And here we go! This is the beginning of Round 3, and shit's going to get intense in The Pit. Winner's Bracket goes to a one-week-writing/one-week-voting schedule from here out. The Pit will now be 4-days-writing/3-days-voting, with 1200 word stories. If you want to stay in the game, you're going to have to shake that ass.
We have lost our first WARriors. If you're gone, know that many people would not even have attempted the kind of writing you've done in the last six weeks. Be proud of yourselves and see me in six months for WAR3.
In honor of the fallen, I give you heavy metal:
And check this out: Your New Bracket.
I am Jack's brutal death in The Pit. Prepare yourself Mr. Taylor. This is payback for a certain shitty ThunderDome prompt.
Uhh... so is "the pit" a different bracket, or is it just another term for the entire competition?
Utah - much as love you, man, Five finger death punch are not good metal. They are barely even metal at all :-P
Rock on to all the winners. Commiserations to all the losers.
Can't wait to see some pitfighting
Utah - much as love you, man, Five finger death punch are not good metal. They are barely even metal at all :-P
I didn't want to say it.
Who is a metal?
Are those of us that are completely out of War still allowed to vote?
I would like to add my vote that 5 finger fiddle fuck be left off all future internets.
Damn, Rian, you're out too? Shit.
I don't think we're even allowed to post in this thread anymore.
Yeah, I'm out. Awesome battle against Meredith, though. Came down to one vote. She wrote a great story.
You're allowed to vote, Moon. Just don't vote wrongly.
YEs, many people were voting in the first rounds who were not even in war. As long as you have a workshop memborship you can read, comment, and vote. And I would encourage it but understand if you don't want to. I Think I predict a Sound vs. Moon Thunderdome in the near future!!!!
Props to TomMartinArt. Hell of a match. I might be out, but I still plan to do some reading for the next month.
Thanks y'all.
@Sparrow: What you're saying is vote for your story? Got it! Now, let us rock out to some RBF!!!!
@Moon, she means vote for her story next round!!!
Yeah, I figured that.
Sparrow: Here, have a beer on me... :-)
Yes!!! BTW have you heard the new album? It's killer.
Praying for survival so I don't have to change my username to "Flash" Gordon Highland. Which is my longtime nickname, but … well, I'd like to keep that one extra "life" in my pocket a while longer.
The Pit is another, more intimidating, name for the losers bracket.
@Sparrow: No, I have not. I will have a listen, though. I'm trying to gather up some old friends I haven't seen in awhile. All my ska/punk friends. If I can round em up, I will make a video for you of my friend Pike skankin' to RBF! Short, pudgy guy skankin'! Nothing better...
I mean the round after she battles me MOON! Remember this!
@Sparrow: No, I have not. I will have a listen, though. I'm trying to gather up some old friends I haven't seen in awhile. All my ska/punk friends. If I can round em up, I will make a video for you of my friend Pike skankin' to RBF! Short, pudgy guy skankin'! Nothing better...
Oh, Lord, please let this happen. Amen.
I mean the round after she battles me MOON! Remember this!
In your dreams, man! My story is going to be so good people are going to campaign for the ability to vote for it TWICE.
Praying for survival so I don't have to change my username to "Flash" Gordon Highland. Which is my longtime nickname, but … well, I'd like to keep that one extra "life" in my pocket a while longer.
Was the name first bestowed on you perhaps by an ex-girlfriend in a fit of perturbation?
Uhh... and how do we know if we're in the pit or not? More to the point, am I in the pit?
Was the name first bestowed on you perhaps by an ex-girlfriend in a fit of perturbation?
No verbal complaints in the stamina department thus far. Though "I promise you won't feel a thing" is a terrible line to get a girl into bed.
I do love that Richard Branson Virgin Mobile commercial by the way, where the girl's lying in bed unsatisfied, talking about his speed.
Time to participate.
I was driving home, having slept about three-point-five hours in the last forty-eight, and got pulled by a lady trooper for skirting the solid white. "I can assure you, I've had nothing but coffee to drink. No ma'am, no beer. No, I didn't steal those menus in the passenger seat."
Tom Martin, You started after round one and you were randomly thrown into the pit with one loss If I remember correctly.
damn autoplay...
I feel like I ask this every time, but where be this brackets is?
I feel like I ask this every time, but where be this brackets is?
Directly under baby Goku.
First post of this round's thread, up there.
Utah, you're so sexy when you're defending your buttrock.
Geez, this 1,200 word limit's really cramping my style.
1200 words is not a tight limit! You can go miles on that. 120 words would have been the chosen number if they'd really wanted to be mean to us.
Also - Jeff!!! Where you at. Coming for ya, mister. And I got me a pitchfork.
Went to sleep thinking of new prompt...woke up thinkig of new prompt.
Nothing.
Must run. Far and fast. That will help.
Tell me about it. I even made the deliberate move of reading the prompt several times before getting into bed, hoping my subconscious would take over. This morning, bupkis. Need coffee and a little morning chill to clear the cobwebs.
I read that as "morning chili," thinking, dude's gonna be clearing more than cobwebs starting off the day like that. haha
I finished my story last night. I want another prompt dammit.
Also, I want five finger death punch to get stomped into a coma by a metal band, but that'll fade once we get to page two.
I finished my story last night. I want another prompt dammit.
Seriously? Man, it takes me at least a day, usually two, just to decide what I'm going to write about. And then there's probably a day or two of panic and self doubt before I can even sit down to write.
I had nothing to do and I was pretty emotionally wrecked from the day, so I was ready.
I have two stories in mind, but all of them would be immediately identifiable as written by me.
I'm like you, Matt. I mull it over for a few days, but in The Pit you only get a few days to write, period. I'm good under pressure, though. I'll get there.
Normally I am finished by now. Hell, normally I'd have written no less than two alternates. However, I don't have anything this time, which makes me wish I would have left the contest twice before when I requested it. I don't have even the shadow of thought. The prompt is far too abstract for my liking and far too broad to be distilled into a flash piece. A novella, perhaps, but not flash.
In short, I hate you all.
Have a cigarette Matt.
Have a cigarette Matt."
I am 14 days deep. No fucking way. But I like the way you're thinking.
I hear day 15 is the hardest.