| AnthroCon's Iron Author Contest [message #279966] |
Di, 20 Juni 2006 20:30 |
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The idea of Iron Author (for those who don't know) is to write poorly. Anyone
can write a mediocre story, but it takes a master to write truely excretable
prose.
So this year, the requirements aside (that is no list of cliches to include),
we were told to write a story about time travel and to change history.
Here is what I submitted, written in pen on a piece of con-provided note pad
paper.
It Never Happend
"The story I am about to tell is a confusing one. It stars with a can of
soda, a can of soda so powerful that if it fell into the wrong paws spelt doom
for the entire universe. In fact, this is that very can of soda." The fox
gestures to a table. "It's gone! Then that means.... I HATE TIMe TRAVEL!
Eeeuuuuaarg!"
And the fox went pop.
I wish I had some of the others, but they will be all scanned and .pdf-ed
eventually. So, I'm not sure if I "won," but I do know that the judges will be
building me a special hell and that I will be judging next year (woot!). They
think I won't be writing, but, I have a plan. I'm going to write a story under
a pseudonym and it shall be in Mad Libs style (last year we had "choose your
own adventure" complete with sokuban puzzle) and Buni (the organizer) will try
and condem me to an even harsher hell than this year's nanofiction.
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| Re: AnthroCon's Iron Author Contest [message #279967 ] |
Di, 20 Juni 2006 21:18 |
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Wow..... O.=.o
Draco18s wrote:
> The idea of Iron Author (for those who don't know) is to write poorly. Anyone
> can write a mediocre story, but it takes a master to write truely excretable
> prose.
> So this year, the requirements aside (that is no list of cliches to include),
> we were told to write a story about time travel and to change history.
> Here is what I submitted, written in pen on a piece of con-provided note pad
> paper.
>
> It Never Happend
> "The story I am about to tell is a confusing one. It stars with a can of
> soda, a can of soda so powerful that if it fell into the wrong paws spelt doom
> for the entire universe. In fact, this is that very can of soda." The fox
> gestures to a table. "It's gone! Then that means.... I HATE TIMe TRAVEL!
> Eeeuuuuaarg!"
> And the fox went pop.
>
> I wish I had some of the others, but they will be all scanned and .pdf-ed
> eventually. So, I'm not sure if I "won," but I do know that the judges will be
> building me a special hell and that I will be judging next year (woot!). They
> think I won't be writing, but, I have a plan. I'm going to write a story under
> a pseudonym and it shall be in Mad Libs style (last year we had "choose your
> own adventure" complete with sokuban puzzle) and Buni (the organizer) will try
> and condem me to an even harsher hell than this year's nanofiction.
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