7Q4 (Right) is printed and should go out this weekend/Monday.
Just waiting on the folding/stapling from the Printer
IMPORTANT NOTE
If you are a 7Q subscriber please email Alex Keegan and confirm
your subscription and current contact details. 7Q is only being sent
to those subscribers who do confirm and are checked off
REMINDER FRANTIC FLASH
Saturday-Sunday the Eleventh Frantic Flash
£6 Entry, or 3 for £15 pre-paid)
Minimum Prize £100
(50% of Entry guaranteed, average 65%)
Sign up as a possible entrant so we have your Email address.
Prompts sent 0900-1800-2100 Saturday and Sunday (UK Time)
You then have 75 Minutes to write your story and email back
80 minutes if you reply immediately and say "I'm in"
Shortlist at the latest Midnight Monday
Low Entry (typically 20-40 stories, so a great chance of winning)
It's a great way of accessing the unconscious (no time to make mistakes)
and the quality is surprisingly high.
Any surplus goes to fund Seventh Quark Magazine
If you would like to receive the emails, email
alex.keegan@btinternet.com
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Friday Prompts
Hare, Today Hare Tomorrow
Going to the Dump
Man at Sunset
Geisha
The Photocopier Wars
My Life in Uniform and Other Lies
SAMSON
When Does a Dirty Handkerchief Become a Floorcloth?
Starry Story Night
TURKEY
Don'tcha Just LOVE Guns?
RIGHT
QUARK, Not QUARRY
The Liquorice Allsort Mines of Aberdifi
The Bastards
Tiger, Tiger, Burning Dimly
PEAS, Well at Least They're Green
Reports of My Suicide Have Been Underplayed
Friday, September 29, 2006
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Frantic Flash, Tuesday Prompts
Just a dozen pre-signed entries for this weekend's Frantic Flash Competition (£6 Entry, guaranteed £100 Prize) and usually actual entries come out around double the pre-signees, so a great chance to win £100.
For details see http://www.7thquarkmagazine.com
Tuesday Morning prompts
A Small Bird Dies
Gallerie Lafayette, Outside It's Raining
Two People Looking Opposite Ways, Sunset
Cormorant or Shag?
The Mathematics of Love
Riptide
The Land of the Last Biscuit
Chick-Chick-Chick-Chick-Chicken
The Oldest Working TV in the World (Provbably)
SCRUBS
Nice Face, Shame About the Politics
Man in a One Legged Suit
Clocks Melting
Novel, Navel, Novel, Navel
Porto, in the Gods
The Felt-Tip Graveyard
A Slow Boat to St Nazaire
Versions of the Word "Clap"
Mrs Browne, the Gladiola, Boy With a Crew-Cut
For details see http://www.7thquarkmagazine.com
Tuesday Morning prompts
A Small Bird Dies
Gallerie Lafayette, Outside It's Raining
Two People Looking Opposite Ways, Sunset
Cormorant or Shag?
The Mathematics of Love
Riptide
The Land of the Last Biscuit
Chick-Chick-Chick-Chick-Chicken
The Oldest Working TV in the World (Provbably)
SCRUBS
Nice Face, Shame About the Politics
Man in a One Legged Suit
Clocks Melting
Novel, Navel, Novel, Navel
Porto, in the Gods
The Felt-Tip Graveyard
A Slow Boat to St Nazaire
Versions of the Word "Clap"
Mrs Browne, the Gladiola, Boy With a Crew-Cut
Monday, September 25, 2006
SAtory Prompts, Monday Morning
Daedalus
Why We Love Rottweilers
Hole in the Wall
One Mug (Marilyn Monroe) Broken
Sing-a-Long'a Sound of Music
A Small Tube, Probably Ointment
Messages
Simon, Do You Deny Me?
Daddy, I Don't Feel Very Well
None of the blood and shit of war
Sitting on the ferry's stern, my son, my dad
On a beach, country uncertain
Cancer carried off his cherished wife
GREEN GREEN Green
Gratified Greed Gives Saws their grin
Sharon can't work any faster
Bum-Titty, Bum-Titty, Bum-Bum-Bum
Davis
Why We Love Rottweilers
Hole in the Wall
One Mug (Marilyn Monroe) Broken
Sing-a-Long'a Sound of Music
A Small Tube, Probably Ointment
Messages
Simon, Do You Deny Me?
Daddy, I Don't Feel Very Well
None of the blood and shit of war
Sitting on the ferry's stern, my son, my dad
On a beach, country uncertain
Cancer carried off his cherished wife
GREEN GREEN Green
Gratified Greed Gives Saws their grin
Sharon can't work any faster
Bum-Titty, Bum-Titty, Bum-Bum-Bum
Davis
Friday, September 22, 2006
A Few More Stories
Much as we love flashing in Boot Camp, I've noticed that the number os STORIES has fallen away and the Flash-Story ratio is too heavily weighted in favour of flash.
So in BC, at least for the rest of 2006, we are putting emphasis on STORIES, one a week being the ideal target.
We'll still have our daily prompts, but these can be used to start longer works.
and here they are:
Jingly-Jangly Rhymes and Things
A Silence Falls
The A-Z of Being Dead
Toast Before Breakfast, Age Before Beauty
Two People on a Hill, Sun Low
What Dambudzo Means
Waiting to Hear From the Level-Crossing Man
Never Marry a Man From Basingstoke (or a Mexican)
Fish food floating on a skin of water
Not Because of the Evening
CRAYON
"A Way Out," Zunzer said.
That Morning, They Took Clark's Desk
Gun-Loving
Red = Good, Grey = Bad
The Appendix Trials
PENCIL
She Was Pretty, Shadow of Death
The Difference Between Rayon and Nylon and Silk
Midnight, and I'm Not Famous Yet
On an October Day in 1939
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Mistakes I Like to Make
I posted the wrong name for one prize and turns out I missed yet another short-listing, so here is the list again
Total Winnings $5,950
56 Prizes 14 Firsts 9 Second 5 Third, 28 Finals
FIRST PLACE
01 Colin $200 First Place in Slingink's Eurofiction
02 Mike Joint-Winner in 7Q FF9
03 Dave Joint-Winner in 7Q FF9
04 Lexie Wins Adult SS of the Year ($600) in "Killie"
05 Cally Wins Dark Tales ($60)
06 BCer wins 7Q FF10
07 Hazera wins Doorknobs & Bodypaint First Place
08 Alex Wins Pencil Bantry $300
09 Lexie Wins Cotswold Prize $1,000
10 Cally wins Bank Street SS Prize $140
11 Alex wins Lichfield Prize $250
12 ColinU wins Cadenza $400
13 Caroline wins Poetry Prize TBA ($200)
14 Gabiotas wins FirstWriter $400
SECOND
01 Lexie $150 Second Place in "Dame Throgmorton"
02 TomC gets $100 second in JBWB
03 BCer 2nd in 7Q FF10
04 Cally Joint second in Writers Dock Comp
05 Lexie $300 second place Philip Good Memorial Prize
06 Cally in Woman's Own (Prize Value estimate $250)
07 Colin Second in FlashFiction Comp $50
08 Lexie 2nd in City of Derby Comp $400
09 Tom gets $200 2nd in Twyford with CIN Story
THIRD
01 Lexie in 7Q FF9 Third Place
02 BCer 3rd in 7Q FF10
03 Tom's $25 3rd in Oz
04 Lexie $200 3rd in The New Writer
05 Alex $150 third place Philip Good Memorial Prize
4ths, HRs, NAMED FINALISTs
01 Alex Night Train Yates Comp, Last 12 "Floating"
02 Alex Poem in "Out of Love" Anthology
03 Laurie (Nartje) in "Out of Love" Anthology
04 Lexie, State of Being" HR at HISSAC (only winner is announced)
05 Lexie, second story finalist at HISAAC
06 Colin finalist in HISAAC
07 Colin HR in JBWB
08 Cally in Final of Belvedere
09 Lexie in Fish Anthology ($100)
10 Lexie last 140 of 1800, Fish
11 Haz named in Best of the web shortlist
12 Lexie Final of Writers Forum
13 Alex last 3 in Carve "Overseas Writer"
14 TomC HR'd in Bank Street SS Comp
15 TomC 4th in Twisted Tongue
16 Alex at Philip Good Memorial (second story placed 3rd)
17 Lexie at Philip Good Memorial (second story placed 2nd)
18 Cally HR in Lymm Festival $20
19 Colin Finalist, $40, dinner at Frome
20 Cally Finalist Flash FictionComp
21 TomC finalist, ditto
22 Britbird shortlisted in Pier Pressure
23 Colin HM in Momaya III, in Anthology
24 XXX in Mere Final
25 YYY in Mere Final
26 CAROLINE in Bournemouth Shortlist
27 CHRISSIE in Bournemouth Shortlist
28 Cally on Writelink Weekender Shortlist
00 Laurie recently left but was also HR'd at Bank Street (not counted)
Lexie also recieved $25 & $10 payments
Winnings in Dollars, £ = $2, Euro = $1
for simplicity of calculation
Total Winnings $5,950
56 Prizes 14 Firsts 9 Second 5 Third, 28 Finals
FIRST PLACE
01 Colin $200 First Place in Slingink's Eurofiction
02 Mike Joint-Winner in 7Q FF9
03 Dave Joint-Winner in 7Q FF9
04 Lexie Wins Adult SS of the Year ($600) in "Killie"
05 Cally Wins Dark Tales ($60)
06 BCer wins 7Q FF10
07 Hazera wins Doorknobs & Bodypaint First Place
08 Alex Wins Pencil Bantry $300
09 Lexie Wins Cotswold Prize $1,000
10 Cally wins Bank Street SS Prize $140
11 Alex wins Lichfield Prize $250
12 ColinU wins Cadenza $400
13 Caroline wins Poetry Prize TBA ($200)
14 Gabiotas wins FirstWriter $400
SECOND
01 Lexie $150 Second Place in "Dame Throgmorton"
02 TomC gets $100 second in JBWB
03 BCer 2nd in 7Q FF10
04 Cally Joint second in Writers Dock Comp
05 Lexie $300 second place Philip Good Memorial Prize
06 Cally in Woman's Own (Prize Value estimate $250)
07 Colin Second in FlashFiction Comp $50
08 Lexie 2nd in City of Derby Comp $400
09 Tom gets $200 2nd in Twyford with CIN Story
THIRD
01 Lexie in 7Q FF9 Third Place
02 BCer 3rd in 7Q FF10
03 Tom's $25 3rd in Oz
04 Lexie $200 3rd in The New Writer
05 Alex $150 third place Philip Good Memorial Prize
4ths, HRs, NAMED FINALISTs
01 Alex Night Train Yates Comp, Last 12 "Floating"
02 Alex Poem in "Out of Love" Anthology
03 Laurie (Nartje) in "Out of Love" Anthology
04 Lexie, State of Being" HR at HISSAC (only winner is announced)
05 Lexie, second story finalist at HISAAC
06 Colin finalist in HISAAC
07 Colin HR in JBWB
08 Cally in Final of Belvedere
09 Lexie in Fish Anthology ($100)
10 Lexie last 140 of 1800, Fish
11 Haz named in Best of the web shortlist
12 Lexie Final of Writers Forum
13 Alex last 3 in Carve "Overseas Writer"
14 TomC HR'd in Bank Street SS Comp
15 TomC 4th in Twisted Tongue
16 Alex at Philip Good Memorial (second story placed 3rd)
17 Lexie at Philip Good Memorial (second story placed 2nd)
18 Cally HR in Lymm Festival $20
19 Colin Finalist, $40, dinner at Frome
20 Cally Finalist Flash FictionComp
21 TomC finalist, ditto
22 Britbird shortlisted in Pier Pressure
23 Colin HM in Momaya III, in Anthology
24 XXX in Mere Final
25 YYY in Mere Final
26 CAROLINE in Bournemouth Shortlist
27 CHRISSIE in Bournemouth Shortlist
28 Cally on Writelink Weekender Shortlist
00 Laurie recently left but was also HR'd at Bank Street (not counted)
Lexie also recieved $25 & $10 payments
Winnings in Dollars, £ = $2, Euro = $1
for simplicity of calculation
Boot Camp 2006 Prize Update
I'd missed a couple
Our Figures are now
14 First Prizes
09 Second prizes
05 Third prizes
27 Fourt'hs, HRs, Named Finalists
55 TOTAL
Total Winnings $5,950
FIRST PLACES
01 Colin $200 First Place in Slingink's Eurofiction
02 Mike Joint-Winner in 7Q FF9
03 Dave Joint-Winner in 7Q FF9
04 Lexie Wins Adult SS of the Year ($600) in "Killie"
05 Cally Wins Dark Tales ($60)
06 BCer wins 7Q FF10
07 Hazera wins Doorknobs & Bodypaint First Place
08 Alex Wins Pencil Bantry $300
09 Lexie Wins Cotswold Prize $1,000
10 Cally wins Bank Street SS Prize $140
11 Alex wins Lichfield Prize $250
12 ColinU wins Cadenza $400
13 Caroline wins Poetry Prize TBA ($200)
14 Gabiotas wins FirstWriter $400
SECOND
01 Lexie $150 Second Place in "Dame Throgmorton"
02 TomC gets $100 second in JBWB
03 BCer 2nd in 7Q FF10
04 Cally Joint second in Writers Dock Comp
05 Lexie $300 second place Philip Good Memorial Prize
06 Cally in Woman's Own (Prize Value estimate $250)
07 Colin Second in FlashFiction Comp $50
08 Lexie 2nd in City of Derby Comp $400
09 Tom gets $200 2nd in Twyford with CIN Story
THIRD
01 Lexie in 7Q FF9 Third Place
02 BCer 3rd in 7Q FF10
03 Tom's $25 3rd in Oz
04 Lexie $200 3rd in The New Writer
05 Alex $150 third place Philip Good Memorial Prize
4ths, HRs, NAMED FINALISTs
01 Alex Night Train Yates Comp, Last 12 "Floating"
02 Alex Poem in "Out of Love" Anthology
03 Laurie (Nartje) in "Out of Love" Anthology
04 Lexie, State of Being" HR at HISSAC (only winner is announced)
05 Lexie, second story finalist at HISAAC
06 Colin finalist in HISAAC
07 Colin HR in JBWB
08 Cally in Final of Belvedere
09 Lexie in Fish Anthology ($100)
10 Lexie last 140 of 1800, Fish
11 Haz named in Best of the web shortlist
12 Lexie Final of Writers Forum
13 Alex last 3 in Carve "Overseas Writer"
14 TomC HR'd in Bank Street SS Comp
15 TomC 4th in Twisted Tongue
16 Alex at Philip Good Memorial (second story placed 3rd)
17 Lexie at Philip Good Memorial (second story placed 2nd)
18 Cally HR in Lymm Festival $20
19 Colin Finalist, $40, dinner at Frome
20 Cally Finalist Flash FictionComp
21 TomC finalist, ditto
22 Britbird shortlisted in Pier Pressure
23 Colin HM in Momaya III, in Anthology
24 XXX in Mere Final
25 YYY in Mere Final
26 Cally in Bournemouth Shortlist
27 Chrissie in Bournemouth Shortlist
00 Laurie recently left but was also HR'd at Bank Street (not counted)
Lexie also recieved $25 & $10 payments
Winnings in Dollars, £ = $2, Euro = $1
for simplicity of calculation
Our Figures are now
14 First Prizes
09 Second prizes
05 Third prizes
27 Fourt'hs, HRs, Named Finalists
55 TOTAL
Total Winnings $5,950
FIRST PLACES
01 Colin $200 First Place in Slingink's Eurofiction
02 Mike Joint-Winner in 7Q FF9
03 Dave Joint-Winner in 7Q FF9
04 Lexie Wins Adult SS of the Year ($600) in "Killie"
05 Cally Wins Dark Tales ($60)
06 BCer wins 7Q FF10
07 Hazera wins Doorknobs & Bodypaint First Place
08 Alex Wins Pencil Bantry $300
09 Lexie Wins Cotswold Prize $1,000
10 Cally wins Bank Street SS Prize $140
11 Alex wins Lichfield Prize $250
12 ColinU wins Cadenza $400
13 Caroline wins Poetry Prize TBA ($200)
14 Gabiotas wins FirstWriter $400
SECOND
01 Lexie $150 Second Place in "Dame Throgmorton"
02 TomC gets $100 second in JBWB
03 BCer 2nd in 7Q FF10
04 Cally Joint second in Writers Dock Comp
05 Lexie $300 second place Philip Good Memorial Prize
06 Cally in Woman's Own (Prize Value estimate $250)
07 Colin Second in FlashFiction Comp $50
08 Lexie 2nd in City of Derby Comp $400
09 Tom gets $200 2nd in Twyford with CIN Story
THIRD
01 Lexie in 7Q FF9 Third Place
02 BCer 3rd in 7Q FF10
03 Tom's $25 3rd in Oz
04 Lexie $200 3rd in The New Writer
05 Alex $150 third place Philip Good Memorial Prize
4ths, HRs, NAMED FINALISTs
01 Alex Night Train Yates Comp, Last 12 "Floating"
02 Alex Poem in "Out of Love" Anthology
03 Laurie (Nartje) in "Out of Love" Anthology
04 Lexie, State of Being" HR at HISSAC (only winner is announced)
05 Lexie, second story finalist at HISAAC
06 Colin finalist in HISAAC
07 Colin HR in JBWB
08 Cally in Final of Belvedere
09 Lexie in Fish Anthology ($100)
10 Lexie last 140 of 1800, Fish
11 Haz named in Best of the web shortlist
12 Lexie Final of Writers Forum
13 Alex last 3 in Carve "Overseas Writer"
14 TomC HR'd in Bank Street SS Comp
15 TomC 4th in Twisted Tongue
16 Alex at Philip Good Memorial (second story placed 3rd)
17 Lexie at Philip Good Memorial (second story placed 2nd)
18 Cally HR in Lymm Festival $20
19 Colin Finalist, $40, dinner at Frome
20 Cally Finalist Flash FictionComp
21 TomC finalist, ditto
22 Britbird shortlisted in Pier Pressure
23 Colin HM in Momaya III, in Anthology
24 XXX in Mere Final
25 YYY in Mere Final
26 Cally in Bournemouth Shortlist
27 Chrissie in Bournemouth Shortlist
00 Laurie recently left but was also HR'd at Bank Street (not counted)
Lexie also recieved $25 & $10 payments
Winnings in Dollars, £ = $2, Euro = $1
for simplicity of calculation
Details of Frantic Flash (Sep 30 & Oct 1st)
See the Seventh Quark Magazine Website
www.7thquarkmagazine.com
for further details
The Seventh Quark Frantic Flash Competition. (Sept 30th & Oct 1st)
TWO Entry Days ("First weekend of the month")
SIX separate time-slots. (0900-1800-2100) (UK Times)
SIX sets of prompts. (6-20 prompts)
Entrants can enter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 times with appropriate fees.
£5 per story. 3 stories for £15 if pre-paid.
NO word limit, minimum or maximum.
75/80 Minute time-limit for added pressure!
All entrants can access all stories for discussion (author-blind)
Within 30 minutes of story time-slot closing.
Titles scored and updated on website in real-time with scores
Short-List by Monday Midnight.
Independently Judged Results by Thursday Midnight
or
A Reader Vote, Shorter Short-List published in Seventh Quark
£100/$200 guaranteed First Prize.
Prizes updated on line as entries increase.
Minimum of 50% of Entry used for prizes, average 60% before costs.
To date:
3,527 in Entry Fees
2,130 in Prizes = 60.4% paid in prizes
Costs are taken out from the 39.6% surplus
All surpluses go to Seventh Quark magazine
Peer feedback available on all stories, if desired.
Feedback from Alex Keegan available on all stories
Note this is done privately so stories are not "published"
Any entrant can request their story NOT be seen by the group.
All stories are author-anonymous
Up to ten stories may be published in Seventh Quark Magazine
(maximum to date 5)
Run by a team that between them has won almost 40 first prizes.
Readers have won almost 100 First Prizes
www.7thquarkmagazine.com
for further details
The Seventh Quark Frantic Flash Competition. (Sept 30th & Oct 1st)
TWO Entry Days ("First weekend of the month")
SIX separate time-slots. (0900-1800-2100) (UK Times)
SIX sets of prompts. (6-20 prompts)
Entrants can enter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 times with appropriate fees.
£5 per story. 3 stories for £15 if pre-paid.
NO word limit, minimum or maximum.
75/80 Minute time-limit for added pressure!
All entrants can access all stories for discussion (author-blind)
Within 30 minutes of story time-slot closing.
Titles scored and updated on website in real-time with scores
Short-List by Monday Midnight.
Independently Judged Results by Thursday Midnight
or
A Reader Vote, Shorter Short-List published in Seventh Quark
£100/$200 guaranteed First Prize.
Prizes updated on line as entries increase.
Minimum of 50% of Entry used for prizes, average 60% before costs.
To date:
3,527 in Entry Fees
2,130 in Prizes = 60.4% paid in prizes
Costs are taken out from the 39.6% surplus
All surpluses go to Seventh Quark magazine
Peer feedback available on all stories, if desired.
Feedback from Alex Keegan available on all stories
Note this is done privately so stories are not "published"
Any entrant can request their story NOT be seen by the group.
All stories are author-anonymous
Up to ten stories may be published in Seventh Quark Magazine
(maximum to date 5)
Run by a team that between them has won almost 40 first prizes.
Readers have won almost 100 First Prizes
Win a Prize. Free Entry
Talking of prompts (and see the Boot Camp Keegan blog most days for BC Prompts) I took a scan of my email trash and found this lot in about two minutes.
A bit like those "found poems"
IMO these spammers are wasted. They should be writers.
Anyway, an Alex Keegan Novel of your choice to the best story using some of the below as inspiration. Second prize is two AK Novels...
I'll judge FIRST on quality of story and second on ingenuity.
TIP: prompts work by "letting them happen" not by tortuously engineering texts to fit them in.
LOOK!
Your cash, orange throated
Your future, oyster tree
Your future, pearl hardening
Hi, narrow-necked
Your money, palm honey
Hi, much-branched
Your Health, North-Seeking
Your cash, olive family
Better future, woman movement
Hi, pale bark
Your health, pale reddish
Aggressor Punk
Guesswork Numb
Order status mid-thoracic
Top-hat letter-size
Encore hot seat
Out, his ferocious stars that about you have to us back
Gasp overtime
Bonjour/Salaam from marrakesh
Unauthorised Access to Your PayPal Account
Merciful
Spelled try different key words
Clutton Bunfight
And Maybe it's yours about
Fire hydrant
News maps
Wails on Sunday
Typo Merciless
Narcissism Predisposition
New Moderator Needed
Lard Ass Blake
South-East Yesterday
Axis of Two them, Appeal to Buy Off Enemies
Join Alerts Create
Mountainous Curse
Monday and Strikes
Sure Words
Substantially
And tackled him
Floodlight Anglican
Canal people
Overpower Acrobatics
A bit like those "found poems"
IMO these spammers are wasted. They should be writers.
Anyway, an Alex Keegan Novel of your choice to the best story using some of the below as inspiration. Second prize is two AK Novels...
I'll judge FIRST on quality of story and second on ingenuity.
TIP: prompts work by "letting them happen" not by tortuously engineering texts to fit them in.
LOOK!
Your cash, orange throated
Your future, oyster tree
Your future, pearl hardening
Hi, narrow-necked
Your money, palm honey
Hi, much-branched
Your Health, North-Seeking
Your cash, olive family
Better future, woman movement
Hi, pale bark
Your health, pale reddish
Aggressor Punk
Guesswork Numb
Order status mid-thoracic
Top-hat letter-size
Encore hot seat
Out, his ferocious stars that about you have to us back
Gasp overtime
Bonjour/Salaam from marrakesh
Unauthorised Access to Your PayPal Account
Merciful
Spelled try different key words
Clutton Bunfight
And Maybe it's yours about
Fire hydrant
News maps
Wails on Sunday
Typo Merciless
Narcissism Predisposition
New Moderator Needed
Lard Ass Blake
South-East Yesterday
Axis of Two them, Appeal to Buy Off Enemies
Join Alerts Create
Mountainous Curse
Monday and Strikes
Sure Words
Substantially
And tackled him
Floodlight Anglican
Canal people
Overpower Acrobatics
More Hits and Yet More Prompts
A few more hits to report. Two for Eclectica, one at Southern Ocean Review, a shortlisting for Caroline at Bournemouth and another finalist (results TBA) for "Britbird", takes the total to 166 for the year, down on last year, but we should pass 200.
Comp wins are still stuck at 14 for this year (compared to 26 last year) but places and finals take us up to 53 comp hits for the year
7Q4 is shaping up nicely, the Children in Need Marathon has 19 signed up (we want 50-100) and we are up to 181 stories 339 numbered flashes and 75 "recent" for the year, a total of 595 shorts/flashes.
Work-wise we've had
1600 Flash Crits & Scores
1500 Full Story Critiques and Grids
3100 Crits in 600 threads
add to that a hundred or so discussions of Quality Published stories and a few dzen craft threads, we are obviously getting lazy
TODAY's PROMPTS
I am heat, I am open flesh
Soli has a television, Peter has a radio
Cambrensis Redux
BLANK
Soup in the Basket, Ma'am
BLACKBERRY
Leonardo, the Other One
The Bastard
Pretty well every day now, at noon
Chink, Chink, Chink
A Silence Falls, a Small Bird Dies
I Know My Alphabet
Do Ghosts Fall in Love?
The Ex-Lovers Annual Reunion
It's 6 AM. Do You Know Where You Are?
Ambitious Flower Girls and Crusty Old Men
The Red Mini and the Yellow Rolls-Royce
Jago's forehead trembled against the glass
A woman, brazen
How did mother get here?
All of this happened when I was about fifteen
Comp wins are still stuck at 14 for this year (compared to 26 last year) but places and finals take us up to 53 comp hits for the year
7Q4 is shaping up nicely, the Children in Need Marathon has 19 signed up (we want 50-100) and we are up to 181 stories 339 numbered flashes and 75 "recent" for the year, a total of 595 shorts/flashes.
Work-wise we've had
1600 Flash Crits & Scores
1500 Full Story Critiques and Grids
3100 Crits in 600 threads
add to that a hundred or so discussions of Quality Published stories and a few dzen craft threads, we are obviously getting lazy
TODAY's PROMPTS
I am heat, I am open flesh
Soli has a television, Peter has a radio
Cambrensis Redux
BLANK
Soup in the Basket, Ma'am
BLACKBERRY
Leonardo, the Other One
The Bastard
Pretty well every day now, at noon
Chink, Chink, Chink
A Silence Falls, a Small Bird Dies
I Know My Alphabet
Do Ghosts Fall in Love?
The Ex-Lovers Annual Reunion
It's 6 AM. Do You Know Where You Are?
Ambitious Flower Girls and Crusty Old Men
The Red Mini and the Yellow Rolls-Royce
Jago's forehead trembled against the glass
A woman, brazen
How did mother get here?
All of this happened when I was about fifteen
Monday, September 18, 2006
Buzz!
Boot Camp is buzzing this weekend!
Eight stories (not flashes) in for the weekly critique session, and five crits in before the official crit period (they must have wet the bed)... and plenty signing up for The Children in Need Writeathon. Oh and the hit-count has gone up by four more!
Monday's Prompts
Mundane Monday
Thugs, Garroters, Pickpockets, Sweep the Fl;oor fer Yer Mister
People falling
Put Your Left Leg In, Pull Your Left Leg Out
Will be credited to your account
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Pepper
Nothing for Breakfast
Last I Heard, They Were Running a Pub
A face like dirty parchment
Twins
Prison Break, Wghat's Next?
Before the Funeral
Metal Wrist, Metal Knee, Metal Shoulders, Hearts of Stone
Fire at Hayes or Langley
Wraps
What the Dickens!
The Difference Between Testicles and Bollocks
Going there a bit early
Marzipan
The Plum Tree
Mangificent Michael and the Problem With the Angel
Eight stories (not flashes) in for the weekly critique session, and five crits in before the official crit period (they must have wet the bed)... and plenty signing up for The Children in Need Writeathon. Oh and the hit-count has gone up by four more!
Monday's Prompts
Mundane Monday
Thugs, Garroters, Pickpockets, Sweep the Fl;oor fer Yer Mister
People falling
Put Your Left Leg In, Pull Your Left Leg Out
Will be credited to your account
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Pepper
Nothing for Breakfast
Last I Heard, They Were Running a Pub
A face like dirty parchment
Twins
Prison Break, Wghat's Next?
Before the Funeral
Metal Wrist, Metal Knee, Metal Shoulders, Hearts of Stone
Fire at Hayes or Langley
Wraps
What the Dickens!
The Difference Between Testicles and Bollocks
Going there a bit early
Marzipan
The Plum Tree
Mangificent Michael and the Problem With the Angel
Saturday, September 16, 2006
More Prompts and a Heads Up
Children-in-Need Night is Friday November 17th.
We are looking for 100_ writers to join our group (23 last year raised £10,000) to write-write-write to prompts throughtout 30 Hours from 1800 THURSDAY to 23:59 Friday.
The main challenge is 2100 Thursday - 2100 Friday (24 Hours) but the time-slots are widened to allow for different countries etc.
Individuals may choose much shorter times - you do not have to sign up for the 24 or 30 Hour stints.
Entry is £25, of which £10 goes to prizes (as incentive), £10 goes to CIN, and £5 is for copies of the anthology at cost.
Entrants would also raise sponsorship and we would like to aim for £50,000.
We are liasing with a publisher as we speak but there WILL be quality publications from this.
Boot Camper TomC has signed up again. He writes: How could I say no? After last year's CIN Blast I sold eight pieces for £120!"
The above should tell you that the burst of energy (early) and writing when out of your skull, produces quality, stuff that suprises us all.
Join us and help kids.
Saturday 0805 Prompts
Maida Vale
I'm transitting from Oz, meet you for twenty minutes?
Soul Transplant
Then she began to move her arms, in a short, intricate dance
The Complicator
As she undressed she said, "Does it have cobwebs?"
The Varying Quality of Air
The Difference between a squared circle and a rounded square
I won't tell
I Have an Old Dictionary, About 500 Years old
The Man Who Hated Trees
The groom was losing his studied patience
101 Delicious Cat Recipes
When the Doctor's Wife Vanished, He
SCUM
Oh, come on, everything you DO is bent!
My Mother, Behind the Front-Room Door
and earlier, from Lexie
Spinach: Lethal Weapon
The Greatest of These is Charity
The Lion's Share
Roger the Lodger
The Phoenix: A Tale of Spontaneous Combustion
The Reds Versus the Reds
A Pair of Silver Scissors
Steradent and Spectacle Chains
The children will sing as the coffin disappears from view
How DO you solve a problem like Maria?
We are looking for 100_ writers to join our group (23 last year raised £10,000) to write-write-write to prompts throughtout 30 Hours from 1800 THURSDAY to 23:59 Friday.
The main challenge is 2100 Thursday - 2100 Friday (24 Hours) but the time-slots are widened to allow for different countries etc.
Individuals may choose much shorter times - you do not have to sign up for the 24 or 30 Hour stints.
Entry is £25, of which £10 goes to prizes (as incentive), £10 goes to CIN, and £5 is for copies of the anthology at cost.
Entrants would also raise sponsorship and we would like to aim for £50,000.
We are liasing with a publisher as we speak but there WILL be quality publications from this.
Boot Camper TomC has signed up again. He writes: How could I say no? After last year's CIN Blast I sold eight pieces for £120!"
The above should tell you that the burst of energy (early) and writing when out of your skull, produces quality, stuff that suprises us all.
Join us and help kids.
Saturday 0805 Prompts
Maida Vale
I'm transitting from Oz, meet you for twenty minutes?
Soul Transplant
Then she began to move her arms, in a short, intricate dance
The Complicator
As she undressed she said, "Does it have cobwebs?"
The Varying Quality of Air
The Difference between a squared circle and a rounded square
I won't tell
I Have an Old Dictionary, About 500 Years old
The Man Who Hated Trees
The groom was losing his studied patience
101 Delicious Cat Recipes
When the Doctor's Wife Vanished, He
SCUM
Oh, come on, everything you DO is bent!
My Mother, Behind the Front-Room Door
and earlier, from Lexie
Spinach: Lethal Weapon
The Greatest of These is Charity
The Lion's Share
Roger the Lodger
The Phoenix: A Tale of Spontaneous Combustion
The Reds Versus the Reds
A Pair of Silver Scissors
Steradent and Spectacle Chains
The children will sing as the coffin disappears from view
How DO you solve a problem like Maria?
Friday, September 15, 2006
Seventh Quark Issue 4
Good News Bad News?
A New Issue of 7th Quark goes out next Friday (Printer Dependent) and I have some time on my hands (oh time, time) so expect to see Issues 5 & 6 following close behind.
Still desperate for GOOD material.
If you look at a piece abnd think, "Yeah, I could send that..." it ISN'T good enough.
Winning Writers. We are happy to reprint comp 1-2-3s as part of our policy of showing aspiring writers what wins comps.
PS read the "winners" of a large international competition last week. One was utter DRIVEL and of the rest I don't think one was good enough for Seventh Quark
PS Today's hits take the BC total to 164 for the year.
Alex
A New Issue of 7th Quark goes out next Friday (Printer Dependent) and I have some time on my hands (oh time, time) so expect to see Issues 5 & 6 following close behind.
Still desperate for GOOD material.
If you look at a piece abnd think, "Yeah, I could send that..." it ISN'T good enough.
Winning Writers. We are happy to reprint comp 1-2-3s as part of our policy of showing aspiring writers what wins comps.
PS read the "winners" of a large international competition last week. One was utter DRIVEL and of the rest I don't think one was good enough for Seventh Quark
PS Today's hits take the BC total to 164 for the year.
Alex
Four Hits, Four Hundred Prompts
Rushing out now but turns out we have four more hits to post including one finalist (Results TBA)
Here are Two Batches of Prompts
The Holy Bubble
Heart Recycling
Jesus Wants Me for a Bridge Partner
Swim, Very Early, Tescos, Dying
Monogamy
Extracts From Forest Bibliography, Zagreb, 1909
The Extra Glass
If Oswald Missed
What to Do in London
68.9% Will Do
Shoot the Arch-Duke? Can't Mate, Girlfriend is Coming Over
Fair Traid
Alphonse Klauders was a Member of Seven Libraries
The Man Whose Penis Became a Chicken
Marries a Girl Called Hutch
Two Front Teeth and Passion
Everyone is in a Minority
The Most Beautiful Fire is in My Heart
Crocodile Aberdeen
and from Lee at some ungodly hour this morning
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Ballad Of The Broken Seas
The Back Room
Through The Windowpane
Coles Corner
The Warning
Black Holes And Revelations
Melting Pot
Beloved One
White Bread, Black Beer
This Is My Demo
The Eraser
Here are Two Batches of Prompts
The Holy Bubble
Heart Recycling
Jesus Wants Me for a Bridge Partner
Swim, Very Early, Tescos, Dying
Monogamy
Extracts From Forest Bibliography, Zagreb, 1909
The Extra Glass
If Oswald Missed
What to Do in London
68.9% Will Do
Shoot the Arch-Duke? Can't Mate, Girlfriend is Coming Over
Fair Traid
Alphonse Klauders was a Member of Seven Libraries
The Man Whose Penis Became a Chicken
Marries a Girl Called Hutch
Two Front Teeth and Passion
Everyone is in a Minority
The Most Beautiful Fire is in My Heart
Crocodile Aberdeen
and from Lee at some ungodly hour this morning
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Ballad Of The Broken Seas
The Back Room
Through The Windowpane
Coles Corner
The Warning
Black Holes And Revelations
Melting Pot
Beloved One
White Bread, Black Beer
This Is My Demo
The Eraser
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Loads of Them!
TWO Batches of Prompts, one posted by Lee at 02:30
On Thursday we will add 73% extra Funny
I'm English and I'm talking in French, trying to explain to my Japanese friend why it is when Saudi men crash planes into American buildings that British boys have to die in Afghanistan.
Oh look, here come the Vikings
Visitor Pass, Space Hopper, Chicken Sandwich Postcard Rejection
Valley of the Mists
Sun spin a grave grey
The Death of Loc Mac Emonis
How to be a Bad Birdwatcher
Original Pirate Material
Tell Me About Your Drugs
Inebriate me, venerate me, penetrate me
Do You Believe in Human Sheep?
It's a Raymond Chandler evening and I'm slowly turning grey
How graceful the falling man looks
The Fool Reversed and other Omens
See What You Made Me Do and other Life Games
The Stone Mind
No Attachment to Dust
Proceed from the Top of the Pole
Awaiting snow,
poets in their cups
see lightning flash.
- Basho
and...
No Musician Left Behind
A Different Kind of Tea
Girl in a Flammable Skirt
Issue
Madwoman in the Attic, Madman in the Cellar
Montreal, Again
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
His Schedule
Write a WORTHWHILE story with an animal protagonist
The Life and Work of Arbuthnott Grimes
The Difference Between Possible and Probable
Tiny, Smiling, Daddy
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,
Extend Interviews With Pretty Women.
GOAT
Why He Isn't a Fireman or a Train-Driver
On Thursday we will add 73% extra Funny
I'm English and I'm talking in French, trying to explain to my Japanese friend why it is when Saudi men crash planes into American buildings that British boys have to die in Afghanistan.
Oh look, here come the Vikings
Visitor Pass, Space Hopper, Chicken Sandwich Postcard Rejection
Valley of the Mists
Sun spin a grave grey
The Death of Loc Mac Emonis
How to be a Bad Birdwatcher
Original Pirate Material
Tell Me About Your Drugs
Inebriate me, venerate me, penetrate me
Do You Believe in Human Sheep?
It's a Raymond Chandler evening and I'm slowly turning grey
How graceful the falling man looks
The Fool Reversed and other Omens
See What You Made Me Do and other Life Games
The Stone Mind
No Attachment to Dust
Proceed from the Top of the Pole
Awaiting snow,
poets in their cups
see lightning flash.
- Basho
and...
No Musician Left Behind
A Different Kind of Tea
Girl in a Flammable Skirt
Issue
Madwoman in the Attic, Madman in the Cellar
Montreal, Again
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
His Schedule
Write a WORTHWHILE story with an animal protagonist
The Life and Work of Arbuthnott Grimes
The Difference Between Possible and Probable
Tiny, Smiling, Daddy
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,
Extend Interviews With Pretty Women.
GOAT
Why He Isn't a Fireman or a Train-Driver
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Two Lots of Prompts
Stingray! Stingray!
Finishing the Assignment
Women's Lib? Yeah, Right!
One Chocolate
Two Teas and a Tea
A History of Respectable Fears
... and in my OTHER hand...
I Would Rather Not
Yam
A Wild Justice
Occasionally, Being Dead I Do Not Like
Poppycock, Balderdash and Nonsense, Solicitors
and earlier
In the long, slow, ungirling of our wives
Exiled Pumas
eDonkey is Dead. Long Live eMule
Put the Bunny Back in the Box!
Slut and SuperSlut
Stone, Paper, Scissors
The Voice of the Empty Page
The Night He Locked the Door
Death: The High Cost of Living
Finishing the Assignment
Women's Lib? Yeah, Right!
One Chocolate
Two Teas and a Tea
A History of Respectable Fears
... and in my OTHER hand...
I Would Rather Not
Yam
A Wild Justice
Occasionally, Being Dead I Do Not Like
Poppycock, Balderdash and Nonsense, Solicitors
and earlier
In the long, slow, ungirling of our wives
Exiled Pumas
eDonkey is Dead. Long Live eMule
Put the Bunny Back in the Box!
Slut and SuperSlut
Stone, Paper, Scissors
The Voice of the Empty Page
The Night He Locked the Door
Death: The High Cost of Living
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Two Batches of Prompts
Me and the Goat
The Girl Who Married a Dog
The Sixties
Captain Correlli's Trumpet
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Black is Black, I Want My Baby Back
Hunger is Good Sauce
What's Better Than a Cello Under the Bed?
Protest
When Poverty Comes in the Window, Love Flies Out the Door
I Would If I Could But I Can't
Upper Crust, Well bred, Loadsa Dough, the Toast of the Town
What's For Tea? Shit and Sugar
Aubergine
and earlier
In the long, slow, unfurling of our livers
How to Make a Woman Happy
Whoever Used this Bed Last
Bush Tucker
The Man who Married a Kangaroo
Dandy versus Beano, Home and Away
Spencer Speaks
Leather and Soap
I Spy Something Beginning with Car
The Girl Who Married a Dog
The Sixties
Captain Correlli's Trumpet
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Black is Black, I Want My Baby Back
Hunger is Good Sauce
What's Better Than a Cello Under the Bed?
Protest
When Poverty Comes in the Window, Love Flies Out the Door
I Would If I Could But I Can't
Upper Crust, Well bred, Loadsa Dough, the Toast of the Town
What's For Tea? Shit and Sugar
Aubergine
and earlier
In the long, slow, unfurling of our livers
How to Make a Woman Happy
Whoever Used this Bed Last
Bush Tucker
The Man who Married a Kangaroo
Dandy versus Beano, Home and Away
Spencer Speaks
Leather and Soap
I Spy Something Beginning with Car
Monday, September 11, 2006
Six Hits, Ten Nominations, Two Dozen Prompts
Heard over the weekend that ten Boot Camp stories have been nominated for inclusion in a University Funded Anthology. In the old days we would have considered mere nomination a "hit" but these days we simply acknowledge these minor hits as "notes". Still it's nice to be nominated!
A flurry of acceptances for Michael J Hulme, Tom C, myself at Eclectica and another for TomC at WingSpan Quarterly, six in all taking us to 160 Hits for the year, 14 First Prizes, 9 Second Prizes, 5 Thirds, 25 Finalists and $5,950 in prizes total.
Monday is Crit Day for Primaries (stories, not flashes) but we have a set of prompts nevertheless. Just reading and re-reading odd lists can make a germ set root. Try it!
PROMPTS on Monday at 0707
One Kit-Kat, an Apple, one Tangerine, a Packet of Crisps
The Best Girlfriend You Never Had
In the long, slow, unfurling of our lives
Sitting on the Toilet
Nobody Shot Before Noon
Broccoli
Then it is Dark
His Shoes Filled With Snow
The Bedroom Window Was Accessible From the Street
The Way Out of the Jungle
Stairwell B
A Perfect Day in the City Always Starts Like This
The Man Who Bricked Himself In
Write a Story "THe Half-Skinned Steer" only do better than Annie P
Prompts from Lexie: Sunday/Monday 0015
Pelicans, Cranes and Blue-Footed Boobies
More than Kin and Less than Kind
Arthur's Depression
The Place of Skunks
Gnat
Having Your Colours Done: The Emotional Spectrum
A Plectrum and a Pint
School Buses
The Water Carrier
A Very Public Convenience
A flurry of acceptances for Michael J Hulme, Tom C, myself at Eclectica and another for TomC at WingSpan Quarterly, six in all taking us to 160 Hits for the year, 14 First Prizes, 9 Second Prizes, 5 Thirds, 25 Finalists and $5,950 in prizes total.
Monday is Crit Day for Primaries (stories, not flashes) but we have a set of prompts nevertheless. Just reading and re-reading odd lists can make a germ set root. Try it!
PROMPTS on Monday at 0707
One Kit-Kat, an Apple, one Tangerine, a Packet of Crisps
The Best Girlfriend You Never Had
In the long, slow, unfurling of our lives
Sitting on the Toilet
Nobody Shot Before Noon
Broccoli
Then it is Dark
His Shoes Filled With Snow
The Bedroom Window Was Accessible From the Street
The Way Out of the Jungle
Stairwell B
A Perfect Day in the City Always Starts Like This
The Man Who Bricked Himself In
Write a Story "THe Half-Skinned Steer" only do better than Annie P
Prompts from Lexie: Sunday/Monday 0015
Pelicans, Cranes and Blue-Footed Boobies
More than Kin and Less than Kind
Arthur's Depression
The Place of Skunks
Gnat
Having Your Colours Done: The Emotional Spectrum
A Plectrum and a Pint
School Buses
The Water Carrier
A Very Public Convenience
Friday, September 08, 2006
Another Finalist, Another Set of Prompts
One more Final Placing, XXXXX in the final of Mere. Results announced October.
That's our 53rd prize/Place/Final this year.
This morning's prompts follow.
FRIDAY PROMPTS
The Resemblance Between a Violin-Case and a Coffin
Apples and Pears
Hitch-Hikers
When the Famous Turns Out to be Shite
The Dying Editor
Holiday on Man.
You Can Fool Some of the People
Albert Einstein's Not-so-Clever Elder Brother
My Dead Brother Comes to America
You Hear the One About Rankin, Bennett, and Runyan?
Inside the Sun
Where Are You Going? Where have You Been?
Civil Rights
The Half-Skinned Sheep
Lower Back
You're Pretty Too
Various Kinds of Tea
Olive Oil
Pink, Blue, Black, White, Pink, Blue
Since 1945
That's our 53rd prize/Place/Final this year.
This morning's prompts follow.
FRIDAY PROMPTS
The Resemblance Between a Violin-Case and a Coffin
Apples and Pears
Hitch-Hikers
When the Famous Turns Out to be Shite
The Dying Editor
Holiday on Man.
You Can Fool Some of the People
Albert Einstein's Not-so-Clever Elder Brother
My Dead Brother Comes to America
You Hear the One About Rankin, Bennett, and Runyan?
Inside the Sun
Where Are You Going? Where have You Been?
Civil Rights
The Half-Skinned Sheep
Lower Back
You're Pretty Too
Various Kinds of Tea
Olive Oil
Pink, Blue, Black, White, Pink, Blue
Since 1945
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
BC Prize Update
I don't know if this is complete but we've hit 52 Prizes/Places/Finals for the year now and are just under $6000
Total Winnings $5,950
FIRST PLACE
01 Colin $200 First Place in Slingink's Eurofiction
02 Mike Joint-Winner in 7Q FF9
03 Dave Joint-Winner in 7Q FF9
04 Lexie Wins Adult SS of the Year ($600) in "Killie"
05 Cally Wins Dark Tales ($60)
06 BCer wins 7Q FF10
07 Hazera wins Doorknobs & Bodypaint First Place
08 Alex Wins Pencil Bantry $300
09 Lexie Wins Cotswold Prize $1,000
10 Cally wins Bank Street SS Prize $140
11 Alex wins Lichfield Prize $250
12 ColinU wins Cadenza $400
13 Caroline wins Poetry Prize TBA ($200)
14 Gabiotas wins FirstWriter $400
SECOND
01 Lexie $150 Second Place in "Dame Throgmorton"
02 TomC gets $100 second in JBWB
03 BCer 2nd in 7Q FF10
04 Cally Joint second in Writers Dock Comp
05 Lexie $300 second place Philip Good Memorial Prize
06 Cally in Woman's Own (Prize Value estimate $250)
07 Colin Second in FlashFiction Comp $50
08 Lexie 2nd in City of Derby Comp $400
09 Tom gets $200 2nd in Twyford with CIN Story
THIRD
01 Lexie in 7Q FF9 Third Place
02 BCer 3rd in 7Q FF10
03 Tom's $25 3rd in Oz
04 Lexie $200 3rd in The New Writer
05 Alex $150 third place Philip Good Memorial Prize
4ths, HRs, NAMED FINALISTs
01 Alex Night Train Yates Comp, Last 12 "Floating"
02 Alex Poem in "Out of Love" Anthology
03 Laurie (Nartje) in "Out of Love" Anthology
04 Lexie, State of Being" HR at HISSAC (only winner is announced)
05 Lexie, second story finalist at HISAAC
06 Colin finalist in HISAAC
07 Colin HR in JBWB
08 Cally in Final of Belvedere
09 Lexie in Fish Anthology ($100)
10 Lexie last 140 of 1800, Fish
11 Haz named in Best of the web shortlist
12 Lexie Final of Writers Forum
13 Alex last 3 in Carve "Overseas Writer"
14 TomC HR'd in Bank Street SS Comp
15 TomC 4th in Twisted Tongue
16 Alex at Philip Good Memorial (second story placed 3rd)
17 Lexie at Philip Good Memorial (second story placed 2nd)
18 Cally HR in Lymm Festival $20
19 Colin Finalist, $40, dinner at Frome
20 Cally Finalist Flash FictionComp
21 TomC finalist, ditto
22 Britbird shortlisted in Pier Pressure
23 Colin HM in Momaya III, in Anthology
00 Laurie recently left but was also HR'd at Bank Street (not counted)
Lexie also recieved $25 & $10 payments
Winnings in Dollars, £ = $2, Euro = $1
for simplicity of calculation
Total Winnings $5,950
FIRST PLACE
01 Colin $200 First Place in Slingink's Eurofiction
02 Mike Joint-Winner in 7Q FF9
03 Dave Joint-Winner in 7Q FF9
04 Lexie Wins Adult SS of the Year ($600) in "Killie"
05 Cally Wins Dark Tales ($60)
06 BCer wins 7Q FF10
07 Hazera wins Doorknobs & Bodypaint First Place
08 Alex Wins Pencil Bantry $300
09 Lexie Wins Cotswold Prize $1,000
10 Cally wins Bank Street SS Prize $140
11 Alex wins Lichfield Prize $250
12 ColinU wins Cadenza $400
13 Caroline wins Poetry Prize TBA ($200)
14 Gabiotas wins FirstWriter $400
SECOND
01 Lexie $150 Second Place in "Dame Throgmorton"
02 TomC gets $100 second in JBWB
03 BCer 2nd in 7Q FF10
04 Cally Joint second in Writers Dock Comp
05 Lexie $300 second place Philip Good Memorial Prize
06 Cally in Woman's Own (Prize Value estimate $250)
07 Colin Second in FlashFiction Comp $50
08 Lexie 2nd in City of Derby Comp $400
09 Tom gets $200 2nd in Twyford with CIN Story
THIRD
01 Lexie in 7Q FF9 Third Place
02 BCer 3rd in 7Q FF10
03 Tom's $25 3rd in Oz
04 Lexie $200 3rd in The New Writer
05 Alex $150 third place Philip Good Memorial Prize
4ths, HRs, NAMED FINALISTs
01 Alex Night Train Yates Comp, Last 12 "Floating"
02 Alex Poem in "Out of Love" Anthology
03 Laurie (Nartje) in "Out of Love" Anthology
04 Lexie, State of Being" HR at HISSAC (only winner is announced)
05 Lexie, second story finalist at HISAAC
06 Colin finalist in HISAAC
07 Colin HR in JBWB
08 Cally in Final of Belvedere
09 Lexie in Fish Anthology ($100)
10 Lexie last 140 of 1800, Fish
11 Haz named in Best of the web shortlist
12 Lexie Final of Writers Forum
13 Alex last 3 in Carve "Overseas Writer"
14 TomC HR'd in Bank Street SS Comp
15 TomC 4th in Twisted Tongue
16 Alex at Philip Good Memorial (second story placed 3rd)
17 Lexie at Philip Good Memorial (second story placed 2nd)
18 Cally HR in Lymm Festival $20
19 Colin Finalist, $40, dinner at Frome
20 Cally Finalist Flash FictionComp
21 TomC finalist, ditto
22 Britbird shortlisted in Pier Pressure
23 Colin HM in Momaya III, in Anthology
00 Laurie recently left but was also HR'd at Bank Street (not counted)
Lexie also recieved $25 & $10 payments
Winnings in Dollars, £ = $2, Euro = $1
for simplicity of calculation
Sunday, September 03, 2006
I Can't Damn Sleep!
have the rottenest of colds (I hate colds) and my coughing woke me up at 04:30 (howling wind outside).
Ah well, I thought, at least I can write something... but nothing coes
So here's a batch of prompts, some mine and some from Lexie Fox
Airfix, oh Airfix!
The next night it happened again.
The Freedom of the Long-Distance Runner
Dog, computer
Putting on a Play For the Inmates of the Asylum
Why Was the Second World War Fought in Black & White?
Supermam Retires and Goes to an Old People's Home
SLOUGH
A Fire, Somewhere
Harry Palmer Grinds Coffee Beans
Majesty
The Three or Four Deaths of a Man Called Brian
Watching Osborne
Dorky Dorky Dorky!
After the Talkies, the Invention of the Silent Movie
Gaze of the Green Lady
Never Eat Shredded Wheat
Why is the Ecological Footprint of a Yeti So Small?
Trouble in Suburbia
Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Mould
Birth, Sickness, Death in the Royal Leicester Infirmary
Wildlife
David Hasselhoff: The Musical
First Steps
The Houses in Between
Tea and Crumpet
The Unbearable Lightness of Dying
Ah well, I thought, at least I can write something... but nothing coes
So here's a batch of prompts, some mine and some from Lexie Fox
Airfix, oh Airfix!
The next night it happened again.
The Freedom of the Long-Distance Runner
Dog, computer
Putting on a Play For the Inmates of the Asylum
Why Was the Second World War Fought in Black & White?
Supermam Retires and Goes to an Old People's Home
SLOUGH
A Fire, Somewhere
Harry Palmer Grinds Coffee Beans
Majesty
The Three or Four Deaths of a Man Called Brian
Watching Osborne
Dorky Dorky Dorky!
After the Talkies, the Invention of the Silent Movie
Gaze of the Green Lady
Never Eat Shredded Wheat
Why is the Ecological Footprint of a Yeti So Small?
Trouble in Suburbia
Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Mould
Birth, Sickness, Death in the Royal Leicester Infirmary
Wildlife
David Hasselhoff: The Musical
First Steps
The Houses in Between
Tea and Crumpet
The Unbearable Lightness of Dying
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Stick This Lot With the Last Lot
I posted a load of prompts last night, expecting NOT to manage it this morning.
Use these too. How many prompts can you incorporate and still produce a serious story?
Don't laugh. I've won two first prizes in literary comps with flashes incorporating ALL the prompts.
Sometimes it just doesn't happen, or sometimes you use one or eight, but using prompts, keeping their "buzz" alive often takes you into that place where all the connections are amazing.
The Ipcress Files
Sliced Bread, Tea-Bags, Spreadable Butter
Lady (Dead) in a Cello Case
The Rollerscate Archipelago
Hum of Night, Song of Morning
A story beginning: "An Egg...
A story ending: "an egg.
Picnic in Dachau
Shoot the Monkey
Blossom & the Idea of Fairies
Sugar
"Bollocks!" he thought as he started writing badly
Google "Wales Films"
How Many Exes in Sex?
Use these too. How many prompts can you incorporate and still produce a serious story?
Don't laugh. I've won two first prizes in literary comps with flashes incorporating ALL the prompts.
Sometimes it just doesn't happen, or sometimes you use one or eight, but using prompts, keeping their "buzz" alive often takes you into that place where all the connections are amazing.
The Ipcress Files
Sliced Bread, Tea-Bags, Spreadable Butter
Lady (Dead) in a Cello Case
The Rollerscate Archipelago
Hum of Night, Song of Morning
A story beginning: "An Egg...
A story ending: "an egg.
Picnic in Dachau
Shoot the Monkey
Blossom & the Idea of Fairies
Sugar
"Bollocks!" he thought as he started writing badly
Google "Wales Films"
How Many Exes in Sex?
Friday, September 01, 2006
Another Boot Camp Prize!
Well done to TomC for winning $200 for second place in "TWYFORD"
Here are a set of prompts for Saturday
Bandanas, Bananas
The Tiger Memorandum
POOP!
Tea With Truman Capote
CHERRY
Warts and All
The Sex Life of the Heffalump
Summer School
A Kind of Magic
Never Marry a Mexican
Tear Along the Dotted Line
Are These Actual Miles?
DO NOT BLINK!
My Mother's Memoirs, My Father's Lies
Why Don't You Choo-Choo, Deisel Train? Why Can't You Puff and Wheeze?
Golliwog
The Lizard at the Ritz
Helix, Cervix
Midgets and Dwarves
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Today is Fish
Here are a set of prompts for Saturday
Bandanas, Bananas
The Tiger Memorandum
POOP!
Tea With Truman Capote
CHERRY
Warts and All
The Sex Life of the Heffalump
Summer School
A Kind of Magic
Never Marry a Mexican
Tear Along the Dotted Line
Are These Actual Miles?
DO NOT BLINK!
My Mother's Memoirs, My Father's Lies
Why Don't You Choo-Choo, Deisel Train? Why Can't You Puff and Wheeze?
Golliwog
The Lizard at the Ritz
Helix, Cervix
Midgets and Dwarves
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Today is Fish
Article, More Prompts
Take a look at my latest article, "Napalm"
http://www.internetwritingjournal.com/jun06/keegan39.htm
Written my story for the day (11:23) so here are a few more prompts
Hollywood & Trawsfynnydd
Woooohooooo!
One Grey November Day, Elliot Went to Boston for the Afternoon
You've Got to Read This!
The Card
The Tea-Bag is in the Post
I Don't Know What to Do About My Husband's New Wife.
A Good Thing, a Very-Good Thing
An Alternative to Rain
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, Bedgellert
Badgers
Mrs Jones' Confinement
I Stand Here Ironing
Lessons
The Grandmother Didn't Want to Go to Florida
NDSC
The End of the Holiday
DVD
Abominable Snowman v BigFoot, Home & Away
The Bakery, Three o'clock in the morning
The Good Moslem Cleric
Pancakes
Why Tick-Tock and Not Tock-Tick?
http://www.internetwritingjournal.com/jun06/keegan39.htm
Written my story for the day (11:23) so here are a few more prompts
Hollywood & Trawsfynnydd
Woooohooooo!
One Grey November Day, Elliot Went to Boston for the Afternoon
You've Got to Read This!
The Card
The Tea-Bag is in the Post
I Don't Know What to Do About My Husband's New Wife.
A Good Thing, a Very-Good Thing
An Alternative to Rain
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, Bedgellert
Badgers
Mrs Jones' Confinement
I Stand Here Ironing
Lessons
The Grandmother Didn't Want to Go to Florida
NDSC
The End of the Holiday
DVD
Abominable Snowman v BigFoot, Home & Away
The Bakery, Three o'clock in the morning
The Good Moslem Cleric
Pancakes
Why Tick-Tock and Not Tock-Tick?
Another Month, More Targets, A Hit
September 1st, so a fresh set of targets in BC.
Mine are 1,000 words a day BEFORE LOGGING ON, a story or a flash every day, at least 4 x 2K+ stories for the month, 60 subs and to crit anything that moves. I'll also read one quality short and one quality poem a day.
Congrats to Caroline for an acceptance at Poetry Monthly, our 152nd hit of the year.
Here are today's prompts.
Vic Glover awoke with the noon-day heat ringing in his ears
Finally, Finally
The wind blew down from the mountain for two nights
The Darkness of Cinnamon
Robert Hurley's wife died in September, and by the middle of Ocotber he had more or less settled everything.
London is full of boys named Alex
Among the Dangs
Black & White Ball
So help me God it gets more and more preposterous
Centifrugal, centripetal
There's an interesting road leading south out of Aristotle
Halifax, My Halifax!
He was an orphan, and, to himself, he seemed like one, looked like one.
She seemed to remember him, something about his face, from before...
One winter evening, she looked at them: the husband durable, receptive, gentle; the child a tener golden three. The sight of them made her sad and sick she did not want to see them ever again.
Harry Belten and the Medelssohn Violin Concerto*
*or use the IDEA
Mine are 1,000 words a day BEFORE LOGGING ON, a story or a flash every day, at least 4 x 2K+ stories for the month, 60 subs and to crit anything that moves. I'll also read one quality short and one quality poem a day.
Congrats to Caroline for an acceptance at Poetry Monthly, our 152nd hit of the year.
Here are today's prompts.
Vic Glover awoke with the noon-day heat ringing in his ears
Finally, Finally
The wind blew down from the mountain for two nights
The Darkness of Cinnamon
Robert Hurley's wife died in September, and by the middle of Ocotber he had more or less settled everything.
London is full of boys named Alex
Among the Dangs
Black & White Ball
So help me God it gets more and more preposterous
Centifrugal, centripetal
There's an interesting road leading south out of Aristotle
Halifax, My Halifax!
He was an orphan, and, to himself, he seemed like one, looked like one.
She seemed to remember him, something about his face, from before...
One winter evening, she looked at them: the husband durable, receptive, gentle; the child a tener golden three. The sight of them made her sad and sick she did not want to see them ever again.
Harry Belten and the Medelssohn Violin Concerto*
*or use the IDEA
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