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.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 16, 2012 - 5:41pm
I wonder when I should start becoming concerned that I haven't written anything yet?
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.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesMarch 16, 2012 - 5:59pm
DONE.
@chester - about 9 pm on sunday.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersMarch 16, 2012 - 6:18pm
The spooky silence of my opponent terrifies me.
Covewriter
from Nashville, Tennessee is reading & SonsMarch 16, 2012 - 6:20pm
I need another prompt to work on. I got addicted to that. So fast, too.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersMarch 16, 2012 - 6:22pm
Maybe you will get one in a week!
Covewriter
from Nashville, Tennessee is reading & SonsMarch 16, 2012 - 6:57pm
Ah, I'm not counting on that. But I am going to try to start some fresh stories.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesMarch 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?
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.
Nikki Guerlain
from Portlandia
March 16, 2012 - 8:02pm
I need to write my story but I must watch storage wars first...
Covewriter
from Nashville, Tennessee is reading & SonsMarch 16, 2012 - 8:21pm
Good idea Richard about just writing from other prompts for practice.
Americantypo
from Philadelphia is reading The Bone ClocksMarch 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.
manda lynn
from Ohio is reading Of Love and Other Demons (again)March 16, 2012 - 8:52pm
(almost done)
Nikki Guerlain
from Portlandia
March 16, 2012 - 8:59pm
wow, you guys make me look like such a slacker.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 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?
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!!!
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 16, 2012 - 9:04pm
Car?
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.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesMarch 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.
Americantypo
from Philadelphia is reading The Bone ClocksMarch 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.
Americantypo
from Philadelphia is reading The Bone ClocksMarch 16, 2012 - 9:42pm
The lack of sleep has officially made me loopy. Awaiting the crash.
Nikki Guerlain
from Portlandia
March 16, 2012 - 9:54pm
thanks typo! and richard you so coo. :-) love me some stang.
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.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 16, 2012 - 10:05pm
Stang?
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 16, 2012 - 10:06pm
LIK BTR
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 16, 2012 - 10:06pm
BTR LKR
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.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 16, 2012 - 10:09pm
Beurlain
Nikki Guerlain
from Portlandia
March 16, 2012 - 10:10pm
Goolane
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 16, 2012 - 10:12pm
So it is yellow and white?
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.
Americantypo
from Philadelphia is reading The Bone ClocksMarch 16, 2012 - 10:15pm
crashing. 2600 words of new draft. will finish tomorrow. face flat on key paddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 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....
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 16, 2012 - 10:18pm
My story is going to be 300 words.
Nikki Guerlain
from Portlandia
March 16, 2012 - 10:18pm
yes chestie yellow with white roof and racing stripes...
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 16, 2012 - 10:34pm
Fucker.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 16, 2012 - 10:35pm
Mini Bee Stang.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 16, 2012 - 10:56pm
I think I need some stimulants to go with that mini bee stang.
Nikki Guerlain
from Portlandia
March 16, 2012 - 11:07pm
chestie needs a buzzzzz.
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.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.March 17, 2012 - 5:01am
Bekanator
from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay HunterMarch 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.
XyZy
from New York City is reading Seveneves and Animal MoneyMarch 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:
Renfield
from Hell is reading 20th Century GhostsMarch 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??
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelMarch 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
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersMarch 17, 2012 - 9:47am
@XyZy - Those cats almost got me - but I see you! Mystique ruined!!!
Renfield
from Hell is reading 20th Century GhostsMarch 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.
Americantypo
from Philadelphia is reading The Bone ClocksMarch 17, 2012 - 11:18am
Done and sent! Woooo. Now I rest for a day or two before voting begins.
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.
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.
I wonder when I should start becoming concerned that I haven't written anything yet?
it's okay you can drop out if you want. In fact, I encourage everyone to drop out.
DONE.
@chester - about 9 pm on sunday.
The spooky silence of my opponent terrifies me.
I need another prompt to work on. I got addicted to that. So fast, too.
Maybe you will get one in a week!
Ah, I'm not counting on that. But I am going to try to start some fresh stories.
"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?
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.
I need to write my story but I must watch storage wars first...
Good idea Richard about just writing from other prompts for practice.
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.
(almost done)
wow, you guys make me look like such a slacker.
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?
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!!!
Car?
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
^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.
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.
The lack of sleep has officially made me loopy. Awaiting the crash.
thanks typo! and richard you so coo. :-) love me some stang.
if i get the little butter colored beast i'm going to have the license plate say LUV BTR.
heh heh.
Stang?
LIK BTR
BTR LKR
good ones chestie. randy bob and david are stroking themselves in approval. not their horns though.
stang as in mustang, chestie.
Beurlain
Goolane
So it is yellow and white?
WAR What is it good for? Literary beatdowns!
This post has been brought to you by Powers Irish Whiskey and the letter Q.
crashing. 2600 words of new draft. will finish tomorrow. face flat on key paddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
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....
My story is going to be 300 words.
yes chestie yellow with white roof and racing stripes...
http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/ctd/2904574969.html
Fucker.
Mini Bee Stang.
I think I need some stimulants to go with that mini bee stang.
chestie needs a buzzzzz.
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.
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.
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:
Still have that awesome first sentence. Should pound it out tonight.
early bird submission vs. last minute draft. Who will win??
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
@XyZy - Those cats almost got me - but I see you! Mystique ruined!!!
"What mood is that?"
"Last minute panic."
-Calvin & Hobbes
aaahhh! I remember that one! Hilarious.
Done and sent! Woooo. Now I rest for a day or two before voting begins.
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.