Challenge: putting the feelers out

[CharleyH]

On the PH, there is a challenge called 'The Gunfight'. The challenge involves 2 poets pitted against each other in real time. The challenge is to write a poem within specific parameters set by the challenger and within a specific time frame. I wonder ... can we get something like that going on the AH. Anyone interested?

 

[jomar]

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Take off your clothes
I'll do it with you

 

[Zeb_Carter]

red fish, blue fish
no fish, big fish
without a fish
with a fish
put your clothes on

 

[CharleyH]

While I much enjoy your little ditty's (with a giggle), I was hoping for a challenge that goes like this:

2 formidable writers who think they can write a hot sex story in 750 words or more and in less than... 90 minutes. Are there two bold writers with the balls?

 

[jomar]

While my balls are indeed formidable, so is the time requirement at the moment.

 

[sr71plt]

Mostly, I think, "formidable" writers don't need a challenge like this--they have their heads crammed with their own writing projects they are trying to clear the time to do--and most likely for money. Nor, if what they specialize in is erotica or porn, do they have much trouble getting something "hot" on paper in a given time frame.

Looks like a good exercise for anyone interested, but I don't see it as something "formidable" writers would consider challenging or worthwhile. Especially as it's quite squeeshy (particularly with what this web site considers to be a contest) what of any significance will be done comparatively between two works. I doubt any "formidable" writer here sees story quality as high on how rating works at Lit.

I think it might be kicky for someone to give a list of elements to put in a story by X posting date here and for anyone who wrote/posted a story to that challenge to post that they have so readers can read the various stories and discuss which ones they liked the best and why.

Oh, yeah, I hear you asking why this would work for poetry and maybe not for prose. Unfortunatley, there's almost no market for poetry, so spending time on that here at Literotica for a "formidable" writer isn't nearly the drain as spending time on a side exercise for a short story or novel writer.

 

[jomar]

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I think it might be kicky for someone to give a list of elements to put in a story by X posting date here and for anyone who wrote/posted a story to that challenge to post that they have so readers can read the various stories and discuss which ones they liked the best and why.

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We did something like this a good while back...limit of X words and had to work in 10 or so phrases...posted in a thread and, hmm, can't recall if that exercise had a blind vote or not, I think so. It was fun.

 

[sr71plt]

We did something like this a good while back...limit of X words and had to work in 10 or so phrases...posted in a thread and, hmm, can't recall if that exercise had a blind vote or not, I think so. It was fun.

Wouldn't need any sort of vote. Folks could just say what they liked and why. Doesn't need to be designated winners and losers in a writing exercise.

Darkenaid and I have discussed on the AH doing this in a running thread on one of the contests. Pretty time consuming now, though, with all of the entries in a contest.

 

[jomar]

Wouldn't need any sort of vote. Folks could just say what they liked and why. Doesn't need to be designated winners and losers in a writing exercise.

Darkenaid and I have discussed on the AH doing this in a running thread on one of the contests. Pretty time consuming now, though, with all of the entries in a contest.

No, no vote needed. But submitting them blind in these exercises/contests was good because the judgment of the writing was free from association with the author and therefore purer...no preconceptions based on any number of things.

But yeah, could be a good thread...kind of like your critiques of contest stories awhile back, but everybody chimes in. Could it affect votes? Would that matter? I haven't kept up with the vote drama.