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I... don't know what you mean by blocking. (They weren't supposed to be in a throne room, just kind of chilling by some crossroads or something like that.)
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Chairchucker posted:I... don't know what you mean by blocking. (They weren't supposed to be in a throne room, just kind of chilling by some crossroads or something like that.) BLOCKING is a term used in theatre and means the details of how actors move around in a scene! 
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I know nothing and I apologize.
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People who are late post anyway and I'll give you a short crit even though you can't win. It's always better to get the story out.
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sebmojo posted:BLOCKING is a term used in theatre and means the details of how actors move around in a scene! I have learned a thing today.
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Dec 23, 2012 19:06
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WHICH IS IT? G-unit vs G-Unit i suck.
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Week XX crits in brief ternary attribution -1 = kill yourself 0 = attendant lord 1 = dome worthy fodder Punctuality is next to Godliness - Chairfhcucker - Justice greek god fan fic = -1. The mountebank - SurreptitiousMuffin - The Mountebank ramblebank = -1 Signal Fire - Kaishai - The Hermit PV tendancy of fishmongers = -1 Home - Beezle Bug - 2 Wands impending doom = 0 Scheduling - Capntastic - Death smile inducing = 1 Lessons - The Saddest Rhino - The Chariot multiple property crossover choose your own adventure = -1 The Tricks of Six - gredgie - The Moon if it were easy women and children would do it= -1 A Cold Evening at George St. Croix Train Terminal - Greatbacon - Wheel of Fortune "brisk wind of winter" "bright orange light creep" "iron behemoth" heavy hands of nothing happens = -1 Victory or Death - Nyarai - The Devil the game must not go on = -1 Leaving HabSix - swaziloo - Knight of Cups "Maybe she sat still." make up your mind = -1 Improper Time - Prolonged Priapism - The Hanged Man undisclosed = 1 A Mother's Love - Noah - The Empress profile of a whiney bitch-rear end = -1 Meis - Two Ends of the Colour Spectrum - Four of Wands imaginative use of color = -1 Shlorp's Speed, Mr. Parkinsons - Tonsured - Six of Wands humorous but younglings will believe anything = -1 At the Crimson Hotel - Erik Shawn-Bohner - Nine of Swords pfff = -1 What is a Feast - Sitting Here - Temperance well written, uncompelling = -1 The Stars at Night - twinkle cave - Two of Cups learn to type = -1 Okada's Tower - Tender Child Loins - The Tower well written, fraggy = -1 New Friends - Zack_Gochuck - The High Priestess enjoyable insanity postcard = -1 Late - WilliamAnderson - Page of Cups cool premise = 0 Intervention - Etherwind - The Hierophant lost point = -1 Broken Pieces - Bad Seafood - The Star depressed drunk lady chatter = -1 Pigs - toanoradian - Seven of Wands schticky science = -1 Alligator - Fanky Malloons - Judgement goofy = -1 re-cap 22 suicides 2 watching the ladies come and go 2 tolerable though not all suicides were of equal merit, death is death, and this is the thunderdome.
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twinkle cave posted:22 suicides Well, it is Christmas 
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twinkle cave posted:re-cap 26 man enter, 4 man leave. Lot of blood on the Thunderdome floor.
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Who here would donate their stories to a TD anthology in good ole print (with possible e-book edition--but why bother)? Either it'd be sold at cost or at low profit to support something like a literary magazine, remove marks of shame from losers that do well, donate to a charity, or some other poo poo. And who would buy it?
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^^^^I would contribute and also buy it, assuming it doesn't cost anything. Gonna do some quick crits from page 74, I'll do em all if I have time. The less words I write the more I liked your story probably (maybe [not really]). Then I spose I'll be killing myself per twinkle cave, been fun dudes. Just remember that I have rigged the dome with 12000 tons of explodium, the most explosive compound known to man, which will be triggered the moment the microchip in my heart stops detecting electric impulses. gg Sitting here, gg. Swaziloo Abrupt, repetetive. The writing is like an arrhythmic staccato tapped out by chipped fingernails. Had trouble following the action, and the plot was swallowed in lots of minute details that bogged the story down rather than fleshed it out. IE I know more about the claminess of the girl character's skin than I do about the environment they are in. Someone wants to leave but also stay and also have sex but maybe they are related? I liked the clam though. You DID manage to capture some of the Knight of Cups, though, with the aquatic setting and the theme of change/leaving, as well as hinting at some sort of emotional bond between the characters. This would have been all the more clear without the unnecessary descriptions of spinning/sitting still, giggling, giggling some more, clamminess, wetness, and dampness. Overall, work on varying sentence length and ruthlessly hack apart those extra, unnecessary details. Prolonged Priaprism I pretty much like this. I feel like some of the zero-g-acceleration-vector-johnsonrod stuff would be better served in a longer piece since the story felt like it ended a bit abruptly. I liked the dialog between the computer and Raahi. As for the theme, I thought that the image of Raahi suspended in zero g was a pretty good scifi take on the hanged man. Noah I guess my biggest issue here is that the plot feels kind of limp and doesn't really go anywhere. You've got a lady reminiscing about her coma and torn apart family and then she sorta just keeps reminiscing and being alone and depressing. The description of the phallic remote control had me hoping for something more metaphorical, since the Empress is supposed to be a very virile and powerful lady card. Like she could have at least thrown the penis remote across the room. But she didn't, and I was disappointed. Meis The formatting made me grumpy. There should be a lot more line breaks than there are. In any case, this was sweet and lighthearted and if you could simplify it down into a children's book I would totally read it to my 7 year old bro. That said, the narration feels a little off. Bits like "Machines can't sleep to get energy back, that would be silly" read like they should be a character's line. When the narrator says it, it's sort of redundant commentary because the rest of the action is contingent on the robots lookiing for a power source. You could also tighten stuff up, like "She stared at them with The Four of Wands is an excitable, free-spirited card and I thought you captured that pretty well with the cheerful, adventurous robots. Tonsured It's a bit geraniquacky, but it made me smippal none the less. If only humanity knew that our enlightenment hinged on the mountain dewiest among us. I don't really know precisely what it has to do with your card, which appears to be the six of wands? But tarot is absurd anyway, much like this story, so you get a pass from me. ESB There are some typos and stuff. And there are. Lots of really. Abrupt. Sentences. This pretty 9 of swords, not the nine-of-swordsest thing I've ever read but it's there. It was allll just a dream. Or was i..t....? twinkle cave ""Can't liver[sic?] forever," I reply then touch the orb," G-unit/Unit (maybe the orb made him evolve a bigger Unit?) Also I am confused by the line breaks, as this could have been just as easily read with normal formatting. Not really sure what it has to do with the card except that there are two people and two cups, and the planets have some water on them or something. Kind of cool story, though. Tender Child Loins So a Japanese captain thinks the war is still on and is living in some kind of twisty tower until some dude comes and shows him a cell phone? IDK I feel like the Tower is a much more dramatic card. I guess it WOULD kind of bust your world to be an isolated combatant for 60 years and then have some dude show up with his nonsense words and new fangled technology. But either I am not getting a clear picture of what you were trying to do, or the story needs to not end so abruptly without any real resolution or whatever. Zack_Gochuck What WilliamAnderson Short and sweet, and pretty on theme with the card you got so good on you! That said, something about this kind of missed the mark for me. Maybe it's because I wanted the painting at the end to be more poignant and symbolic, except I didn't really get what the symbolism had to do with the rest of the story. Etherwind I've already told you this was a peeve of mine, stuff like "Fragments of something not unlike flint dug into her feet..." It is my personal stylistic opinion that in writing it muddles up the imagery to try and describe what something is by saying what it is "not unlike." I mean it could be any kind of rock, you could just say "shards of rock" or even "shards of petrified poo poo." Same thing with "unquiet reflection" a couple paragraphs down. Overall your writing reads like you have a lot of imagery in your head that is hard to pare down into flash fiction-sized bites. You have to be pretty ruthless and surgical when you're picking which details to use/not use, especially when you're writing fantasy or magical realism where poo poo can get weird pretty fast. As for the The Heirophant, I felt like the theme could have been a little more clear but you def. touched on it with the ritualistic descriptions with the alters and whatnot. Bad Seafood This is the only Poignant Slice of Life story I enjoyed this week so far. I like the end, because we don't need to know who Rachel is to know that, like the broken glass, the narrator needs to let her go. I also liked "like she was painting the bottom of the glass with whiskey." I'm assuming that Mattie kind of embodied the Star here, in which case I thought it was decently subtle. I was expecting you to talk about actual stars or something, but I was kind of pleasantly surprised. toanoradian I liked this. It's zany. ..........and actually that's all I have time for today, sorry the rest of page 74, maybe I will get around to you later.
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There were a few stories this week that ended abruptly. Don't be afraid to use all your words, people! I'll give my individual crits sometime after the results are out.
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Sitting Here posted:Meis I was expecting worse than that to be honest, considering that I had to conceive of and write it on satirday while doing other things, a fact I will use to defend my lousy formatting. I was unsure of that robots don't sleep line in the narration at the time, so yeah.. "when in doubt, leave it out" is a piece of good advice I read somewhere that I should have remembered. Thanks for the crit! I should try my hand at doing crits one of these weeks.
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Erik Shawn-Bohner posted:Who here would donate their stories to a TD anthology in good ole print (with possible e-book edition--but why bother)? Either it'd be sold at cost or at low profit to support something like a literary magazine, remove marks of shame from losers that do well, donate to a charity, or some other poo poo. I would both donate, and purchase. And probably make a bunch of other people I know purchase it too.
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twinkle cave is the finest present to Thunderdome this yuletide and I would not hear otherwise.
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Erik Shawn-Bohner posted:Who here would donate their stories to a TD anthology in good ole print (with possible e-book edition--but why bother)? Either it'd be sold at cost or at low profit to support something like a literary magazine, remove marks of shame from losers that do well, donate to a charity, or some other poo poo. I'm sure this hypothetical anthology needs an example of a losing story, and I'm happy to oblige!
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We've tossed the anthology idea around before, with no real resolutions made.Capntastic posted:If this does happen, there's a lot of logistical problems that crop up as soon as money gets involved. Especially if the only people being featured in the thing are "Winners", which seems like a precarious barrier to entry, even if it is thematically appropriate. I'd still be up for throwing stories o' mine into the ring.
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I'd just say toss all the stories in. Win, lose, middle. Organize it by week 1, 2, 3 etc. Not make a production out of it or pay writers or anything. Just to take all this poo poo and put it in print so you can have it on the shelf. If everyone elected to pay a little over cost, the money can be thrown at whatever the group wants. I agree I don't want to get any hands dirty handling money, so it's more about tossing together a project to let those who are interested have their (and others') work in print.
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Just mouth-farts but, Maybe nontraditional is something to look into, exactly because of the logistical problems. From my stand point the people here would have no problem coming up with a 2 dollar e-book actually worth three bucks. I could see people fighting for the rights to certain aspects of the book -really possibilities are endless. Just be realistic and expect the majority of projects to fail, the ones that succeed should still be worth it?
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no loving clue what you just said bro
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I'll only buy it if it's printed in the true spirit of the Thunderdome. With blood.
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Erik Shawn-Bohner posted:no loving clue what you just said bro I tend to get that.
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Erik Shawn-Bohner posted:I'd just say toss all the stories in. Win, lose, middle. Organize it by week 1, 2, 3 etc. I'd rather pick one or two of my favourite submissions than include all of them (because some of them were terrible). I'm sure there is probably information in the slef-publishing thread regarding what to do about the issue of money/profit and donating the proceeds to something the group agrees on, right?
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Fanky Malloons posted:I'd rather pick one or two of my favourite submissions than include all of them (because some of them were terrible). I'm sure there is probably information in the slef-publishing thread regarding what to do about the issue of money/profit and donating the proceeds to something the group agrees on, right? Just pop it onto a print on demand service at cost. People buy it if they want it. No fuss, no muss, no goon projects to worry about. They take your money and mail you the book.
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Rather than source the contents from the Thunderdome's previous entries, why not hold a new "round" specifically for it? Work out the book's parameters (overall word count, rough number of words per entrant, number of entrants, theme, format considerations) then hold a contest whereby anyone who's competed in Thunderdome can submit a story that fits, with the best however-many stories making it into the final volume. Obviously you'd want to be more flexible with the prompt and theme, and more generous with the deadline period, to allow people time to put together the very best they can do. Might even be worth it to have the winners pool for a professional editing pass. To be honest, it seems more in the spirit of Thunderdome that inclusion be competitive.
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That borders on goon project. And we all know the histories of those. If you're going to write something you think is publishable, then go get it published by a reputable rag/anthology. I'm thinking more of a personal memento we can keep on our shelves rather than something to get a lot of buys.
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Etherwind posted:Okay, but I'd still suggest that places in the final volume be competitive. sounds like a popular idea. Also, a few CCers want to put together a mag. Some people have offered some financial backing as well. I thought that could be supplemented by adding a dollar or so onto the cost of this here project. Maybe offer the writers that get accepted a token payment, but we'd have to agree on a lot of poo poo to get that running. That's why I thought this little anthology would be a good test-run. Get a feel for the process and make it inclusive and private among us. Maybe move on to grander things after.
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On the subject of collusion and good old boy tactics, how many of you have websites?
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Capntastic posted:On the subject of collusion and good old boy tactics, how many of you have websites? hahaha Welcome to my personal website!!! [insert under construction gif]
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Erik Shawn-Bohner posted:hahaha 
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Capntastic posted:On the subject of collusion and good old boy tactics, how many of you have websites? Do friendster account counts if so mine is *******assnoradian
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Judging is ongoing, it is proving difficult on account of you are all such terrible writers. Watch this space.
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Prolly also Christmas. Also I think we're all in different timezones or something. Lots of alright pieces this week, but it was hard to find something stand-out. Stand-out upwards, at least. The cards shuffle once more, and reveal your fates.  The Saddest Rhino draws the World and wins the day, with an amusing juxtaposition of the high and the low that charmed the heart of the fates. You are replacing Sebmojo and are chief justice next week. An honourable mention goes to Chairchucker, who sacked up first when no other would with a worn comic theme, but one well done. As Stuporstar is also retiring this week, you get to be third judge. You're getting closer and closer to that crown.  Gredgie almost avoided being the Fool for the second week in a row, but the mercy of the fates was outweighed by their duty, faced with clumsiness, creepiness, and a character called 'Max Storm'. I'm not sure if it was an attempt at parody but if so, it didn't work. But look on the bright side - the Fool is full of potential, as Chairchucker shows us. Keep on truckin'. Dishonorable mentions go to swaziloo and Beezle Bug for confused and confusing SF shorts with characters we didn't care about. Next time, put some scientific precision in your scientific fiction.  And V for Vegas, Benagain, Velyoukai, BirdOfPrey and Martello were crushed utterly by their doom. If they manage to recover in time for next week, they will have to suffer under a special restriction on content, word count, or something else the judges find amusing. Individual crits to come sometime when I have time.
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 Chairchucker as judge? It's a Christmas miracle!Also, congrats to The Saddest Rhino. As a
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Huzzah! Also this will be my last week for a bit because I'm moving and thus won't have internet for a bit.
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The honour of Grayskull has led me to the path of victory, at last  It's midnight here but I'll send a quick message to judges in a moment. Other participants: feel free to despair (happy holidays). toanoradian posted:Also, congrats to The Saddest Rhino. As a Oh man, thanks! I will try to keep this longer than my last living rhino avatar, and have some deep thoughts about your
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toanoradian posted:Where did those days of frolicking in the fields, caressing all sorts of cats go?
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Yay Saddest Rhino! The battle over your avatar was clearly meant to dishearten you, but you buckled down, ate some rusty nails and dirty needles to get your daily recommended amount of grit, and showed that anonymous, red-text-using motherfucker what for.
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Sitting Here posted:Swaziloo Peel posted:Dishonorable mentions go to swaziloo [...] confused and confusing SF shorts with characters we didn't care about. Next time, put some scientific precision in your scientific fiction. Feedback is very much appreciated. I can see that my attempt to convey the perceptions of a mind severely altered for the first time (by something not unlike MDMA) was lost on, apparently, everyone. The theme I see in my Thunderdome reviews: I need to be less subtle for this audience.
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