Time for Ceramic DM? (judge-free commentary thread NO JUDGES ALLOWED AS OF NOW :) )

[Fieari]

Well, I've got a beginning to my entry done, and I have some sort of vague rough idea as to where I need to go... but how to get there? Ack. These pictures are HARD! A bipedal robot, a bum, a lady doing arts and crafts, and a boat on a rock. 'Course, I can interpret them differently, but still. A BIPEDAL ROBOT. ARGH!

 

[orchid blossom]

Well, I've got a beginning to my entry done, and I have some sort of vague rough idea as to where I need to go... but how to get there? Ack. These pictures are HARD! A bipedal robot, a bum, a lady doing arts and crafts, and a boat on a rock. 'Course, I can interpret them differently, but still. A BIPEDAL ROBOT. ARGH!

Tell me about it. You're further along then I am, I haven't got a word down yet. I can think of ways to work in 3 out of 4 pics. Sometimes a different set of 3, but there's always one that doesn't work. I think I finally have the idea roughed out.

Now if this headache would just go away......

 

[Piratecat]

Hee hee - bipedal robot! I love that point, when the story elements all start to come together.

Speaking of which, Carpedavid, I'm both honored and terrified to have my story going up against yours. It's good, smart writing. I've read it three times now, and I like it more and more as I recognize all the subtleties. Scenes like seeing all of heaven and earth reflected in the sea, but still being afraid, strike me as very human and very touching.

Damn. Great ending, too. I can't stop thinking about it, and about Kat and the concept of second chances.

Hey, were you making a deliberate reference to the Hoffman Institute from Dark*Matter?

 

[MarauderX]

MarauderX: Is that In-Game, or Out-Of-Game?

Unfortunately out. Ok, life is back to it's relative calm...

Good stuff all around, I gotta say I'm getting intimidated by the various styles... it would be tough to be a judge, that's for sure.

 

[Piratecat]

No kidding.

Judging was hard for me last contest, but a different kind of hard than writing is. I think you have a lot more at stake when you're doing the writing. Speaking of which, I'm heading off to read your's and Berandor's stories. I can't wait.

 

[orchid blossom]

Hee hee - bipedal robot! I love that point, when the story elements all start to come together.

You want a bipedal robot? You can have it. $10 and it's all yours.

 

[BSF]

You want a bipedal robot? You can have it. $10 and it's all yours.

You know, there is a story waiting in there with those words.

 

[Piratecat]

It's a great first line. Orchid Blossom, I'll take you up on that offer. You can pay me the $10 next month at the game day.

Macbeth, reading the judgment, I agree about one thing; I'd like to see the narrator blow the dam above Las Vegas (instead of San Francisco; you could put the "studio" out in the desert) instead of just busting some water mains. Biblical proportions, indeed!

I'm noticing an interesting change in my approach. Last time I competed, I didn't want to read anyone else's stories because I didn't want to seem derivative. Now I'm reading every single story as they come. I wonder why the difference?

 

[carpedavid]

Speaking of which, Carpedavid, I'm both honored and terrified to have my story going up against yours. It's good, smart writing. I've read it three times now, and I like it more and more as I recognize all the subtleties. Scenes like seeing all of heaven and earth reflected in the sea, but still being afraid, strike me as very human and very touching.

Damn. Great ending, too. I can't stop thinking about it, and about Kat and the concept of second chances.

Wow, thanks for the kind words, PC - considering the source, that's high praise indeed. I just finished reading yours, and I have to say that it's delightful. I love trickster devil tales, and this was a great one. I'm dying to see what the judges have to say now.

Hey, were you making a deliberate reference to the Hoffman Institute from Dark*Matter?

Yes and no. I was searching for a professorial-sounding name, and recalled one of the professors that I had in college. As soon as I thought of it though, I remembered the Hoffman Insititue, and decided that it was a good fit on both accounts.

I'm looking forward to reading everyone else's tales tomorrow. For now though, slumber awaits.

 

[orchid blossom]

It's a great first line. Orchid Blossom, I'll take you up on that offer. You can pay me the $10 next month at the game day.

Wait a minute. How did me selling you a robot turn into me giving you ten bucks?

I had a whole day to work on my story, and sadly I spent it laying on the couch sick and trying to find the right drug to fix it. Now it's bedtime and I finally feel better.

So tell me, I can't be the first person who considered cutting work to work on thier story, hmm?