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caddyman ([personal profile] caddyman) wrote2007-08-24 03:34 pm

A Challenge...?

Following a chat in the pub last night with [livejournal.com profile] smokingboot, I have decided that we ought at least to try to wake [livejournal.com profile] 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.

[identity profile] agentinfinity.livejournal.com 2007-08-24 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
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 ;)