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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #975 on: October 07, 2014, 12:37:06 pm »

Answer me Sensei
Why do the leaves fall at night
When you can't see them

Their secret splendor
But the birds nest there no more
They cut down the tree
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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #976 on: October 07, 2014, 12:41:27 pm »

Answer me Sensei
Why do the leaves fall at night
When you can't see them

Their secret splendor
But the birds nest there no more
They cut down the tree
I don't know why, but that last line just gets me.
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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #977 on: October 07, 2014, 01:26:05 pm »

*Shoots the speaker*

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« Reply #978 on: October 07, 2014, 02:05:44 pm »

I don't know why, but that last line just gets me.
At work, there was a particular tree that the crows really liked to perch in, so I liked to watch them on my break, but today I noticed they cut it down.
It made me very sad, and it was unexpected.
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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #979 on: October 07, 2014, 05:32:39 pm »

Short-ish Fiction Contest: Draigcorp Objectcorp Edition 2014

Rules
Your story must be greater than 250 words.
Your story must be less than 10,000 words. (Translated into average paperback pages, that's ~40 pages.)
Your story must be submitted before the deadline to be considered.
Your story must respond to the prompt (in some way) in order to be considered for grading.
You cannot win twice in a row. You may be ranked first, but you can't get the benefits of 'winning'.
You can submit a story either in the thread or by pm. If you submit by PM, your story will remain anonymous.

You Can
Submit stories from a larger body of work, as long as they fall within the word limits.
Write in any kind of style you feel like. I really don't give a damn and I've read pretty much anything.
Write poetry. Bear in mind that, like Draignean, I'm not exactly a good judge of poetry either unless said prompt is scenery. As before, poetry is exempt from the minimum word count limit.

You Cannot
Write stories of graphic sexuality. Forum rules, blah blah blah. Keep Reginald's quivering member to yourself. Sex is fine, just don't make it the centerpiece of the story.
Write nonfiction. I don't care if it's a spectacular history of central Asia that explains Kazakhstan's multi-vector politics AND somehow fits the prompt. NO. Bad brain!
Submit the exact same story twice, even if it fits two prompts. You must evidence clear and substantial revisions before you can re-enter an old piece.

How this Works

   Every week there will be a prompt submitted. You then have the rest of the week to work on your story. You can submit anytime between the start of the contest and the deadline. The deadline for stories is approximately a week after the contest is started. If you post after that deadline then I won't consider your story for the rankings and you can use it another time.
   At the deadline, or in the week following, I will declare someone a winner and rank the rest of the stories. I will provide critique along with each piece. It may not be substantial, but I guarantee you that I will read it and point out the parts of it that I think work best and the parts that need the most work. I will avoid being mean, but I will also avoid telling you something is awesome when I think it needs work.
   Then, after I declare a winner, that person declares the next two prompts. Then the process repeats. If the winner doesn't post prompts by the end of Wednesday, I will post one that night. The winner can also waive the right to make their own prompt, but I can't imagine anyone doing that. I may also veto the winner's prompt and write a new one of the occasion calls for it. Fanfic, since it you need knowledge to write in it, is a banned category for prompts. (Not, however, for stories.)


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Prompt: 1. The narrator has lost something. What that something is, is up to you.

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2.A (blank) walks into a bar...

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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #980 on: October 07, 2014, 05:40:12 pm »

Hey the dead line is a day after my birth day
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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #981 on: October 07, 2014, 06:15:09 pm »

Hey the dead line is a day after my birth day
Happy future birthday!
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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #982 on: October 07, 2014, 07:15:28 pm »

A bit of biopunk. For the first prompt, unless it's not quite close enough to count.

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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #983 on: October 07, 2014, 10:27:02 pm »

I want to write a children's book called "[NAME] Bakes Cookies."  And no, despite what you think I wasn't inspired by Cookie Clicker.  It occurred to me as the idea was gestating that it was similar to cookie clicker but I had something different in mind when I thought of it.

A kid gets a lesson in entrepreneurship from his mom.  She fronts him some money to buy cookie dough and cooks it for him and he sells it and after he pays his mom back he gets to keep the profit.  Smart kid realizes that if he cycles the money back into his little business he can make even more profit next time. 

All hell breaks loose.

Soon he's making too many cookies for his mom to bake so he starts hiring on neighborhood kids.  His business continues to expand.  Soon everyone in town is buying his cookies and before long his production capacity expands beyond his market's ability to consume.

He starts creating new brands to break up the market and increase consumption.  Cookies for moms, cookies for dads, cookies for gamers, dog cookies, cat cookies, cookies for people who think they're smart but actually aren't (in a children's book this page would have an illustration of me eating a cookie). 

As his business expands completely out of control before long everyone in town is working for him in some capacity, and when his cookie production is too efficient he starts cycling employees into administrative roles.  When there aren't enough jobs he invents new ones.  Everyone must participate.

He expands his cookie business into other towns.

Everyone in the world is either baking cookies, selling cookies, overseeing the production or sale of cookies, overseeing the oversight of cookie production and sale, marketing cookies, overseeing etc etc etc.  When they get their paychecks they spend them on cookies.  The totality of human existence on Earth is the production and consumption of cookies.
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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #984 on: October 08, 2014, 01:08:57 am »

Sounds a surprising amount like the Lorax, but goes in a different direction midway.
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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #985 on: October 08, 2014, 03:16:08 pm »

That could also do well as a comedy and/or psychological horror novel.
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« Reply #986 on: October 08, 2014, 04:39:49 pm »

Amazing.

I would buy that book.

Then I would buy cookies.
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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #987 on: October 08, 2014, 05:27:39 pm »

I have already bought cookies. I preempt you all.

Also, I wrote this for a Minecaft server cause why the hell not? Just something random, but I did feel like the narrator, namely me, lost something in the form of the diamond armour I'd had from the start of the game. Anyway, strange Minecraft poetry ahoy!

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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #988 on: October 08, 2014, 09:11:55 pm »

Prompt 1, criticism wanted.
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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #989 on: October 08, 2014, 09:16:44 pm »

I have already bought cookies. I preempt you all.

Also, I wrote this for a Minecaft server cause why the hell not? Just something random, but I did feel like the narrator, namely me, lost something in the form of the diamond armour I'd had from the start of the game. Anyway, strange Minecraft poetry ahoy!

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