Emma C
from Los Angeles is reading Black Spire by Delilah DawsonOctober 25, 2012 - 7:41pm
@Jess neither am I, really, which is why my avatar is the 11th Doctor (and a bunch of rainbow daleks). I'm breaking out my real war avatar once the war starts, which is even nerdier and far cooler. Plus I'm going to give all my opponents a choice before I annihilate them.
@Dino stop calling my dog sexy
@Otis I owe you a read, I've just gotten really shitty about reviewing lately. I do have it downloaded, though.
Sound
from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael WehuntOctober 25, 2012 - 7:47pm
@Emma, I definitely would like your avatar to be Sephiroth when we meet in round 4. You know, when I destroy you.
Liana
from Romania and Texas is reading Naked LunchOctober 25, 2012 - 7:49pm
Oh man, now you tell me that Hector kicks ass! And I was already planning my next rounds...
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnOctober 25, 2012 - 7:56pm
@Emma: Are you kidding me? Look at that muzzle! Those fleshy ears...
Sound
from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael WehuntOctober 25, 2012 - 8:00pm
Battle hounds at the ready!
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ReneeAPickup
from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck WendigOctober 25, 2012 - 8:49pm
JEFFREY GRANT BARR
from Central OR is reading Nothing but fucking Shakespeare, for the rest of my lifeOctober 25, 2012 - 9:20pm
Aww, Cujo. A good dog.
Bekanator
from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay HunterOctober 25, 2012 - 9:47pm
I find it amusing whenever people mention Jessica's "Perfectly Natural". It's like the Fight Club of LitReactor.
And yet, people give me all this credit and yet nobody can name any of the five stories I wrote to kick all your asses.
Writing a great story is one thing. Writing one on a weeks time is a whole other animal.
And, unfortunately for me, The Bekanator does this with apparent ease.
For me, writing a story is basically second nature. It's like taking a dump. It's pefectly natural.
See what I did there?
underpurplemoon
from PDX
October 25, 2012 - 10:59pm
@Emma, I definitely would like your avatar to be Sephiroth when we meet in round 4. You know, when I destroy you.
Sound, I try not to think that I'm going to be Emma's first victim....
Oh, Emma, if only I had a crush on you, losing to you wouldn't be so bad. I don't know why I want to win against you, maybe this was meant to be. I must have faith that (as an underdog) I can win. Must take away the Asian names and disguise them as English names. I am plotting, Emma, I am plotting.
OtisTheBulldog
from Somerville, MA is reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazOctober 25, 2012 - 11:48pm
What I Like
by OtistheBulldog
Approx: 5 words
When the Champion Talks Shit
Matt
from New Zealand is reading This is how you lose her by Junot DiazOctober 26, 2012 - 12:02am
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Emma C
from Los Angeles is reading Black Spire by Delilah DawsonOctober 26, 2012 - 12:55am
@Sound How about I be Cloud and you be Sephiroth? And your Who-loving Battle Hound clearly doesn't get the concept of war.
@Jen BRING IT! (Just don't hit the face, please.)
@Matt That war dog is making me so, so sad.
In general, I am both honoured and terrified that people are talking about duelling me in later battle stages. I, erm, have yet to look at the brackets, as I've just been inferring from discussion here what's up.
voodoo_em
from England is reading All the books by Ira LevinOctober 26, 2012 - 1:25am
@Bek ~ Quarter tank of Gas, Blue Hawaii, The Art of Angling, Better Places.
I'm not sure about the last one though? Was it something like "warlords" ?? probably not.
And just for the record I didn't cheat and look those up, I just have a good memory (and last War's stories were pretty memorable)
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.October 26, 2012 - 3:06am
Historical Hotties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersOctober 26, 2012 - 5:03am
The Art of Angling, Better Places
Those two are some of my favorites. But if anyone would like to call Perfectly Natural the Fight Club of LitReactor, that's fine with me. I'd accept that. I think.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerOctober 26, 2012 - 5:25am
Can we start now? I'm tired of waiting to destroy the peasants in my bracket. They need to return to the fields for the harvest. Pff, peasants with their thatch roofs and turnip crops. I DEMAND MY PROMPT NOW!
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOctober 26, 2012 - 5:39am
Bekanator, I don't have to remember the titles. I just remember they are full of what New Yorkers refer to as "surprise sex". And all I can say is that it's a good thing for your female characters that their bodies respond with a Republican-Party-sponsored contraceptive reflex to surprise sex (as long as it's legitimate and painful) or your worlds would quickly become overpopulated.
Now that's what I call Perfectly Natural.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.October 26, 2012 - 5:41am
I think of Jeffrey Grant Barr as the Fight Club of Litreactor. For different reasons.
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreOctober 26, 2012 - 5:43am
Wow, that was like a spoiler, yet not.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOctober 26, 2012 - 5:51am
I think of Jeffrey Grant Barr as the Fight Club of Litreactor.
He's not his mother's fucking pantyhose!
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerOctober 26, 2012 - 6:01am
He's not his mother's fucking pantyhose!"
Utah, you are the single shade of blood-red in a world of beige. Thank God you're still posting.
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland October 26, 2012 - 6:18am
Tonight at approximately 5:00p.m. The 7 day count down for first issued prompts will
commence. I'm. Pretty sure I'm going to celebrate that.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersOctober 26, 2012 - 6:34am
I've currently created about 70 prompts. Some are good! Some are not! You will complain about them all, because you are writers and you just pretty much whine constantly.
How exciting!!
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.October 26, 2012 - 6:37am
Stop whining about whiny whiners. I need some wine, now.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.October 26, 2012 - 6:46am
Some of the prompts last time were awesome. My favourite - "The baby was born ugly" which gave rise to Chester's Dreadlocks and Bekka's Blue Hawaii
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersOctober 26, 2012 - 6:52am
Hah - I forgot about that one. One of my favorites was the one for round one that sparked your story, Martin. About the people meeting at the lake and one of them is not who they are pretending to be, or whatever it was. I always like prompts with liars in them.
Basically I'm looking at them and trying to decide how mad I would be if I got that prompt. That's my indicator.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOctober 26, 2012 - 6:53am
I'm interested in seeing whether, even though they are in different conferences and will receive different prompts, averydoll and Sean of the Dead will again manage to write the same story.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersOctober 26, 2012 - 7:26am
I hope not. That'd be sort of weird.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazOctober 26, 2012 - 7:26am
'surprise sex'
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeOctober 26, 2012 - 7:32am
Fight Club is about freemasonry.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOctober 26, 2012 - 7:53am
Of course, if you think about, no character in any Bekanator story should ever actually be surprised by it. They should just accept, as a matter of course, that they are going to be the recipient of some prison-style lovin and concentrate on the more pleasant aspects of their lives.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersOctober 26, 2012 - 8:01am
One day, I'd like to meet Bekanator. And when I do, I want her to look at me and say, "You wanna fuck my bitch?" That's on my bucket list.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeOctober 26, 2012 - 8:20am
They should just accept, as a matter of course, that they are going to be the recipient of some prison-style lovin and concentrate on the more pleasant aspects of their lives.
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnOctober 26, 2012 - 8:32am
And we have a week to write these? Shit. I usually need two-to-three days just to wrap my head around a prompt. Anyone else have this problem?
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOctober 26, 2012 - 8:35am
@Dino: yes. I normally have to spend three days just being angry at averydoll for the prompt she gave me. Then I think about the prompt. And then I write the story with whatever time is left.
I don't find it to be easy. Normally around the time I'm starting to write my opponents in these things have been discussing how difficult their third draft is going.
Sound
from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael WehuntOctober 26, 2012 - 8:46am
I'm in the same boat. In my bout with Sparrow it literally took me most of the week to think of what I was going to write and about a day and a half to write it up. Then again, it was my first ever Thunderdome battle. I'd like to think I've improved.
Matt
from New Zealand is reading This is how you lose her by Junot DiazOctober 26, 2012 - 9:50am
No matter how long I ponder a prompt, 10 minutes, one week, a year, when I finally sit down to write, the story that comes out is always completely different to the story I had in mind.
On an unrelated note, is anyone else concerned that the release of Assassins Creed 3 might impact your war performance? ... Or is it just me?
Bekanator
from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay HunterOctober 26, 2012 - 11:18am
One day, I'd like to meet Bekanator. And when I do, I want her to look at me and say, "You wanna fuck my bitch?" That's on my bucket list.
My coworker asks me this all the fucking time. It's a T-shirt worthy quote, I think.
Martin, I think the prompt was "She was born ugly." It's probably my favourite prompt ever. I remember thinking, "How am I supposed to write a hot sex scene when one of the characters is ugly?" But I didn't actually think that.
The best prompts are ones that restrict you a bit but still give you the freedom to experiment a little. Jessica did a great job at varying the prompts in the last WAR. It kept me on edge the whole time. The poetry prompt was probably the most creative. It was interesting to take an already existing piece of writing and apply new meaning to it.
Some prompts inspire me more than others, of course. The prompt for the final round, "WAR!" was the most difficult one because it was just too open-ended, and yet all I could think about was an actual war. I spent the first four days writing one story, but in the end it just wasn't sitting well with me, so I scrapped it and wrote Historical Hotties.
My advice to you all would be to keep your old scrapped ideas fresh in your head, because you might be able to fuse them with your prompts. Two of my WAR stories were from ideas I'd had penned down years before.
I remember thinking before the prompts for round four dropped, "You should write that zombie apocalypse prostitute story you always wanted to write." Then we got those picture prompts and Utah and I got the Thailand garden one and I was like, "Well, fuck, this won't work. This isn't apocalypse-worthy at all." And then I came up with the puzzle idea, which was awesome, because it finally gave me what I needed to actually write the story and give it the deeper meaning it didn't have when I first thought it up.
Also, is anybody hoping for cheesy-as-shit Christmas prompts around Christmas time, because I totally am!
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersOctober 26, 2012 - 12:07pm
"cheesy-as-shit Christmas prompts around Christmas time"
INSPIRATION!!
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnOctober 26, 2012 - 12:42pm
Well, at least I know now whose name to curse for those those first few days NOT writing!
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOctober 26, 2012 - 12:46pm
Exactly. Same as the rest of us. If she makes you really angry, maybe you can help me brainstorm the prompt for her match (because we can't just let her come up with her own prompt).
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersOctober 26, 2012 - 12:59pm
uh, i assumed my prompt would be something to do with postpartum depression, right?
JEFFREY GRANT BARR
from Central OR is reading Nothing but fucking Shakespeare, for the rest of my lifeOctober 26, 2012 - 1:02pm
Yesterday I knew what was going on, I think, then last night happened, and I woke up with my face on the floor. This poisonous, nuclear, world-beater of a hangover prevents me from reading and/or thinking, so please help me: Does everyone get their prompt today, or what?
It is true that I am not pantyhose, though I fail to see the significance.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersOctober 26, 2012 - 1:10pm
No, prompts are the 2nd. We're just talking.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOctober 26, 2012 - 1:11pm
You cannot be used to remove fiberglas insulation particles from the skin of my arms, that is the significance.
JEFFREY GRANT BARR
from Central OR is reading Nothing but fucking Shakespeare, for the rest of my lifeOctober 26, 2012 - 1:12pm
Oh yeah! That is fantastic. You do good work. Now someone please kill me.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerOctober 26, 2012 - 3:11pm
"cheesy-as-shit Christmas prompts around Christmas time"
INSPIRATION!!
Dammit
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersOctober 26, 2012 - 3:17pm
Last time I had a religious themed prompt, I had an eight year old boy kill his mother. So...just saying.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesOctober 26, 2012 - 5:29pm
prompt to story in a week IS brutal. this is war, not popsicles on the playground.
bek, i remember all of your stories, but could probaby only name Blue Hawaii, if i'm 100% honest. i doubt anyone could name any of my winning stories. shit, i'll send a signed/limited copy of my first crappy novel, Transubstantiate, to anyone that can name my LOSING story (from memory). be honest. (USA only). [still haven't placed that fucking story. can i say fucking here? yes, no? :-)]
christmas prompts? sweet jesus, no, please. i just started shopping a christmas story, i imagine it will take me three years to place it.
avery has amazing prompts. hey, her eyes are up HERE. prompts, i said. they were really challenging, especially the poetry one. but that's why we're here, yeah? to push ourselves.
Renfield
from Hell is reading 20th Century GhostsOctober 26, 2012 - 5:39pm
I remember that losing story, the one I can't remember the name to though is the one the week before that. That was one of my favorites of the contest along with Bek's fisting story.
@Jess neither am I, really, which is why my avatar is the 11th Doctor (and a bunch of rainbow daleks). I'm breaking out my real war avatar once the war starts, which is even nerdier and far cooler. Plus I'm going to give all my opponents a choice before I annihilate them.
@Dino stop calling my dog sexy
@Otis I owe you a read, I've just gotten really shitty about reviewing lately. I do have it downloaded, though.
@Emma, I definitely would like your avatar to be Sephiroth when we meet in round 4. You know, when I destroy you.
Oh man, now you tell me that Hector kicks ass! And I was already planning my next rounds...
@Emma: Are you kidding me? Look at that muzzle! Those fleshy ears...
Battle hounds at the ready!
Aww, Cujo. A good dog.
I find it amusing whenever people mention Jessica's "Perfectly Natural". It's like the Fight Club of LitReactor.
And yet, people give me all this credit and yet nobody can name any of the five stories I wrote to kick all your asses.
For me, writing a story is basically second nature. It's like taking a dump. It's pefectly natural.
See what I did there?
Sound, I try not to think that I'm going to be Emma's first victim....
Oh, Emma, if only I had a crush on you, losing to you wouldn't be so bad. I don't know why I want to win against you, maybe this was meant to be. I must have faith that (as an underdog) I can win. Must take away the Asian names and disguise them as English names. I am plotting, Emma, I am plotting.
What I Like
by OtistheBulldog
Approx: 5 words
When the Champion Talks Shit
@Sound How about I be Cloud and you be Sephiroth? And your Who-loving Battle Hound clearly doesn't get the concept of war.
@Jen BRING IT! (Just don't hit the face, please.)
@Matt That war dog is making me so, so sad.
In general, I am both honoured and terrified that people are talking about duelling me in later battle stages. I, erm, have yet to look at the brackets, as I've just been inferring from discussion here what's up.
@Bek ~ Quarter tank of Gas, Blue Hawaii, The Art of Angling, Better Places.
I'm not sure about the last one though? Was it something like "warlords" ?? probably not.
And just for the record I didn't cheat and look those up, I just have a good memory (and last War's stories were pretty memorable)
Historical Hotties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those two are some of my favorites. But if anyone would like to call Perfectly Natural the Fight Club of LitReactor, that's fine with me. I'd accept that. I think.
Can we start now? I'm tired of waiting to destroy the peasants in my bracket. They need to return to the fields for the harvest. Pff, peasants with their thatch roofs and turnip crops. I DEMAND MY PROMPT NOW!
Bekanator, I don't have to remember the titles. I just remember they are full of what New Yorkers refer to as "surprise sex". And all I can say is that it's a good thing for your female characters that their bodies respond with a Republican-Party-sponsored contraceptive reflex to surprise sex (as long as it's legitimate and painful) or your worlds would quickly become overpopulated.
Now that's what I call Perfectly Natural.
I think of Jeffrey Grant Barr as the Fight Club of Litreactor. For different reasons.
Wow, that was like a spoiler, yet not.
He's not his mother's fucking pantyhose!
Utah, you are the single shade of blood-red in a world of beige. Thank God you're still posting.
Tonight at approximately 5:00p.m. The 7 day count down for first issued prompts will
commence. I'm. Pretty sure I'm going to celebrate that.
I've currently created about 70 prompts. Some are good! Some are not! You will complain about them all, because you are writers and you just pretty much whine constantly.
How exciting!!
Stop whining about whiny whiners. I need some wine, now.
Some of the prompts last time were awesome. My favourite - "The baby was born ugly" which gave rise to Chester's Dreadlocks and Bekka's Blue Hawaii
Hah - I forgot about that one. One of my favorites was the one for round one that sparked your story, Martin. About the people meeting at the lake and one of them is not who they are pretending to be, or whatever it was. I always like prompts with liars in them.
Basically I'm looking at them and trying to decide how mad I would be if I got that prompt. That's my indicator.
I'm interested in seeing whether, even though they are in different conferences and will receive different prompts, averydoll and Sean of the Dead will again manage to write the same story.
I hope not. That'd be sort of weird.
'surprise sex'
Fight Club is about freemasonry.
Of course, if you think about, no character in any Bekanator story should ever actually be surprised by it. They should just accept, as a matter of course, that they are going to be the recipient of some prison-style lovin and concentrate on the more pleasant aspects of their lives.
One day, I'd like to meet Bekanator. And when I do, I want her to look at me and say, "You wanna fuck my bitch?" That's on my bucket list.
And we have a week to write these? Shit. I usually need two-to-three days just to wrap my head around a prompt. Anyone else have this problem?
@Dino: yes. I normally have to spend three days just being angry at averydoll for the prompt she gave me. Then I think about the prompt. And then I write the story with whatever time is left.
I don't find it to be easy. Normally around the time I'm starting to write my opponents in these things have been discussing how difficult their third draft is going.
I'm in the same boat. In my bout with Sparrow it literally took me most of the week to think of what I was going to write and about a day and a half to write it up. Then again, it was my first ever Thunderdome battle. I'd like to think I've improved.
No matter how long I ponder a prompt, 10 minutes, one week, a year, when I finally sit down to write, the story that comes out is always completely different to the story I had in mind.
On an unrelated note, is anyone else concerned that the release of Assassins Creed 3 might impact your war performance? ... Or is it just me?
My coworker asks me this all the fucking time. It's a T-shirt worthy quote, I think.
Martin, I think the prompt was "She was born ugly." It's probably my favourite prompt ever. I remember thinking, "How am I supposed to write a hot sex scene when one of the characters is ugly?" But I didn't actually think that.
The best prompts are ones that restrict you a bit but still give you the freedom to experiment a little. Jessica did a great job at varying the prompts in the last WAR. It kept me on edge the whole time. The poetry prompt was probably the most creative. It was interesting to take an already existing piece of writing and apply new meaning to it.
Some prompts inspire me more than others, of course. The prompt for the final round, "WAR!" was the most difficult one because it was just too open-ended, and yet all I could think about was an actual war. I spent the first four days writing one story, but in the end it just wasn't sitting well with me, so I scrapped it and wrote Historical Hotties.
My advice to you all would be to keep your old scrapped ideas fresh in your head, because you might be able to fuse them with your prompts. Two of my WAR stories were from ideas I'd had penned down years before.
I remember thinking before the prompts for round four dropped, "You should write that zombie apocalypse prostitute story you always wanted to write." Then we got those picture prompts and Utah and I got the Thailand garden one and I was like, "Well, fuck, this won't work. This isn't apocalypse-worthy at all." And then I came up with the puzzle idea, which was awesome, because it finally gave me what I needed to actually write the story and give it the deeper meaning it didn't have when I first thought it up.
Also, is anybody hoping for cheesy-as-shit Christmas prompts around Christmas time, because I totally am!
"cheesy-as-shit Christmas prompts around Christmas time"
INSPIRATION!!
Well, at least I know now whose name to curse for those those first few days NOT writing!
Exactly. Same as the rest of us. If she makes you really angry, maybe you can help me brainstorm the prompt for her match (because we can't just let her come up with her own prompt).
uh, i assumed my prompt would be something to do with postpartum depression, right?
Yesterday I knew what was going on, I think, then last night happened, and I woke up with my face on the floor. This poisonous, nuclear, world-beater of a hangover prevents me from reading and/or thinking, so please help me: Does everyone get their prompt today, or what?
It is true that I am not pantyhose, though I fail to see the significance.
No, prompts are the 2nd. We're just talking.
You cannot be used to remove fiberglas insulation particles from the skin of my arms, that is the significance.
Oh yeah! That is fantastic. You do good work. Now someone please kill me.
Dammit
Last time I had a religious themed prompt, I had an eight year old boy kill his mother. So...just saying.
prompt to story in a week IS brutal. this is war, not popsicles on the playground.
bek, i remember all of your stories, but could probaby only name Blue Hawaii, if i'm 100% honest. i doubt anyone could name any of my winning stories. shit, i'll send a signed/limited copy of my first crappy novel, Transubstantiate, to anyone that can name my LOSING story (from memory). be honest. (USA only). [still haven't placed that fucking story. can i say fucking here? yes, no? :-)]
christmas prompts? sweet jesus, no, please. i just started shopping a christmas story, i imagine it will take me three years to place it.
avery has amazing prompts. hey, her eyes are up HERE. prompts, i said. they were really challenging, especially the poetry one. but that's why we're here, yeah? to push ourselves.
I remember that losing story, the one I can't remember the name to though is the one the week before that. That was one of my favorites of the contest along with Bek's fisting story.