Can we begin maybe possibly thinking about another VOAT?

Toasterspark

You know, in theory. And maaaaybe after a few weeks it can come to pass. Just an idea.

what's your idea for a theme

pickarooney

Oh we can definitely begin thinking. Think of something awesome though.

Rubecula

Excuse my ignorance, but I have no idea what you are talking about. What is a VOAT?

(Starts to imagine a Stoat/Vole Hybrid running around the forum, biting people on the legs)

Antilles

pickarooney wrote: »

Oh we can definitely begin thinking. Think of something awesome though.

You heard him! The theme is "Something Awesome." Get writing, people!

Antilles

Antilles wrote: »

You heard him! The theme is "Something Awesome." Get writing, people!

I suppose it's not too early to start my autobiography

pickarooney

I don't suppose you have ever thought it was too early to start anything.

Agent Weebley

Rubecula wrote: »

Excuse my ignorance, but I have no idea what you are talking about. What is a VOAT?

(Starts to imagine a Stoat/Vole Hybrid running around the forum, biting people on the legs)

I think IT is this: everyone writes a <=6000 word story . . . sounds awesome!

pickarooney

pickarooney wrote: »

I don't suppose you have ever thought it was too early to start anything.

Well I wouldn't want to start my pension yet

pickarooney

I actually really like the idea myself. The theme could be "The Voat" and everyone has to decide what a voat is and write a story about that.

pickarooney

bluewolf wrote: »

Well I wouldn't want to start my pension yet

Spooky. My boss just this minute handed me a brochure outlining my pension plan options.

Rubecula

Perhaps folks could write a story based around their nickname in here. NOT about themselves ... but a story based on the nickname.

EG. for me the story would be about rubecula and Erithacus rubecula is the proper name for the European robin. So my story would be about a robin.

Bluewolf could write a story regarding a wolf that had an unfortunate accident with a blueberry pie? :pac:

Heaven knows what Pickarooney could write about... but that is a choice for Pickarooney to make.

..and so on.

Is that a good idea or a bad one?

pickarooney

And toasterspark could write about a park full of toasters?

Mr E

Mine would be about an ecstasy dealer? Involved in a mystery?

Antilles

And I could write about the chain of islands which form the greater part of the West Indies!!!

...or not!

echo beach

Rubecula wrote: »

Perhaps folks could write a story based around their nickname in here. NOT about themselves ... but a story based on the nickname.

Is that a good idea or a bad one?

It is a good idea but the point of VOAT is that everybody writes on the same theme while that would have us all on different themes. It would be a sort of Variation on a VOAT.:)

Toasterspark

pickarooney wrote: »

And toasterspark could write about a park full of toasters?

This came up in the Off-Topic thread before. Here is a humorous picture I prepared earlier...

http://i.imgur.com/kaw2a.jpg

---

Okay, I have two ideas for the VOAT.

1] We take a show (say, the show I just watched, Revenge) and we use the episode titles as our VOAT topics. The titles of the Revenge episodes are all simplistic, like Betrayal, Doubt, Justice and Grief. Perhaps too broad.

2] My favourite idea. We take a music album (say, Florence and the Machine's Ceremonials) and we each take a song name as our inspiration for our story. Could be fun, and pretty varied!

we could take tarot cards? the fool, the sun, the moon, king, queen etc?
king, queen, cavalier and jack, followed by numerals 10 down to 1. The trumps rank as follows: The Angel (20—although it only bears the second-highest number, it is nonetheless the highest), the World (21), the Sun (19), the Moon (18), the Star (17), the Tower (16), the Devil (15), Temperance (14), Death (13), the Hanged Man (12), Strength (11), the Wheel of Fortune (10), the Hermit (9), Justice (8), the Chariot (7), the Lovers (6), the Pope (5), the Emperor (4), the Empress (3), the Popess (2) and the Bagatto (1). There is also the Fool (Matto).

Toasterspark

bluewolf wrote: »

we could take tarot cards? the fool, the sun, the moon, king, queen etc?
king, queen, cavalier and jack, followed by numerals 10 down to 1. The trumps rank as follows: The Angel (20—although it only bears the second-highest number, it is nonetheless the highest), the World (21), the Sun (19), the Moon (18), the Star (17), the Tower (16), the Devil (15), Temperance (14), Death (13), the Hanged Man (12), Strength (11), the Wheel of Fortune (10), the Hermit (9), Justice (8), the Chariot (7), the Lovers (6), the Pope (5), the Emperor (4), the Empress (3), the Popess (2) and the Bagatto (1). There is also the Fool (Matto).

We did that before, didn't we? When we had big VOAT head-to-head battles.

Rubecula

Toasterspark wrote: »

This came up in the Off-Topic thread before. Here is a humorous picture I prepared earlier...

http://i.imgur.com/kaw2a.jpg

---

Okay, I have two ideas for the VOAT.

1] We take a show (say, the show I just watched, Revenge) and we use the episode titles as our VOAT topics. The titles of the Revenge episodes are all simplistic, like Betrayal, Doubt, Justice and Grief. Perhaps too broad.

2] My favourite idea. We take a music album (say, Florence and the Machine's Ceremonials) and we each take a song name as our inspiration for our story. Could be fun, and pretty varied!

I read your nick as Toaster Spark not toasters Park.. Sorry

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2010/01/the-exploding-toaster-conspiracy-italy-claims-prank-closes-case-ends-research/

Toasterspark

Toasterspark wrote: »

We did that before, didn't we? When we had big VOAT head-to-head battles.

did we? i forgot

--Kaiser--

Pink Floyd Album titles?

The Delicate Sound of Thunder
A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Pulse
Relics
Obscured by Clouds

etc...

pickarooney

That doesn't sound too bad actually, though how many have they released altogether?

Toasterspark

Rubecula wrote: »

I read your nick as Toaster Spark not toasters Park.. Sorry

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2010/01/the-exploding-toaster-conspiracy-italy-claims-prank-closes-case-ends-research/

No, no, my name is meant to read like that! I knew I should have capitalised the second S to make it more obvious!

--Kaiser--

pickarooney wrote: »

That doesn't sound too bad actually, though how many have they released altogether?

About twenty, at a guess. We could also branch out into song titles

Toasterspark

Well my original idea was to use the song titles in a specific album or albums. Using the album titles would be much more hassle!

Agent Weebley

Courtesy: Wikipedia

Studio albums

• The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
• A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
• Soundtrack from the Film More (1969)
• Ummagumma (studio and live, 1969)
• Atom Heart Mother (1970)
• Meddle (1971)
• Obscured by Clouds (1972)
• The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
• Wish You Were Here (1975)
• Animals (1977)
• The Wall (1979)
• The Final Cut (1983)
• A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
• The Division Bell (1994)

Total 14 albums.

If you click a particular album link, you can get the track list.

Agent Weebley

I hope I am not being too presumptious on this thread, but we need to gauge response as to who wants to write a story based on Pink Floyd tracks or albums:

If there are <= 14 "thanks" then it will be based on albums?

If there area >14, then it will be based on tracks?

Studio albums
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
1."Astronomy Domine" Barrett and Richard Wright 4:12
2."Lucifer Sam" Barrett 3:07
3."Matilda Mother" Wright and Barrett 3:08
4."Flaming" Barrett 2:46
5."Pow R. Toc H." (Barrett, Roger Waters, Wright, Nick Mason) wordless vocals by Barrett and Waters 4:26
6."Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk" (Waters)

A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
1. "Let There Be More Light" Roger Waters, Richard Wright, David Gilmour, Waters, 5:38
2. "Remember a Day" Wright, Wright, 4:33
3. "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" Waters, Waters, 5:28
4. "Corporal Clegg" Waters, Gilmour, Wright, Nick Mason, 4:13
5. "A Saucerful of Secrets" I. "Something Else"
II. "Syncopated Pandemonium"
III. "Storm Signal"
IV. "Celestial Voices" Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason 11:52
6. "See-Saw" Wright, Wright, 4:36
7. "Jugband Blues" Syd Barrett, Barrett, 3:00

Soundtrack from the Film More (1969)
1."Cirrus Minor" Waters5:18
2."The Nile Song" Waters3:26
3."Crying Song" Waters3:33
4."Up the Khyber" (instrumental)Mason, Wright2:12
5."Green Is the Colour" Waters2:58
6."Cymbaline" Waters4:50
7."Party Sequence" (instrumental)Waters, Wright, Gilmour, Mason1:07

Ummagumma (studio and live, 1969)

Atom Heart Mother (1970)

Meddle (1971)

Obscured by Clouds (1972)

The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

Wish You Were Here (1975)

Animals (1977)

The Wall (1979)

The Final Cut (1983)

A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)

The Division Bell (1994)

pickarooney

Weebley, do you mind keeping the YouTube spam to your own thread?

Thanks.

Agent Weebley

pickarooney wrote: »

Weebley, do you mind keeping the YouTube spam to your own thread?

Thanks.

ok, sorry . . .

Oryx

So is this going to happen or woat?

I dont mind what the theme is, tbh. Just give me one and Ill write something.

Toasterspark

We could argue on the songs to choose for ages. We could just pick a "Now That's What I Call Music" CD and Pickarooney could dish out story titles based on that. They go up to 82 so far. Any of those CDs would do.

Das Kitty

I was at the Tate Modern in July and they had a Damien Hirst installation, I found it interesting that he named a series of medicine cabinet pieces after tracks on Never Mind the B*llocks.

Some of his other pieces have really evocative names that could make for a good VOAT.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Hirst#Artworks

If pika is busy, I don't mind running it (whatever the theme we decide to vary on).

hcass

How about we pick a character from a Tarantino film (or a scorsese, copppola, speilberg any director you think would suit) and write a story about that character, but obviously something completely original?

Or would it turn out too fan boy?

Maybe - we have to write a story through the eyes of a character who we know the age, profession and sex of? You could have it numbered 1-20 and we pick a number and then the age, profession and sex is sent to us by PM?

We could use ANgela Carter for inspiration and take a fairy tale and use the latent sex and violence in that tale to make a dark disturbing tale like this collection of short stories she did http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bloody_Chamber

Or maybe the challange could be to write a Roald Dahl themed short story for kids kind of gruesome and disgusting?

Turtwig

What about fifty shades of grey? Each person writes a story about a different shade of grey? It doesn't necessarily have to be smutty.

pickarooney

I'm thinking of a selection from the songs of Frank Zappa.

Toasterspark

Good luck, whoever gets 'Bongo Fury'!

pickarooney

Bongo, the forgotten Furey brother with his African drum fixation.

Fury in Congo at Um Bongo shortage

pickarooney

All right, in the absence of any consensus, it will be Zappathon. I'll get rid of any unwriteable ones from the list when I'm doling them out.

Oryx

Count me in, so.

Cant wait to read about cock suckers ball.

Turtwig

Ok, so for the Newbies here how exactly does this thingy work?

Toasterspark

Jernal wrote: »

Ok, so for the Newbies here how exactly does this thingy work?

Get yourself over to the thread that's here, and read the rules at the beginning. If you like what you see, post a reply and Pickarooney will send you a song title. Let inspiration strike, write your story, and PM it to Pickarooney before the closing date.

After the closing date, all the stories are posted in a new thread by Pickarooney and, without knowing the authors, people read the stories and vote for their favourites. The winner is the one that gets the most votes!

I'm normally all about winning, but it truly is the taking part that counts with these competitions. You get loads of feedback on your story which is great, and it's interesting to see where people go with the story title they received. It's all a bit of craic at the end of the day.

Turtwig

Toasterspark wrote: »

Get yourself over to the thread that's here, and read the rules at the beginning. If you like what you see, post a reply and Pickarooney will send you a song title. Let inspiration strike, write your story, and PM it to Pickarooney before the closing date.

After the closing date, all the stories are posted in a new thread by Pickarooney and, without knowing the authors, people read the stories and vote for their favourites. The winner is the one that gets the most votes!

I'm normally all about winning, but it truly is the taking part that counts with these competitions. You get loads of feedback on your story which is great, and it's interesting to see where people go with the story title they received. It's all a bit of craic at the end of the day.

Well it'll be a good warmer for the Nanowrimo so yeah. I'll hop over there. (Kind of comforted by the thought of anonymous feedback. First piece attempt at writing in a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time.)

Jernal

Jernal wrote: »

Well it'll be a good warmer for the Nanowrimo so yeah. I'll hop over there. (Kind of comforted by the thought of anonymous feedback. First piece attempt at writing in a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time.)

be grand sure
I wrote mine last min last time and it wasn't very good