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“Hammered – an Ode to Mickey Spillane” Story Event: Official Support Thread

I find myself going more modern-day - Justified but with a PI rather than a Marshall. The big city ain't the one place with a claim to the corrupt and broken.
 
ChloeTzang said:
Do you have an existing one you want in? Really, I think it should be a new story, or it becomes more like a rehash.
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I do, it's the first that was going to be a series but... shit happens and I couldn't get into it any more. But seeing as I have a year, I might just try and finish the second in the series.

Maybe I could submit both if I do finish the second one.
 
I don't know how you people who have written 100+ stories on this site do it. I know that my story is going to get three Anonymous comments. "Why did you write a noir? I hate noirs-one star", "There should never be violence, this is a sex story site- reported.", and "There needs to be more violence and everyone should have got raped-1 star."

I started mine for that Amorous Goods event back in October but ran out time, so it has an occult vibe. Plus, the possible plot twist is that the PI is a ghost unknowning investigating his own murder, which does not fit the noir style. That would have changed the whole story of 'I,Jury' completely if in the final scene he found out, completely out of no where, that it was shape shifters or he was the guy killed at the beginning.

Can something be 90% noir and 10% fantasy and horror? I am hoping it does and that there is another Amorous Goods so whatever I throw together can be in both.

If something starts out a standard PI noir murder plot, most of it continues to be a standard noir mystery right up to the point towards the end when the characters realized they've entered the Twilight Zone, was it ever really noir at all?
 
Lovecraft_lore2 said:
I don't know how you people who have written 100+ stories on this site do it. I know that my story is going to get three Anonymous comments. "Why did you write a noir? I hate noirs-one star", "There should never be violence, this is a sex story site- reported.", and "There needs to be more violence and everyone should have got raped-1 star."

I started mine for that Amorous Goods event back in October but ran out time, so it has an occult vibe. Plus, the possible plot twist is that the PI is a ghost unknowning investigating his own murder, which does not fit the noir style. That would have changed the whole story of 'I,Jury' completely if in the final scene he found out, completely out of no where, that it was shape shifters or he was the guy killed at the beginning.

Can something be 90% noir and 10% fantasy and horror? I am hoping it does and that there is another Amorous Goods so whatever I throw together can be in both.

If something starts out a standard PI noir murder plot, most of it continues to be a standard noir mystery right up to the point towards the end when the characters realized they've entered the Twilight Zone, was it ever really noir at all?
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Hey, go with what inspires you. The only real guidance is that hard-edged noir style, and there's endless ways you can apply that to stories, categories, you name it. So don't overthink it, just write it and find out :D
 
I liked Stacy Keach's Mike Hammer and loved Robert Urich's Spenser: For Hire back in the 80s, so I've been giving this challenge a lot of thought. I even considered converting my story completed today for this challenge this since there were a number of similar elements (suspense, urban decay, drugs, betrayal, violence) but the challenge is still a long way off and going from a farm setting with a young adult romance in its current form to the mature noir-type erotic couplings story changed it too much.

Lovecraft_lore2 said:
"There should never be violence, this is a sex story site- reported."
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I was a bit worried about that with my current story so I tried not to be more graphic than some of the stories I've read here in the past and let Laurel know in the note to be on alert for it. A "violence" tag was included, and, while I don't usually care for warnings, I mentioned it in the author's note at the beginning, just in case for this very reason.
 
I apologize if this question is already answered, but can submissions to this competition be in any category?
 
Just_Words said:
I apologize if this question is already answered, but can submissions to this competition be in any category?
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Yes. There's no limit. Some categories are likely to fit more obviously than others with this event, but that shouldn't limit anyone's imagination.
 
I am addicted to noir. I'd already read a number of the Mike Hammer novels. The plot almost always includes a femme fatale, one that turns out to be the leader of crime. All through the story Mike Hammer says that when he finds the person behind everything he'll kill them... and well, he does.

"Kiss me, Deadly"

I will have to practice a lot to have enough skill to write it.

September 2021, right?
 
Diance said:
I am addicted to noir. I'd already read a number of the Mike Hammer novels. The plot almost always includes a femme fatale, one that turns out to be the leader of crime. All through the story Mike Hammer says that when he finds the person behind everything he'll kill them... and well, he does.

"Kiss me, Deadly"

I will have to practice a lot to have enough skill to write it.

September 2021, right?
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It goes live 1 October. Believe me, the time will slip away.

It’s just for fun, so give it your best shot.
 
Time will slip away unless the story gets finished first. Then it'll drag until you can submit it.
 
Perfect event for me!

I've preambled more than one of my stories with "I wish Lit had a 'Noir' category". I like my sentences short. Too short. And my girls bad. So bad, they make me feel good.
 
FWIW, ProWritingAid has a series of free webinars for Crime Writing Week. Time zone is all wrong for me, but it might be useful for some.
 
As a big fan of erotica and crime fiction, mine is going to be dark and non-con, involving a big criminal investigation. Easily the darkest story I've ever done.

I'm excited for this.
 
I remember an x-rated parody from a long time ago. Can't find it, but here are some of the lines.

"I was sitting at my desk when a sultry blonde walked into my office and pointed a pair of 38s at me. She also had a gun."

"We took a shortcut to Moxie's place but got a flat. Vera came up with a plan. We got out of the car. I pumped for a while, then Vera pumped, and I pumped again. Then we decided to fix the tire."

I know - corny, but it stuck in my mind. I'll see if I can get the creative juices flowing. Should be fun.
 
Detective Noir Story

OK, so once I write, and post into whatever category seems best to me, how do I actually sign the story up as an entry?

Well, you said there were no stupid questions - challenge accepted! :D
 
Just to make the obvious point: "Mickey Spillane" wrote lurid, pulp, "schlock" crime thrillers - He was no Chandler, no Dashiell Hammett. He was originally, and always, a comic-book writer. He was, to crime fiction, what porn is to erotica.

And his writing certainly wasn't what I would call "noir". It was more "rouge et noir" - Gory, tacky like a bondage dungeon, with waver-thin characters acting out predictable set-pieces.

So, like a good EC comic book, a good Spillane pastiche should be short on subtlety and nuance and plot, and long on sex and violence.
 
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medinnus said:
OK, so once I write, and post into whatever category seems best to me, how do I actually sign the story up as an entry?
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You have it ready for when the site says it's ready to take submissions, then follow instructions. Keep an eye on this thread, coz it will tell you when and what.
 
Single Story, or Short Series?

Just wanted to double-check.

This is for a single-story, correct? Not a series? I only ask because one of the main tropes of these kinds of stories is the chapter cliffhangers that can be used to great effect when done well.
 
drscar said:
Just wanted to double-check.

This is for a single-story, correct? Not a series? I only ask because one of the main tropes of these kinds of stories is the chapter cliffhangers that can be used to great effect when done well.
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Stand alone story, yes.

But there nothing to stop you leaving it with an open ending, for a sequel. But not a cliffhanger ending.
 
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