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Competition: Variations on a theme 8 (Flashfiction)

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    #62
    PurpleBee
    Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭PurpleBee


    Not sure if I made it, I'm really not used to pressure.

    Thanks Pickarooney and Leafonthewind, great competition.


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    #63
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    PB had one minute to spare. Think what you could have done with those wasted seconds!


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    #64
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    pickarooney wrote: »
    PB had one minute to spare. Think what you could have done with those wasted seconds!

    Pfft, I spent 59 minutes brainstorming and 1 minute writing, editing and submitting.


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    #65
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Are we expecting any more after echo_beach?


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    #66
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Hopefully someone is drinking his/her way into a state of preparation


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    #67
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    What happens if somebody says they want to take part but it's after 11pm?


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    #68
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    See post 35


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    #69
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    pickarooney wrote: »
    See post 35

    Always with the answers, this guy!


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    #70
    echo beach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭echo beach


    Now I remember the feeling you get when the examiner says 'time up' and you have to have in your paper without reading over it although you know it is full of silly mistakes.

    At least we don't have to wait so long for the verdict. Thanks to all those doing the organising. It was an interesting challange.


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    #71
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Midnight here and I'm off to bed. If anyone gets a PM after this can you CC me on the reply PM as well as posting the time on thread?


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    #72
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Midnight here and I'm off to bed. If anyone gets a PM after this can you CC me on the reply PM as well as posting the time on thread?


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    #73
    hcass
    Registered Users Posts: 628 ✭✭✭hcass


    Soooooo...

    Are you doing another comp Pickarooney? One without a strict time limit cos that screwed me royally last time :D

    Please, please, please. I'm dying to contribute!


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    #74
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    Pah! Next one should have a thirty minute limit ;)


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    #75
    hcass
    Registered Users Posts: 628 ✭✭✭hcass


    Antilles wrote: »
    Pah! Next one should have a thirty minute limit ;)

    And a ban on past winners :p


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    #76
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Next one will be a novel contest. 180,000 word minimum.


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    #77
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Next one will be a novel contest. 180,000 word minimum.

    I'll submit my own original novel "When Bana Sings." It's about Eric Bana trying to break into the South American pop music/drug smuggling scene.


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    #78
    PurpleBee
    Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭PurpleBee


    Antilles wrote: »
    I'll submit my own original novel "When Bana Sings." It's about Eric Bana trying to break into the South American pop music/drug smuggling scene.

    Hmm sounds suspiciously like my entry, "When Bananas Sting"


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    #79
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    PurpleBee wrote: »
    Hmm sounds suspiciously like my entry, "When Bananas Sting"

    Hmm, well as you can see I've been developing this idea for some time.

    bana_sings.png


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    #80
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Antilles wrote: »
    Hmm, well as you can see I've been developing this idea for some time.

    bana_sings.png

    You do realise I will have the song stuck in my head for at least a week now? Thanks for that, you're a real pal.


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    #81
    PurpleBee
    Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭PurpleBee


    Antilles wrote: »
    Hmm, well as you can see I've been developing this idea for some time.

    bana_sings.png

    If you've actually written that, I'll read it


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    #82
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Next one will be a novel contest. 180,000 word minimum.

    Let's make it interesting. Randomly assign a letter to different contestants, the contestant can not use this letter in their submission


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    #83
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    Let's make it interesting. Randomly assign a letter to different contestants, the contestant can not use this letter in their submission

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=65698628&postcount=3 <-- written entirely without the letter 'e'.

    I can't remember why, but it seemed a good idea at the time.


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    #84
    diddlybit
    Registered Users Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭diddlybit


    Antilles wrote: »
    written entirely without the letter 'e'.

    That's pretty impressive, isn't "e" the most commonly used letter in the alphabet?



    What did "e" ever do to anyone? I have the oddest image of a giant "E" being burnt on Sesame Street while Big Bird and Elmo dance around it in my head right now.


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    #85
    echo beach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭echo beach


    Antilles wrote: »
    I'll submit my own original novel "When Bana Sings." It's about Eric Bana trying to break into the South American pop music/drug smuggling scene.

    Have you forgotten that Pickarooney gets to decide on the theme?
    You can't start writing until you find out what it is, but you could probably work that basic idea into most scenarios.:)


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    #86
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I'm kind of tapped out for ideas. Someone come up with something mental.


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    #87
    hcass
    Registered Users Posts: 628 ✭✭✭hcass


    But if we come up with it - we can't be in it! Ahhhhhhh!


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    #88
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    hcass wrote: »
    But if we come up with it - we can't be in it! Ahhhhhhh!

    Of course you can. Most of the themes so far were suggestions by people who entered.


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    #89
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    pickarooney wrote: »
    I'm kind of tapped out for ideas. Someone come up with something mental.

    Something like the Bad Romance one again could be fun. Maybe a different genre?


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    #90
    Blush_01
    Registered Users Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    How about this:
    How do you say something when there are no words? (And have it not be a pile of crap)


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    #91
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    Blush_01 wrote: »
    How about this:
    How do you say something when there are no words? (And have it not be a pile of crap)

    Ooh, how about write a complete story about any topic, but with no dialogue?


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