A Challenge...?

[caddyman]

Following a chat in the pub last night with smokingboot, I have decided that we ought at least to try to wake just_writing from the torpor it suffers from between half-hearted annual attempts to get some of you buggers to contribute Christmas ghost stories.

I have had a slight inspiration around the sad lives of the denizens of Dimpler Towers and hope to have something written in the next day or so over the bank holiday weekend.

I know that a fair sample of the people on my friends list is decent writers¹; I’ve worked with a number of you on NWO and I’ve read contributions from others. There’s a talented if lazy mob out there. I count myself in the lazy bit at least. If I’m going to post something, will anyone join me?

(Cross-posted as usual, so it can be ignored by the greatest selection of people I can reach).

¹Grammatically correct, yet oddly wrong-minded; this sentence is a literary Roundhead: repulsive but right.

Comments

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

That's precisely right. 'Orrid, ain't it?

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

That sounds like my stepdaughter - a fourteen-year-old American. When I correct her execrable English, she just looks odiously smug and announces that she's going to use the "word" I originally corrected. It's really insulting, and my response of, "Fine, go ahead and speak like an uneducated mushmouth, then," comes out rather lame. I told my wife two days ago that I'll keep my gob shut in future; after all, no-one likes to be corrected, do they.

[agentinfinity.livejournal.com]

I love writing and reading other people's but sadly I find reading large chunks of text off a computer screen hard work - I find I skim read or rush it because it's a light source. Which is pretty disrespectful of other people's creativity. So my initial idea that the internet was a beautiful place to share writing has ended up - at least for me - falling flat.

If ink cartridges grew on trees (in sustainable forests) I'd be sorted ;)

[itsjustaname.livejournal.com]

I'd potentially be interested, although my available time is not consistent (and next to nothing at the moment as I lack a working laptop). My friend sushidog is a keen writer and has been looking for an LJ community where people post and comment honestly on each others work so I expect she'd be interested too.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

She's more than welcome to join - it's an open community. Trouble is trying to get people to contribute and comment!

As for you: well, there's no time limit. Post something when you have time.

[itsjustaname.livejournal.com]

I'll pass the word along.

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

I have only just begun to be able to read fiction again after seven years of not being able to so I am catching up - I am beginning to feel the twinges of ideas but can't contemplate anything even the littlest bit scarey - Mr M. said a resounding no to scarey cos he is the one that gets kept awake while I have the nightmares. So mine would have to be not scarey.

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

Every year the encouragement to do Christmas ghost-stories starts earlier and earlier! I'll see what comes up. Hmmm. I wonder if Serpent-people celebrate christmas?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I dint mean this to be a rallying call for a Christmas ghost story (tho if that's what it takes...), but any story. Long or short!