Why are you calling Erik a wardrobe?
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Why are you calling Erik a wardrobe?
Nonsense! Erik can ride home in a taxi like everyone else.
That's better than I'm used to. Usually get carted home in a wheelbarrow.
100 words sounds so easy until you try it. I tend to use a lot of contractions like it's and there's. It can help when you are trying to squeeze in that extra word, but you can also de-contract them if you find that you're a word or two short. Assume prior knowledge, we're all Elite fans and know what a Cobra or a Coriolis looks like so there is no need to describe them unless it's important to the plot.
The 100 words is a pain lol. Often I have edited out something but its still in my head as there. Its not until its read out you realise - I edited out something essential for this to make sense...
Sometimes I use the title to set the assumption so that it readdresses the lack. Then I read drabbles from others and think .. wow that has so much depth and I feel like DocStone for a moment. You know, a sad loser with no friends or positive attributes.
A lot of my drabbles are written staccato missing out some words that should be there. "The ship shuddered to a stop" becomes "Ship shuddered, stopped"
I don't know if you even listen to DVD commentaries, but it's made me a lot more sympathetic towards directors talking about how a scene is great, but they had to cut it because it didn't help move the plot along.
And despite what all the experts say, for a 100 story, clichés are great. Clichés are like high gear in a bicycle. You can open up an expansive vista in the mind's eye of your reader with just a couple of words. I can understand why they are frowned upon. If your reader is missing that particular cliché cog then there's a terrible crunching noise and your Drabble locks solid with zero votes. When your finger touches a trout sometimes the milkmaid yells for Bob.
And despite what all the experts say, for a 100 story, clichés are great. Clichés are like high gear in a bicycle. You can open up an expansive vista in the mind's eye of your reader with just a couple of words. I can understand why they are frowned upon. If your reader is missing that particular cliché cog then there's a terrible crunching noise and your Drabble locks solid with zero votes. When your finger touches a trout sometimes the milkmaid yells for Bob.
I often find a terrible memory helps when dealing with the drabbles. It helps with the healing process
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20 *100* - Me! Oh Fandabbi dosey - No Fuel for a Fool : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5777&page=544&p=2948137&viewfull=1#post2948137
Bonus Drabbles (please feel free to add extra, Psykokow will happily push Kerrashlanding's stream into overtime
21 *100* - MrMogadony - A Totally Transparent and Obvious Tale : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5777&page=544&p=2948235&viewfull=1#post2948235
22 *100* - Edith_The_Hutt - It keeps me going : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5777&page=544&p=2948272&viewfull=1#post2948272
Pipped at the post.
Probably for the best
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The little Engine that Would
The anaconda paraded out of Zolanda dock, it’s crew of 40 fresh faced officers tasked to make sure this experimental bio-drive power plant succeeded.
Designed to break down organic matter into energy, it needed thorough testing to iron out issues.
A crew of 40 meant a lot of organic waste ideal to keep her running, well until they reached 3500ly.
One after another a crew member headed to engineering, never returning but succeeding in getting a little more power. But now no one would volunteer to go.
“We’ve run out of fools”, the Captain grimaced “time to make some sacrifices”
The anaconda paraded out of Zolanda dock, it’s crew of 40 fresh faced officers tasked to make sure this experimental bio-drive power plant succeeded.
Designed to break down organic matter into energy, it needed thorough testing to iron out issues.
A crew of 40 meant a lot of organic waste ideal to keep her running, well until they reached 3500ly.
One after another a crew member headed to engineering, never returning but succeeding in getting a little more power. But now no one would volunteer to go.
“We’ve run out of fools”, the Captain grimaced “time to make some sacrifices”
No animals harmed in the making of this weeks drabble show. Thats the difference.
What about Aliens?
The topic this week is so good it's managed to produce 3 Drabbles that can't be fitted into the poll... <erm> Those three Drabbles are all so perfectly written it would've been impossible to say which was the best. Everybody would have given them their three votes and so they would have all tied in first place, each with a score of 100%.
Does the 20 option limit still apply these days? We made that the rule because of the limitation of the old forum's polling system.
Does the 20 option limit still apply these days? We made that the rule because of the limitation of the old forum's polling system.
Thank God Chuck Norris didn't enter a drabble he would get every vote. (Sorry wrong thread)
afaik the limitation was the number off poll entries that was set for standard users, I can't remember if a Mod can extend that amount though.
Another bonus drabble. Not been around much as RL keeps interdicting me
A different Type of Fuel:
Cmdr Rossan was running low on fuel, he had been all day. He struggled on hour after hour hoping to get to his destination or find a place to refuel.
But time caught up. Out of fuel he found himself in the middle of no where.
In desperation, with time running out, he hit the distress button.
With the call to the Rats transmitted, all he could do was wait.
Minutes later his saviours arrived. Refuelled, he thanked them for saving him.
Satisfied he left, allowing the Gruel Rats to leave and help another poor Cmdr who forgotten their breakfast.
A different Type of Fuel:
Cmdr Rossan was running low on fuel, he had been all day. He struggled on hour after hour hoping to get to his destination or find a place to refuel.
But time caught up. Out of fuel he found himself in the middle of no where.
In desperation, with time running out, he hit the distress button.
With the call to the Rats transmitted, all he could do was wait.
Minutes later his saviours arrived. Refuelled, he thanked them for saving him.
Satisfied he left, allowing the Gruel Rats to leave and help another poor Cmdr who forgotten their breakfast.
Another bonus drabble. Not been around much as RL keeps interdicting me
A different Type of Fuel:
Cmdr Rossan was running low on fuel, he had been all day. He struggled on hour after hour hoping to get to his destination or find a place to refuel.
But time caught up. Out of fuel he found himself in the middle of no where.
In desperation, with time running out, he hit the distress button.
With the call to the Rats transmitted, all he could do was wait.
Minutes later his saviours arrived. Refuelled, he thanked them for saving him.
Satisfied he left, allowing the Gruel Rats to leave and help another poor Cmdr who forgotten their breakfast.
Very nice Azdour,I would definitely have voted for yours
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