The WA's first contest is finally here!
So, this contest is twofold--a Short Story contest, and an Epics contest. Here's how it's going to work--I've placed every entrant in groups of three (read on). Whether you choose to participate in the Epics contest, the Short Story contest, or both, your group plays a primary role in the writing of your submission. What role does your group play, exactly? Heck, what's this whole thing going on? Well--
Short Story Contest
If you choose to particip
Why, it's the first-ever weekly update of Writers' Alliance! For some more info on what this is, check out this blog entry, and then report back here!
This week's theme is, in honor of the initiation of the Writers' Alliance--
Beginnings
This week, write anything that follows the theme of beginnings. It can interpreted any way you want--this is to kick-start your inspiration for writing, and it's your choice how you filter that inspiration. Once you write a piece--remember, they can be
It looks like while I was gone a whole new league of active members formed--the guys who blog everyday and dominate GD are total strangers to me. Makes me feel kind of old and outdated, like I belong in the past and I'm rejected by the present. Rather than get to know them, I've decided to infiltrate their ranks and destroy them from within. League of Noobs, I have located your base and booby trapped your headquarters. My vengeance will not be satisfied until you beg at my feet for my mercy or
Back from a one week vacation in LA! Finishing up my entry for the Short Story Contest--it should be between 4K and 5K words, so get pumped and set aside a few weeks to read it. Who else is entering? Also got an idea for a book or Epic or something along those lines that my brain's been exploding with for a couple weeks. Wanna hear?
Isaac swore. For the fourteenth time. And for the seventh, walked up the door, inhaled sharply, and backed off. There was some cosmic force shoving him toward that door, and he believed that one was from heaven—the one pushing him away every time his hand gripped the frosty handle was from somewhere else. His breath was frosty in the air, his soul ever colder. As his brain screamed at him in that incomprehensible agony only a mother’s son can feel, he let his body take control and stumbled thro
Well, first of all, the House is back!
Now, onto more important business.
That's right, it's the House of the Rising Moon's very first contest, Writing ABCs! Hosted by yours truly, RM. You know, that guy in the title. Instructions are simple enough--first to write 27 SSs, the title of each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet and one more beginning any number (7, not Seven), wins! What what, you ask? Well, at the moment, only eternal glory, but if anyone's up for donating a pr
So, I'm back. Dunno if anyone remembers me [/vie for social approval], but it's a weird sort of nostalgia, being back on here. Entering the BZPRPG shortly. Anyone think I should get back to writing on here? SS appears to be devoid of horror/thrillers--shall I take the challenge? EDIT: Too late, I did. Check out my new SS, http://www.bzpower.com/board/index.php?showtopic=6166<----The Captain and his Beast (Can't figure out how to get the links right. God, it's been too long since I've
So I just saw Dark Knight Rises, and my expectations were pretty much confirmed. Not those for the quality of the movie, those were pretty much blown to smithereens and scattered to the winds of cinema. I expected that Christopher Nolan, the brilliantly shrewd director he is, would be fully aware that you just can't top the sheer horror and humanity of the Joker, so he'd instead focus more on plot than on the terrifying genuineness of any one character. Which is totally what happened, and it's
It's been a long while since I've taken a serious undertaking on BZP. You know, a full-fledged, multi-person effort that requires devotion, time, and unprecedented overuse of your creative engines until it explodes. I have a spark of an idea that would merit such a title, and it's called Worldscape. How it actually would function on a day-to-day basis, I have no idea, but it's an idea I've been toying with for a while, and the idea seems particularly tempting.
The basic concept is that a team
I hereby declare this the initiation of the case of Moon and Firesword vs. Zarayna.
Zarayna, the offender, is in a lawsuit threatened by Rising Moon and Inferna Firesword. Captain Marvel is the lawyer from criminal defense--Zarayna--and Moon and Firesword remain in search if a lawyer. Experience is discouraged.
The case will be taking place in the House of the Rising Moon on October 21st, 2010, a Thursday.
Rising Moon will judge the case.
The jury is not limited to a number, and any
WA? What's that?
Anyway, this week's Weekly Update is to write for the theme of--
Hooks
We're all going to write about fish!
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8D
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In all seriousness--It's the aspiring writer's dream to, you guessed it, write a book and actually get it published. Well, the first step in the actual writing process to do so is to hook your reader. As fast as possible. Whether it's the agent who's going to get your book published and out in public, your best friend, a complete stranger in
That's right, it's the Writers' Alliance's first contest!
What exactly is this contest? Well, stay tuned, girls and boys, and find out just what it is next week...All I can reveal now is that there will be both an Epics contest and a Short Story contest, both of which will be taking place in groups. The theme of the contest is characters of your teammates.
Curious as to what the heck that is? Want it? Post here in this entry now with a piece of writing, about 100 words, but no real limit.
The WA has really leaped off the ground with a force behind it--and that force is you guys, the participants. Thanks a lot for really attempting to revolutionize this whole system, and hopefully you're having fun while doing it.
For some more info on what they hey the Writers' Alliance is, check out this blog entry!
This week's theme is--
Characterization
Characterization is, to state the obvious or tell you what you don't already know (depending on who you are, of course), is not on
Welcome to Worldscape!
Whoa, What's This?
'Creation' is a pretty vague word. The immediate meaning is bringing something into existence that wasn't there before. Of course we can't apply this definition to physical objects, as in today's modern world it's slightly impossible to actually create a tangible thing from nothing. Creation, though, applies to thoughts as well as objects. There is a clear distinction between impulse, and creative thought--impulse is when a thought enters your mind
That's right, it's the WACISE!
No clue what this babbling madman is rambling about? Well here ya go, don'tcha know!
Now that the WA's oozed into its third week, it's time to spice things up a bit. In a couple of weeks, we'll have our very first contest! Any ideas on what it's going to be? Submit 'em here! No rules, go for anything you want!
Onetwothreesubmit!
If I brought back the WA (not sure what it is? Ask!) while the League of Authors (see previous parenthetical statement) is still up, how many of you guys would join it? Along that line, how many would join it if it was a distinctly different entity from the LoA, as opposed to its previous format?
In response to Vorex's question as to whether I see his face when I fall asleep, I decided to disappear to Los Angeles and thus be semi-offline for the next week or so. I'll see you when the hype surrounding Vorex's curiosity dies down. >.> <.<
It's kind of miraculous, when you think about it, that people can be so deeply, spiritually affected by something created by people. I just listened to the Across the Universe version of the Beatles' Across the Universe, and there's this kind of this metaphysical sensation going on, like the song channels some greater power to man. I get how cliche that sounds, but everyone's felt it at some point--a connection to music that goes beyond physical enjoyment. It's something emotionally deeper than
