Storytelling Idol Competition

Thanks, Joe Nation and onyxelle, for those stories; very different from each other but both well done-
.-realjohnboy-

Bugger, can you do something about the line spacing/ paragraphs? It's hard to read the big unbroken chunks of text (perhaps Joe Nation and onyxelle wrote them that way, but it's not how they usually post...)

I'm also thinking that slowing down the voting a bit might help. Given that this is a huge forum, 24 hours may not be enough time.

The poll will close on Friday at 8:00PM ET

realjohnboy and cavfancier, i need your stories tomorrow or early friday.. thanks

Hey Bugger:

Can I enter, or is it too late? Can you still vote for the submissions of others if in the competition?

I wonder, with all the Joe Supporters, how did this happen?

Thanks tho.

When needs my next tale be in?

Yes, you can still enter.

cavfancier and realjohnboy, I need your stories please..


Congrats onyxelle for winning Round 1!!!

Hmm...calm yer ass down there....I'll get it to you shortly, within 24 hours. Heh heh. Makin' me open Microsoft Word and everything....

I for one welcome drom to the story-fest. Quite the word-meister.

:wink:

Waytogo O!

joe

taptaptap......waiting for round 2.

Gus: I Hardly think so. Did you make your wooden thingies?

Joe: thanks so much.

look who's talking.. just remindin' cav, just remindin'

i want to get this thing done and over with...

What was the final score of round 1

I know how Al Gore feels, the score was tied at Eight PM ET and still tied when I went to bed about about ten. Sometime after that I lost by a vote, but like Al, I deserved to lose.

He presented an awkward face, I presented an awkward tale.

Re: deadlines
I thought I had cured my hatred of deadlines and my tendency to wait till too late, but that was certainly the case here.
I waited too long to begin writing and by the time the ladies arrived in my story I realized I would either have to stay home from work and write about 10,000 words to do the subjects justice or dump out somehow and get on the subway. I had Eddie pick up his coat. It made the ending sour and I wasn't happy with it. Neither were more than half of the voters.

But

I'm already re-writing it.
I have Swellen leaving Eddie fifteen months ago rather than years and they are both thus considerably younger. It's still a story about manners and the city, the city and the single straight man. When it's finished, maybe I'll put it in Original Writing but no promises, or deadlines.

Best of luck to all

Joe

I liked both stories; with very different styles both had flaws but both had Zing. I wanna see Joe's rewrite...

I might join in storytelling one of these times. I fall into storytelling by accident. Even then they tend to be anecdotally small, thus actually planning a tale scares me. But not yet....

I'd like to resurrect the Abuzz thread wherein ChunChun (who, by the way, I miss seeing around) and Jespah, and I to some smaller extent, and was it Cav? and a few others, got into the continuing saga of a certain Drake; would love to reread that, but have no idea how to drag it up to the abuzz surface.

All done Bugger...

Me, too. I sent in my entry just minutes ago.
realjohnboy

awaiting the second round.....

Osso, do you remember the christmas story? All done in verse? There was santa and reindeer, of course, but also a prostitue... and.... what else....