"One Night in XXX” Story Event: Official Support Thread

[NotWise]

Alas, I've decided to withdraw from this event. I started writing "One Night In Mordor," but after thinking about it some more I was not comfortable with the copyright infringement issues. The Tolkien estate appears not to enforce claims against personal fanfic type works that are not for profit, so I'm not worried about getting sued. But I'm just not comfortable going forward with it as a matter of principle.

You still have plenty of time to pick a different locale and stay in the game.

 

[ChloeTzang]

You still have plenty of time to pick a different locale and stay in the game.

Weeks and weeks and weeks, Simon. Heck, I’m planning 3. Two to go unless you’d like Arrakis?

 

[SimonDoom]

You still have plenty of time to pick a different locale and stay in the game.

Thank you for the encouragement!

I've got a big case of the slows when it comes to writing these days, so I have to pick my commitments carefully. I've got a story I've been trying to write the last few pages of for a while, and I've GOT to get it done first. I'm about to miss the gothic horror event, for which I already started a story. I'm committed to the Geek event (I'm very committed to that one) and the On the Job event (another one I'm enthusiastic about), so my dance card is full.

 

[JanusGoneAwry]

Now, I'm not saying one way or the other...but; Justin and Janus? There seems to be a connection there...just can't quite put my finger on it. Hmm, Janus seemed pretty excited about promotions...didn't he say awhile back he was a millionaire salesman?

You give me waaaaaaay more credit than I am due but I will point out that SolarRay and I have never been seen at the same time so I'll just leave that there to perk
(Note to Mr. Ray I'm playing a gag on our comrades so if you would kindly go along with it that would be great. They can't see anything I put inside parens, right?)

Well, it looks like that particular episode was written by Tom Pabst. If I picked a beer-related pen name, I'm afraid it wouldn't be that one, so no SolarRay connection.

What? Are you dissing PBR??? Did you know that the original recipe for Pabst Blue Ribbon came from Belgium in the Ardennes region on a tributary of the Meuse River. It was brewed in ancient monastery and the recipe has remained unchanged since the middle ages. Pabst is actually a derivative of the Belgian phrase for "explosive bowel movement" so it is obviously deserving of more respect than you are giving it sir!

 

[NotWise]

You give me waaaaaaay more credit than I am due but I will point out that SolarRay and I have never been seen at the same time so I'll just leave that there to perk
(Note to Mr. Ray I'm playing a gag on our comrades so if you would kindly go along with it that would be great. They can't see anything I put inside parens, right?)

Pabst is actually a derivative of the Belgian phrase for "explosive bowel movement" so it is obviously deserving of more respect than you are giving it sir!

If only my hipster kids realized that.

In my youth, I actually liked PBR. It was better than Schmidt, or Hamm's, or a few others I could name. Now it's mostly just ironic.

And now it's brewed by Miller Brewing Company. That's even more ironic.

 

[JanusGoneAwry]

If only my hipster kids realized that.

In my youth, I actually liked PBR. It was better than Schmidt, or Hamm's, or a few others I could name. Now it's mostly just ironic.

And now it's brewed by Miller Brewing Company. That's even more ironic.

Now that's a hoot. When I went to college (I should say the ONE year I went to college) I pledged a fraternity and the house beer was PBR so it was pretty much the only thing I drank in 1979. Boy my GI tract is still trying to recover. I do remember Hamms and Olde English 800 and Strohs and several other beers that were always go to's for the college set when I was growing up but when I was installing a bunch of computer gear at Kelly AFB (well before it was decommissioned) I was introduced to a new Mexican beer in a novel clear bottle and while the beer itself was only so-so the blond Texan coed was something else all-together damn she was fine! Now when I'm not drinking a porter I'm drinking the "La Cerveza Mas Fina" and thinking about the night I grew a pair and asked a beautiful young woman to go out with me.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Alas, I've decided to withdraw from this event. I started writing "One Night In Mordor," but after thinking about it some more I was not comfortable with the copyright infringement issues. The Tolkien estate appears not to enforce claims against personal fanfic type works that are not for profit, so I'm not worried about getting sued. But I'm just not comfortable going forward with it as a matter of principle.

Elves in the Antarctic, mate, you'll be fine .

 

[Hypoxia]

Pass me one too...I like the way it seems to make you all mellow and laid back cool...when we roll into Bisbee the next rounds on me

In Bisbee it's Electric Ale or Beast Ale, mandatory.

Boom Boom...Here come old flat top..He come grooving up slowly..He got joo joo eyeball..He one holy roller...He got hair down to his knee...Got to be a joker he just do what you please...

The Beatles song "Come Together" was written for Timothy Leary's campaign for governor of California. Hilarity ensued. His campaign ended after he was busted for cannabis possession. In prison, he was given a psych test... that he himself had designed. He was assigned to a low-risk jail job and easily escaped.

ObTopic: The story is just starting to come together. Right now. Over me.

 

[yukonnights]

In Bisbee it's Electric Ale or Beast Ale, mandatory.

The Beatles song "Come Together" was written for Timothy Leary's campaign for governor of California. Hilarity ensued. His campaign ended after he was busted for cannabis possession. In prison, he was given a psych test... that he himself had designed. He was assigned to a low-risk jail job and easily escaped.

ObTopic: The story is just starting to come together. Right now. Over me.

If we're going to Bisbee, I'll just stick close to you...if possible I'll mimic what you do and what you a say and we'll be safe...please tell me we'll be safe

yep, that devil weed! It'll melt your brain and, I heard tell, will shrink you're gonads right down to the size of a black-eyed pea. Give me Electric Ale any day! (psst. what is Electric Ale anyway?...I can trust you...right ? )

 

[SolarRay]

You give me waaaaaaay more credit than I am due but I will point out that SolarRay and I have never been seen at the same time so I'll just leave that there to perk
(Note to Mr. Ray I'm playing a gag on our comrades so if you would kindly go along with it that would be great. They can't see anything I put inside parens, right?)

It all makes sense now. I DO enjoy taking my sweet repose atop the Janiculum to stroke my beard and consider the beginnings and ends of things. (Sure, as long as I get to be the face with the horns and distinguished mane.)

What? Are you dissing PBR??? Did you know that the original recipe for Pabst Blue Ribbon came from Belgium in the Ardennes region on a tributary of the Meuse River. It was brewed in ancient monastery and the recipe has remained unchanged since the middle ages. Pabst is actually a derivative of the Belgian phrase for "explosive bowel movement" so it is obviously deserving of more respect than you are giving it sir!

Well now, that's cause for reconsideration then.
Ah, Belgians... you know it's the tulip glass that gives rise to such an impressive, thick head.

 

[Voboy]

Weeks and weeks and weeks, Simon. Heck, I’m planning 3. Two to go unless you’d like Arrakis?

Arrakis gets no love.

Believe me. I know.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Arrakis gets no love.

Believe me. I know.

Oh I’m going to love doing it but I have to get my Beyond the Wall of Sleep finished this weekend, then my April Fools one, then Xanadu wrapped up and THEN Arrakis. There’s a scene from a Dune Messiah that gave me an idea. Arrakeen, off worlders, Fremen harvesting water and sex.... Erotic Horror....

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

I wish I knew how to crank out stories at the pace the rest of you seem to. This one is such a start-and-stop effort. As soon as I feel like I'm really getting somewhere I hit a wall and have to back up. Even if I didn't have a job and family eating up my time, I don't think I could progress much faster. I'd just sit in front of the blinking cursor thinking "No, that won't work. No that won't work either." for hours on end.

I haven't given up yet. But April 21 is rushing at me faster than I'd like. Maybe I'm being too ambitious. Maybe I should just go back to writing stories about horny college kids.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I've just submitted the last piece in another story cycle, and spent some time researching the actual border crossing I went through thirty-four years ago... and think, fuuck, it was thirty-four years ago. Some memories seem like yesterday, and they will keep the background and setting under control; but the foreground action - that's a tomorrow thing, it hasn't happened yet. This writing caper plays havoc with my time-lines, that's for sure.

 

[Hypoxia]

I wish I knew how to crank out stories at the pace the rest of you seem to.

Sometimes they flow and sometimes they don't. Muses and weather gods can be fickle. The voices in my head (if any) may have me spew a finished 3-LIT-page story per day, or may go silent for a couple of years. That's okay; I don't get paid. If I did (as when I wrote tech stuff) I'd approach it as a job. Lennon & McCartney budgeted hours every day to write songs. That was their job, writing for the Beatles and for others.

You too can churn out decent pieces by allotting hours per day to do so. Some set a goal of some thousands words per day. Others may dedicate a block of time to formulating plots. But to write regularly, write regularly; no excuses.

It's like the guy who came to New York for a concert. He asked a passerby, "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?" The response: "Practice, practice, practice."

Write, write write. More coffee!

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

Write, write write. More coffee!

Now THAT is some writing advice I can take to heart!

 

[gunhilltrain]

I wish I knew how to crank out stories at the pace the rest of you seem to. This one is such a start-and-stop effort. As soon as I feel like I'm really getting somewhere I hit a wall and have to back up. Even if I didn't have a job and family eating up my time, I don't think I could progress much faster. I'd just sit in front of the blinking cursor thinking "No, that won't work. No that won't work either." for hours on end.

I haven't given up yet. But April 21 is rushing at me faster than I'd like. Maybe I'm being too ambitious. Maybe I should just go back to writing stories about horny college kids.

I think this has been on another thread but - "by any means necessary."

The ideal is to write from the beginning and go to the end (and then edit the draft). But sometimes other methods are needed.

You can "island-hop" - skip a sentence, a paragraph, an entire scene that is stuck (just don't tell Dorothy Parker). If you can't get an ending or even a beginning, write the middle - or even two middle portions. It's not pretty but sometimes you have to "bang" the pieces together. Believe it not, only you will know where the "seams" are.

Not recommended by most reputable MFA programs.

P.S.: My submission for this is about horny college kids.

 

[gunhilltrain]

#1 Reminiscence is okay as long as the predominant event in the story is the "one night"

#2 that sounds okay as long as it's minor

#3 you can submit it in any category you think is appropriate, just make sure you have that entry in the Notes field.

Just to confirm the legal technicalities: I have a brief prelude or foreword for the setup, maybe about twenty-four hours earlier. I'm not sure that I could get around that. Maybe it could be reworded slightly but it still has that time frame. I think it's a paragraph plus a few lines of dialogue.

I'm going to submit it to a category in any case; it would be nice to stay in the contest however.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Addendum to message to Chloe

I mentioned 'brief' flashbacks, i.e. memories. Like how they're in Bisbee because the van broke down last year and they never left -- minimal scene-setting background, not their whole history. But real party animals never rise before sunset anyway. That makes it easy.

This is close to what I intend to do too - scene setting as it's called here.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Just to confirm the legal technicalities: I have a brief prelude or foreword for the setup, maybe about twenty-four hours earlier. I'm not sure that I could get around that. Maybe it could be reworded slightly but it still has that time frame. I think it's a paragraph plus a few lines of dialogue.

I'm going to submit it to a category in any case; it would be nice to stay in the contest however.

That’s fine. The rules are a guide, they’re not intended as a straitjacket. It’s not a competition so you go for it.

 

[gunhilltrain]

That’s fine. The rules are a guide, they’re not intended as a straitjacket. It’s not a competition so you go for it.

Thank you. I didn't think you'd go Judge Judy on us but I felt I had to ask first.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Chloe, add me in for another story... I just started it and it looks like I'll have it finished in time.

One Night in The Mile High City (Denver 1973)

That might be to long to fit, but I could get rid of the "The Mile High City" part.

Probably erotic couplings. I'll have to see what the characters think.

ETA: Yep, looks like it will have to be titled...

One Night in Denver 1973

 

[MelissaBaby]

Chloe, add me in for another story... I just started it and it looks like I'll have it finished in time.

One Night in The Mile High City (Denver 1973)

That might be to long to fit, but I could get rid of the "The Mile High City" part.

Probably erotic couplings. I'll have to see what the characters think.

ETA: Yep, looks like it will have to be titled...

One Night in Denver 1973

So, everybody who ever had sex in Denver is in the Mile High Club?

 

[KeithD]

So, everybody who ever had sex in Denver is in the Mile High Club?

Yep. Why else did you think Denver is so popular?

 

[MelissaBaby]

Yep. Why else did you think Denver is so popular?

I thought it was the weed.