ENW Short Story Smackdown Summer 07 (Winner Announced)

[maxfieldjadenfox]

OK. Where's the smack talk? (taps foot impatiently).

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

ATTN: FreeXenon

FreeXenon, are you Ok with a Saturday start?

 

[FreeXenon]

A weekday start is better for me. My weekends are pretty packed.

 

[FickleGM]

A weekday start is better for me. My weekends are pretty packed.

That's fine with me.

 

[Avatar_V]

Haha - sorry, Maxfieldjadenfox. Reading your request for more trash talking and then the utterly civil conversation that followed made me laugh; I'm afraid this group is just too tame for your tastes.

 

[FickleGM]

I lack confidence in my writing skills, which makes it difficult to talk smack. As I get more comfortable, perhaps I'll start...I'm just not sure that it will be in this competition.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Dude, *everyone* lacks confidence in their writing skills. Except maybe Tom Clancy, Pat Cornwall, and JK Rowling, and frankly, they should.

 

[FickleGM]

Oh, don't get me wrong, I don't need to be a pro to talk trash. When I'm on the basketball court or sparring someone or whatnot, I'm nonstop trash talking...even when getting my ass handed to me.

In this case, it's a lack of comfort, brought on by my lack of confidence. When I become a little more confident in my writing, I'll also feel more comfortable, which will then manifest itself in some smack talk. Being as this is only my second time doing this (I was ousted in the first round last time) and only the second short story that I've written in over 20 years (CDM spring '07 being the first one), I feel funny talking much trash.

 

[maxfieldjadenfox]

Oh come now. What harm can come from, oh say, "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries" ?

 

[FickleGM]

Your mother may bite me...I've been bitten by a hamster and those suckers bite hard (the bleeding...oh, the bleeding).