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Events of the past 15 months have slowed my writing to a stand-still. Trying to get going again and I ask you for a review of this piece for the contest. Thank you,
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(3 replies, posted in Literary Fiction)

Events of the past 15 months have slowed my writing to a stand-still. Trying to get going again and I ask you for a review of this piece for the contest. Thank you,
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Way into a short story I have this line:

Tears did not fall. Her face now meloncolic, of a frozen and statued composure that the best, the finest artists of the human form try to capture... but never can, probably never will.

Statued... can I use this word in this way? Well, I know I can, but does it work? This line is in initalics as if spoken by a very distant narrator

Tanks~ max

Amazonamas

https://twitter.com/i/moments/801856337445617665

oxybutynin

Like A Virgin

Billy Steinberg, who wrote this song, and I have history. I almost became his brother-in-law... Year was 1986.

Paul was a great help to me. Someone ask him back here. congrats. Ain't it one thing after another? No capital c on this Microsoft keyboard now. Life keeps throwing LIFE at me, suppose it's better than death being tossed at me. And, Happy Halloween to all!

oxymoronic

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THanks Norm,

Ugghh, I was using Story Mill on mac, but now on an HP/Win10. Same deal you mention on Story Mill. Perhaps Google Docs is the best and simplistic way to start up my writing again.

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Scrivener running on Windows 10: Are you using this and if so, do you have any problems pasting your content into this site? Fixes? Thanks

Knockered

Norm d'Plume wrote:

Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz (longest German word)

Title of one of my chapters from Aphrodite's Rainbow:

Blau Donauluftschiffahrtsstrudelverlorenkapitän Zones
Blue Danube airship vortex of the lost captains zones.

Norm, what is the meaning of your word post? No worry, I looked it up and discovered it is verboten!!! Kaput! Kockered! Purged!

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Fastrackaphobia

Laughmyassoffaphobia

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(33 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)

TirzahLaughs wrote:

What about a contest...fiction that must contain certain phrases  but it can be any kind of fiction.

Many, many years ago...I did one of these and it was great to push your mind into new directions. Some of the words for the one I did were 'Schwinn bike, goat cheese, ax, debutante...."

It was really fun and it wouldn't limit the genre.
The winner was the one who wrote the most engaging and cohesive story.

I also like this idea as it is simple in terms of parameters, thus allowing all genres a broad scope if the phrases are universal, thereby being attractive to writers from different galaxies and star systems to participate. Seriously, this is a good idea TZ

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Dill Carver wrote:
vern wrote:

LOL! Take care. Vern

Just joshing with you Sir! smile

Your suggestion is actually quite interesting. Hard to score though; it would be the judges that I'd feel sorry for.

Dill, where did you find that picture of me? Hilarious!

Procrastinationaphobia

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So many groups here... most do very little, say in comparison to groups on Scribophile where contests are frequent within groups and therefore seem to promote the larger site in a Gestalt manner.  Perhaps groups here with 20 or more members could have a preliminary contest whose proud winners then move on to a contest that is then judged by Solnicks and awarded a worthwhile grand prize ($500). I suggest a winter holiday theme where submissions are made to groups members to vote on by the last day of November, and then the site-wide winner is named and presented their grand prize by President Hilary Clinton on January 1, 2017 to bring in the New Year.

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I bought one from a guy who introduced himself as Stephen King Jr. and I've been bangin' my head against it for months. Apparently, my block was made out of freeze-dried vampire blood, old Cujo bones and the compressed hand-written pages of novels with the blood, sweat, and tears of his father on them. He assured me that if I banged my head against it and kept up the fifty, $1000 monthly payments for it, it would crack open and I'd have a best seller within months. Still bangin away!

Ma'ale Hahamisha

Spud - O - Rings

What could these be? Sound like they should be something to eat? Maybe potatoes with the eyes removed?

Run a contest out of the Literary Fiction Group with Sol's help, funds and qualified judges.  How about six chapters of "Strongest Slow Burn Contest", wherein the authors try to ignite readers with locations, characters and threaded plots until a conflagration sets a reader's imagination on fire with utter fascination, profound amazement and intellectual perspicacity.

Tesla ~ Model S

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I got this "NOT AUTHORIZED"... and it hurt. I thought dagnee and I had kissed and made up years ago. When I was writing code... a switch statement allows a variable to be tested for equality against a list of values. In this case it evaluated it to a generic statement after all other options failed.

ти́хо
(quiet)
В осе́ннем лесу́ бы́ло ти́хо.
It was quiet in the autumn forest.

(I'm doing a course in the Russian language)