Discussion -- 75 Word Challenge -- APRIL

[Perpetual Man]

Yippee! (I think) I sometimes find it harder with three...

[David Evil Overlord]

Originally Posted by The Judge

WE HAVE THREE VOTES FOR THIS CHALLENGE!!! Three. 3. That's 1 + 2.

With great power comes great responsibility.

[Bowler1]

If the Judge is worried then its a good sign that this months 75 word challenge has been of a very high standard, which I think it has been. Roll on the deadline.

[hopewrites]

Yay three votes!
I would just like to say now that I'm sorry to everyone who's story I didn't get to comment on. I just figured out how to view the forum on my phone so I should be able to keep up with reading as the last seconders post. But I won't have time to finish commenting because I have life things taking up all my time this week.
Some really clever entries in those last two pages and all well done.

[digs]

Originally Posted by HareBrain

Digs, members who've played truant for nine months aren't allowed to post such good entries. You've still got time to edit it into a piece of crap.

I thought that's what I did! It's been too long since I flexed my 75-word muscles, and I'd forgotten how hard it was. My original draft was 300,000 words long and included a lengthy subplot about a young Trotskyite professor in 1960s Nigeria and a sentient cheese wedge with a psychic connection to a jaded submarine captain in an alternate steampunk universe where Napoleon won at Waterloo. I've been editing it down all day.

Feels good to be back though.

[springs]

Ooh, 3 votes, very excited now. I needed them, the coffee cup staring at me in the morning was going to be soooo big, I'd have been shaking for a week.

TISIPHONE: lovely bit of foreboding in there about the date, and another lovely take on teh new life theme

NIXIE: Oh, gosh you've seen me before my coffee, then. A really original take on the theme
TSP; the universal balancing continuity that is kids, and the force of play to give sanity in the midst of madness
AARON STONE: The dead narrator gives an eerie feel to this, and his sad attempt to fix it.
TDZ: Futility in 75 words... sent a shiver down my spine
DIGS: So very sad, and the title is perfect with it.
BONEMAN: The most famous promise of them all, brought out of desolation.

I will try to get to the 300 worders, but time is a little short at the mo. I'll have to up my typing speed....

[nixie]

It is a conspiracy, record number of stories. I normally read the entries as they come in, and then a few more times before I cast my votes. Now I'll only have time to read them all once. It was planned, someone broke my laptop, then an increase in entries, all cunningly designed to drive me insane.

[Mouse]

digs! Where've 'ee been?

3 votes eh? I'm one of those people who find it easier with one.

[RJM Corbet]

Originally Posted by Mouse

... I'm one of those people who find it easier with one.

Me agree

[Moonbat]

I'd find it easier with 71

[digs]

Originally Posted by Mouse

digs! Where've 'ee been?

Lurkin'!

Looking forward to reading all the stories. I've missed this!

[chrispenycate]

Well, I'm expecting The Judge and Cul, both notorious last-minuters, to gift us with gems in the next few hours, then we have highlander and Aun Doorback, who have each very good recent records, and many more who might decide to join and become a part of this "not expecting another one like this for a long while" experience (feels strange not to have Ursa on the list).

This is not going to make voting any easier, of course; but did anyone say it was going to be easy? (Um, you're right, I did suggest that. I lied.)

So how am I supposed to get my three hundred word entry done if I've got to analyse all these?

[The Judge]

Aun has already posted his, Chris.

And I have an idea, at last, but no final line, and I'm out tonight. I'm torn between posting what I've got before we go out, whereupon I shall think of the perfect line in the middle of Uncle Vanya when it's too late, or leaving it until we get back, whereupon we'll probably encounter floods on the M27 which stop us getting home before the Challenge is closed. Help.

[Bob Senior]

Originally Posted by Bob S. Sr

WHAT A MONTH !
I have no idea where my vote will go.
I am awe-struck.

I have been for----one man--one vote, all along, but this month 6 votes wouldn't be too many.

Bob

I didn't really mean it, I was only kidding, I can't even pick one, woe is me, what am I going to do, I should have kept my mouth shut, ACK ! PANIC !
BBOB

[TacticalLoco]

Originally Posted by The Judge

Aun has already posted his, Chris.

And I have an idea, at last, but no final line, and I'm out tonight. I'm torn between posting what I've got before we go out, whereupon I shall think of the perfect line in the middle of Uncle Vanya when it's too late, or leaving it until we get back, whereupon we'll probably encounter floods on the M27 which stop us getting home before the Challenge is closed. Help.

It's a tricky situation and I would not dare suggest what you should do.
However, I will say that I'm a known risk taker and that coupled with the certainly that the high quality of Chekhovs writing would convince me to take a chance. (Also weighing the average commute time from theater to home-sweet-home.)

Or you could play it safe... Enjoy!

3 Votes! Woot!!