FAWC You, Two!

[MarieWriter]

I have absolutely no idea who write what except for my own and if i could palm that of anyone else i would , lol.

So through my psychic powers and amazing deductive reason (learned through many hours of watching CSI in four different cities) and more than a little insanity here is my list of guesses...

sr71plt - Spilling the seed
slyc_willie (2) Absolute pitch, An inquiry
MSTarot (2) Stranger in the park, My old babysitter
TE999 – The golden Ring
PennLady – Be awesome
alwayswantedto – An extra ticket
MistressLynn - A chance at passion
NaokoSmith – Plaza Del Toros
Saxon_Hart – Arboreal Armour
Fawcker - Sydney surprise
mariewriter – 7.48pm Wednesday
patientlee – Friday night blues
damppanties - Virtuoso
Lovecraft68 - Karma
TxTallTales – We Gotta stop mom!


Did I say psychic? I mean't psychotic... Though seeing the voting closed I had to quickly read the last two before deciding in an eenie meenie miny mo fashion.

Is it appropriate or inappropriate to say: "No, incorrect..."

 

[damppanties]

Is it appropriate or inappropriate to say: "No, incorrect..."

Well, you can put up your own guess list.

 

[xelliebabex]

xelliebabex I think you should have a special prize (perhaps a wooden Trojan dancing banana?) for being so brave and guessing first.

I want to follow your lead, except that I only read half the stories so far. I might post my guesses this far a bit later today when I have had a chance to read a couple more.

Will it come with its own condom? 'cause that would be awesome! Hahahaha

Is it appropriate or inappropriate to say: "No, incorrect..."

Probably not as lets face it the "eenie meanie minie mo" method of guessing is dodgy at best added to the female feel vrs male feel of a story. There is probably only a few that I had half decent guesses at based on chatter here in the forum. But you could pm me and let me know if i got your correct Marie

 

[FinishTheDamnStory]

I have absolutely no idea who write what except for my own and if i could palm that of anyone else i would , lol.

So through my psychic powers and amazing deductive reason (learned through many hours of watching CSI in four different cities) and more than a little insanity here is my list of guesses...

sr71plt - Spilling the seed
slyc_willie (2) Absolute pitch, An inquiry
MSTarot (2) Stranger in the park, My old babysitter
TE999 – The golden Ring
PennLady – Be awesome
alwayswantedto – An extra ticket
MistressLynn - A chance at passion
NaokoSmith – Plaza Del Toros
Saxon_Hart – Arboreal Armour
Fawcker - Sydney surprise
mariewriter – 7.48pm Wednesday
patientlee – Friday night blues
damppanties - Virtuoso
Lovecraft68 - Karma
TxTallTales – We Gotta stop mom!


Did I say psychic? I mean't psychotic... Though seeing the voting closed I had to quickly read the last two before deciding in an eenie meenie miny mo fashion.

Interesting - my list seems to match yours on four stories, and I've got guesses in place for 10 of them so far.

 

[slyc_willie]

I suppose I should be flattered that my story -- one of them? Both of them? -- has been attributed, yet again, to a woman.

 

[MarieWriter]

well

I guessed at them all, then decided not to guess at any of them, then stuck with the only one I actually know... So I got one right!

 

[Tx Tall Tales]

Knee deep in everyone's work. I'm gonna figure this out, damn it!

I'm pretty sure I've got two determined. Not so good, huh?

 

[_Lynn_]

Knee deep in everyone's work. I'm gonna figure this out, damn it!

I'm pretty sure I've got two determined. Not so good, huh?

That's more than I have so far.

 

[sr71plt]

That's more than I have so far.

Oh, come on. One was handed to you on a platter and another is yours. So, there are two right there. I think I can get one or two more than that, and I don't know the writing styles of others at all.

 

[slyc_willie]

Knee deep in everyone's work. I'm gonna figure this out, damn it!

I'm pretty sure I've got two determined. Not so good, huh?

Don't beat yourself up. It's not easy to pin down any particular author's work. JBJ posted on the previous page that with "legendary" authors, it's easy to pin them down, but no so much with Lit authors. Rubbish. It comes down to how much you, as a reader, pays attention to small details, such as the use of certain words and the like. The only reason why established authors might be more easily defined is because they've been read so much. The same basic philosophy applies to us.

Even given the fact that writers such as King, Howard, Steele, or Tolkein are so popular, if they were to place an anonymous story into a challenge like FAWC, readers would still be hard-pressed to pick them out.

 

[_Lynn_]

Oh, come on. One was handed to you on a platter and another is yours. So, there's two right there. I think I can get one or two more than that, and I don't know the writing styles of others at all.

OK, but I don't have to guess those. So that still means I haven't figured out who wrote any of the stories.

 

[slyc_willie]

OK, but I don't have to guess those. So that still means I haven't figured out who wrote any of the stories.

The eventual reveal will surprise many, I'm sure.

I wish I wasn't in the position to know who wrote what. I'd love to join in and give my list.

 

[_Lynn_]

The eventual reveal will surprise many, I'm sure.

I wish I wasn't in the position to know who wrote what. I'd love to join in and give my list.

You'll have a turn soon.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Will it come with its own condom? 'cause that would be awesome! Hahahaha



Probably not as lets face it the "eenie meanie minie mo" method of guessing is dodgy at best added to the female feel vrs male feel of a story. There is probably only a few that I had half decent guesses at based on chatter here in the forum. But you could pm me and let me know if i got your correct Marie

It will have the gold condom - strawberry flavoured - as an integral part of the sculpture!

C'mon guys. There's no fun in everyone being right about who wrote which story. The whole fun is in getting it wildly wrong. I would be posting my guesses except that I still hope to finish reading the stories, and then I'll have a better basis for going utterly off piste.

Hey, Willie, way to go! Lots of people (including me) attributed your story to a woman last time round, too.

 

[xelliebabex]

As the winner of the dancing, condom wearing, strawberry flavoured banana sculpture, for being the first to guess every single story wrong, even my own I thought I would start off a little musing that had when i was reading the stories....

We seemed to all have our own definitions for what the basket ingredients were and meant... for example....

Intellectual for me means someone who is a theorist, a deep thinker, a philosophizer who can wax lyrical about the great mysteries of the world but the Fawker definition merely said:

Intellectual: One of the characters is very smart.

So had I been given that basket word should i go with my definition or just go with a very smart person who could be in any profession not necessarily an intellectual pursuit.

Likewise we all have our own opinion on what a sarcastic persons like, to me its a very dry wit that tends to be condscending but Fawkers definition is:

Sarcasm: One of the characters is an obvious smart-alec.

I had similar conundrums with my definition of arrogance and obnoxiousness as well as a few others but the first two I mentioned were really open to interpretation unless you took the fawker definition literally. I tried to go with the fawker definition rather than my own definition for the ingredients that landed in my basket. Are all people going to agree with it, nope but that's the fun of this tutti frutti flavoured world.

So I found it very hard to make assumptions in the stories based on those two lists.

The other two lists though very clearly stated that the items had to be used/mentioned throughout the story not just dropped in once or twice and i think this was missed by a few of the authors.

Thoughts or comments?

Still trying to work out which story was mine?.... hahahahaha

 

[NaokoSmith]

We seemed to all have our own definitions for what the basket ingredients were and meant... for example....

Intellectual for me means someone who is a theorist, a deep thinker, a philosophizer who can wax lyrical about the great mysteries of the world but the Fawker definition merely said:

Intellectual: One of the characters is very smart.

...

Thoughts or comments?

Still trying to work out which story was mine?.... hahahahaha

So far in my reading I see that three or four of the stories had Intellect and Sport, which I thought was a pretty tough combination. It's interesting to see how they worked with those ingredients - full thoughts cumming, (ooops sorry those stories are so dang hot!) coming up soon, as I actually nearly have finished reading the whole set.

Sarcasm was a toughie too. It's kinda hard to be erotically sarcastic. Sarcasm and food, blimey!

"My, I see we're having the dry roast peanuts out tonight," Cheryl quipped with a quick glance at Brad's nether regions. To her surprise the substantial erection which she had only meant to joke about immediately shrank to the size of the foodstuffs she had mentioned. Her disappointment was as large as his penis was now small.

 

[damppanties]

Just three more to read and then I'll post my guesses.

I have most of them paired up with authors already, so we shall see how the last ones fare. I'll be majorly if the new ones make me confused about the ones already paired.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Don't beat yourself up. It's not easy to pin down any particular author's work. JBJ posted on the previous page that with "legendary" authors, it's easy to pin them down, but no so much with Lit authors. Rubbish. It comes down to how much you, as a reader, pays attention to small details, such as the use of certain words and the like. The only reason why established authors might be more easily defined is because they've been read so much. The same basic philosophy applies to us.

Even given the fact that writers such as King, Howard, Steele, or Tolkein are so popular, if they were to place an anonymous story into a challenge like FAWC, readers would still be hard-pressed to pick them out.

^^^^WILLIE WANKER is wrong per usual. Some LIT writers have fixed styles that are as obvious as beacons (or old shit), and famous writers are more so. Charles Dickens is the most obvious example.

 

[slyc_willie]

As the winner of the dancing, condom wearing, strawberry flavoured banana sculpture, for being the first to guess every single story wrong, even my own I thought I would start off a little musing that had when i was reading the stories....

We seemed to all have our own definitions for what the basket ingredients were and meant... for example....

Intellectual for me means someone who is a theorist, a deep thinker, a philosophizer who can wax lyrical about the great mysteries of the world but the Fawker definition merely said:

Intellectual: One of the characters is very smart.

So had I been given that basket word should i go with my definition or just go with a very smart person who could be in any profession not necessarily an intellectual pursuit.

Likewise we all have our own opinion on what a sarcastic persons like, to me its a very dry wit that tends to be condscending but Fawkers definition is:

Sarcasm: One of the characters is an obvious smart-alec.

I had similar conundrums with my definition of arrogance and obnoxiousness as well as a few others but the first two I mentioned were really open to interpretation unless you took the fawker definition literally. I tried to go with the fawker definition rather than my own definition for the ingredients that landed in my basket. Are all people going to agree with it, nope but that's the fun of this tutti frutti flavoured world.

So I found it very hard to make assumptions in the stories based on those two lists.

The other two lists though very clearly stated that the items had to be used/mentioned throughout the story not just dropped in once or twice and i think this was missed by a few of the authors.

Thoughts or comments?

Still trying to work out which story was mine?.... hahahahaha

The ingredients of each basket were left open-ended to allow for personal interpretation. What was listed was more of a suggestion than a true definition.

Ultimately, it's up to the readers to determine how well the four different aspects were used. Personally, I liked seeing all the different variations. Sure, some ingredients were sprinkled in, others were thoroughly mixed. There's no reason to be a taskmaster about how well they were used, though I'm flattered the way writers took it to heart that all four had to be used, and made the effort to make them significant throughout the story.

 

[slyc_willie]

Just three more to read and then I'll post my guesses.

I have most of them paired up with authors already, so we shall see how the last ones fare. I'll be majorly if the new ones make me confused about the ones already paired.

I'm looking forward to seeing your guesses.

 

[damppanties]

I'm looking forward to seeing your guesses.

Coming later today.

I have you down for only one of the ones I've read so far. Can't figure out the other one.

 

[sr71plt]

of people (including me) attributed your story to a woman last time round, too.

So far, mine has been attributed to a woman author too--as were most of mine from the last exercise, except for the GM one, which was latched onto me by default because apparently none of the rest of you are game for trying GM--and therefore I can't write it in an exercise now either.

Out of fairness I demand an exercise where everyone has to write a GM one.

 

[sr71plt]

As the winner of the dancing, condom wearing, strawberry flavoured banana sculpture, for being the first to guess every single story wrong, even my own I thought I would start off a little musing that had when i was reading the stories....

We seemed to all have our own definitions for what the basket ingredients were and meant... for example....

Intellectual for me means someone who is a theorist, a deep thinker, a philosophizer who can wax lyrical about the great mysteries of the world but the Fawker definition merely said:

Intellectual: One of the characters is very smart.

So had I been given that basket word should i go with my definition or just go with a very smart person who could be in any profession not necessarily an intellectual pursuit.

Likewise we all have our own opinion on what a sarcastic persons like, to me its a very dry wit that tends to be condscending but Fawkers definition is:

Sarcasm: One of the characters is an obvious smart-alec.

I had similar conundrums with my definition of arrogance and obnoxiousness as well as a few others but the first two I mentioned were really open to interpretation unless you took the fawker definition literally. I tried to go with the fawker definition rather than my own definition for the ingredients that landed in my basket. Are all people going to agree with it, nope but that's the fun of this tutti frutti flavoured world.

So I found it very hard to make assumptions in the stories based on those two lists.

The other two lists though very clearly stated that the items had to be used/mentioned throughout the story not just dropped in once or twice and i think this was missed by a few of the authors.

Thoughts or comments?

Still trying to work out which story was mine?.... hahahahaha

I think you're right, but that individual interpretation is natural--and I'm looking forward to discussion on use of basket with this point in mind, discussions that really can't happen when authorship is still being mulled.

For instance, I think that "sarcasm"--and I agree with your view of that--is one of the hardest traits to cover in a story, and I think one story did it really well and one not so well--and, if I remember, one that didn't hit it for me at all.

And I think that ones like "vehicle" invited the author just to drop a car in here and there--and that some fell into the trap of just doing that and therefore not being clever with that element and some (the Zamboni) didn't.

When the opportunity arises, I'd like also to hear how comfortable authors were with their basket (and why/why not) and whether they wrote from a vision of those parameters given or just hammered the required elements into some story they already wanted to write.

 

[damppanties]

So far, mine has been attributed to a woman author too--as were most of mine from the last exercise, except for the GM one, which was latched onto me by default because apparently none of the rest of you are game for trying GM--and therefore I can't write it in an exercise now either.

Out of fairness I demand an exercise where everyone has to write a GM one.

I've never written GM. Nothing against it really... it's just never happened.

Jokes aside, it would be really nice to have some other category than chain stories for the next fawc though.

 

[PennLady]

I've never written GM. Nothing against it really... it's just never happened.

Jokes aside, it would be really nice to have some other category than chain stories for the next fawc though.

Same with me. I've never had an idea for a GM story. I'd write it if I did. I wouldn't mind trying, though, and I'd also be up for a FAWC in a single category.