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sdre017
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Excited for this, as I'm one of the writers who often does rhyming flash. Not so much a fan of the word count, I've gotten used to having the full 1000 to play with...
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jennifer.quail
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"The Cremation of Sam McGee" "The Lady of Shallot" "The Highwayman"
"The Man from Snowy River" (also "Pardon, the Son of Reprieve" and "Clancy of the Overflow", which are so story they were the basis for a movie.) |
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Patagonia
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I am 100% unsure if I can do this well, and I 100% signed up for it already! What's the worst that can happen? (No one needs to answer that . . . )
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Nimhathuna
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Just signed up for it. Shur why not? It'll be an experience, if nothing else.
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Chuck1966
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I've been thinking about getting involved with this site and a rhyming story challenge caught me.
I've been a fan of folk ballads since my age was in single digits and have been writing my own, in that style, since I was a teen. I've been working on an epic poem, in fits and starts, for 16 years and am nearing 5,000 lines. I'm also involved in community theater and the plays I write almost always include at least some verse. But the challenge of getting something written with a deadline is going to be something new. |
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"When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis
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Popsicle Crows
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I wasn't going to join this one but these comments made me jump on board.
Every Christmas, I rewrite/trash 2 famous poems for my friends. These are the only lines I remember from the first one I wrote...in highschool 'Twas the night of the party and all through the house, Not a person was straight, including the mouse.
.... And what to my bloodshot eyes should appear but bag of Columbian and two kegs of beer.... That's all I can remember of that one, reason is self-explanatory. So far I've trashed this poem with themes ranging from Rampaging Snowmen to Christmas Ghosts. Sometimes it's news events, Covid, Trump as Anti-Santa etc. The other one I regularly destroy is The Twelve Days of Christmas. I do it by genre, sci-fi, horror etc. If you need inspiring examples, songs work. Like Gordon Lightfoot's lyrics for "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", pretty much any Iron Maiden, Leonard Cohen, old blues songs. I'm nervously looking forward to it |
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Suave
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Hahahahaha, very funny!
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Popsicle Crows
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I'm remembering more from that poem, just as bad as the ones above..
The joints were all rolled, piled high up in stacks, In hopes that by nine, we'd be blown to the max. Last bit was something like: He rolled up a spliff and flew up to the sky, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good high. And that's why I sometimes struggle with English and Grammar. This is the type of thing that I would be writing in class when I should have been reading Catcher in the Rye. Oh well, learning is better late than never. |
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gabberj
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Since this is a new category, it would have made sense to keep the format simple. Why have a genre at all? Surely three prompts would suffice for the first go round
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Read my 1st Round story titled A Burning Bush https://forums.nycmidnight.com/100-word-fiction-g86-a-burning-bushhorror_topic41902.html
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Dark&StormyNight
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Reminder: early deadline tonight then entrance fee goes up.
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