Swings and roundabouts, I guess. This week’s technical restriction is about as simple as they get, which is a refreshing change from the last one. As for the others, an interesting spread. Overall not as radical as the previous restrictions, I suspect this’ll be more of a conventional story. But we’ll see. Title: Tip of my […]
I swear I was not on anything when I wrote this. This story had been building in the back of my mind for a couple of days, but when I sat down to actually write it, it took a shape I hadn’t expected. It’s closer to poetry than prose, I think. I won’t deny that […]
Here’s the latest set of restrictions. As I’ve said a few times now, my deadline for the story is Monday, thirteen days from now, however, I’m going to try to get it done in a week instead. I’ll be totally honest, I’m not sure I’ll be able to do that technical restriction. Not without much […]
I think the issue that I’ve had with these restrictions is that they lacked something. Some kind of personality, I think. They’re very generic, so they informed the story less than they could have done. Any one would have been all right, but the combination of all of them together caused the collective to fall […]
It certainly has been a while since I’ve done one of these. The written story should go up on Monday. Without further ado… Title: Dice Bag Premise: A person wakes up one day and everybody else on the planet is gone. Dialogue: “I love the way you look, covered in glue.” Technical: Has to be […]
This one is, was, and always will be kind of ridiculous. It’s the technical restriction – the end result is like the narrator has language Tourette’s. I ended up keeping it quite short, for the sake of my sanity as much as yours. As a point of interest, I used twelve different languages – Afrikaans, […]
I intend to assign the Challenge to a regular day, but I need to decide which day, so for now here’s the latest set of restrictions. A nice spread, but that technical restriction is going to make things interesting. Title: Tell Me Tomorrow Premise: A lone man wanders through a desert wasteland. He is tired […]
Finally, amiright? It’s only been nine months. There’s not much I can say about this one. I rushed it because I needed the weight off my neck, so I don’t think it turned out as well as it could have. And I’m not convinced I nailed the technical restriction. But it ended up going in […]
This one is late just because there was a delay in getting the restrictions. Totally not my fault. An interesting mix this time. None of them are particularly outlandish, but between them, specifically the combination of title and premise, they should prove… interesting. Title: Never Leave Cooking Unattended Premise: Man wakes up in the morning, […]
Has it already been almost six weeks? Time flies, doesn’t it? Well, as promised, The Man Who Had No End of Garden Fence Troubles got written eventually, and I took my time with writing it (although it didn’t take the full six weeks, just a couple of days – busy busy, other things, blah blah […]