quote:Originally posted by Brendan: Oh, had I known that Nick T was voting, I would have created a character named Tchan. Is it too late to write a new character, say a judge, into my story?
Unfortunately, I would instantly see through such a transparent attempt at vote grabbing. Creating a brilliant, charismatic, fearless and heroic - no, God-like character named Nick, silent T, Chan would be a completely different matter.
quote:Sigh. How many times must I tell you that you cannot use my name without express permission of my legal department?
I did. I called up your legal department, made my request, and mentioned you by name (even spelled it out for them). They said,
Who?
So I went into a long rambling and detailed explanation of who you were and what you have meant to international literature and they said...
Who?
So I kept it up, believing this was your elaborate plan to dissuade your half-hearted stalkers, going on-and-on about your contributions until I realized (30 minutes into a rant) that they had already hung up.
So, I emailed, sent certified letters, and sky wrote over their offices until they finally sent me a cease and desist order. In it they cleared stated on the use of your name...
We could care less
...which is written permission in my book.
quote:of course you strive to be just like me.
Sorry, this was a misspelling on part. I meant to write How I starve to be like (you). Saw your press photo and I was impressed with your 6' 2 - 110 pound frame. But since then, I learned you stole that picture and discovered I was really looking at Louis Doggert's high school prom pic - which would explain the 'Robin Egg' blue tux (dude, you looked good)
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Kinda of surprised by Unlimited Power but I could have missed something.
By what was said in the crits I assume mine may have gotten one or two votes or so which is my usual placement.
On my story I tried to do a fun piece--I have a couple and thought this would be a good set up for another--but it didn't work out that way. Some would say the story had other ideas, it came out about twice as long as I thought it would be with the fun idea. Still it was suppose to be light and easy reading.
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My lawyers don’t speak American; they actually speak a recognisable language. No wonder they didn’t understand you over the phone. And personally, I would have given up too and stated “we could care less” after receiving yet another one of your rambling missives (I, for the last time, am *not* interested in Amway).
As for the picture, I tried to use my own high school prom photo, but the sewn-on leopard skin trousers were mysteriously blurred in the photos; I guess some things are too awesome to be captured on film.
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P.S. An excellent selection of stories. Why is an illiterate such as Snapper running a competition for clearly superior writers?
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quote:Originally posted by snapper: But since then, I learned you stole that picture and discovered I was really looking at Louis Doggert's high school prom pic - which would explain the 'Robin Egg' blue tux (dude, you looked good) [/QB]
Hey dude if you're going to use my name Get it Right. I realize that you might be all a twitter having to deal with such an important name in writing--I mean of course your adversary not me--We know his pen name but is his real name Mccoy and yours Hatfield?
Of course I looked good, I almost always look good---according to my wife.
Funny thing is I didn't go to any prom. Hmm----
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quote:My lawyers don’t speak American; they actually speak a recognisable language.
There's a 'z' in recognizable. You know, there is 26 letters in the alphabet. Try using them all, equally (and a little less of the 'u's)
quote:I would have given up too and stated “we could care less” after receiving yet another one of your rambling missives (I, for the last time, am *not* interested in Amway).
Oh boy, try to be tactful...
I wasn't trying to sell you Amway when I suggested you could use some soap. Sheesh.
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Alas, I thought at last I wrote a short story, but pretty much every comment I got said that my piece was more of a first chapter. Thanks to everyone for the feedback and ideas. I will use them. Someday I will write a real short story and it will be awesome!
Tesknota--you got me, I authored #4. Thanks rabirch and pdblake for voting for me.
And great job to the finalists. I voted #5, #11, #8.
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@Estee: YESSSS. Victory! I did like your story Estee! I guess the other one I got right was that pdblake wrote the troll story? =)
If we're confessing, I admit that I wrote #8. However, I will go ahead and say that I deviated very far from my usual writing style on that one. It was inspired by David Eagleman's book "Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives".
Fun fact: This is the first story I've completed in 5 years. I am terrible at finishing things. So THANK YOU x1000 to snapper, who essentially made this happen! =D
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