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Competition: Variations on a theme 3.5 (Flashfiction)

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  • #122
    Antilles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    Hey, sorry to double-post, but I found an idea a while back where you mix proverbs, and use them as your writing prompt. I just got a list of proverbs, and mixed them up in a spreadsheet. I've attached the list, but some of my favourites are below. Any of them could be a good prompt.
    • A bad excuse is no stronger than its weakest link
    • A best friend is in the eye of the beholder
    • A bus is the best divinity
    • A constant guest is drowning
    • A fool will laugh when he is never welcome
    • A friend to all is thicker than water
    • A gentleman without an estate is the Best Sermon
    • A good conscience is a very high price to pay for maturity
    • A helping hand is Costly
    • Age is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy
    • Agree, For The Law is no farther than at the end of your sleeve
    • Blood is a Good Weapon


  • #123
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Antilles wrote: »
    • Agree, For The Law is no farther than at the end of your sleeve

    I think Kafka wrote this one.


  • #124
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    What about just give the title, "The Life of a Cornflake"...
    See what happens with that...
    Or something even simpler ang vaguer like, "The Colour Blue"...


  • #125
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,421 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Quick! Duck! Theres another theme coming!

    They are flying thick and fast now, but someone needs to decide on one or we will be here all month :)


  • #126
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,089 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I like proverbs - the mixy-matchy ones not so much.

    How about this one:

    The obscure we see eventually. The completely apparent takes longer.


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  • #127
    Blush_01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    pickarooney wrote: »
    I like proverbs - the mixy-matchy ones not so much.

    How about this one:

    The obscure we see eventually. The completely apparent takes longer.

    I really like that. Lets do that one please!


  • #128
    ToasterSparks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 368 ✭✭ToasterSparks


    Oryx, this was much easier when you suggested something good straight away. Where were you 3/4 pages ago?? :)

    And yes, too many ideas!!


  • #129
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,089 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I'm thinking we should run this over a slightly shorter period of two weeks, starting tomorrow. I'm narrowing it down to either a proverb or a World Cup story now (some of these other ideas can be used for later comps) so voice your opinions/objections here before the day is out. You've all seen by now how even the most restrictive-sounding theme can be explored in any number of ways so really it shouldn't matter a whole lot.

    Now, what can we do to encourage the people that visit the forum but haven't entered yet to do so this time? One million dollars? Kidnap --amadeus-- ?


  • #130
    Mr E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,671 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Kidnap --amadeus-- ?

    Nah, just take his hyphens away. The Samson effect. :)


  • #131
    Blush_01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    Mr E wrote: »
    Nah, just take his hyphens away. The Samson effect. :)

    It's the way the hyphens and the bold work in tandem. I think he might be an unstoppable force if I'm honest.


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  • #132
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,421 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Ill buy a big box of heroes and send em to the winner.*

    *(I just want --amadeus--'s home address)


  • #133
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,089 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Your sigs are all out of date again :)


  • #134
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    pickarooney wrote: »
    I'm thinking we should run this over a slightly shorter period of two weeks, starting tomorrow. I'm narrowing it down to either a proverb or a World Cup story now (some of these other ideas can be used for later comps) so voice your opinions/objections here before the day is out. You've all seen by now how even the most restrictive-sounding theme can be explored in any number of ways so really it shouldn't matter a whole lot.

    Personally I'd like to run with the World Cup theme... I don't like proberbs - they annoy me...


  • #135
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,421 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Yeah, world cup. Pls & tks.


  • #136
    ToasterSparks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 368 ✭✭ToasterSparks


    Yep, I'm in favour of:

    Write a short story using the theme of the World Cup (2010?). Go!


    *crosses fingers that people agree and we can start writing SOMETHING!*


  • #137
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,089 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    World Cup is go.

    Theme: A World Cup Story
    Starts: Tomorrow, Thursday June 17th
    Submissions by: midnight on July 1st
    Voting: July 2nd to 7th inclusive

    Thread going up tomorrow


  • #138
    ToasterSparks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 368 ✭✭ToasterSparks


    Yay!


    *blows vuvuzela with delight*


  • #139
    --amadeus--
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,095 ✭✭✭--amadeus--


    Not the hyphens... Anything but the hyphens*!!
    Oryx wrote: »
    Ill buy a big box of heroes and send em to the winner.*

    *(I just want --amadeus--'s home address)

    All you need to do is ask, baby ;)

    WC story sounds good, looking forward to reading the entries!




    *spellcheck suggested hymens, which would have lent a whole new meaning to that phrase


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