#498825 - Mon Oct 05 2009 06:37 PM
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Is this the same thing Cag1970 talked about when he was on Jeopardy? It sounds like it, maybe you could talk to him about it, I remember him saying writing a dictionary was acceptable!
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#498826 - Mon Oct 05 2009 10:33 PM
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You go, Ella! Just putting your mind to it, will make it happen! That, and the time to do it...  Best of luck!
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#498827 - Tue Oct 06 2009 01:40 AM
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Go for it, Ella!
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#498830 - Tue Oct 06 2009 08:18 AM
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You know, I'm about this (||) close to submitting an entry for this myself. I've easily submitted 10,000 edited words in a single day on projects before, and I've had this short story about what REALLY happens when you open your Internet browser banging around in my skull for years now. Just for fun, perhaps it's time to let it out for a bit of air.
Edited by asgardshill (Tue Oct 06 2009 08:18 AM)
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#498831 - Tue Oct 06 2009 08:21 AM
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All the best, Ella!
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#498833 - Wed Oct 07 2009 12:15 AM
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You know, I'm about this (||) close to submitting an entry for this myself. I've easily submitted 10,000 edited words in a single day on projects before, and I've had this short story about what REALLY happens when you open your Internet browser banging around in my skull for years now. Just for fun, perhaps it's time to let it out for a bit of air.
Give it a try! There's really nothing to lose at all. You either win or you gain experience writing.
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#498834 - Fri Oct 09 2009 07:31 AM
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I have signed up this year, if anyone wants (knows how! I can't work it out lol) to be a writing buddy, I am on there as RowenaWard. Feel free to add me 
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#498835 - Sat Oct 10 2009 08:42 PM
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Registered: Wed Feb 05 2003
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Loc: Charlotte North Carolina USA
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Is this the same thing Cag1970 talked about when he was on Jeopardy? It sounds like it, maybe you could talk to him about it, I remember him saying writing a dictionary was acceptable!
Yes, this is the very same thing I talked about on Jeopardy!. The idea is to write either a 50,000 word novel that could stand on its own merits, or 50,000 words of a larger work. (A dictionary would count, although that's not exactly in the spirit of the event.)
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#498836 - Sun Oct 11 2009 01:15 AM
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Give it a try! There's really nothing to lose at all. You either win or you gain experience writing.
Done! I've finished the high concept blurb and some of the outline already (not against the rules according to what I've read so far). A sample:
high concept - A clueless politician's clumsy mischaracterization of the Internet during a speech results in dire and hilarious consequences for both the virtual and the "real" world.
Chapter 1 outline - Tuna Fish On Rye With A Side of Desperation, Please
Tom Skinner and Nancy O'Reilly, lobbyists and researchers working on the staff of US Senator (NAME) of (STATE), are of two different minds about their jobs. Nancy, the cynic with a snarky remark for every occasion, is sanguine about her lucrative gig as one of the smallest but most useful frogs in a big pond. Tom on the other hand knows in his heart of hearts that there is something better out there for him, but finds the ample paycheck he pulls down every month hard to resist. After a hurried al fresco lunch, both return to their tiny cubicles in the Senate Office Building in Washington DC, girding their loins for the intellectual battle to come that day as they desperately try to explain the Internet to their technology-challenged boss, Senator (NAME), so that he can in turn explain it to his fellow committee members and the public at large.
Nancy comes perilously close to losing her cushy job on the spot when she belittles the Senator's intellectual abilities during the meeting. Nancy's body language and barely-concealed contempt for the Senator's mental prowess or lack thereof enrages him, forcing Tom to try to save Nancy's job by papering over the awkward moment. In a desperate attempt to get the Senator's mind off Nancy's faux pas, Tom tells him a fanciful tale of a race of sentient creatures living in structures called tubes that interconnect to form the Internet. This mollifies the Senator, who contrives to include Tom's fictional account as a way to explain the Internet's complex technology to his simple constituents at his next press conference.
The Senator has already forgotten Nancy's harsh characterization of him, as he again attempts to schedule a romantic assignation with her. Seeing a mental image of her large paycheck developing wings and flying away if she refuses, Nancy accepts the Senator's advances, scheduling a tryst for that night. But Tom works out a way to foil the tryst as he is Nancy's lover and does not wish to enter into a threesome with her and the Senator.
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#498838 - Sun Oct 11 2009 04:52 PM
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Yes, good job, asgardshill! Great title, but just a well-meaning and humble suggestion: don't call it tuna fish! Tuna can only mean a fish - there is no tuna horse, tuna duck, tuna text, or anything else. And we don't say salmon fish, bass fish or perch fish, etc. either. (Sorry, just a little pet peeve of mine).  Best of luck with the rest of your challenge. 
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#498839 - Sun Oct 11 2009 05:49 PM
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True, but tuna fish does seem to have found its way into the vernacular and stayed there, along with PIN Number, HIV Virus, and all the other redundant words that should have been shaken off but never are. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna_fish_sandwich
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#498840 - Sun Oct 11 2009 08:55 PM
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Great title, but just a well-meaning and humble suggestion: don't call it tuna fish! Tuna can only mean a fish - there is no tuna horse, tuna duck, tuna text, or anything else. And we don't say salmon fish, bass fish or perch fish, etc. either.
Actually, my working title for the entire piece is "A Serious Tubes". "Tuna Fish On Rye ..." is just the chapter title.
Good call on the word usage - thank you! I might still change it to "Tuna Salad" to sidestep the issue you correctly noted.
And just wait until you read about his "gherkin-periscoped" sandwich.
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#498841 - Tue Oct 13 2009 10:58 AM
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I'm going to give it a crack too. We'll be in the same region I guess. Go the South Aussies!
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#498843 - Thu Oct 15 2009 08:27 AM
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Yeah im there under a different name. I'll say hi.
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#498844 - Fri Oct 16 2009 12:36 AM
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Loc: Adelaide South Australia
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Yeah im there under a different name. I'll say hi.
Found you.
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#498846 - Sun Nov 01 2009 11:32 AM
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Ok its 4.00am and I've just banged out 1300 words. I'm just getting into a roll but you gotta sleep at some point.
I've done virtually no background work on this story. I had a number of ideas to roll with but I chose this one, which had the least developed ideas. Hope I made the right choice, don't think Farmer Digby agrees, I've just had his head removed by a horrible monster from another dimension.. and now their after his wife!
Edited by quogequox (Sun Nov 01 2009 11:34 AM)
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