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Competition: Variations on a theme 6 (The Box)

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


    "Tuesday in Honolulu" is the name of my Israel Kamakawiwoʻole cover band.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭angelll


    Ok so i completely missed the deadline...can i have the friday extension please :D:D:D:D





    :D


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,576 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I'm stuck in the snow so might not be able to put these up tomorrow. Then again I might get them up today if I get time and net access. What about Insect Overlord though, eh? One the one hand, the more entries the better but on the other it's a litte unfair on others and kind of against the unofficial last-minute scribble ethos.


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    I dont want to have good stories excluded either, but if you allow it now, people may not take the deadline seriously in future cos they know if circumstances allow, youll shift it.


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


    Oryx wrote: »
    I dont want to have good stories excluded either, but if you allow it now, people may not take the deadline seriously in future cos they know if circumstances allow, youll shift it.

    I agree with Oryx, deadlines have to stand or they are worthless.

    Maybe post the others in a seperate thread after voting finishes?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,576 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Like at Cannes?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭angelll


    I've had a crappy two weeks in pain after getting my tooth out so couldn't concentrate at all,finally off antibiotics & painkillers so i could muster up something...should i get a sick note? ;)

    Ah no really it's fine,i know you're all just afraid as i won before :p


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,933 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    I'll be happy enough to post my story in a separate thread after voting is over.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,557 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    I'll be happy enough to post my story in a separate thread after voting is over.

    Me too.....


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  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    How many entries did you get, pickarooney?

    Angell I used to use that excuse at school. It never worked :)


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,576 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    7 entries before the deadline, one after and three no-shows.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭angelll


    Oryx wrote: »
    How many entries did you get, pickarooney?

    Angell I used to use that excuse at school. It never worked :)


    Looks like it hasn't worked now either,lol. Ah well,gl all that did enter.


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


    Like at Cannes?

    If you miss the deadline at Cannes and still want to show your film, they ask you "Like in VoAT?"

    True story.


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


    I think the deadline should be the deadline. It makes it more fun trying to write something at the last minute.
    I missed out this time because I didn't have my finger on the pulse, but I'd definitely always prefer a set in stone deadline...


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


    So picka when can we expect to see those six amazing stories?


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


    There's been a bit of a gap between the deadline and putting the entries up.

    Am I am the only one thinking that pickarooney has flown to Hollywood and is currently pitching our stories to the major studios as his own work?

    /genius!


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,576 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Finally home after a 48 hour delay, four cancellations, a change of airport, a change of destination, a 5 hour wait on the tarmac and a delayed train. If I ever go back to London, I know what'll be in my box.




    A nice, soft pillow.


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Our next story can be about the pitfalls of international travel. Youd win.


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


    Finally home after a 48 hour delay, [coming home from Hollywood] four cancellations [after a studio said they'd buy my box story], a change of airport, a change of destination, a 5 hour wait on the tarmac and a delayed train. If I ever go back to LondonHollywood, I know what'll be in my box.

    :D


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,933 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    I still don't know if I'm going to be in this competition.
    Pickarooney really is the master of suspense!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 367 ✭✭Phantasos


    I still don't know if I'm going to be in this competition.
    Pickarooney really is the master of suspense!

    I heard he sold your story to the Hollywood Execs. :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 122 ✭✭dawvee


    Phantasos wrote: »
    I heard he sold your story to the Hollywood Execs. :P

    I read in Variety that Uwe Boll is slated to direct.


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


    boxmovie.jpg


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    I want that as a teeshirt :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 367 ✭✭Phantasos


    I would watch that movie!


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,576 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    OK, the thread is finally up, stickied on top. Bad news for the latebies, I did not accept anything after the deadline for reasons of fairness. Feel free to get revenge by posting your stories in a separate thread and feeding off the thanks you generate.


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Just as a fyi, the one about shrunken jenny seems to be posted incorrectly, its the same text twice.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,933 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Just saw the OP for the voting thread. The following stood out:

    Unfortunately this did not mean that entries submitted after the deadline without a really really good excuse were accepted. I received two entries in the last five minutes and it would be unfair on those who rushed theirs for the deadline to allow late entries.

    I spent all day every day in the build-up to the deadline studying for my M.A. exams, which began last Saturday. Perhaps I should have made my excuses known last Tuesday evening, and it makes no difference at all now, but I did have a genuine reason for not getting my story done on time.

    Best of luck to the 7 who are involved in this competition.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,576 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Do CapNeg, angell and MrE have completed stories. If so we could always have a 4-way run-off or in a neat twist add the stories to the thread a few days later.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,557 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    I took the foot off the gas last week when you put the foot down about latecomers. I haven't finished it (I'm at about 750 words), but could work on it tonight.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 367 ✭✭Phantasos


    Voted!

    Great diversity of stories. Really good fun to read them all. Well done everyone!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 554 ✭✭✭Wantobe


    Didn't enter this time either, I wrote 1200 words before realised I had no ending and no hope of an ending! Then I had a great idea when it was too late...:rolleyes:

    I have another idea, though- how about another VOAT with a simple theme of a Christmas story- to be in by Christmas eve, then we have some Christmas stories to read over the holidays?

    And BTW, no vested interest- I don't have a dusty christmas story hidden in a drawer somewhere that I'm longing to pull out, but I was just reading a book of Irish christmas short stories and they were so evocative that I thought it might be a good idea.


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


    Oh great idea, Wantobe!

    Theme: "A Christmas Story"
    Length: 1500 words
    Due: Midnight, 24th December 2010 (i.e. as soon as its Christmas, you're too late!)


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Only problem with that is who is gonna post em up on Christmas day? :) Ill be sozzled on cooking sherry.


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


    Hrm good point :/

    Maybe move it back a day or two then?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 554 ✭✭✭Wantobe


    I too plan to be mildly sozzled on Christmas eve :p, so not the greatest idea. Maybe we could just have a thread for christmas stories, upload them whenever you want, ideally by Christmas eve, no voting, just some feedback on each others stories and that way Pickarooney will be able to join in too?


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


    It will be like our Christmas gift to pickarooney then ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭angelll


    Do CapNeg, angell and MrE have completed stories. If so we could always have a 4-way run-off or in a neat twist add the stories to the thread a few days later.

    Eh i haven't actually seeing as you wouldn't let me in post deadline *sob*
    Should i write one??? :confused:


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


    I'd be willing to offer my services as Pickarooney / Aoibheann's stand in for the Christmas story, as long as nobody would mind me throwing my hat into the ring too... I may even be able to get the thread posted before going to bed on Christmas Eve (usually between 4 and 5am... depends on how long the ham takes to cook).

    Only if everyone's ok with that and such.


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


    You can't contribute a story if you are organising the competition. If you do, then there'll be no way of telling if you read other people's story before writing your own.

    Not that I'm suggesting you'd do that at all, but the separation of organisation and participation is important to maintain.


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


    I meant as organiser of the competition, not as a contributor. There are people here who I'd consider much more regular contributors to the forum and who are more established members who I'd think might deserve first refusal... I wasn't clear in my post.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,576 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    If we could get enough participants (and this is very much pie in the sky given the dates in question) we could do some sort of 12 days of Christmas thing where everyone gets a day, drawn at random, and has to incorporate e.g. 10 lords a leaping into his or her story. I think a shorter limit of about 750 words might suit this if it were possible.


  • Registered Users Posts: 367 ✭✭Phantasos


    Number 3 seems to have the (BO)X Factor this time around.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,933 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Finished reading the VOAT 6 entries?
    Looking for another hit of action with Ann's box? ;)
    Why not check out this thread, and leave a review there too? :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 367 ✭✭Phantasos


    Looking for another hit of action with Ann's box? ;)

    I totally should have made Ann into a lesbian with a sex and alcohol addiction. I can see it now, waking up hungover and seeing a naked woman she can't recognise in her bed, her boss ringing to see where the hell she is....

    Opportunity well and truly missed. :(

    EDIT: I guess they'll have to be passed out on the table to keep in with the brief. But still...


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


    If we could get enough participants (and this is very much pie in the sky given the dates in question) we could do some sort of 12 days of Christmas thing where everyone gets a day, drawn at random, and has to incorporate e.g. 10 lords a leaping into his or her story. I think a shorter limit of about 750 words might suit this if it were possible.

    I'm in! Even if we only get six, we could have two each - totally dependent on interest, obviously.

    I feel a bit like an over-excited child at the moment where VOAT is concerned! I just want something to work towards, I guess.

    Can we do another Flash in the new year please?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,576 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Fierce shortage of votes so far.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,557 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    I'll vote over the weekend. I haven't forgotten.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 554 ✭✭✭Wantobe


    If we could get enough participants (and this is very much pie in the sky given the dates in question) we could do some sort of 12 days of Christmas thing where everyone gets a day, drawn at random, and has to incorporate e.g. 10 lords a leaping into his or her story. I think a shorter limit of about 750 words might suit this if it were possible.

    I thought we might leave it open for once- just a general theme of 'A Christmas Story' and let everyone choose their own idea, that way the writer's true voice can emerge IYKWIM.

    But either way, we'd better make up our minds soon!


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


    Fierce shortage of votes so far.

    I'm planning on reading them all at the weekend and voting on Saturday/Sunday when I have time.

    I had noticed that there seems to be very little interest in voting this time through though.


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