Here's where you speak to your authors, folks! Enjoy!
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The first installment is very good. As an opening, it is a great hook. Not only does it set a slightly offbeat funny tone, it brings the theme and setting in as well. My own visits to Tombstone, Arizona come to mind. I would swear the author drew upon that tourist trap for inspiration. You want to know more about Cold Silver because it is funny, and nobody could read that and not want to know more about the missing body. My only regret is that our limit on words prevented the first author from getting to establish the main character a bit more in this same style.
I love me some GROWL (gravel)..........Scott did an excellent job with the opening.
And just a reminder, this is a community exercise. That includes skilled writers as well as people who may not have ever written a word of fiction in their life. This isn't meant for professional publication, it's for fun. And all the little quirks and missteps and false starts and stops is what gives these stories their charm.
As Spidey keeps saying over and over and over again. This is stone soup. Some stones are rough, some stones are smooth, -- big, small, heavy, light! But they are every single one a part of the big fun picture.
Exactly this. There have been times in the past when not only was all the fun taken out of the process but it turned people away from ever participating again and that's not something I would want to see happen.Scott did an excellent job with the opening.
And just a reminder, this is a community exercise. That includes skilled writers as well as people who may not have ever written a word of fiction in their life. This isn't meant for professional publication, it's for fun. And all the little quirks and missteps and false starts and stops is what gives these stories their charm.
As Spidey keeps saying over and over and over again. This is stone soup. Some stones are rough, some stones are smooth, -- big, small, heavy, light! But they are every single one a part of the big fun picture.
First and for most- congrats Scott. What an awesome start to our "soup". You had me hooked!
Second- as Dana Jean has said- it's a community story. Each throwing their own piece (talent) into the big pot and what comes out at the end is the most wonderful tasting soup ever produced---the SKMB 2015 Halloween Story!
I well remember those early stories- a bike, later to be a horse. It's not English 105- an academic writing course. It's all for fun.
This is what happened with me......Exactly this. There have been times in the past when not only was all the fun taken out of the process but it turned people away from ever participating again and that's not something I would want to see happen.
yay! good job!I really enjoyed the opening segment. It felt fun in the same way that the prologue to Needful Things was fun. I too wanted more as someone else said, to find out about the character, but I think the length worked. I like how there is mention of the walking dead, and of a mystery with the dead animals. I'm glad, too, that Dana gave a primer on what this is supposed to be and what to expect -- I have only checked out some of the stories in the past and have not read them from the beginning. I agree -- I will go with the flow, as they say, and not hold any preconceived notions as to what I will receive. I will just enjoy the Halloween atmosphere and the art of SKMB improvisation.