm not sure if it's how I want to handle the secondary.

Tangent · Dec 27, 2014

"Cousin Pa" (191 words)

Cyan · Dec 27, 2014

Oh cool, guess I can go to bed.

Valhelm · Dec 27, 2014

Tangent said:
"Cousin Pa" (191 words)

Wow. That's out of the left field, but pretty cool. I don't think I've ever read fiction like that before.

Zweizer · Dec 27, 2014

Thanks for the extension~

P44 · Dec 27, 2014

Bloody hell that secondary objective was hard. Don't reckon I've done that well here, but writing 1000 odd words without dialogue basically was a good learning experience at least.

Wood for the Trees (991 words)

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?res...093&authkey=!APyLBWpzTJw93hg&ithint=file,docx

Croll · Dec 28, 2014

Neurosis - 1,714 words

FlowersisBritish · Dec 28, 2014

Our Missus Clock -about 2000 words.

Hope everyone enjoys!

Ashes · Dec 28, 2014

a very muslim christmas.

Nezumi · Dec 28, 2014

Finally time to start writing. If everything goes according to keikaku I should be able to submit before the end of the deadline.

Charade · Dec 28, 2014

Transfiguration (570 words)

This was weird. I'm weird.

Nezumi · Dec 28, 2014

We still have the six hour grace period, right... right?

*Types faster*

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