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aliensoul77 from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall. March 16, 2012 - 3:15pm

Im sending in my story tonite, I think its quality so I give it to God and pray it impresses and obliterates Nighty Nite. Goodnite Nighty.

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz March 16, 2012 - 5:41pm

I wonder when I should start becoming concerned that I haven't written anything yet?

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aliensoul77 from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall. March 16, 2012 - 5:45pm

it's okay you can drop out if you want.  In fact, I encourage everyone to drop out. 

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Richard from St. Louis is reading various anthologies March 16, 2012 - 5:59pm

DONE.

@chester - about 9 pm on sunday.

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters March 16, 2012 - 6:18pm

The spooky silence of my opponent terrifies me. 

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Covewriter from Nashville, Tennessee is reading & Sons March 16, 2012 - 6:20pm

I need another prompt to work on. I got addicted to that. So fast, too.

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters March 16, 2012 - 6:22pm

Maybe you will get one in a week!

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Covewriter from Nashville, Tennessee is reading & Sons March 16, 2012 - 6:57pm

Ah, I'm not counting on that. But I am going to try to start some fresh stories.

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Richard from St. Louis is reading various anthologies March 16, 2012 - 7:56pm

"Maybe you will get one in a week!"

shut your mouth. :-)

after watching two #2 seeds lose to #15 seeds today in the NCAA basketball tournament, i'm feeling a little bit queasy. 

the prompts are good, cove. you could always grab some from reading the submissions for the various rounds. i might make a list. or maybe Utah can post them up, after each round. be a nice list to hit up, yeah? 

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wickedvoodoo from Mansfield, England is reading stuff. March 16, 2012 - 8:00pm

 Hmm, I reckon I will mail my story over later today (saturday). It is almost finished and I'll be busy all Sunday anyhow.

This is getting exciting. Can't wait to see what you all came/come up with.

@ Chester - get your act together mofo. Ha. Watch you steal the whole tournament with unedited, last-minute stories that put our careful projects to shame.

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Nikki Guerlain from Portlandia March 16, 2012 - 8:02pm

I need to write my story but I must watch storage wars first...

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Covewriter from Nashville, Tennessee is reading & Sons March 16, 2012 - 8:21pm

Good idea Richard about just writing from other prompts for practice.

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Americantypo from Philadelphia is reading The Bone Clocks March 16, 2012 - 8:38pm

First draft done, working on the rewrite tonight. Starbucks double shot here I come. Hopefully I'll have it all wrapped up around two or three in the morning.

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manda lynn from Ohio is reading Of Love and Other Demons (again) March 16, 2012 - 8:52pm

(almost done)

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Nikki Guerlain from Portlandia March 16, 2012 - 8:59pm

wow, you guys make me look like such a slacker.

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz March 16, 2012 - 9:00pm

Danny, drop acid. But just wait till Wordstock so me and Randy and Bob can conduct some polychromatic exoskeletal rainbow horn probes on you. Dr. Warlain has suggested this to be the proper path to enlightenment. 

Coverighteous: Addiction is the only way anything ever gets done.

@Richard: 9 my time? 

I wonder if I should go buy some coke?

 

 

 

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Nikki Guerlain from Portlandia March 16, 2012 - 9:02pm

but i think im going to start pounding it out tonight since i fell in love with a lemon drop yellow and white cooper s tonight and may be spending tomorrow at the dealership. seriously that shiz is cute!!!

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz March 16, 2012 - 9:04pm

Car?

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Nikki Guerlain from Portlandia March 16, 2012 - 9:08pm

yeah, i sold my cherry red 65 mustang when i moved to nw pdx. now that i'm back in suburbia i need a car again. i'm too ungrounded to drive a stick so i'm looking for an automatic. it's harder to find mini cooper s in automatic but this one is a cute little supercharged thing! so so fuggin cute.

http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/ctd/2904574969.html

 

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Richard from St. Louis is reading various anthologies March 16, 2012 - 9:36pm

^damn, nikki, i like you more every day. i had a candy apple red 66 mustang hardtop. loved that damn car. and, @chester, i'd think 9 pm cst would be a good time to panic. hop to it, brother.

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Americantypo from Philadelphia is reading The Bone Clocks March 16, 2012 - 9:41pm

Just wrote the person who posted the Craigslist ad- someone is going to say they want to see the car, but she's actually going to rape you and take all of your money.

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Americantypo from Philadelphia is reading The Bone Clocks March 16, 2012 - 9:42pm

The lack of sleep has officially made me loopy. Awaiting the crash.

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Nikki Guerlain from Portlandia March 16, 2012 - 9:54pm

thanks typo! and richard you so coo. :-) love me some stang.

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Nikki Guerlain from Portlandia March 16, 2012 - 10:05pm

if i get the little butter colored beast i'm going to have the license plate say LUV BTR.

heh heh.

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz March 16, 2012 - 10:05pm

Stang?

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz March 16, 2012 - 10:06pm

LIK BTR

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz March 16, 2012 - 10:06pm

BTR LKR

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Nikki Guerlain from Portlandia March 16, 2012 - 10:08pm

good ones chestie. randy bob and david are stroking themselves in approval. not their horns though.

 

stang as in mustang, chestie.

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz March 16, 2012 - 10:09pm

Beurlain

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Nikki Guerlain from Portlandia March 16, 2012 - 10:10pm

Goolane

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz March 16, 2012 - 10:12pm

So it is yellow and white?

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Bill Tucker from Austin, Texas is reading Grimm's Fairy Tales (1st Edition) March 16, 2012 - 10:15pm

WAR What is it good for? Literary beatdowns!

This post has been brought to you by Powers Irish Whiskey and the letter Q.

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Americantypo from Philadelphia is reading The Bone Clocks March 16, 2012 - 10:15pm

crashing. 2600 words of new draft. will finish tomorrow. face flat on key paddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz March 16, 2012 - 10:16pm

If mixed back and forth, swished around, spat into the hand, frozen in the frigidaire, frowned upon by the overlords, sucked into the overlords mouths, held upon their tingling, pre-prioritized tongues, on their love flesh....

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz March 16, 2012 - 10:18pm

My story is going to be 300 words.

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Nikki Guerlain from Portlandia March 16, 2012 - 10:18pm

yes chestie yellow with white roof and racing stripes...

http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/ctd/2904574969.html

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz March 16, 2012 - 10:34pm

Fucker.

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz March 16, 2012 - 10:35pm

Mini Bee Stang.

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz March 16, 2012 - 10:56pm

I think I need some stimulants to go with that mini bee stang.

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Nikki Guerlain from Portlandia March 16, 2012 - 11:07pm

chestie needs a buzzzzz.

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Bill Tucker from Austin, Texas is reading Grimm's Fairy Tales (1st Edition) March 16, 2012 - 11:36pm

Bill Tucker has a buuzzzzz

Sorry, but I figured that I should celebrate St. Patrick's Day early, before the amateurs come 'round singing too sloshed versions of Danny Boy to the Irish tuned jukebox.

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aliensoul77 from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall. March 17, 2012 - 5:01am

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Bekanator from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter March 17, 2012 - 7:51am

I'm surprised that I've got a second draft halfway edited despite the fact that I've been binge-watching Community all week.  It's like writing on cruise control.

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XyZy from New York City is reading Seveneves and Animal Money March 17, 2012 - 8:20am

The spooky silence of my opponent terrifies me.

All according to plan... muahahaha-

oh, shit. Screwed that one up, didn't I...

Fingers! Stop typing! You're ruining the mystique!

You may go back to being terrified now, this never happened.

Look, a distracting thing:

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Renfield from Hell is reading 20th Century Ghosts March 17, 2012 - 8:33am

Still have that awesome first sentence. Should pound it out tonight.

early bird submission vs. last minute draft. Who will win??

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Jose F. Diaz from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel March 17, 2012 - 9:14am

I'm going with the last minute submission.

 

"You don't just turn creativity on like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood."

"What mood is that?"

"Last minute panic."

-Calvin & Hobbes

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters March 17, 2012 - 9:47am

@XyZy - Those cats almost got me - but I see you!  Mystique ruined!!!

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Renfield from Hell is reading 20th Century Ghosts March 17, 2012 - 10:07am

"You don't just turn creativity on like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood."

"What mood is that?"

"Last minute panic."

-Calvin & Hobbes

 

aaahhh! I remember that one! Hilarious.

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Americantypo from Philadelphia is reading The Bone Clocks March 17, 2012 - 11:18am

Done and sent! Woooo. Now I rest for a day or two before voting begins.

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manda lynn from Ohio is reading Of Love and Other Demons (again) March 17, 2012 - 12:21pm

i did half last night and finished this morning. i'll let it sit today and go back over it tonight, i've got a few hundred words left if i need to shade in some more detail.