NikKorpon
from Baltimore is reading Book and books and books andDecember 18, 2012 - 12:29pm
Tom, what's your band called? I used to live up in the Happy Valley and worked at Whole Foods with some of the Orchid/Amputeen people.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerDecember 18, 2012 - 12:29pm
Scandinavian Black Metal is fucking atrocious, though their documentaries are pretty gnarly."
Agreed. I guess that's why I like them. They think it's real. CC knows that's it just halloween and bull shit. Even the gents in Slayer think it's just fun, but those Swedes and Nords. Eesh. Some of the stories.....
SConley
from Texas is reading Coin Locker BabiesDecember 18, 2012 - 12:29pm
I like Iced Earth and a couple of metal bands in that vein. I haven't heard much Swedish stuff but i hear good things.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeDecember 18, 2012 - 12:34pm
SConley
from Texas is reading Coin Locker BabiesDecember 18, 2012 - 12:37pm
And i'll admit that some of the time travel stuff in my last war story was influenced by the metal i've been listening to...
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerDecember 18, 2012 - 12:44pm
So, how does the schedule work with the upcoming holidays?
Wonder Woman
from RI is reading 20th Century GhostsDecember 18, 2012 - 12:44pm
Oh geez...I have Refused albums. Are they really metal? Like, Tom Martin style metal? I thought they were hardcore at the time.
TomMartinArt
from Amherst, MA
December 18, 2012 - 12:44pm
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersDecember 18, 2012 - 12:48pm
I'm taking a week off for the holidays, I think you guys should too.
NEXT WEEK NO ONE WRITES.
YOU SHOULD READ AND VOTE
Next prompts will be delivered the 28th for everyone - does that sound okay? It's really better for me.
Wonder Woman
from RI is reading 20th Century GhostsDecember 18, 2012 - 12:48pm
Good question, Matt. I barely squeaked this one out. I started and finished today because everything is nutty here right now. Would love to see a holiday time table.
Jeff
from Florida is reading Another Side of Bob Dylan by Victor MaymudesDecember 18, 2012 - 12:48pm
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerDecember 18, 2012 - 12:49pm
Sounds like a plan. The New Year isn't nearly as disruptive as Christmas.
Wonder Woman
from RI is reading 20th Century GhostsDecember 18, 2012 - 12:51pm
So those of us in The Pit who make it this round will get our prompt on the 28th and it will be due on the 1st, while everyone in the Winner's Bracket will be due the 4th? Sounds good to me.
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnDecember 18, 2012 - 12:51pm
Good call, Avery.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersDecember 18, 2012 - 12:51pm
I haven't celebrated a New Year's eve in...I think the last one was 2002.
Wonder Woman
from RI is reading 20th Century GhostsDecember 18, 2012 - 12:52pm
Sounds like a plan. The New Year isn't nearly as disruptive as Christmas
Well, the first is just as crazy for us since we have company over and it's our anniversary, but that's fine. I'll make the time.
Wonder Woman
from RI is reading 20th Century GhostsDecember 18, 2012 - 12:52pm
Love the Oogie Boogie, AD.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeDecember 18, 2012 - 12:56pm
Next prompts will be delivered the 28th for everyone - does that sound okay?
Whatever's fine with me. Am I supposed to send my story to you, AD? The prompt came from Utah, but your email address was in the message. Just making sure.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersDecember 18, 2012 - 12:58pm
Yeah, everything comes to me.
Wonder Woman
from RI is reading 20th Century GhostsDecember 18, 2012 - 12:58pm
Submitted.
Courtney
from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooksDecember 18, 2012 - 1:14pm
Finally submitted. My sister's 21st was yesterday and I got her drunk at two p.m. off of a "Cosmo-Rita" at TGI Friday's and then I went to her house and got wasted with my friends later that night. I kept waking up thinking, "Shit, what time is my story due?" Because apparently, that's what my drunk mind cares about.
dufrescm
from Wisconsin is reading Do Androids Dream of Electric SheepDecember 18, 2012 - 1:19pm
Avery, you're my hero! Thanks for giving us a week off!
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreDecember 18, 2012 - 1:37pm
Strangely, I'll have more time next week to write than this week, but I understand that's not the norm for most. Maybe I'll crack open an actual book for the first time in months. Soooo far behind on my owed reads.
JEFFREY GRANT BARR
from Central OR is reading Nothing but fucking Shakespeare, for the rest of my lifeDecember 18, 2012 - 1:46pm
So...
1) Flash stories (Pit) are due today (?)
2) Short stories are due friday
3) One week to read and vote, as per usual
4) Then one week of nothing
Is that correct?
TomMartinArt
from Amherst, MA
December 18, 2012 - 1:49pm
Also...
5) To clarify, "flash" just means "extra short"?
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreDecember 18, 2012 - 1:55pm
Ah, so it's really just a week off for The Pit. The winner's bracket is a reading/voting week next week anyway, so if everyone gets a prompt on the 28th (which I'm definitely good with), we're back to normal. I think.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersDecember 18, 2012 - 1:57pm
So far, I believe you are all correct.
Michael Thomas
from South Jersey is reading booksDecember 18, 2012 - 2:06pm
So voting for The Pit stories (due tonight) is a whole week or will it close Friday night?
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersDecember 18, 2012 - 2:06pm
Closes Friday night.
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland December 18, 2012 - 2:09pm
I vote for a week because its the only way i can read and vote but i think they said Friday
sean of the dead
from Madisonville, KY is reading Peckerwood, by Jed AyresDecember 18, 2012 - 2:09pm
@JGB - I once signed a petition to get Varg & co. to start burning churches again, but only Westboro Baptist Church. I pretended the whole time that it was real.
@Nik Korpon, what band(s) were you in?
@JY - Gay Witch Abortion stayed at my house years ago, nice dudes.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersDecember 18, 2012 - 2:14pm
I vote for ...
You guys have to quit saying this. Your votes are meaningless and your arrogance in assuming they are otherwise makes me want to punish you.
On the other hand, since I am giving you a week off, I guess I could let the flashes run a week this time - BUT ONLY THIS ONCE.
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnDecember 18, 2012 - 2:16pm
Wait, so now we don't have to have our votes in for The Pit stories by this friday (the 21st), but by next friday (the 28th), along with all the regular short stories?
JEFFREY GRANT BARR
from Central OR is reading Nothing but fucking Shakespeare, for the rest of my lifeDecember 18, 2012 - 2:16pm
haha - Fuck the wbc! In the ass, sideways, with walnuts.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersDecember 18, 2012 - 2:21pm
Voting for the Pit will end....
I dunno
what day is this?
CHRISTMAS! IT WILL END ON CHRISTMAS. Oddly, I'll have nothing better to do that night.
lspieller
from Los Angeles
December 18, 2012 - 2:43pm
Jess--do yo thang.
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreDecember 18, 2012 - 2:43pm
Me, neither. We're doing our family shit on Sunday because of work schedules. But this way I'll get to read way more Pit stories, and can focus on my own writing deadline this week.
Sound
from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael WehuntDecember 18, 2012 - 2:52pm
Hmmm. Let's see. I vote for...
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerDecember 18, 2012 - 2:53pm
We're doing family stuff Monday. Plenty of time.
Fuck WBC. Someone just posted all their personal info on the web somewhere. Something about them protesting the kid's funerals in CT. I don't understand how you can be hate group and claim to follow Christ. Or be tax exempt.
dufrescm
from Wisconsin is reading Do Androids Dream of Electric SheepDecember 18, 2012 - 2:57pm
Read some Chuck Palahniuk essays, and got my groove back. Feeling good. So far, I've written 1,579 words, and I just realized what my story is really about. Funny, that.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerDecember 18, 2012 - 4:05pm
We should expect The Pit's polls tomorrow, as opposed to tonight; correct?
sean of the dead
from Madisonville, KY is reading Peckerwood, by Jed AyresDecember 18, 2012 - 3:54pm
I haven't celebrated a New Year's eve in...I think the last one was 2002.
Get ready then!
XyZy
from New York City is reading Seveneves and Animal MoneyDecember 18, 2012 - 4:03pm
My opponent wrote a story last round about a psycho bitch named Meredith. He must have seen this battle coming. So @XyZy--where are you?
Lose the internet for a week and they start calling you out... all brave, like they tough or something.
And to set the record straight: I wrote a story last round about a kidnapping victim named Meredith.
But if you still want this dance:
SConley
from Texas is reading Coin Locker BabiesDecember 18, 2012 - 4:09pm
Sent. I will say though that i considered backing out on Saturday when i was so horribly hungover and useless, then i came to my senses and banged out a story.
SConley
from Texas is reading Coin Locker BabiesDecember 18, 2012 - 4:12pm
Also, except for Sound, my opponents haven't really posted here. Scared? Of lil ol' me? Keeping your poker face on? I fake a poker face and i fake tells all the time and i win hands. Nobody thinks to fake tells in poker.
Renfield
from Hell is reading 20th Century GhostsDecember 18, 2012 - 4:17pm
Nobody thinks to fake tells in poker.
I do that all the time, it actually works. It's similar to telling people that you don't really play, and then getting to laugh in their face when you win a hand as if you don't know game etiquette.
OtisTheBulldog
from Somerville, MA is reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazDecember 18, 2012 - 4:39pm
I have submitted my story. I also acknowledge that I do not have a right to vote when it comes to the technical aspects of WAR. I humbly bow down to my overlords, as I have done since day one.
But if there is some sort of uprising, I also cast my vote for a break during the holidays. I'll be drinking cheesesteaks and eating yuengling in my motherland.
Bill Tucker
from Austin, Texas is reading Grimm's Fairy Tales (1st Edition)December 18, 2012 - 4:44pm
Submitted! Kinda like this one but Cove is one hell of a Flash writer. I'm really pysched to see what she came up with. Good luck, all!
Sound
from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael WehuntDecember 18, 2012 - 4:56pm
Also, except for Sound, my opponents haven't really posted here. Scared?
I'm still posting here and I'm out!
Class Facilitator
Emma C
from Los Angeles is reading Black Spire by Delilah DawsonDecember 18, 2012 - 5:36pm
Tom, what's your band called? I used to live up in the Happy Valley and worked at Whole Foods with some of the Orchid/Amputeen people.
Agreed. I guess that's why I like them. They think it's real. CC knows that's it just halloween and bull shit. Even the gents in Slayer think it's just fun, but those Swedes and Nords. Eesh. Some of the stories.....
I like Iced Earth and a couple of metal bands in that vein. I haven't heard much Swedish stuff but i hear good things.
And i'll admit that some of the time travel stuff in my last war story was influenced by the metal i've been listening to...
So, how does the schedule work with the upcoming holidays?
Oh geez...I have Refused albums. Are they really metal? Like, Tom Martin style metal? I thought they were hardcore at the time.
Lich King. www.LichKingMetal.com and all that, pip pip.
I'm taking a week off for the holidays, I think you guys should too.
NEXT WEEK NO ONE WRITES.
YOU SHOULD READ AND VOTE
Next prompts will be delivered the 28th for everyone - does that sound okay? It's really better for me.
Good question, Matt. I barely squeaked this one out. I started and finished today because everything is nutty here right now. Would love to see a holiday time table.
Story submitted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtuoFv4dcwM
Sounds like a plan. The New Year isn't nearly as disruptive as Christmas.
So those of us in The Pit who make it this round will get our prompt on the 28th and it will be due on the 1st, while everyone in the Winner's Bracket will be due the 4th? Sounds good to me.
Good call, Avery.
I haven't celebrated a New Year's eve in...I think the last one was 2002.
Well, the first is just as crazy for us since we have company over and it's our anniversary, but that's fine. I'll make the time.
Love the Oogie Boogie, AD.
Whatever's fine with me. Am I supposed to send my story to you, AD? The prompt came from Utah, but your email address was in the message. Just making sure.
Yeah, everything comes to me.
Submitted.
Finally submitted. My sister's 21st was yesterday and I got her drunk at two p.m. off of a "Cosmo-Rita" at TGI Friday's and then I went to her house and got wasted with my friends later that night. I kept waking up thinking, "Shit, what time is my story due?" Because apparently, that's what my drunk mind cares about.
Avery, you're my hero! Thanks for giving us a week off!
Strangely, I'll have more time next week to write than this week, but I understand that's not the norm for most. Maybe I'll crack open an actual book for the first time in months. Soooo far behind on my owed reads.
So...
1) Flash stories (Pit) are due today (?)
2) Short stories are due friday
3) One week to read and vote, as per usual
4) Then one week of nothing
Is that correct?
Also...
5) To clarify, "flash" just means "extra short"?
Ah, so it's really just a week off for The Pit. The winner's bracket is a reading/voting week next week anyway, so if everyone gets a prompt on the 28th (which I'm definitely good with), we're back to normal. I think.
So far, I believe you are all correct.
So voting for The Pit stories (due tonight) is a whole week or will it close Friday night?
Closes Friday night.
I vote for a week because its the only way i can read and vote but i think they said Friday
@JGB - I once signed a petition to get Varg & co. to start burning churches again, but only Westboro Baptist Church. I pretended the whole time that it was real.
@Nik Korpon, what band(s) were you in?
@JY - Gay Witch Abortion stayed at my house years ago, nice dudes.
You guys have to quit saying this. Your votes are meaningless and your arrogance in assuming they are otherwise makes me want to punish you.
On the other hand, since I am giving you a week off, I guess I could let the flashes run a week this time - BUT ONLY THIS ONCE.
Wait, so now we don't have to have our votes in for The Pit stories by this friday (the 21st), but by next friday (the 28th), along with all the regular short stories?
haha - Fuck the wbc! In the ass, sideways, with walnuts.
Voting for the Pit will end....
I dunno
what day is this?
CHRISTMAS! IT WILL END ON CHRISTMAS. Oddly, I'll have nothing better to do that night.
Jess--do yo thang.
Me, neither. We're doing our family shit on Sunday because of work schedules. But this way I'll get to read way more Pit stories, and can focus on my own writing deadline this week.
Hmmm. Let's see. I vote for...
We're doing family stuff Monday. Plenty of time.
Fuck WBC. Someone just posted all their personal info on the web somewhere. Something about them protesting the kid's funerals in CT. I don't understand how you can be hate group and claim to follow Christ. Or be tax exempt.
Read some Chuck Palahniuk essays, and got my groove back. Feeling good. So far, I've written 1,579 words, and I just realized what my story is really about. Funny, that.
We should expect The Pit's polls tomorrow, as opposed to tonight; correct?
Get ready then!
Lose the internet for a week and they start calling you out... all brave, like they tough or something.
And to set the record straight: I wrote a story last round about a kidnapping victim named Meredith.
But if you still want this dance:
Sent. I will say though that i considered backing out on Saturday when i was so horribly hungover and useless, then i came to my senses and banged out a story.
Also, except for Sound, my opponents haven't really posted here. Scared? Of lil ol' me? Keeping your poker face on? I fake a poker face and i fake tells all the time and i win hands. Nobody thinks to fake tells in poker.
I do that all the time, it actually works. It's similar to telling people that you don't really play, and then getting to laugh in their face when you win a hand as if you don't know game etiquette.
I have submitted my story. I also acknowledge that I do not have a right to vote when it comes to the technical aspects of WAR. I humbly bow down to my overlords, as I have done since day one.
But if there is some sort of uprising, I also cast my vote for a break during the holidays. I'll be drinking cheesesteaks and eating yuengling in my motherland.
Submitted! Kinda like this one but Cove is one hell of a Flash writer. I'm really pysched to see what she came up with. Good luck, all!
I'm still posting here and I'm out!
For my homies in the losers' bin: