Doris just strikes me as the name of someone who'd own a hair salon like my grandmother goes to. You know, specializes in those football helmet hairdos with enough hairspray that it the hair could survive intact, one of those storms that need to be named.
Some movies considered Horror don't feel like Horror to me. For instance An American Werewolf In London. I love that movie but I always considered it Comedy. And I've seen Jaws listed as Horror. Great movie but horror? Hmm...
Alien
The Thing
The Shining
The Exorcist
The Descent
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Psycho
Oh well, adding them to my list:
An American Werewolf In London
Jaws
I feel that co-written stories are inappropriate for these competitions unless it is a specific co-writers competition.
Proofing and light editing I like. Heavy editing should not be done for a comp story.
Mongolian beef with fried rice and egg roll. Hot tea.
There are lots of great story titles and I can't even remember all the ones that have impressed me.
But here are just a few titles I really like:
Hard Candy by Dancing Doll. It is the perfect Hardcore category title
Oh Christmas Goat, Oh Christmas Goat by Sprite. I love quirky off the wall and funny. Great title for a Humor story
Renaissance Of The Heart by DanielleX. A 5 part series in the Love Story category. Perfectly named for that.
Time Assassin by JessicaX. Outstanding name for a Fantasy & Sci-Fi story
Cum Compulsion by Kee. Great name for a Fetish story
The titles of my own stories I like best:
Run! Dammit! Run!
The Devil’s Harem: She Played The Rusty Trombone
In The Land Of Salvation And Sin
I Love Your Funky Fucking Sloppy Snatch
I really need a stiff drink, so I dropped by Rumpy's to say hello and raise a glass to you all. Straight bourbon on ice.
I would vote for locking this thread since it no longer serves a useful purpose and has become a bane of negativity.
I won't, though. That would be up to the Forum mods. But it is my opinion.
I'd like to see everyone move on and try and take a more positive attitude toward things.
I'm going to make an attempt at a comp story, though at this late date I may not make it, especially with my excruciating proofing process. That I guarantee you, is harder than 90% of yours.
Rules are rules. It is what it is.
But if you all think no second proofer for you is difficult, imagine being very dyslexic. If I only depend upon myself, I'll have to do several read-throughs, including reading the entire story backward. That's just something I have to do.
Anyone who is dyslexic knows there is a misfire between what your eyes see as you type or what you read on a written page. While I 100% know the difference between your and you're - are or or, etc., I often don't actually see that difference. Proofing backward is the best way I catch things but it also takes a lot of extra time and effort.
I can do an adequate job of proofing someone else's text. I have my tricks to beat dyslexia but it takes me more time and effort than most of you. But once I've written or typed it and read my own work, that is much more difficult for me to see what I've done wrong.
I actually heavily proof my Forum posts before clicking post. And even then I often see mistakes when I later look at an older post.
Thank God for Grammarly.
Just do your best.
If this competition was a sprint or a bicycle race? I might kick everyone's ass on here. But despite having a disadvantage I have grown to love writing and it is well worth the effort.
This past week has been horrible. Dealt with some really hard things, one tragic. And I'm feeling really down. But on the upside, yesterday my Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition came in the mail. Drinking Jack Daniels on the rocks and smoking a Dominican cigar. A toast my Rumpy gang friends. The best to y'all.
Threads sometimes disappear because of the mobile Bermuda Shorts Triangle.
A double bacon cheese steakburger, fries, and a chocolate-peanut butter milkshake at Steak & Shake.
So in the comps we are left totally to our own devices. Please take proofing your own work very seriously.
Better days and nights there have been. Anyone want to join me in a stiff drink? I'm having straight bourbon on ice. I could put a lot of it away too.
Wait til I write Fifty Lengths Of Goober.