Flash Challenge #17 is open. You must be registered at Liberty Hall to participate. http://www.munsil.net/phpBB2/index.php

Trigger Request and Story Submittal

1) Please send an email to lhfc17 a t earthlink.net in order to receive the trigger. Once your email is received, the clock starts.

Please include the words Flash #17 in the subject line of your trigger request.
You will have 90 minutes total to return your story by email.

2) Please attach your story to an email. Please do NOT paste your story into the body of an email unless you must. Send to lhfc17 a t earthlink.net.

Please include the words Flash 17 in the subject line of your submittal.
Please include the word count and a title at the start of your submittal.

You will receive a response that we have your submittal, but it might have to wait until the end of the day.

If you have any problems, please email MaryRobinette or mikemunsil. We'll get to you when we can.

I've been looking all morning to see if a flash was on this week, but thought that the mods might be taking a break.

I know this is cheeky, but I dont think I'll get chance to write again now until monday morning (although it might turn out that I can). What time do the entries close in GMT on monday. Can I sneak one in before 12:00 noon or is that too late?

Oh well. It's done now. I got a concept right away and then had to do some fine tuning. Unfortunately it never fails -- as soon as I start flashing, people start flocking into my office to ask for help on things!

I guess I need to make a sign that says, "KEEP OUT! Flashing in Progress"

http://rittinger.admiralxp.com/index.php

If you're a member there already, you can try this link:

http://rittinger.admiralxp.com/viewforum.php?f=4

There are a few other sites that run flash challenges, but the way I understand it, they aren't like the ones at Liberty Hall.

http://www.hatrack.com/forums/writers/forum/Forum13/HTML/000068.html

Scrawl isn't for everyone. It might better be called Scrawl: The Writer's Brawl rather than Scrawl: The Writer's Asylum. You must havbe a robust ego to survive there. If you request admission you'll have to undergo a 'test'. Don't even try it if you're at all shy or weak hearted.

But here's the link: http://www.stwa.net/

Our flashes at Liberty Hall are structured so that you can pretty much choose your time to flash, anywhere from about 8am Friday morning through about midnight Sunday. The commenting/voting/guessing/revealing phases run through the following Thursday. Fridays the old challenge is locked and the new one starts. I do not keep the old stories and their attendant comments on the board. I delete them on the following weekend. It is up to you to copy down any comments on your own work.

We're currently on challenge #17. We have yet to miss a week since we started, and are getting close to 400 stories created so far. Two stories have been accepted for publication and there are a number of others out there in the slush pile.

Oh, and the wimmen STILL have more total wins than the men. We men are letting the wimmen build their confidence so that their ultimate defeat is all the more humbling. That's our story and we're sticking to it.

If so, I guess I've done that by posting here now, right?

Oh, well.

Of course, its not the trigger. Really it's my fault. I was in a bad mood, and sent for the trigger in the hopes that it would distract me. (Which it did) But I never write well when I'm in a bad mood. I should have just done an exercise on my own and written the Flash tomorrow when I had good ideas. All I managed this time ‘round was a hulking, wooden mess that even my wife hated.

"I'm sorry," she said, after she read it. Her face was all wrinkled and sympathetic, like I had just opened a rejection letter from a free high-school ‘zine.

Yikes. Talk about bad reviews.

The writer in me is going to take it as a challenge though, I know I'm going to write a new version of it just so I can say "Ha! It's not that bad!"

Well, maybe. It's a pile.

If yours is as bad as mine, Troy -- and ain't no way, believe you me -- maybe other people can compete to see which story is which.

You know, have our own "who sucked the worst" contest.

lol

Anyway, like my wife said, "There's always next week, right?"

Yeesh.

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Okay, so do we give away our anonymity (I looked it up, so I know that's a word) if we post here after we've submitted something?
If so, I guess I've done that by posting here now, right?

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If want to try to stick to the one and a half hour time limit for fun, then send me an email before you click on the link to see the trigger. Otherwise, feel free to take as much time as you like. There's no voting for the Fool's Gold forum, just a chance to play with the rest of us.

I was quite impressed (blown away, really) with what most of the folks could pull off in 90 minutes.

As for my own attempt, well let's just say I've got a lot to learn. But hey, I think I get to try again in a day or two.

So ... awesome stuff, people, especially you winners.

if you have comments you want to save from your flash, get them Friday, as I will delete all of FC#17 on Saturday.