Stacy Kear
from Bucyrus, Ohio lives in New Jersey is reading The Art of War October 26, 2012 - 6:09pm
The one I remember most vividly was The Executioners Son, and it lost. This is such a great way to churn out stories quickly, I'm excited. I wanna see some bloodshed.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersOctober 26, 2012 - 6:10pm
I remember...it was up against Godlings and the name was...The Wastelands?
If that was someone else's I'm going to feel dumb.
Stacy Kear
from Bucyrus, Ohio lives in New Jersey is reading The Art of War October 26, 2012 - 6:15pm
So many great stories, I remember liking the one up against Godlings better, don't remember the name though. And the story about the living organism and the scientists made me cry, I hope it was published.
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland October 26, 2012 - 6:24pm
I wasn't arround for War but this Poetry prompt you all keep mentioning sounds intriguing. Does anyone remember what the prompt was exactly? I'm trying to write as much as I can before war and would love a good writing exercise. Especially if it was a difficult one.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersOctober 26, 2012 - 6:37pm
I REMEMBER!!!
For the matchup between Richard and Martin (that's the one I am thinking of, where, if I'm right, Richard wrote The Wastelands) the prompt was Harlem Nights by Langston Hughes.
Another was Sylvia Plath's Mirror (from which Beka wrote one of my favorites)
Do Not go Gentle into that Good Night - Dylan Thomas
When I Heard the Learned Astronomer - Whitman
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.October 26, 2012 - 6:44pm
@ Richard
I remember the name of your losing story ;-)
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.October 26, 2012 - 6:45pm
It was indeed, The Wastelands. Fucking good story. I voted for it for best of round.
Hector Acosta
from Dallas is reading FletchOctober 26, 2012 - 7:20pm
Oh man, now you tell me that Hector kicks ass! And I was already planning my next rounds..
You shouldn't underestimate me. This is what happens to me people that understimate me
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland October 26, 2012 - 7:38pm
So each poem in its entirety was the prompt for each battle? That's pretty f-ing cool.
And Richard borrowed his title from T.S. Elliot. Ha! very clever
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreOctober 26, 2012 - 7:51pm
All this nostalgia is making me eager to create some new memories and "surprise sex."
Sound
from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael WehuntOctober 26, 2012 - 9:22pm
Wait. Each pair gets one prompt, correct?
Liana
from Romania and Texas is reading Naked LunchOctober 26, 2012 - 9:25pm
Hey hey, The Executioner's Son lost to my Rabbit in the Hat, not Wastelands... That was my claim to fame before Moon kicked my ass with the cats.
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland October 26, 2012 - 9:35pm
@Sound. yes. each pair one prompt according to Utah's introduction.
In the last war I'm guessing it was the final eight. And Avery issued a different poem to each pair remaining for their prompts.
Matt
from New Zealand is reading This is how you lose her by Junot DiazOctober 27, 2012 - 2:23am
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerOctober 27, 2012 - 7:14am
So. Um. We're getting ass raped by a hurricane this weekend. I think it'd be a good idea, since I'll have plenty of time to work on stuff, if I get my god-awful prompt now.
Thoughts?
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.October 27, 2012 - 7:28am
I like to think my thoughts, sometimes.
Moderator
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOctober 27, 2012 - 7:32am
Prodigal (I'm sticking with that one for a while), if you'd like I can give you a prompt you can use to practice with over the weekend.
Prompt: A guy in an office discovers the guy in the cubicle next to him is a superhero.
Go!
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerOctober 27, 2012 - 8:17am
@Utah #hatecherface
He sat down at his cubicle and sighed. He turned on his monitor and looked through the daily backlog of emails. Not once was there anything he wanted to read. Devon, his rowmate, quietly walked by and then sat across from him, sipping coffee.
"Hey man, how was your weekend." His voice was chipper. Everything about him was chipper.
"Alright, I guess." He sighed again, scrolling past another meeting request.
"Mine was great."
"That's great."
"Yeah."
He pushed away from the desk, rubbing his eyes. The star and light pattern shifting behind his lids and then returning to darkness. He opened them again. Devon stood at the edge of his cubicle, a dumbass grin plastered on his face.
"What?" He asked with a short voice. The grin disappeared. "Sorry, hung over. Why was it great."
Devon leaned forward and opened the internet browser on his computer. He scrolled through news articles and then stopped on a link and opened it. He leaned back and pointed. "That."
His burning red eyes adjusted and he read the headline: "Unknown Masked Man Assists with Panda Pair Reuniting."
"No." He turned, looking up at Devon.
"Yes." His grin, if it were possible was even dumber.
The dawning realization crashed upon him pushing through the fog gray recesses of his mind still drowning in Jack and coke. Devon, was a superhero.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerOctober 27, 2012 - 7:54am
Not perfect, but with low blood sugar, constant interruptions from my annoying rowmate and nothing better to do, there ya go.
I still say the best simile I ever wrote was:
He walked down the hill, like a god damn idiot.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerOctober 27, 2012 - 8:18am
And now for yours, dearest Utah. 1000 words or less, "A Valentines Day to remember."
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreOctober 27, 2012 - 8:22am
"A Valentines Day to remember." I got this.
The candles were lit and glasses filled, the rag soaked in ether.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerOctober 27, 2012 - 8:23am
The candles were lit and glasses filled, the rag soaked in ether."
BWHAHAHAHA!
You=win
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesOctober 27, 2012 - 9:54am
you are correct, @averydoll. pm me your address and i'll mail you a copy of Transubstantiate, if you don't have one. i know i mailed out a bunch for some recent promotions, but i don't think you were part of that mailing, right? sorry, i have two brain cells left. thanks for the kind words, guys, glad that some of you remember that story.
and ironically enough, it was just accepted for an anthology today, Into the Darkness from Necro Publications, out later this year or early 2013. They've published work by authors like Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, Tom Piccirilli, Gary Braunbeck, Joe R. Lansdale and many others. Not sure who is in this one, though.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersOctober 27, 2012 - 10:18am
Yay for me and my creepy War memory!
Also, yay for Richard and his creepy stories getting published.
underpurplemoon
from PDX
October 27, 2012 - 10:18am
I just realized that people will know my writing because I'm so...yeah, I know...pfft.
Mess_Jess
from Sydney, Australia, living in Toronto, Canada is reading Perfect by Rachael JoyceOctober 27, 2012 - 11:24am
If I read a story about lobsters and lesbians, I'll be looking at you, Jen.
Stacy Kear
from Bucyrus, Ohio lives in New Jersey is reading The Art of War October 27, 2012 - 11:43am
@ Roaring Jen, just write from a misogynistic male POV.
Bekanator
from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay HunterOctober 27, 2012 - 11:48am
Uh, that's my tactic, Stacy. Keeps people on the edge.
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnOctober 27, 2012 - 12:03pm
@Richard: Congrats on the acceptance!
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesOctober 27, 2012 - 12:09pm
thanks, dino.
come add to this thread when you get a second, all WAR1 contributors
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersOctober 27, 2012 - 12:18pm
That thread is an awesome idea. Love that. Makes me want to submit my war story just so I can contribute to something! But really, it makes me incredibly happy to see all the published stories that came from that.
.
October 27, 2012 - 12:20pm
Hoping to get my WAR2 stories published.
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland October 27, 2012 - 12:24pm
Me too jacks. Oh by the way I was just looking at the whoring thread. Congrats Jacks, and Richard.
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnOctober 27, 2012 - 12:52pm
@Richard: Would love to, but I joined here after WAR1. Let's do this again for sure after WAR 2.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.October 27, 2012 - 3:34pm
There will be a great wealth of work to be published after WAR2. Gonna be a couple of hundred stories needing homes.
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland October 27, 2012 - 3:40pm
Damn when you say it like that it makes the whole thing sound as equally awesome as it will be scary and overwhelming. How in the hell am I going to read 127 stories in the first 6 weeks. Then another 47 in the third round. Wow!
.
October 27, 2012 - 3:58pm
Johnathan, when you subract your own story, you're already chipping away at the moment.
No, you're right, we're going to need a lot of coffee...
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnOctober 27, 2012 - 4:39pm
In the heat of anticipating battle, I've forgotten that at worst, many of us will end up with 2-3 kick-ass stories to send out when this is done. Some of us more:)
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreOctober 27, 2012 - 5:09pm
That's the whole reason I'm participating. I write way, way too slowly to be effective on such a short deadline. But at least there'll be the embryos (fetuses?) of stories I can birth and clothe later for submissions (how quickly one can go from victory to submission, eh? haha). Second, it's to read a variety of good shit from the likes of y'all. My bloodlust comes a distant third, though I'll put on my intimidation mask in the meantime. It bears an eerie resemblance to Richard Thomas's mug.
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesOctober 27, 2012 - 5:13pm
^nice. :-)
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.October 27, 2012 - 8:45pm
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland October 27, 2012 - 10:37pm
This the kind of trash you talking about Howie?
Liana
from Romania and Texas is reading Naked LunchOctober 27, 2012 - 9:50pm
Mommy, Hector won't trash talk with me.
Class Facilitator
Emma C
from Los Angeles is reading Black Spire by Delilah DawsonOctober 27, 2012 - 10:13pm
I'm afraid of getting a literary prompt I've not read. How closely are we expected to hew to the prompts? Ack, I'm too neurotic for this.
Also I have to give a deposition next Friday night, and just started getting prepped for it today. It's a mock deposition, which actually makes it more stressful because I have to memorise pages of statements and someone's course grade depends on how well I do. *crawls in hole for week*
Class Facilitator
Emma C
from Los Angeles is reading Black Spire by Delilah DawsonOctober 27, 2012 - 10:17pm
JR, in Photobucket hit the "share" icon. Select the 3rd tab for links, and copy the direct link. Then in this text box, click the icon above that looks like a photo^. Paste the link in the URL field, then click in the dimension boxes to resize; if it's working you will see your photo in the preview window.
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland October 27, 2012 - 10:35pm
Thanks Emma,
I tried half an hour to put that pic up then I read that and got it in two minutes.
You are the shit!
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnOctober 27, 2012 - 11:56pm
Emma, I'm a tad worried myself. I'm leaving town on thursday for a wedding I'm a groomsman in, and I don't fly back till monday afternoon. I hope three days will be enough!
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnOctober 27, 2012 - 11:58pm
Is that what we're getting by the way--a literary prompt? As in maybe having to research and read before hand if we don't recognize it? Great...
JEFFREY GRANT BARR
from Central OR is reading Nothing but fucking Shakespeare, for the rest of my lifeOctober 28, 2012 - 12:44am
Emma C
from Los Angeles is reading Black Spire by Delilah DawsonOctober 28, 2012 - 12:52am
@Dino Ouch. I know you can do it, though. I just mentioned to someone earlier, "Waiting" was written in about 10 minutes, no revisions. Just make sure you have wifi or something so you can get your prompt. Then you have 3 days to plan.
PS my BEST writing happens in-flight. You are golden.
The one I remember most vividly was The Executioners Son, and it lost. This is such a great way to churn out stories quickly, I'm excited. I wanna see some bloodshed.
I remember...it was up against Godlings and the name was...The Wastelands?
If that was someone else's I'm going to feel dumb.
So many great stories, I remember liking the one up against Godlings better, don't remember the name though. And the story about the living organism and the scientists made me cry, I hope it was published.
I wasn't arround for War but this Poetry prompt you all keep mentioning sounds intriguing. Does anyone remember what the prompt was exactly? I'm trying to write as much as I can before war and would love a good writing exercise. Especially if it was a difficult one.
I REMEMBER!!!
For the matchup between Richard and Martin (that's the one I am thinking of, where, if I'm right, Richard wrote The Wastelands) the prompt was Harlem Nights by Langston Hughes.
Another was Sylvia Plath's Mirror (from which Beka wrote one of my favorites)
Do Not go Gentle into that Good Night - Dylan Thomas
When I Heard the Learned Astronomer - Whitman
@ Richard
I remember the name of your losing story ;-)
It was indeed, The Wastelands. Fucking good story. I voted for it for best of round.
You shouldn't underestimate me. This is what happens to me people that understimate me
So each poem in its entirety was the prompt for each battle? That's pretty f-ing cool.
And Richard borrowed his title from T.S. Elliot. Ha! very clever
All this nostalgia is making me eager to create some new memories and "surprise sex."
Wait. Each pair gets one prompt, correct?
Hey hey, The Executioner's Son lost to my Rabbit in the Hat, not Wastelands... That was my claim to fame before Moon kicked my ass with the cats.
@Sound. yes. each pair one prompt according to Utah's introduction.
In the last war I'm guessing it was the final eight. And Avery issued a different poem to each pair remaining for their prompts.
So. Um. We're getting ass raped by a hurricane this weekend. I think it'd be a good idea, since I'll have plenty of time to work on stuff, if I get my god-awful prompt now.
Thoughts?
I like to think my thoughts, sometimes.
Prodigal (I'm sticking with that one for a while), if you'd like I can give you a prompt you can use to practice with over the weekend.
Prompt: A guy in an office discovers the guy in the cubicle next to him is a superhero.
Go!
@Utah #hatecherface
He sat down at his cubicle and sighed. He turned on his monitor and looked through the daily backlog of emails. Not once was there anything he wanted to read. Devon, his rowmate, quietly walked by and then sat across from him, sipping coffee.
"Hey man, how was your weekend." His voice was chipper. Everything about him was chipper.
"Alright, I guess." He sighed again, scrolling past another meeting request.
"Mine was great."
"That's great."
"Yeah."
He pushed away from the desk, rubbing his eyes. The star and light pattern shifting behind his lids and then returning to darkness. He opened them again. Devon stood at the edge of his cubicle, a dumbass grin plastered on his face.
"What?" He asked with a short voice. The grin disappeared. "Sorry, hung over. Why was it great."
Devon leaned forward and opened the internet browser on his computer. He scrolled through news articles and then stopped on a link and opened it. He leaned back and pointed. "That."
His burning red eyes adjusted and he read the headline: "Unknown Masked Man Assists with Panda Pair Reuniting."
"No." He turned, looking up at Devon.
"Yes." His grin, if it were possible was even dumber.
The dawning realization crashed upon him pushing through the fog gray recesses of his mind still drowning in Jack and coke. Devon, was a superhero.
Not perfect, but with low blood sugar, constant interruptions from my annoying rowmate and nothing better to do, there ya go.
I still say the best simile I ever wrote was:
He walked down the hill, like a god damn idiot.
And now for yours, dearest Utah. 1000 words or less, "A Valentines Day to remember."
"A Valentines Day to remember." I got this.
The candles were lit and glasses filled, the rag soaked in ether.
BWHAHAHAHA!
You=win
you are correct, @averydoll. pm me your address and i'll mail you a copy of Transubstantiate, if you don't have one. i know i mailed out a bunch for some recent promotions, but i don't think you were part of that mailing, right? sorry, i have two brain cells left. thanks for the kind words, guys, glad that some of you remember that story.
and ironically enough, it was just accepted for an anthology today, Into the Darkness from Necro Publications, out later this year or early 2013. They've published work by authors like Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, Tom Piccirilli, Gary Braunbeck, Joe R. Lansdale and many others. Not sure who is in this one, though.
Yay for me and my creepy War memory!
Also, yay for Richard and his creepy stories getting published.
I just realized that people will know my writing because I'm so...yeah, I know...pfft.
If I read a story about lobsters and lesbians, I'll be looking at you, Jen.
@ Roaring Jen, just write from a misogynistic male POV.
Uh, that's my tactic, Stacy. Keeps people on the edge.
@Richard: Congrats on the acceptance!
thanks, dino.
come add to this thread when you get a second, all WAR1 contributors
http://litreactor.com/discuss/war-list-of-published-stories
That thread is an awesome idea. Love that. Makes me want to submit my war story just so I can contribute to something! But really, it makes me incredibly happy to see all the published stories that came from that.
Hoping to get my WAR2 stories published.
Me too jacks. Oh by the way I was just looking at the whoring thread. Congrats Jacks, and Richard.
@Richard: Would love to, but I joined here after WAR1. Let's do this again for sure after WAR 2.
There will be a great wealth of work to be published after WAR2. Gonna be a couple of hundred stories needing homes.
Damn when you say it like that it makes the whole thing sound as equally awesome as it will be scary and overwhelming. How in the hell am I going to read 127 stories in the first 6 weeks. Then another 47 in the third round. Wow!
Johnathan, when you subract your own story, you're already chipping away at the moment.
No, you're right, we're going to need a lot of coffee...
In the heat of anticipating battle, I've forgotten that at worst, many of us will end up with 2-3 kick-ass stories to send out when this is done. Some of us more:)
That's the whole reason I'm participating. I write way, way too slowly to be effective on such a short deadline. But at least there'll be the embryos (fetuses?) of stories I can birth and clothe later for submissions (how quickly one can go from victory to submission, eh? haha). Second, it's to read a variety of good shit from the likes of y'all. My bloodlust comes a distant third, though I'll put on my intimidation mask in the meantime. It bears an eerie resemblance to Richard Thomas's mug.
^nice. :-)
This the kind of trash you talking about Howie?
Mommy, Hector won't trash talk with me.
I'm afraid of getting a literary prompt I've not read. How closely are we expected to hew to the prompts? Ack, I'm too neurotic for this.
Also I have to give a deposition next Friday night, and just started getting prepped for it today. It's a mock deposition, which actually makes it more stressful because I have to memorise pages of statements and someone's course grade depends on how well I do. *crawls in hole for week*
JR, in Photobucket hit the "share" icon. Select the 3rd tab for links, and copy the direct link. Then in this text box, click the icon above that looks like a photo^. Paste the link in the URL field, then click in the dimension boxes to resize; if it's working you will see your photo in the preview window.
Thanks Emma,
I tried half an hour to put that pic up then I read that and got it in two minutes.
You are the shit!
Emma, I'm a tad worried myself. I'm leaving town on thursday for a wedding I'm a groomsman in, and I don't fly back till monday afternoon. I hope three days will be enough!
Is that what we're getting by the way--a literary prompt? As in maybe having to research and read before hand if we don't recognize it? Great...
Whirrrrr-gug-ug-ug-chun-chun-chun-ug-ug-whirrrrrrr-zhrrrrr
@Dino Ouch. I know you can do it, though. I just mentioned to someone earlier, "Waiting" was written in about 10 minutes, no revisions. Just make sure you have wifi or something so you can get your prompt. Then you have 3 days to plan.
PS my BEST writing happens in-flight. You are golden.