We’re launching another brief short story competition where the aim is to write a story inspired by David Malcolmson’s Hail, Fellow

You have until midnight April 21, 2008 (that’s one week from today).
Word limit: 150 to 1000 words.
Judges: Empress and Damian.

How to enter: add your story to the group, tag it “hailfellow” and add a link to this forum post (we’ll help you with the links if you get stuck)

I am sorry I am new to this group. Where do I submitt my story? Here in the forum?
Thanks, sorry to be such lol.

Aha! That explains that nagging feel of something missing…

Also excellent if you can weave an astrological element in so you can enter the Zodiac13 competition.

My entry Here

He’s good, he’s very very good.
I make that 2 hours 45 minutes since the comp went live.

Link to Feast
is here for the challenge.

Me link be har me hearties ARRRR….......

Have written my piece, but do not know how to get to forum/ duh!

Hail Fellow

Excellent work guys! Four entries in the first half day :)

How do you link a picture so it shows in your post or otherwise? I have always wondered about this. You can BubbleMail me with the solution if you’d like. Thanks in advance!

Here is my entry Reaching Out

Faithart’s Mary Jane

Oooh this one has the writing juices ready to flow – funnily one of the entries so far touches on a kind of theme i was going down too. hope to have mine with you soon…

hey, you’re not supposed to read the others before you write your own!

resist, resist…

I hope you all enjoy mine

Here’s my entry Mick’s Pub

Empress, I resist the reads before! I sit in movie theatres humming with eyes closed during movie previews.

I don’t know how to include the photo in my story, but here is my link

“hey, you’re not supposed to read the others before you write your own”

the best writers read, read and then read some. and, besides, didn’t see that rule specified anywhere ;)

here’s mine

I am Steven

I’m glad someone read my story, actually. I’m struggling with the halloween one, though. Lots of ideas in my head, but I can’t stay awake long enough to follow one through so it’s probably a non-starter. I always write in my head instead of counting sheep. When I do hit on a whacking good idea it usually keeps me awake so long that I have to get up and start writing.
And DBA Lehane is right. The secret of learning to write is basically learning to read!
No worry about Mary-Jane getting into the wrong hands. As the story says, no one would touch her with a barge pole!
Happy writing!

I do think your right, faithart and DBA Lehane. If you’re going to write, you have to read. I don’t think I’m the best at either. I think it’s more of a personal choice than a rule as to whether or not to read the competition ahead of time. For me, I would be afraid of seeing one of my own ideas in someone else’s writing. I wouldn’t want to be changed by it. Lots of fiction authors refuse to read anything but non-fiction while working on a project. We all have our weirdness. No one is wrong. I definitely have much to learn, though.

The Lasting Damage Done

Haha, well I’m doing well with the resisting! I’ll write and post my own this arvo, then see what everyone else has come up with!

They Never Saw It Coming