Contest October-November Short Story Contest Voting Thread (Votes Close December 7th)

Hmm.. time to troubleshoot some ideas for viability and potential. Even if it doesn't turn out to be the final prompt, would still be a good exercise and practice run.

I felt that way about the Legion with the prompt of the first short contest I was involved in. The downside of having a unique faction that is automatically associated with you, makes it tricky to include them outside of cameos, and even cameos have to weigh the risk of whether it comes across as a self-reference or an easter egg than another author might have thrown in if they were writing a similar story.

I think it's telling that last time, I made references to three other peoples' works but not my own; granted because my own was the hardest to be descriptively vague about. Identifying the GoS was a matter of working out what I meant by tanks that were not steamtanks, while also using unusual (for Age of Sigmar) guns. Whereas, my Legion would be instantly identifiable the moment I described the lizardmen as "wearing dapper red coats".

Actually, while we're on the subject, what part of my work was it that had you clock onto it being me that wrote it? Need to know if it's something I can cover up next time.

Well, yea, but someone would say that about any and all prompts. Unless the prompt was "Chaos humiliated" and even then someone might comment that "nothing says the Chaos dwarfs aren't the ones humiliating the other Chaos factions".

 

It was both the reference to GoS and the writing style. You write a lot and I have been slowly getting through it.

I do have a bunch of characters that did some from The World That Was including the star of the last tale so I might see about giving some snippets of their life before the end times.

 

Sometimes it is nice to consider ideas before committing to them under the one-month time limit. I'd still use the month beforehand to take the time off - especially given which month we're in, but spit-balling ideas from an early announcement of the theme doesn't hurt.

So, by the wording, we'll full steam ahead for that theme? Unless @Killer Angel trolls us at the last second

 

So, my writing "voice" then. Hmm, not something easily changed for the sake of disguise. XD And I'm not about to run it through ChatGPT with the request of "rewrite as if written by somebody else so that it looks less like my style. That feels too close to cheating.

Wunderbar. I'll brainstorm ideas that fit the theme. But for the interest of the spirit of the contest, I won't actually write any potential entries until the contest is officially announced in January. Mind you, if the speed at which I got the entry for this contest is any indication, it will probably feel as though I had it prepared in advance when @Scalenex receives the PM.

And yes, I was the one that he commented on the speed of the entry being submitted. What can I say, if I have an idea that takes root, I don't rest until that idea has been exorcised to the written word.

 

Mine tool ages because I had to research the timeline of events for my guy to take part in, figure out which ones I needed to cut and make sure the maths added up.

I'll give five Pyro Points to anyone who can name all the lizardmen timeline events I put Xi-Boc through.

 

Oh hey! Can't believe I missed this, I was literally just logging in to share the news that the story is just about to end its hiatus perioid. Thanks for the callout!

 

It was my pleasure. XD

That certainly hasn't stopped you from consistently winning