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    Writing contest - 48 Hour Flash Fiction 2017

    A ninja shortlisting!! :ninja:;) Congrats Aleph, best of luck! Do you know anything more yet? :sneaky::speechless:
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    April 2017 75-word Writing Challenge -- VICTORY TO HOOPYFROOD!

    Community Service The referee stumbles to the sideline, arm missing, one leg bloodied and torn. “No more!” He disappears into the change rooms. “I’ll help out!” a voice from the crowd calls. Heads turn, incredulous - the greengrocer, Mr Alloes. “Now, Marty,” I say. “The Undead league is no...
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    Writing contest - 48 Hour Flash Fiction 2017

    Yeah I did too, probably for the worse as mashing all three prompts together gave me fits. :confused: I thought I saw, somewhere, that they'd be announcing the winner on the 24th April. (Although I can't find it now, so it may have been a previous years event, or I may have just imagined...
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    Writing contest - 48 Hour Flash Fiction 2017

    Yes, sorry. Only the optional prompt was the same as Sinisters. My title was 'RED AND BLUE' and my dialogue was 'The Hillis plot shows where we are, but, look what else it shows.' I'm not going to post it just yet, I really liked the retrovirus part, so I'm thinking I'll ditch the...
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    Writing contest - 48 Hour Flash Fiction 2017

    And me! And me! I had the same science prompt as sinister.
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    DISCUSSION -- APRIL 2017 300-word Writing Challenge (#25)

    Are you certain it's not your 75 entry? ;)
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    Writing contest - 48 Hour Flash Fiction 2017

    Ready to rumble! It's a 24hr challenge for me, with work and such, so I need to hit the start line warm! Best of luck guys and gals! :)
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    Discussion thread for 100-Word Anonymous Writing Challenge. March 2017.

    Congrats Ashleyne! Thanks Cats, Luiglin and Farntfar for the mentions and votes this month :)
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    Books on writing -- advice needed

    Just to bounce off Toby's point 1) - I agree, and it's the same for me. There's a big difference between 'knowing' something I've read in a book, and actually being able to apply the lessons and truly understand it. So in my case, I really need to just chose one lesson at a time, and write a...
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    Discussion thread for 100-Word Anonymous Writing Challenge. March 2017.

    I went with Last Shot, which stumbled, bleeding and full of lead, into the saloon. It got the better of my other favourites, who lay scattered in the dusty street outside - Low Noon, Greater Good Ghosts and Devil Ether. Tip o the hat to Farntfar, Victoria for their efforts in civilizing the...
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    Ways to Wage War

    It depends entirely on what type of story you're trying to tell, but I'm a fan of stories like The Count of Monte Cristo, or The Prestige, where what starts as competition escalates inevitably towards murder/death. With those sorts of stories you have the escalating action/consequences that...
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    Character Creation Chain

    Graknut was the most senior engineer in the ranks of the TrollKing's civil service. He was a pup at the time of the hordes conquest of Biglandia, and was weaned at the end of that campaign. He studied at the finest institutions that the Troll nation could conquer, and though his impatience and a...
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    Good rationale (excuses) for manned fighter craft in SF?

    M. John Harrison's Light has a protagonist along these lines. It's a been a while since I read it, but I do remember loving the concept.
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    February 2017 100 Word Anonymous Writing Challenge Discussion Thread

    Mine was Death of the Handyman John Smith. Congrats to whoever wrote Daddy's Little Girl, and thanks Hopewrites for hosting! (y)
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    Writing contest - 48 Hour Flash Fiction 2017

    I've just registered for this, thanks for sharing Biskit. (y)
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    Post scarcity motivations

    + 1 for the chaos theory. :) I think the hunt for the almighty dollar is the major unifying (and controlling) factor of our lives. Take that away and let everybody chase their own dreams and desires, and I think you'll have everybody shooting off in a million directions. A lot of behavior (both...
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    March 2017 75-word Writing Challenge -- VICTORY TO DAVID EVIL OVERLORD!

    I Owe My Soul… The parcel waited in the company store. “Ah, here.” The clerk lifted it onto the counter with a grunt. “Quantum Dis.. Discombobulator.” He raised an eyebrow. “For the rocket?” I nodded. My ticket off this dead end planet. “There’s a fee,” he said, keeping a hand firmly on the...
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    February 2017 100 Word Anonymous Writing Challenge Discussion Thread

    I've been anonymously tipped off that you may have TWO correct johnnyjet! :cautious:;)
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    February 2017 100 Word Anonymous Writing Challenge Discussion Thread

    Fun?! Blah, it's horrible! I'm so over it, I'm not even going to bother entering this challenge! Not a chance, not me, no sir!
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    A Wild Hunt

    Yes sorry, that's what I meant by stand - a tree stand. Probably the safest place to be when hunting something with sharp teeth! Vaz, I also just remembered - and I'm on my phone, so it's too hard to link to it - but if you google 'persistence hunting attenborough' there's a very interesting...
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