COMMENTS FOR HALLOWEEN STORY 2016

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Haunted

This is my favorite place
Mar 26, 2008
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The woods are lovely dark and deep
Yes, this was "writing with the door closed," and then we let everyone see what we came up with. I love this type of writing as it challenges everyone to be adaptable and fluid. Take what comes to you and make something fun from it.

And, I want to add, the recent stories in the past were amazing pieces. The editors at the helm did a fantastic job and were hardworking and attentive leaders.

This was just an homage to the roots of these stories.

When they first started, each writer had 200 -- 500 words and we got the piece of the story right before us in the morning, and we had to get our piece back into Marsha before she closed the board down for the day. Now that was really quick and dirty!
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Leif

Expose yourself to your deepest fear.
Aug 11, 2015
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Tery, Tery, Tery!!!!!! What can I say? That was some good stuff.

This part just killed me. I got chills when I read this part. You scare me!

Wesson’s question was not answered with words. He was in space, floating amid a sea of stars. He was huge, so big that his eyes were galaxies. He was bored. He searched for a world, found a blue-and-green marble. He smiled and began to play. He took a form from the mythology of the world, one that would inspire fear. He created a place outside of time and space. He chose a handful of the bipeds that lived on the world and brought them there. He gave them “powers,” planted twisted seeds of ideas and then sent them back. He watched the chaos. And he was amused.
 

Tery

Say hello to my fishy buddy
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Apr 12, 2006
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Bremerton, Washington, United States
Thank you Tet. :m_adore:

I really enjoyed the fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants writing like we used to do in the "old days." I had just finished a Terry Pratchett Discworld book when my part came up so that had an influence, especially on how Nabiros spoke. I had a good set-up, too. These stories are like brick walls; each part builds on the previous one. You need to have a good base to build upon. I did. :)
 

Nomik

Carry on
Jun 19, 2016
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Tery
Thank you Tet. :m_adore:

I really enjoyed the fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants writing like we used to do in the "old days." I had just finished a Terry Pratchett Discworld book when my part came up so that had an influence, especially on how Nabiros spoke. I had a good set-up, too. These stories are like brick walls; each part builds on the previous one. You need to have a good base to build upon. I did. :)
I expected your part to be awesome because I read your articles, but the scope of this exceeded all expectations. I am in awe how you carefully wove in the details from our previous stories.
 

Rrty

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Jun 4, 2007
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Chapter nine is my kind of chapter. I'm not kidding -- I loved it. I have to quote this section as well:

"Wesson’s question was not answered with words. He was in space, floating amid a sea of stars. He was huge, so big that his eyes were galaxies. He was bored. He searched for a world, found a blue-and-green marble. He smiled and began to play. He took a form from the mythology of the world, one that would inspire fear. He created a place outside of time and space. He chose a handful of the bipeds that lived on the world and brought them there. He gave them “powers,” planted twisted seeds of ideas and then sent them back. He watched the chaos. And he was amused."

That was my favorite part as well. In fact, that is one of my favorite kinds of writing -- very abstract, complex, on a philosophical/cosmological level; it is characterization, but not of a person -- it is characterization of concept. I love concepts like that, ideas that act like fuel to rev up the engine of contemplation. The universe is so weird anyway...why shouldn't there be a Nebiros? Maybe he's a wandering black hole, or a gamma burst that went sentient...and bad.

Nebiros continues to intrigue. As does Wesson/Lucy. I just don't know where this might lead; I have thoughts. Tery, thanks for the chapter!
 

Ebdim9th

Dressing the Gothic interval in tritones
Jul 1, 2009
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. . .Eb, were you going to continue that thought? I was following right along and then . . .

The direction the story went in picked up where my impressions of it's possibilities left off ....

I love your imaginative analogies :)

Unfortunately I am very, very rusty; writing like, say, the guitar, must be practiced daily for an hour at least, if not considerably more. There may be days when one slacks off for other-committments reasons, but it should then be made up for over at least the next couple of days after that ... heck, even my typing is improving!