Bekanator
from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay HunterJanuary 29, 2013 - 2:04pm
@Jeffrey: You haven't written anything yet?! Perhaps I still have hope!
JEFFREY GRANT BARR
from Central OR is reading Nothing but fucking Shakespeare, for the rest of my lifeJanuary 29, 2013 - 2:25pm
@bekonator: I've written something now and it is AMAZING!!*
*may or may not be true.
How in the name of god do people write so fast. This is painful.
Bekanator
from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay HunterJanuary 29, 2013 - 2:38pm
It depends on the prompt. The last two stories I wrote pretty quick. Just had the right inspiration. This prompt I wanted to beat the shit out of because it gave me nada.
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland January 29, 2013 - 2:58pm
@Bekka, that's how I felt my first three rounds. Somehow I managed to wrtie great stories and win. Last round, my story came to me imediately, and I lost. This week's prompts went out late Friday, and i literarlly woke up Saturday morning and knew what I was going to write. Which means I expect I'll probably lose again.
lspieller
from Los Angeles
January 29, 2013 - 3:20pm
Somehow I managed to wrtie great stories and win
humble, arent you? ;)
nah, im just sore b/c i know im about to have my ass handed to me.
OtisTheBulldog
from Somerville, MA is reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazJanuary 29, 2013 - 3:25pm
I didn't figure out what I was going to write and start writing until 1pm today. Not sure how I feel about it, but I'm usually pretty even with any story I finish. I'm never that excited or never that worried. Who knows what youse guys are going to like. But I've kept winning (except for that goddamn Aegis).
Time for a final read through and then the submission. Then I will most likely be sending JR packing. Or not. But maybe.
lspieller
from Los Angeles
January 29, 2013 - 3:27pm
shit is getting REAL
OtisTheBulldog
from Somerville, MA is reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazJanuary 29, 2013 - 3:28pm
I know I'm not supposed to provide spoilers, but I do have a character in my story named Otis who puts a character named Jonathan into a wood chipper.
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Emma C
from Los Angeles is reading Black Spire by Delilah DawsonJanuary 29, 2013 - 3:34pm
I am so freaking excited about the JR/OTB cage match I can't even stand it.
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Emma C
from Los Angeles is reading Black Spire by Delilah DawsonJanuary 29, 2013 - 3:35pm
@Lauren JR's the most humble person I know, for real.
OtisTheBulldog
from Somerville, MA is reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazJanuary 29, 2013 - 3:50pm
The Bunk: We all have roles to play.
Lester Freamon: What's your role?
The Bunk: I'm just a humble motherfucker with a big ass dick.
Lester: You give yourself too much credit.
The Bunk: Okay, then. I ain't all that humble.
lspieller
from Los Angeles
January 29, 2013 - 3:52pm
@Lauren JR's the most humble person I know, for real.
ha, i was just teasing :)
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland January 29, 2013 - 4:02pm
humble, arent you? ;)
Well (some of) my stories are good with mediocre writing at best but if you spend enough time infront of a mirror listening to the glorius praise of a self-help narator, guide you through repeating the phrase, I'm beautiful, I'm a good witer, and gosh darnett people like me, you gotta start believing one of them. Right?
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreJanuary 29, 2013 - 4:04pm
Lauren's soreness is justifiable. I mean 1950s Eddie Haskell-type "sore"ness, not physical soreness. Eh, that's about the best shit-talking I can manage at the moment.… Story's done and submitted, full of sore-loser vindictiveness and alien facehuggers and dismembered babies and a bluegrass Slayer tribute band because fuck-yeah, amirite?
lspieller
from Los Angeles
January 29, 2013 - 4:04pm
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland January 29, 2013 - 4:05pm
@Emma, Your're way too kind.
@Otis, I eagerly await the crunch of my bones, and the hiss of my blood. Be sure to put me in feet first so I can hear my flesh tear, and then vomit on you as one last punch in the face before i meet my demise.
Ian
from Texas is reading Low Down Death Right Easy by J. David OsborneJanuary 29, 2013 - 4:18pm
I love Fargo.
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreJanuary 29, 2013 - 4:19pm
You don't wanna be buried ass-up so he has someplace to park his bike?
hahaha
OtisTheBulldog
from Somerville, MA is reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazJanuary 29, 2013 - 4:29pm
Nice! After you're spattered all over the asphalt, I'm going to kneel down, dip my finger in the blood, raise it to my nose, look up at the clouds and say, "Riley" I'll probably invoke Christian Bale Batman voice.
OtisTheBulldog
from Somerville, MA is reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazJanuary 29, 2013 - 4:48pm
And submitted. In my final readthroughs and minor edits I managed to completely hate it. So I have that going for me. What else I have going for me is I'm going to the gym to showcase my arms for whomever wants to acknowledge them.
Bekanator
from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay HunterJanuary 29, 2013 - 5:05pm
I'm always at work when all the fun on LitReactor happens. It's so lonely at the top. :(
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Emma C
from Los Angeles is reading Black Spire by Delilah DawsonJanuary 29, 2013 - 5:05pm
So, what I'm hearing is that everyone either hates or feels ambivalent toward their story. Except my challenger, dufrescm. *shakes fist at her*
Sound
from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael WehuntJanuary 29, 2013 - 5:17pm
Is it flash round, or winners bracket tomorrow?
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland January 29, 2013 - 5:21pm
eight flash stories go up tomorrow morning, close friday evening. Four w.b. stories go up Friday, and stay up till the next Friday.
Sound
from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael WehuntJanuary 29, 2013 - 5:25pm
Great. Good luck all!
JEFFREY GRANT BARR
from Central OR is reading Nothing but fucking Shakespeare, for the rest of my lifeJanuary 29, 2013 - 6:20pm
I didn't get a confirmation of my story from avery. But I wrote one and I sent it! No bye for you bekanator!
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnJanuary 29, 2013 - 6:27pm
@Otis: You're killing me man; I fucking miss The Wire.
Looking forward to getting splashed with blood and bile from these stories!
leah_beth
from New Jersey - now in Charleston, SC is reading five different books at once.January 29, 2013 - 6:40pm
Am I the only freakshow who writes something, then typically RE-writes it ALL because my first drafts suck so bad? I always read about y'all and your writing-of-the-stories-the-day-they're-due....I can't do that! I've procrastinated every other thing in my life, but I can't procrastinate this!!
Someone teach me how to do this!
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland January 29, 2013 - 6:54pm
Leah, I take forever. I can't do it last minute. It took me all weekend and yesterday just to get my draft in and I'm afraid it needs some work still, but Otis's lack of enthusiasm is giving me new found confidence.
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnJanuary 29, 2013 - 6:58pm
I have never written a one-off. Everything has usually undergone a significant if not radial alteration. Hat's off to you first-drafters.
OtisTheBulldog
from Somerville, MA is reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazJanuary 29, 2013 - 6:59pm
Otis Rules
leah_beth
from New Jersey - now in Charleston, SC is reading five different books at once.January 29, 2013 - 7:02pm
Dino - "radial alteration?"
Like tires? :)
But thanks, guys - makes me feel better.
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland January 29, 2013 - 7:06pm
@Jason, Otis the Bulldog is the best pen name ever. Let's make a deal, if you win, and you ultimately get your story published you have to do it under the pen name Otis the Bulldog.
OtisTheBulldog
from Somerville, MA is reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazJanuary 29, 2013 - 7:10pm
Deal, for no other reason than to rub it in Karl the Bulldog's face.
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreJanuary 29, 2013 - 7:12pm
Leah, I'm a one-shotter … er, draft-er … but it takes me all the allotted time to even get it to that stage. Never rewritten anything in my life, only revised it.
lspieller
from Los Angeles
January 29, 2013 - 7:31pm
ditto, Gordon. But man do I take my sweet time coming up with an idea.
Bekanator
from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay HunterJanuary 29, 2013 - 8:04pm
Thinspiration was my only one-off story. It was a great feeling while it lasted, because I think that's the one and only time I'll ever write story in an hour.
sean of the dead
from Madisonville, KY is reading Peckerwood, by Jed AyresJanuary 29, 2013 - 9:54pm
START YOUR ENGINES!!!!!
Averydoll is indisposed, but has again entrusted me to speak for her from beyond the grave...Round Pazuzu has been posted, so please read and vote.
Special note to our participants: feel free to drop a PM to myself or Averydoll if something has gone drastically wrong with your story.
Bekanator
from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay HunterJanuary 29, 2013 - 10:28pm
Yeah, just do it right before I go to bed!
Matt
from New Zealand is reading This is how you lose her by Junot DiazJanuary 29, 2013 - 10:57pm
Cool. New stories!
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.January 30, 2013 - 1:56am
Nice one - a new batch of stories to read.
Looking forward to what you lot came up with this time around!
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersJanuary 30, 2013 - 6:33am
Good luck in Round Pazuzu!
(thanks for the assist, sean)
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreJanuary 30, 2013 - 7:40am
"Your mother sews socks that smell!"
JEFFREY GRANT BARR
from Central OR is reading Nothing but fucking Shakespeare, for the rest of my lifeJanuary 30, 2013 - 11:44am
Suck my socks, you fuzzy socksucker.
voodoo_em
from England is reading All the books by Ira LevinJanuary 31, 2013 - 7:04am
BAS poll pleeeeassee ??
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesJanuary 31, 2013 - 8:28am
YOUR MOTHER COOKS SOCKS IN HELL!
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreJanuary 31, 2013 - 9:01am
She's a filthy sockcooker. I'ma start using that, Richard.
Liana
from Romania and Texas is reading Naked LunchJanuary 31, 2013 - 9:21am
That does sound filthy.
leah_beth
from New Jersey - now in Charleston, SC is reading five different books at once.January 31, 2013 - 9:21am
Saw Kevin Spacey on Broadway once in some-drama-or-other (really, I don't remember). Midway through Act 2, in the middle of an emotional scene, a cell phone rings. Picture the classic Motorola ring - like the ring in Love Actually.
And it was LOUD.
Spacey turns to the audience with a sneer on his lips and says, "Tell them we're busy."
Whole place errupted in applause.
The end.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeJanuary 31, 2013 - 9:57am
@Jeffrey: You haven't written anything yet?! Perhaps I still have hope!
@bekonator: I've written something now and it is AMAZING!!*
*may or may not be true.
How in the name of god do people write so fast. This is painful.
It depends on the prompt. The last two stories I wrote pretty quick. Just had the right inspiration. This prompt I wanted to beat the shit out of because it gave me nada.
@Bekka, that's how I felt my first three rounds. Somehow I managed to wrtie great stories and win. Last round, my story came to me imediately, and I lost. This week's prompts went out late Friday, and i literarlly woke up Saturday morning and knew what I was going to write. Which means I expect I'll probably lose again.
humble, arent you? ;)
nah, im just sore b/c i know im about to have my ass handed to me.
I didn't figure out what I was going to write and start writing until 1pm today. Not sure how I feel about it, but I'm usually pretty even with any story I finish. I'm never that excited or never that worried. Who knows what youse guys are going to like. But I've kept winning (except for that goddamn Aegis).
Time for a final read through and then the submission. Then I will most likely be sending JR packing. Or not. But maybe.
shit is getting REAL
I know I'm not supposed to provide spoilers, but I do have a character in my story named Otis who puts a character named Jonathan into a wood chipper.
I am so freaking excited about the JR/OTB cage match I can't even stand it.
@Lauren JR's the most humble person I know, for real.
The Bunk: We all have roles to play.
Lester Freamon: What's your role?
The Bunk: I'm just a humble motherfucker with a big ass dick.
Lester: You give yourself too much credit.
The Bunk: Okay, then. I ain't all that humble.
ha, i was just teasing :)
Well (some of) my stories are good with mediocre writing at best but if you spend enough time infront of a mirror listening to the glorius praise of a self-help narator, guide you through repeating the phrase, I'm beautiful, I'm a good witer, and gosh darnett people like me, you gotta start believing one of them. Right?
Lauren's soreness is justifiable. I mean 1950s Eddie Haskell-type "sore"ness, not physical soreness. Eh, that's about the best shit-talking I can manage at the moment.… Story's done and submitted, full of sore-loser vindictiveness and alien facehuggers and dismembered babies and a bluegrass Slayer tribute band because fuck-yeah, amirite?
@Emma, Your're way too kind.
@Otis, I eagerly await the crunch of my bones, and the hiss of my blood. Be sure to put me in feet first so I can hear my flesh tear, and then vomit on you as one last punch in the face before i meet my demise.
I love Fargo.
You don't wanna be buried ass-up so he has someplace to park his bike?
hahaha
Nice! After you're spattered all over the asphalt, I'm going to kneel down, dip my finger in the blood, raise it to my nose, look up at the clouds and say, "Riley" I'll probably invoke Christian Bale Batman voice.
And submitted. In my final readthroughs and minor edits I managed to completely hate it. So I have that going for me. What else I have going for me is I'm going to the gym to showcase my arms for whomever wants to acknowledge them.
I'm always at work when all the fun on LitReactor happens. It's so lonely at the top. :(
So, what I'm hearing is that everyone either hates or feels ambivalent toward their story. Except my challenger, dufrescm. *shakes fist at her*
Is it flash round, or winners bracket tomorrow?
eight flash stories go up tomorrow morning, close friday evening. Four w.b. stories go up Friday, and stay up till the next Friday.
Great. Good luck all!
I didn't get a confirmation of my story from avery. But I wrote one and I sent it! No bye for you bekanator!
@Otis: You're killing me man; I fucking miss The Wire.
Looking forward to getting splashed with blood and bile from these stories!
Am I the only freakshow who writes something, then typically RE-writes it ALL because my first drafts suck so bad? I always read about y'all and your writing-of-the-stories-the-day-they're-due....I can't do that! I've procrastinated every other thing in my life, but I can't procrastinate this!!
Someone teach me how to do this!
Leah, I take forever. I can't do it last minute. It took me all weekend and yesterday just to get my draft in and I'm afraid it needs some work still, but Otis's lack of enthusiasm is giving me new found confidence.
I have never written a one-off. Everything has usually undergone a significant if not radial alteration. Hat's off to you first-drafters.
Otis Rules
Dino - "radial alteration?"
Like tires? :)
But thanks, guys - makes me feel better.
@Jason, Otis the Bulldog is the best pen name ever. Let's make a deal, if you win, and you ultimately get your story published you have to do it under the pen name Otis the Bulldog.
Deal, for no other reason than to rub it in Karl the Bulldog's face.
Leah, I'm a one-shotter … er, draft-er … but it takes me all the allotted time to even get it to that stage. Never rewritten anything in my life, only revised it.
ditto, Gordon. But man do I take my sweet time coming up with an idea.
Thinspiration was my only one-off story. It was a great feeling while it lasted, because I think that's the one and only time I'll ever write story in an hour.
START YOUR ENGINES!!!!!
Averydoll is indisposed, but has again entrusted me to speak for her from beyond the grave...Round Pazuzu has been posted, so please read and vote.
Special note to our participants: feel free to drop a PM to myself or Averydoll if something has gone drastically wrong with your story.
Yeah, just do it right before I go to bed!
Cool. New stories!
Nice one - a new batch of stories to read.
Looking forward to what you lot came up with this time around!
Good luck in Round Pazuzu!
(thanks for the assist, sean)
"Your mother sews socks that smell!"
Suck my socks, you fuzzy socksucker.
BAS poll pleeeeassee ??
YOUR MOTHER COOKS SOCKS IN HELL!
She's a filthy sockcooker. I'ma start using that, Richard.
That does sound filthy.
Saw Kevin Spacey on Broadway once in some-drama-or-other (really, I don't remember). Midway through Act 2, in the middle of an emotional scene, a cell phone rings. Picture the classic Motorola ring - like the ring in Love Actually.
And it was LOUD.
Spacey turns to the audience with a sneer on his lips and says, "Tell them we're busy."
Whole place errupted in applause.
The end.
Pazuzu is a Paz-ansy!
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