Jimothy Scott
from Canada is reading The wise mans fearMay 10, 2016 - 7:45am
sounds good.
Nothing too long I have a busy week ahead of me my father is getting hitched. 1000 to 2000 words good with you? Due next Tuesday?
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelMay 10, 2016 - 10:40am
Sure. I think I can swing that. But we need a prompt.
PROMPT!
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeMay 10, 2016 - 6:47pm
PROMPT: Eternal fire extinguisher
Jimothy Scott
from Canada is reading The wise mans fearMay 10, 2016 - 10:18pm
lol. Alright
Jimothy Scott
from Canada is reading The wise mans fearMay 10, 2016 - 10:18pm
lol. Alright
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelMay 11, 2016 - 6:37am
You would. lol.
Hmmmm. Okay, next Tuesday by midnight. No more than 2,000 words. Ready .... get set ....
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeMay 11, 2016 - 8:38am
lol.
I tried to do a photo, but the dialog box wasn't happening.
I think the prompt has enough possible interpretations to be doable. Is it an extinguisher of eternal fires? Is it a fire extinguisher that never runs out of juice? Is it the unstoppable force to the immovable object of the eternal fire? And so on.
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelMay 11, 2016 - 10:26am
I was thinking a really mans man, rugged, handsome, just all around good-looking who ruins every chance with girls because of .... something....
Jimothy Scott
from Canada is reading The wise mans fearMay 11, 2016 - 9:56pm
I wro
Jimothy Scott
from Canada is reading The wise mans fearMay 17, 2016 - 8:22am
So I wasn't able to do any work on the prompt last week. I was far too busy with the wedding, extended family etc. and I will take the appropriate walk of shame with my head hung low. However I really like the prompt and still want to work on it. So I purpose a double or nothing, if you're down for it, Jose.
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelMay 17, 2016 - 11:04am
No, sir. That simply will not do....
....because I too was busy with work and didn't have time to complete anything. So no need for shame. Hold your head up high knowing we both put on a terrible showing.
So, we will return to our respective corners of the map and reschedule at a later date. When that will be, I have no clue. I've got a reading at the beginning of June and that will take up most of my free time. Then, I will be busy freaking out as I prepare to move my entire life up to Boston so I can begin my MFA.
I hope your wedding goes off without a hitch, and you live happily ever after.
PS: Word of wisdom. If you aren't big on the planning part, just find one thing about it and demand that it be done with X in mind. "We must have petunias or no wedding, woman!" It shows you care about something, to her it will be a sign you care about all of it. All you need is one thing you are dead set on. Don't budge for anything. It is imperative. Not even her coy advances. Just be a stone wall. BUT, it can't be anything pivotal. Stay away from colors, flowers (despite my example), basically everything. Just find something she decided, then make an amendment that keeps her idea but just adds to it. I went with food. Everyone else could eat what was there, but in front of me and my groomsmen had to be a steak from BLT Steak, fully loaded potato, and a bottle of Chivas. If that didn't happen, I was going to walk.
Humboldt Lycanthrope
from California is reading Sing, Unburied, SingMay 27, 2016 - 8:17pm
Hey guys. It's been a while, how are you all doing?
I'm fucking ready to go if anyone wants to rumble.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedJune 7, 2016 - 12:38pm
Sure, why not? I am slammed, need to keep the word count like 1001 ish. Maybe exactly 1001?
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelJune 8, 2016 - 6:27am
fight, fight, fight...
Humboldt Lycanthrope
from California is reading Sing, Unburied, SingJune 8, 2016 - 1:36pm
Okay, if someone could be so kind as to prompt us.
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelJune 8, 2016 - 9:53pm
PROMPT: You walk outside your house and see this.
Humboldt Lycanthrope
from California is reading Sing, Unburied, SingJune 9, 2016 - 8:26am
Got it.
Thanks, Jose.
Humboldt Lycanthrope
from California is reading Sing, Unburied, SingJune 19, 2016 - 8:20am
Okay, so Dwayne has gone incommunicado and isn't replying to emails or PMs. I hope the guy is all right. Does anyone else want to write 1001 words on the prompt? It's really not that many words, I scribbled mine out in less than an hour.
Strange Photon
from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyricsJune 19, 2016 - 1:40pm
So cool to see this is still going. :)
Bill Tucker
from Austin, Texas is reading Grimm's Fairy Tales (1st Edition)June 21, 2016 - 7:25am
Hey Humboldt!
I'm down for a throwdown if you're still down for said throwdown. I can handle 1001 words on that, no problem! Let me know what time frame you were thinking and we'll make it happen.
Humboldt Lycanthrope
from California is reading Sing, Unburied, SingJune 22, 2016 - 9:23am
Hi Bill,
Cool, whenever you are ready just send me a PM and we will do this thing.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedJuly 17, 2016 - 2:17am
@HL - I suck, long story. I'm still down if you are. Sorry. My bad.
Humboldt Lycanthrope
from California is reading Sing, Unburied, SingJuly 27, 2016 - 1:07pm
Don't sweat it, Dwayne.
The beauty of this Thunderdome thing is that it forces you to write a story while also supplying a bit of inspiration with the prompt. It's like a story writing machine in some ways.
The story I wrote was picked up for publication in an anthology of flash fiction entitled One Hundred Voices, so I'm stoked. I'll put an update in the LR Success Story blog when I get more information on the anthology's release.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedJuly 28, 2016 - 5:04am
Want to try again?
Strange Photon
from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyricsApril 17, 2017 - 11:18am
Sad to see this too has passed. :(
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedApril 22, 2017 - 4:27pm
We could bring it back.
Charles
from Portland is reading Mongrels by Stephen Graham JonesMay 5, 2017 - 12:39pm
I could be wrong, but maybe the issue here is that the forums are publicly visable, and anything posted in this thread for purposes of impressing Tina Turner would therefore be considered previously published. Or, maybe people just stopped doing it. Who knows?
No, really... who knows the answer?
voodoo_em
from England is reading All the books by Ira LevinMay 7, 2017 - 4:52am
The stories used to be posted in locked threads (usually) so therefore only accessable to members and thus classed as not published. Generally they're also rough first drafts having been written from scratch in a week or less. Files are then remove after the following voting week.
The main problem was that there didn't seem to be enough people reading and voting on the stories anymore to make it worth it. (Although imo a new story created is always worth it - but anyway...)
Charles
from Portland is reading Mongrels by Stephen Graham JonesMay 8, 2017 - 1:12pm
I agree, Em. I wrote a couple short things just for the original flash thread that Chester started, or I think Chester was behind that, anyway. They were good knuckle cracks in the morning, ya know?
voodoo_em
from England is reading All the books by Ira LevinMay 9, 2017 - 5:53am
Yep it was Chester that started "Flash Me" and I miss that too!
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 11, 2017 - 5:46pm
Fine VooDoo I challenge you.
voodoo_em
from England is reading All the books by Ira LevinMay 12, 2017 - 8:33am
Challenge accepted!
Although lately time is not a friend of mine, so can we make it a flash battle? Say 1,000 or 1,200 words? One week to write.
smithreynolds
from Spokane, WA USA is reading The writing on the wall.May 12, 2017 - 9:37am
OMG!!! I have been hanging out for over a year, and have never seen a Thunderdome! I am watching with great interest to see how it works. Bravo.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 12, 2017 - 11:25pm
Say exactly 1001? As in in can't be 1000 or 1002.
Humboldt Lycanthrope
from California is reading Sing, Unburied, SingMay 13, 2017 - 9:47am
voodoo_em
from England is reading All the books by Ira LevinMay 15, 2017 - 12:45am
Sure.
Prompt anyone?
Charles
from Portland is reading Mongrels by Stephen Graham JonesMay 15, 2017 - 10:44am
Prompt anyone?
Filming a toilet paper commercial that's perhaps too up its own ass?
voodoo_em
from England is reading All the books by Ira LevinMay 16, 2017 - 2:49am
Hmmm, I don't know about Dwayne, but that prompt is a little too specific for me. As in, I don't see it so much as a spring board for an idea. What do you think?
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 16, 2017 - 10:40am
I'm down for it, but you feel free to reject it.
Charles
from Portland is reading Mongrels by Stephen Graham JonesMay 16, 2017 - 10:42am
Sorry, Em. I happened to have just seen this commercial....
Charles
from Portland is reading Mongrels by Stephen Graham JonesMay 16, 2017 - 10:59am
If Em wants another one... how about 'Field Memory'?
smithreynolds
from Spokane, WA USA is reading The writing on the wall.May 16, 2017 - 9:18pm
I don't know how to do a prompt, so feel free to reject this but I'll throw a tater in the soup. How about: Thirteen kids in a sand box and two adults. Somebody else feel free to offer a prompt, those with experience in how this Thunderdome thing works...Please and Thank you.
voodoo_em
from England is reading All the books by Ira LevinMay 17, 2017 - 5:51am
Don't worry about it, I think it just threw me for a bit, but we'll stick with the original toilet paper one. I have the whisper of an idea and a working title so let's see what my brain twists it in to...
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 19, 2017 - 8:44pm
Cool so 1001 words EXACTLY not counting title due Friday, May 26 5:30 PM EST / 9:30 PM GMT. Agreed?
voodoo_em
from England is reading All the books by Ira LevinMay 22, 2017 - 9:23am
Sure.
At least I'll give it a shot, anyway :)
voodoo_em
from England is reading All the books by Ira LevinMay 24, 2017 - 8:54am
Hey Dwayne, I'm going to have to forfeit our battle :( I know that sucks and I'm sorry. Life being what it is it's near impossible for me to get a story done in such a concentrated amount of time. I had hoped I would still be able to but it seams not. I hope you still get a good story out of this, I got an idea I think is real fun and I hope to follow it up eventually (thanks for your crazy prompt Charles). And maybe somebody else will step up and take the battle?
sorry again.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedMay 24, 2017 - 9:37pm
These things happen.
Charles
from Portland is reading Mongrels by Stephen Graham JonesJune 5, 2017 - 1:15pm
I'll fight someone. Anyone. It's been a while, but I think I can take the lot of you.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedJune 6, 2017 - 8:22pm
Oh?
Charles
from Portland is reading Mongrels by Stephen Graham JonesJune 8, 2017 - 1:36pm
Oh?
Yeah. Some throwing about of brains and egos is healthy.
sounds good.
Nothing too long I have a busy week ahead of me my father is getting hitched. 1000 to 2000 words good with you? Due next Tuesday?
Sure. I think I can swing that. But we need a prompt.
PROMPT!
PROMPT: Eternal fire extinguisher
lol. Alright
lol. Alright
You would. lol.
Hmmmm. Okay, next Tuesday by midnight. No more than 2,000 words. Ready .... get set ....
lol.
I tried to do a photo, but the dialog box wasn't happening.
I think the prompt has enough possible interpretations to be doable. Is it an extinguisher of eternal fires? Is it a fire extinguisher that never runs out of juice? Is it the unstoppable force to the immovable object of the eternal fire? And so on.
I was thinking a really mans man, rugged, handsome, just all around good-looking who ruins every chance with girls because of .... something....
I wro
So I wasn't able to do any work on the prompt last week. I was far too busy with the wedding, extended family etc. and I will take the appropriate walk of shame with my head hung low. However I really like the prompt and still want to work on it. So I purpose a double or nothing, if you're down for it, Jose.
No, sir. That simply will not do....
....because I too was busy with work and didn't have time to complete anything. So no need for shame. Hold your head up high knowing we both put on a terrible showing.
So, we will return to our respective corners of the map and reschedule at a later date. When that will be, I have no clue. I've got a reading at the beginning of June and that will take up most of my free time. Then, I will be busy freaking out as I prepare to move my entire life up to Boston so I can begin my MFA.
I hope your wedding goes off without a hitch, and you live happily ever after.
PS: Word of wisdom. If you aren't big on the planning part, just find one thing about it and demand that it be done with X in mind. "We must have petunias or no wedding, woman!" It shows you care about something, to her it will be a sign you care about all of it. All you need is one thing you are dead set on. Don't budge for anything. It is imperative. Not even her coy advances. Just be a stone wall. BUT, it can't be anything pivotal. Stay away from colors, flowers (despite my example), basically everything. Just find something she decided, then make an amendment that keeps her idea but just adds to it. I went with food. Everyone else could eat what was there, but in front of me and my groomsmen had to be a steak from BLT Steak, fully loaded potato, and a bottle of Chivas. If that didn't happen, I was going to walk.
Hey guys. It's been a while, how are you all doing?
I'm fucking ready to go if anyone wants to rumble.
Sure, why not? I am slammed, need to keep the word count like 1001 ish. Maybe exactly 1001?
fight, fight, fight...
Hi Dwayne,
Exactly 1001 sounds challenging and fun. BTW, the story I wrote the last time we thunderdomed (can I use thunderdome as a verb?) got picked up by The Freedom Fiction Journal. http://www.freedomfiction.com/2016/01/bubblegum-cigarettes-by-matthew-brockmeyer/
1001 words exactly, due on Wedensday June 8th.
Okay, if someone could be so kind as to prompt us.
PROMPT: You walk outside your house and see this.
Got it.
Thanks, Jose.
Okay, so Dwayne has gone incommunicado and isn't replying to emails or PMs. I hope the guy is all right. Does anyone else want to write 1001 words on the prompt? It's really not that many words, I scribbled mine out in less than an hour.
So cool to see this is still going. :)
Hey Humboldt!
I'm down for a throwdown if you're still down for said throwdown. I can handle 1001 words on that, no problem! Let me know what time frame you were thinking and we'll make it happen.
Hi Bill,
Cool, whenever you are ready just send me a PM and we will do this thing.
@HL - I suck, long story. I'm still down if you are. Sorry. My bad.
Don't sweat it, Dwayne.
The beauty of this Thunderdome thing is that it forces you to write a story while also supplying a bit of inspiration with the prompt. It's like a story writing machine in some ways.
The story I wrote was picked up for publication in an anthology of flash fiction entitled One Hundred Voices, so I'm stoked. I'll put an update in the LR Success Story blog when I get more information on the anthology's release.
Want to try again?
Sad to see this too has passed. :(
We could bring it back.
I could be wrong, but maybe the issue here is that the forums are publicly visable, and anything posted in this thread for purposes of impressing Tina Turner would therefore be considered previously published. Or, maybe people just stopped doing it. Who knows?
No, really... who knows the answer?
The stories used to be posted in locked threads (usually) so therefore only accessable to members and thus classed as not published. Generally they're also rough first drafts having been written from scratch in a week or less. Files are then remove after the following voting week.
The main problem was that there didn't seem to be enough people reading and voting on the stories anymore to make it worth it. (Although imo a new story created is always worth it - but anyway...)
I agree, Em. I wrote a couple short things just for the original flash thread that Chester started, or I think Chester was behind that, anyway. They were good knuckle cracks in the morning, ya know?
Yep it was Chester that started "Flash Me" and I miss that too!
Fine VooDoo I challenge you.
Challenge accepted!
Although lately time is not a friend of mine, so can we make it a flash battle? Say 1,000 or 1,200 words? One week to write.
OMG!!! I have been hanging out for over a year, and have never seen a Thunderdome! I am watching with great interest to see how it works. Bravo.
Say exactly 1001? As in in can't be 1000 or 1002.
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Sure.
Prompt anyone?
Filming a toilet paper commercial that's perhaps too up its own ass?
Hmmm, I don't know about Dwayne, but that prompt is a little too specific for me. As in, I don't see it so much as a spring board for an idea. What do you think?
I'm down for it, but you feel free to reject it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t93XYksje4g
Sorry, Em. I happened to have just seen this commercial....
If Em wants another one... how about 'Field Memory'?
I don't know how to do a prompt, so feel free to reject this but I'll throw a tater in the soup. How about: Thirteen kids in a sand box and two adults. Somebody else feel free to offer a prompt, those with experience in how this Thunderdome thing works...Please and Thank you.
Don't worry about it, I think it just threw me for a bit, but we'll stick with the original toilet paper one. I have the whisper of an idea and a working title so let's see what my brain twists it in to...
Cool so 1001 words EXACTLY not counting title due Friday, May 26 5:30 PM EST / 9:30 PM GMT. Agreed?
Sure.
At least I'll give it a shot, anyway :)
Hey Dwayne, I'm going to have to forfeit our battle :( I know that sucks and I'm sorry. Life being what it is it's near impossible for me to get a story done in such a concentrated amount of time. I had hoped I would still be able to but it seams not. I hope you still get a good story out of this, I got an idea I think is real fun and I hope to follow it up eventually (thanks for your crazy prompt Charles). And maybe somebody else will step up and take the battle?
sorry again.
These things happen.
I'll fight someone. Anyone. It's been a while, but I think I can take the lot of you.
Oh?
Yeah. Some throwing about of brains and egos is healthy.