Announcing our Elements competition

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Also, how come a new competition is announced with a theme about the elements just 12 days after my last story was published, where the key scene towards the end was, quite literally, centred on the elements of earth, wind and water...🙄(and lightning - no fire, but definitely lightning!).

Just how do you explain that, huh?

Huh?😒

we actually time our comp announcements based on your submissions. Jen has a cruel sense of humor. i've talked to her about it, but what can i say; she's Scottish.

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Welp, maybe I should re-install Grammarly then, I know I got issues with spacing (as the mods have told me multiple times lol) so that will at least help with the story being returned a zillion times. Not to mention my issues with commas. I think I've gotten better, but yknow human error prevails. (even those of us like me that are an ink-ubus at heart )

i have an ellipsis problem.... hides.

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i have an ellipsis problem.... hides.

Oh yeah, I love me a good ellipsis as well ... LOL

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Oh yeah, I love me a good ellipsis as well ... LOL

Dot ... dot ... dot ... damn, that's hot ...

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Dot ... dot ... dot ... damn, that's hot ...

The Dirty Talk competition has passed so stop it with your sexy ellipses, people!

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we actually time our comp announcements based on your submissions. Jen has a cruel sense of humor. i've talked to her about it, but what can i say; she's Scottish.

Ha! I knew it! (or should is 'I kent it...'.

This obviously gives me a huge advantage. All I need to do now is, every time I write a story, I'll pen a second story on the same theme, and I'll be ready to go when a new competition is announced! It'll save me a ton of time.

God, I'm so smart! 😊

Have I won yet...?

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Ha! I knew it! (or should is 'I kent it...'.

Let's not get bogged down in AI chat, please.

If you write your own stories, you're good.

Not that there's anything difficult about any one of the elements, but to do something interesting with them that doesn't devolve into tired cliches like, "He was hotter than a flame and hard as a rock. She was wetter than the ocean for him until he farted like a hurricane and killed the mood..." or something like that is a pretty good challenge. I think I might have a better idea, but we'll see if anything useful comes of it.

Oh, for sure. I am looking at my element as an image and tapping (I hope) into something deeper.

That said, I am probably starting over. First attempt headed into territory that I found a bit too familiar (i.e. taps into elements of past stories of mine).

I think I have a good idea taking shape that involves fire as the main element, though the others will be part of it too.

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That said, I am probably starting over. First attempt headed into territory that I found a bit too familiar (i.e. taps into elements of past stories of mine).

I see what you did there.

Pond swimming, water-based fantasy addict seeks a chance to bring some of them to life. Is that wet enough? I have precious little intelligence, artificial or otherwise, so it might be nonsense, but it's all my own nonsense! 😇

New story started. Writing it the "Old School" way

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Writing it the "Old School" way

On parchment with a quill pen? 😏😋

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New story started. Writing it the "Old School" way

Is that your cover art? It’s cool :)

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On parchment with a quill pen? 😏😋

That's what I use and the reason I only do Micros now and few of those -- quills are easy, but that parchment has gotten really expensive, especially when you rewrite as much as I do.

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On parchment with a quill pen? 😏😋

My "Old School", not Hamilton's! Using my own intelligence and MS Word. With a little rum, my intelligence becomes artificial! 😈

🤣

Technologically speaking, old school for me would be WordPerfect 4 on DOS. Though I have experimented with writing in the Linux terminal using VIM which comes close. No alcohol involved but if there was, it would be wine or Scotch.🍷

Mary had a little lamb. They went sky diving and fell from 3000 feet to earth. Then it started raining but the air was nice and fresh. At home they lit a fire to dry out and keep warm... sorted.

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Mary had a little lamb. They went sky diving and fell from 3000 feet to earth. Then it started raining but the air was nice and fresh. At home they lit a fire to dry out and keep warm... sorted.

Yes, but where's the fucking and more crucially, what genre is this?

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Yes, but where's the fucking and more crucially, what genre is this?

I do not see why that is relevant 😇

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I do not see why that is relevant 😇

I know it's never made much difference to my readers.

I have ... something. It has a beginning, middle, and end. It has fire (my element of choice). It has sex. Now comes a week or two of me trying to perfect it. I have a few hundred words available, too, so I might expand some things a bit.

I love it, Kimmi.

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Yes. AI is allowed for the cover art, just not for the writing. I think almost everyone is doing it now.

Personally, to keep myself fully legal copyright-wise, I’ve gone to the trouble of replacing almost all of my previous story covers with AI-generated ones.

I must be the odd one out here. I haven’t a clue how to use AI. MY covers are either my own pics or pictures I’ve found with my pal Safari. 🤣

Just wish I'd known this was coming up. I wouldn't have published “song of the sea”. Now I’m really going to struggle. It would have earned me my much wanted badge! I’m just a child at heart 🤣

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Just wish I'd known this was coming up. I wouldn't have published “song of the sea”. Now I’m really going to struggle. It would have earned me my much wanted badge! I’m just a child at heart 🤣

Love that cover. Another author here showed me how to create covers. Now I’m obsessed. I have a ton of covers and no stories. Haha!

Thanks Kimmi my pal Safari found it for me. Like you I currently have no stories 😞

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Love that cover. Another author here showed me how to create covers. Now I’m obsessed. I have a ton of covers and no stories. Haha!

In an environment such as this, they are sure to come eventually.

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Not to mention my issues with commas. I think I've gotten better, but yknow human error prevails. (even those of us like me that are an ink-ubus at heart )

You're not alone! Commas will be the death of me someday! LOL.