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View Poll Results: Which is your favorite?
Not There 1 10.00%
In the Cold, Cold Night 0 0%
Slow Burn 3 30.00%
Ghosts Aren't Real, But Other Things Are 5 50.00%
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Old 06-23-2017, 07:38 PM   #91 (permalink)
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Or try to write the scariest thing you can every time you get really drunk then string them all together. We'd probably call you some kind of genius.
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Old 06-23-2017, 07:41 PM   #92 (permalink)
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I'm out. I've tried a number of times and I just can't focus anymore due to failing memory and too many meds.
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Fair enough. If you need inspiration, you could try writing about your problems. Getting old and losing your memory is a type of horror in itself.
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Old 06-23-2017, 09:37 PM   #93 (permalink)
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Fair enough. If you need inspiration, you could try writing about your problems. Getting old and losing your memory is a type of horror in itself.
Brilliant. Wait, what are we talking about?
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Old 06-24-2017, 08:40 PM   #94 (permalink)
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Mine is about a story I'm writing
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Hmm, what's this in my pocket?

*epic guitar solo blasts into my face*

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Old 06-24-2017, 09:04 PM   #95 (permalink)
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Mine is about a story I'm writing
And then you can't tell if you're writing it or you're being written.
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I was talking to everyone, only the first part of the post was to you specifically. If you've looked at the past writing contests, I think you'd get where I was coming from.

Every writing competition, people bitch and moan about rules, and themes, and so on, and then don't even participate in the end. I'm just putting it out there that I hope you guys participate, even though it's doubtful there will be more than one or two stories in the end. You guys know what to do, and you have a deadline. Get cracking.
I really want to but I doubt I'll get my ass in gear in time.
Could be fun though.
And terrible.
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It's really easy to judge genuine reactions from folks and those "just trying to be nice". I had people asking me to print them copies to give to their friends.

At that time I was absorbing King, Koontz, Straub, McCammon, and Barker. I'd already been through all of the classics but the new breed really hit home with me.

I don't have the same brain I had 30 years ago. I guess I could give it a try. I've had an idea for a cool horror story floating around in my brain for a long time.
Sounds like a great premise for a horror story!

Oh, and I would submit Waiting For That Day but it's way too long. I mean, 40K words, meh, maybe, but 40K characters? Far too short, sorry. Could they not be linked rather than posted? (Mine is over 20 pages long though...)
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Old 06-25-2017, 02:13 PM   #98 (permalink)
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Here's an excerpt from mine.

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Plagiarist! I wrote something identical only three minutes ago. No, NOT after seeing yours! Prove it!
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