Writer's Volleyball 2009 - Guidelines & Commentary

Post by **Darb** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:16 pm

If anyone's watching, can we get some feedback ?

Are you happy, sad, bored, amused ?

If you want us to continue our efforts, let us know by making your presence felt.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:46 pm

Well, I for one love it.
I'm waiting for clong's participation.
I was thinking of one myself, but it is hard, very hard... I'll try, if I find the right inspiration...

Post by **clong** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:30 pm

I'm sorry I haven't gotten to this yet

Would you believe...The Sound of Music meets LotR, culminating in nuns singing "How do you solve a problem like Moria?"???

Post by **Darb** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:28 pm

Had a nasty fight with my creative muse today ... then we had rough make-up sex ... then we fought again and she stormed out. Might be a day or two before she lets me post again.

Post by **clong** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:14 am

Ok, another entry from Curt. It started out to be kind of noirish, but ended up being no particular genre (beyond the obvious Tolkien plot elements).

I gave up on trying to make my Sound of Music pastiche work.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:05 am

clong

Enters Aragorn.. under whatever assumed names...

I can't wait to read what comes next (unless I manage to write it??? fat chance..)

Post by **clong** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:02 am

And we have a new participant... Nice job, The Egoist

Post by **Darb** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:01 pm

Indeed

Looks like Aragorn's been introduced as a Texas Ranger ... I like it, Clong ...

I have a very heavy and stressful week coming up, so it may be a few days before I can post ...

Post by **Darb** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:29 pm

Ok, I posted a quickie (re: Tarot spread).

I have a longer post waiting waiting on standby, that I havent had time to finish. I have a hectic stretch coming up, so I'm not sure when I'll get around to finishing it.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:25 am

I did a short-short one.
"Ca ne fait pas beaucoup avancer le schmilblick" as we say in almost-french: the buck(?) did not go very far, except for pushing Freddo's sugar (and cholesterol) blood level even higher.
But I just could not resist: it is all for the spoonerism (with added kniferism: r vs rr)
There is also a tribute to Raven Sable, from "Good Omens".

Post by **Darb** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:20 am

Did a horror snippet yesturday, which carried us over to page 2.

I have another one mostly written, but not sure when I'll get to finish it ... a fireside sililoquy (read: explanatory monolog).

Anyway, I figured Clong would enjoy my having made the late Spiro Agnew as the current wraith leader of the Nazgul (Spiral Agnow in this alternate reality) ... although it occured to me afterwards that Joseph McCarthy might have worked even better.

I'm happy to change it retroactively, if people like the latter better.

Post by **Darb** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:34 pm

Egoist: Well done. You, er ... you do remember the forum is limited to PG-13, right ?

Post by **clong** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:19 am

Nice job, everyone

I'll take a stab at another post in the next few days.

Post by **Darb** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:28 am

Ok, I posted a longish one ... a double-length entry (almost 1,800 words). I've been adding bits and pieces to it, as time permitted, over the past two weeks, and finally found a way to shoehorn it in. It takes a stab at filling in some of the history of the ring and the conflict behind it that the "Council of Elroy" sidestepped.

Someone else go.

Post by **Darb** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:41 am

Edit: I corrected a goof in my pseudo-history of the ring, and tweaked it here and there, to make it flow more smoothly.

BTW, if we keep abusing poor Freddo like this, he's going to snap long before he reaches Australia. I'm sure The Egoist will probably get a kick out of Cangolf's honest question about Freddo's nightmare. That had to hurt. I even got a little WOTD mileage out of it.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:21 pm

I looked up the phrase "pie in the sky" that Brad attributes to "the liberal left".
I was amused to see that the phrase was coined by a labor activist to ridicule the Salvation Army.

I wonder how they are going to reach Australia. Is Shadowfax going to turn out to be amphibious vehicle? Or in this Third Age of America, is there a land bridge to Australia? I guess we'll fidn out eventually...

Post by **Darb** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:36 pm

Well, the whole liberal vs conservative theme was injected by Clong ... I'm just running with the proverbial football that he tossed. In my imagination, the fictionalized conflict we're narrating transcends political party, and is more accurately viewed as a battle between good and evil. The political overtones are just modern day cultural sauce for the literary goose in this instance.

As for eventually reaching australia .... recall that in the LOTR, shadowfax never goes to mordor. The fellowship gets split in three. We have a smaller fellowship in this tale (at the moment anyway), so splitting in two at some point would probably be easier to manage - but that's probably still a ways ahead yet. That's also assuming we even stick with the current pseudo Tolkien storyline - who knows where this match will go ?

p.s. I polished my fireside post a tad more.

Post by **Darb** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:28 pm

Added an addendum, to help move the plot forward some more.

I'm done for a few days at least.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:32 pm

The newcomer was never formally introduced, or did I miss it?
But he was called Aragen a couple of times, I think the spelling Aragorn is just a misprint? Or a twisted plot by Rupert's ring maleficious influence?

Post by **Darb** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:41 pm

Clong introduced him back at the diner. I opted to use the name Aragen instead of Aragorn, so that we're not so directly derivative from Tolkien.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:39 am

By "introduced" I meant "named". Clong was indded the first to describe him, but your had the honor of choosing his name

The typo I referred to is that on one occasion you actually spell his name Aragorn instead of Aragen (to be precise, the last time, when he puts water on the ashes)

Post by **Darb** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:57 am

Ooops, I'll fix that ... thanks.

Algot Runeman · Post by **Algot Runeman** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 3:28 pm

Lurking, or more accurately wandering in the Quill and Fountain area of the Forum, I read through this commentary and the 2008 effort to see if it might be somewhere to leave tracks. I think I follow the idea, doubting my skills immensely.

The 2009 commentary thread is several pages long and seems to refer to to characters as if the story were under way, as one would hope it would be by nearly the end of April.

But when I sought to examine the 2009 story itself, I was presented with a very odd message:

The topic or post you requested does not exist

My browser reports the address:
viewtopic.php?t=118060

Am I missing something, or is the 2009 semi-athletic, semi-literate game AWOL (genre: military)?

Is it "kicking/serving" somewhere else?

Post by **KiltanneN** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 3:42 pm

Algot Runeman wrote:
The topic or post you requested does not exist
My browser reports the address:
viewtopic.php?t=118060

Am I missing something, or is the 2009 semi-athletic, semi-literate game AWOL (genre: military)?

Is it "kicking/serving" somewhere else?

When i vlivked on the link you provided - it worked for me?

Is anybody else having a problem?

Post by **clong** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:05 pm

the thread appears to have been quarantined...Anybody know why?