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Post by Mister Buch on Oct 1, 2010 1:15:52 GMT 1
Here is a place for those of us attempting the "100 words" challenge (100words.com) this month to make a log of our entries, as we write them. I thought it would be best to include them all on one thread, mixed together.
It's really nice to have a bunch of us doing this at once - I'm looking forward to this thread filling up.
Remember - precisely 100 words every day, and post them on 100words.com before the day is up, or they will release the hounds.
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1st October 2010
The experiment was over, for now.
Contained white bolts of electricity still reflected off the glass bottles, lighting the room in flashes. From below, dark shadows crawled up the walls and around the silent corpse at the laboratory’s centre.
Peter, his fingers still on the lever, smiled.
“No matter,” he said to the darkness. “We’ll try again, after some strudel.”
“Yesss Mah-ster,” Laurie replied, his twisted backbone making it sound to Peter as if he were only four feet tall. Even the wretch's voice seemed beneath his station. Quite fitting.
The lightning failed, the shadows died down.
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Post by Knightfall on Oct 1, 2010 2:27:30 GMT 1
They're not letting me post yet, so I'll just throw my first entry here so's I can just copy and paste it later. =D
1 October 2010
On the brink—here at the end of all things: they stand in rank with the fires at their backs and their goal in sight. Days beyond the wandering fools who had led them here, years beyond that fateful instant when morality had died behind their eyes, their spears rest burning in their hands.
Another portrait before the carnage, another breeze before smoke fills the air, one last moment to disregard all caution. Their march signals the end of another world as everything suddenly cuts to black. They will add them to their number. They will number them amongst the dead.
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Post by Battlechantress on Oct 1, 2010 3:22:13 GMT 1
I'm apparently in a political frame of mind today, as this entry will attest. For October 1: You have to wonder what kind of brain trusts inhabit the Dust Bowl when they come to the "shocking" conclusion that the state's social workers are overworked and underpaid. Gosh, I could never have guessed that in 100 years. Until two years ago, they were only making $19,000 a year. Fast food restaurant managers make more money, with better benefits to boot! Now, according to government sources, that number has gone up to about $25,000 a year, yet that still lags far behind the national average. Is it really any wonder that there aren't enough case workers for desperate families?
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Post by lieden on Oct 1, 2010 10:47:23 GMT 1
So it's started! Good to see your entries, everyone. I take it that, apart from chantress, everyone else will be writing in continuity? 1st October 2010On Kaneo days and nights seem to be neither coming nor going. It is faster to walk west into the night-side permafrost, if you're not worried about the natives, or cross the sunraze to the east and go into the day; but only raiders go there, scavenging old cities dried out under the searing light. So they all - First-comers and Second-comers and native slaves whose world was stolen from them - huddle behind their adobe walls, in one thin strip under a sunless dim sky, waiting for the time when sunraze comes to push them back into the west.
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Post by Battlechantress on Oct 1, 2010 11:49:07 GMT 1
I don't know what the hell I'm doing. I tried coming up with fic and my brain was apparently still being overrun with thrawns.
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Post by Mister Buch on Oct 1, 2010 13:49:31 GMT 1
Actually lieden - not exactly. I will be writing mostly fiction - but not all one story. I do want to make one or two of the stories continue every few days - including the mad scientists there.
Will yours all be one story? And how about you, Knight?
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By the way, I'm having all sorts of trouble with my submission. The site's word counter is pretty haywire and seems to add three words to what I wrote. I don't know whether to send them a 97 word version which their auomatic scanner thing will like, or 100 actual words...
Plus - unless you use the 'rich text editor' (you can change that on your preferences) it will count line breaks as words.
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Post by lieden on Oct 1, 2010 15:24:21 GMT 1
I had some trouble with their counter too, but it got it right in the end. I had to cut and paste the whole text a couple of times, and then erase and re-write the last 2-3 words. Maybe that works for you too, Buch?
My entries are going to be all about one story in the works. Perhaps not in strict chronological order (although it will make more sense to have it so). But like I'd mentioned before, I want to outline the setting and plot in these short vignettes, and then hopefully take it to NaNoWriMo. We'll see!
I find the 100 words limit a little strangling, though. :}
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Post by Battlechantress on Oct 1, 2010 22:23:35 GMT 1
Open Office said I was at 100 words, but when I submitted it to 100words.com, I was two over and had to do some quick editing. Odd.
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Post by Knightfall on Oct 1, 2010 22:28:08 GMT 1
The word count thing is unbelievably dumb. Deleting and re-entering the last period worked for me to get it to count properly, but then it goes and counts the html code as words. So, I might have failed already, but the count said 100 when I submitted.
And I probably won't be doing a continuous story myself. =D
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Post by Battlechantress on Oct 1, 2010 22:58:22 GMT 1
I didn't need to use their HTML code, thank goodness. Good to know.
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Post by Nemonus on Oct 2, 2010 0:17:07 GMT 1
I haven't quite gotten the hang of the HTML, but here it is how it's supposed to be formatted.
Octobber 1, 2010
He pictures the skins on the fossils every time something new comes in. They're wrapped in plaster, the leg bones thicker than his waist or the small claws the size of a pendant or the skin imprints in flat plates of caked mud. He lays them out on the counter and carefully undoes the ties and the burlap. He lays the bones out and labels them.
And as he places each part in the drawer for its species he pictures them alive. Dromeosaurs stalking through the corridors of the museum at midnight, Stegosaurs eating the ferns. Making it less lonely.
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Post by Mister Buch on Oct 2, 2010 0:38:28 GMT 1
To avoid the HTML issue, use their 'Rich Text Editor' (on My Account).
I'm enjoying all of these, people. Keep it up!
2nd October 2010
She sits on the corner of my bed next to me, watching the late night shopping channel and laughing. I bet she has no idea, but by doing this she has forever changed the way I’ll think of that corner, the shopping channel, humour and late nights in general.
What kills me is that she, for sure, doesn’t like me nearly as much. For now, never mind. I know that in a few months I’ll be recreating this by myself. I'll still enjoy watching this stuff.
Bleh. This is a really nice evening. I’m glad I’m spending it with her.
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Post by Battlechantress on Oct 2, 2010 0:57:43 GMT 1
I'm not going to try to explain this one. You can probably work it out on your own.
October 2:
I don't remember the punch that I took to the head on that winter night in 1993. I do remember the sensation of not being able to breathe after I was struck in the ribs. I recall colors and a vague sense of shapes around me that came with the sensation of falling to the floor. There was mostly black, with streaks of red and something like yellow then. I heard a sound like somebody screaming; maybe it was me. People simply stared. I remember the taste and sight of blood. Darkness can be a merciful thing. So is dying.
Edit: If it makes you feel better, I am still working on a 100 word haiku entry. I have no idea how I'll manage it, or when it will be completed. But it probably won't be revisiting my past like this piece did.
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Post by Battlechantress on Oct 2, 2010 4:18:38 GMT 1
Already got day 3 covered, but I'm not going to post it here. Still hacking away at the haiku entry.
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Post by Nemonus on Oct 2, 2010 4:23:32 GMT 1
I will be immensely impressed if you get a 100 word haiku.
Also I was rushed before, but would like to say that you all are doing very well!
Mine are not going to be part of a whole story, or at least I do not plan for them to be.
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