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“Hello and welcome to Radio Writeoff! I am Calamus Squeak—”
“And I’m OnTheBrim!”
“Today we’ve decided to interview a few writeoff regulars to ask them how they feel about the round which starts off now. Oh gosh I’m so excited about it!”
“Yeah, me too. But let me begin by repeating that this is a minific original fiction round. So 750 words tops and no pony!”
“That's right. You can even write 750 words on how to rightly place a comma in a sentence. So cool!”
“Wow, that looks exciting for sure. That would made for a future top contender—”
“—and the complex and intimate relationship between commas and semicolons! Their interplay, their mating dance as the words deftly and gingerly take their proper position around them, the subtle sound—”
“Okay, okay. I think we got the drift of it. Time to begin with our first guest, BudsRelistener. Hey Buds!”
“Hi there Brimstone!”
“Heh. So what’s your feeling about this new Writeoff Buds?”
“Ominous.”
“Eh? Why's that?”
“Skyline will win again, and I'll finish in the dregs.”
“Skyline always wins OF mini, eh?”
“Skyline is a fucking good writer, yeah. A bloody bastard, but I love him.”
“By the way, he's accepted to join us. Skyline?”
“Yeah? Who's this?”
“It's OnTheBrim. Remember you've accepted to say a few words about this new writeoff, right?”
“Uh. Yeah. I mean—maybe.”
“What's up? You not feeling right?”
"Yeah. I mean… My sleep schedule is fucked.”
“How so?”
“I kept looking for my car all yesterday.”
“Gosh. What happened?”
“Well, I got out with the intention of running an errand but my car wasn't where I'd parked it the night before anymore. Or anyplace else.”
“You called the cops?”
“Yeah, did that and had to walk all day.”
“Did they found it?”
“Well… err… yes and no.”
“Uh?”
“Turned out my car was in the garage. I'd forgotten I'd parked it inside.”
“… Okay… I see. So, anything to tell us?”
“Well, not really. I'm not sure I'll enter. Maybe I'll have time to snatch something of low quality in the last five minutes. I can definitely put up with the bronze this round. Anyways… Yeah. Good luck to Gold for the silver!”
“Oh yeah. Gold for Chavez are you with us?”
“Hey team!”
“How do you feel about that new round?”
“Tough competition expected.”
“You say that each time, but you still manage to get well ahead of the pack. What's your secret?”
“Writing, then writing again and on top of that more writing.”
“I feel we should create a platinum medal especially for you.”
“Don't! Besides, Skyline is ahead of me in the scoreboard.”
“That's true, but it's sorta dead heat. You'd both definitely be eligible to it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts Gold.”
“My pleasure and viva la revolucion!”
"Man, sometimes I imagine Gold as an explorer putting down his memories, much like Colombus. Speaking of which, Calamus, you know how they call Colombus in Spanish, don't you?”
“No.”
“Colón.”
“Oh my god such a gorgeous name! Was his travel punctuated with ellipses as he dashed forward to America?”
“Well I guess that's for you to find out, as elaborating into that fascinating question would drive us into too long a tangent. Next guest is Éclair au Chocolat. Hey Éclair!”
“Speaking. Yes?”
“So how do you feel about the next writeoff.”
“Like a brick. I don't feel. I merely passively register.”
“You know winter has passed, right? Time to shuck that meme off!”
“Bricks disregard seasons. They endure in spring and summer alike. Now I feel like a brick in spring.”
“And what a brick in spring feels like?”
“I don't know. I haven't thought about it yet.”
“But bricks don't think!”
“Who knows? Maybe there are sapient bricks? Maybe they all think but they just can't reach out to us? Maybe… Wow that would made for such a good prompt: ‘Like a Sapient Brick’.”
“Hum, okay… And I suppose if you use sapient bricks you can't complain walls have ears, eh?”
“Wow. Such another good prompt ‘Walls Have Ears’.”
“You know it's a single prompt per entrant. So you'll have to choose.”
“Yeah, I guess I'll toss a brick to decide…”
“Right, good idea, and don't break a window. Last guest is Marett. Hello Marett!”
“Hell… oh! giggles”
“Ahem. How do you feel about this writeoff?”
“All wright off course! giggles”
“Right-o… I think we're running out of time. This is Radio Writeoff signing off. Good luck to all!”
“And I’m OnTheBrim!”
“Today we’ve decided to interview a few writeoff regulars to ask them how they feel about the round which starts off now. Oh gosh I’m so excited about it!”
“Yeah, me too. But let me begin by repeating that this is a minific original fiction round. So 750 words tops and no pony!”
“That's right. You can even write 750 words on how to rightly place a comma in a sentence. So cool!”
“Wow, that looks exciting for sure. That would made for a future top contender—”
“—and the complex and intimate relationship between commas and semicolons! Their interplay, their mating dance as the words deftly and gingerly take their proper position around them, the subtle sound—”
“Okay, okay. I think we got the drift of it. Time to begin with our first guest, BudsRelistener. Hey Buds!”
“Hi there Brimstone!”
“Heh. So what’s your feeling about this new Writeoff Buds?”
“Ominous.”
“Eh? Why's that?”
“Skyline will win again, and I'll finish in the dregs.”
“Skyline always wins OF mini, eh?”
“Skyline is a fucking good writer, yeah. A bloody bastard, but I love him.”
“By the way, he's accepted to join us. Skyline?”
“Yeah? Who's this?”
“It's OnTheBrim. Remember you've accepted to say a few words about this new writeoff, right?”
“Uh. Yeah. I mean—maybe.”
“What's up? You not feeling right?”
"Yeah. I mean… My sleep schedule is fucked.”
“How so?”
“I kept looking for my car all yesterday.”
“Gosh. What happened?”
“Well, I got out with the intention of running an errand but my car wasn't where I'd parked it the night before anymore. Or anyplace else.”
“You called the cops?”
“Yeah, did that and had to walk all day.”
“Did they found it?”
“Well… err… yes and no.”
“Uh?”
“Turned out my car was in the garage. I'd forgotten I'd parked it inside.”
“… Okay… I see. So, anything to tell us?”
“Well, not really. I'm not sure I'll enter. Maybe I'll have time to snatch something of low quality in the last five minutes. I can definitely put up with the bronze this round. Anyways… Yeah. Good luck to Gold for the silver!”
“Oh yeah. Gold for Chavez are you with us?”
“Hey team!”
“How do you feel about that new round?”
“Tough competition expected.”
“You say that each time, but you still manage to get well ahead of the pack. What's your secret?”
“Writing, then writing again and on top of that more writing.”
“I feel we should create a platinum medal especially for you.”
“Don't! Besides, Skyline is ahead of me in the scoreboard.”
“That's true, but it's sorta dead heat. You'd both definitely be eligible to it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts Gold.”
“My pleasure and viva la revolucion!”
"Man, sometimes I imagine Gold as an explorer putting down his memories, much like Colombus. Speaking of which, Calamus, you know how they call Colombus in Spanish, don't you?”
“No.”
“Colón.”
“Oh my god such a gorgeous name! Was his travel punctuated with ellipses as he dashed forward to America?”
“Well I guess that's for you to find out, as elaborating into that fascinating question would drive us into too long a tangent. Next guest is Éclair au Chocolat. Hey Éclair!”
“Speaking. Yes?”
“So how do you feel about the next writeoff.”
“Like a brick. I don't feel. I merely passively register.”
“You know winter has passed, right? Time to shuck that meme off!”
“Bricks disregard seasons. They endure in spring and summer alike. Now I feel like a brick in spring.”
“And what a brick in spring feels like?”
“I don't know. I haven't thought about it yet.”
“But bricks don't think!”
“Who knows? Maybe there are sapient bricks? Maybe they all think but they just can't reach out to us? Maybe… Wow that would made for such a good prompt: ‘Like a Sapient Brick’.”
“Hum, okay… And I suppose if you use sapient bricks you can't complain walls have ears, eh?”
“Wow. Such another good prompt ‘Walls Have Ears’.”
“You know it's a single prompt per entrant. So you'll have to choose.”
“Yeah, I guess I'll toss a brick to decide…”
“Right, good idea, and don't break a window. Last guest is Marett. Hello Marett!”
“Hell… oh! giggles”
“Ahem. How do you feel about this writeoff?”
“All wright off course! giggles”
“Right-o… I think we're running out of time. This is Radio Writeoff signing off. Good luck to all!”
Y'know, the previous thirty-seven times somepony submitted it as a prompt, Ot wasn't funny. But this time it's hilarious!
:ajbemused:
:ajbemused:
>>Monokeras
Finding my car in the garage was the third weirdest thing to happen to me that day.
The second was finding out that the thief had left a freshly written, gold-medal-worthy minific on the driver's seat.
The first was realizing that I had accidentally found my car two days early, so I couldn't enter the story into the competition. :V
Seriously though, I'm sitting this one out. I'm staffing a convention this weekend and most likely won't have the free time, but actually that wasn't what drove my decision. I'm so ruinously overdue on posting Time Enough For Love that I'm sticking myself in the penalty box and forcing myself to use my writing/commenting time here for story editing instead. I won't even be checking the thread unless someone tags me (>>horizon).
See you all in the short-story round! (Current plan is to skip the MLP minific too, for the same reason, and because I like writing short stories more anyway.)
Finding my car in the garage was the third weirdest thing to happen to me that day.
The second was finding out that the thief had left a freshly written, gold-medal-worthy minific on the driver's seat.
The first was realizing that I had accidentally found my car two days early, so I couldn't enter the story into the competition. :V
Seriously though, I'm sitting this one out. I'm staffing a convention this weekend and most likely won't have the free time, but actually that wasn't what drove my decision. I'm so ruinously overdue on posting Time Enough For Love that I'm sticking myself in the penalty box and forcing myself to use my writing/commenting time here for story editing instead. I won't even be checking the thread unless someone tags me (>>horizon).
See you all in the short-story round! (Current plan is to skip the MLP minific too, for the same reason, and because I like writing short stories more anyway.)
>>Trick_Question >>georg
I will change my mind and commit to entering on one condition: if Ot wins the prompt voting. ;)
I am *so* going to regret this joke if it somehow wins
I will change my mind and commit to entering on one condition: if Ot wins the prompt voting. ;)
I am *so* going to regret this joke if it somehow wins
>>Trick_Question
Someone please explain what Ot means. I never learned, and I've been afraid of asking.
Someone please explain what Ot means. I never learned, and I've been afraid of asking.
>>Spectral
A combination of a typo and accidentally hitting the submit button resulted in "Ot" being on the prompt list once. Everyone immediately realized this was hilarious, and it has since been submitted most rounds, to the continued amusement of all.
A combination of a typo and accidentally hitting the submit button resulted in "Ot" being on the prompt list once. Everyone immediately realized this was hilarious, and it has since been submitted most rounds, to the continued amusement of all.
Oh heck. If Ot wins, I'll do this one too. And I don't do genfic rounds!
(Note that this may serve as motivation not to let Ot win)
(Note that this may serve as motivation not to let Ot win)
>>Haze
Well crap. I'm going to be hosting a party all day tomorrow for the S7 opener.
>>Cold in Gardez
I know, right?! That story is my favorite from all the Writeoffs! :raritydespair:
Well crap. I'm going to be hosting a party all day tomorrow for the S7 opener.
>>Cold in Gardez
I know, right?! That story is my favorite from all the Writeoffs! :raritydespair:
>>horizon
>>Cold in Gardez
Also don't call horizon Christ. It's true his ego could use a boost, but not THAT much of one.
>>Cold in Gardez
Also don't call horizon Christ. It's true his ego could use a boost, but not THAT much of one.
>>Trick_Question
Besides calling somebody Christ on Good Friday is somewhat ominous.
Unless you want to nail it.
Besides calling somebody Christ on Good Friday is somewhat ominous.
Unless you want to nail it.
This weekend is actually pretty free for me in the first time in a while. I've been thinking of trying to write a basic story idea for every prompt both as a challenge and because I'm rather bored, so I'll be hoping to post those in here after all the voting is done. I'm seeing a lot of prompts that could be neat to write about, so here's hoping we don't get Ot! I'm excited for the result!
I wanna do the right thing
I wanna be the ONE SHOT
I wanna have my mind straight
I wanna have my point got
I wanna be a good man
I wanna have my act down
I wanna be the future
And I wanna be right now
Sometimes I feel like I can change the world
But I don't know where to start
I dig and come up empty
Clutching an empty heart
*trumpet solo*
I wanna be the ONE SHOT
I wanna have my mind straight
I wanna have my point got
I wanna be a good man
I wanna have my act down
I wanna be the future
And I wanna be right now
Sometimes I feel like I can change the world
But I don't know where to start
I dig and come up empty
Clutching an empty heart
*trumpet solo*
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> prompt isn't Ot
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> prompt is Onesh Ot
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(Back to the con. Have a fun round!)
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> prompt is Onesh Ot
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(Back to the con. Have a fun round!)
Identity Loss, Missed Connections, Nth Time’s the Charm. One Shot-ot!
On The Air, The World in Sync with the Music. The Perfect Present. Perspective Influences the Design.
Best Kept Secret: William Antonelli Is a Fraud While The Cat’s Away. Unequal Exchange. The Egg’s on Your Face! It’s Not Your Fault We’re All Screwed, Kinda. The Wages of Error Are Death.
The Man Who Has Everything: A Lever Long Enough, A Blue Shadow, Modern Warfare, Sins Not Tragedies, What Might yet Be!
A Letter to My Future Self: Time to Leave the Nest. Fly Me to the Moon. Sunset, Remembering Home. The Stars in the Distance Harden the Heart.
I’ll Be Back. Going To Try Art and Genocide!
Where Are We? Who Do You Think You Are?
The Revolutionary!
If Walls Could Talk, Running at the Mouth… That’s impossible!
And Then, Things Got Worse…
Not Again!
Welp, There Goes the Round.
On The Air, The World in Sync with the Music. The Perfect Present. Perspective Influences the Design.
Best Kept Secret: William Antonelli Is a Fraud While The Cat’s Away. Unequal Exchange. The Egg’s on Your Face! It’s Not Your Fault We’re All Screwed, Kinda. The Wages of Error Are Death.
The Man Who Has Everything: A Lever Long Enough, A Blue Shadow, Modern Warfare, Sins Not Tragedies, What Might yet Be!
A Letter to My Future Self: Time to Leave the Nest. Fly Me to the Moon. Sunset, Remembering Home. The Stars in the Distance Harden the Heart.
I’ll Be Back. Going To Try Art and Genocide!
Where Are We? Who Do You Think You Are?
The Revolutionary!
If Walls Could Talk, Running at the Mouth… That’s impossible!
And Then, Things Got Worse…
Not Again!
Welp, There Goes the Round.
. . . Ugh.
I really like my story idea. I really do not like the resulting story I wrote.
Eh, frell it. At least I submitted something.
Good night, and good luck.
I really like my story idea. I really do not like the resulting story I wrote.
Eh, frell it. At least I submitted something.
Good night, and good luck.
Mom's Spaghetti!
Radio Writeoff: "One Shot"
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On this coming Saturday
April
22nd
At
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And
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That should be about five days after two hours before the time this was posted. :P
Screw timezones.
Srsly.
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The prelims is almost finished and there is still a bunch of stories with a low review count.
One Shott has only two
Atlantis 2050, From Above and Coup: Last Chance have only three.
Go show them some love. Also, only 16 entrants out of 30 have, at least, done one review. Ditto, go show your love.
And finally, the poll is still open here.
One Shott has only two
Atlantis 2050, From Above and Coup: Last Chance have only three.
Go show them some love. Also, only 16 entrants out of 30 have, at least, done one review. Ditto, go show your love.
And finally, the poll is still open here.
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Congrats to !Hat, CiG, and Rogue for their medals, and to everyone for making it through another original fiction round!
… No mashups? D:
Gonna skip the next round again and return for the short stories. Might throw in a quickie if I feel super inspired, but I'd feel bad about entering without reviewing, and that's the time I'm trying to reclaim.
… No mashups? D:
Gonna skip the next round again and return for the short stories. Might throw in a quickie if I feel super inspired, but I'd feel bad about entering without reviewing, and that's the time I'm trying to reclaim.
I will try to write a retrospective later, as in tomorrow.
Still, I'm strangely happy that I now lead in having the most "Most Controversial" stories in the OF rounds :D
Still, I'm strangely happy that I now lead in having the most "Most Controversial" stories in the OF rounds :D
Neutral post first!
Congrats to everyone. Not just our lovely medalists, not just our finalists, but everyone who entered. Seriously just completing something, anything, is always an accomplishment worth giving a little cheer. Writing is tough, Writeoff structure is tougher, so seriously: grats to everyone (including the two jerks who beat me >:|).
Congrats to everyone. Not just our lovely medalists, not just our finalists, but everyone who entered. Seriously just completing something, anything, is always an accomplishment worth giving a little cheer. Writing is tough, Writeoff structure is tougher, so seriously: grats to everyone (including the two jerks who beat me >:|).