First Ever Crime and Punishment Story Event - Official Support Thread

[Candy_Kane54]

If I'm finished with my radiation treatments, I'll have a story to enter.

 

[Arking]

I have a silly question, but I'll ask anyway.

Do you have a maximum length for a story?

 

[alohadave]

I have a silly question, but I'll ask anyway.

Do you have a maximum length for a story?

No maximum length. Write long if that what you want.

 

[Arking]

No maximum length. Write long if that what you want.

Thank you, Dave.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I've only gotten half done, so no entry this year.

 

[Voboy]

I'm champing at the bit. I like my story for this.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

This will be a first for me and I'm looking forward to seeing how it is received.

 

[Seadog777]

I'm currently writing 2 stories for the "Ode to Mickey Spillane" Challenge.

1 is the POV from a detective.

1 is the POV from a mafia member.

Could I put 1 in that challenge and the other in this challenge???

Just want to clarify.

 

[NoTalentHack]

I think I finally have a solid idea. Time permitting, I'll be doing this one.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Wish I could. Can't even write for myself or for sale right now—too much pay work. Bloggers got to blog, podcasters have to cast, and the others well they got to do what they got to do, so I must do for them before I can do for me.

 

[SeraphNocturne]

I think I have too many ideas for this one... I'm going to have to settle on one though there's no way I'll have time for them all.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I think I have too many ideas for this one... I'm going to have to settle on one though there's no way I'll have time for them all.

But that's a better problem than no ideas a'tall.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

3k words in, nowhere near the sexy bits yet. This could turn into a whole novel but I don't have that kind of time!

I'm setting it five years in the future so I can claim legislative procedures have been simplified a bit, and to avoid references to any current politicians or politics.

 

[WifeWatchman]

I think I finally have a solid idea. Time permitting, I'll be doing this one.

An idea for a story just popped into my head. What started as a fantasy of two hot MILFs with two teen studs (college aged) just evolved into a serial killer story that will tie in with some previous Iron Crowbar stories. I love it when the Universe sends me these unexpected thoughts...

 

[Candy_Kane54]

My story is about 60% done with three more radiation treatments left to go. I hope I'll be able to get back to writing quickly.

 

[NoTalentHack]

My story is about 60% done with three more radiation treatments left to go. I hope I'll be able to get back to writing quickly.

Good luck with the rest of your treatments! I hope you have a quick and full recovery.

 

[WifeWatchman]

My story is about 60% done with three more radiation treatments left to go. I hope I'll be able to get back to writing quickly.

Git 'er done, and git 'er done. (And best wishes for successful treatments.)

 

[joy_of_cooking]

Is it okay if the crime is nothing more than a macguffin to get things started?

I'm working on a story set in a matriarchical world where men are property. In the first chapter, which is all I plan to submit for this challenge, a woman comes home and informs her husband that she's reached a settlement with her employer. They won't press charges for the embezzling if she can pay them treble damages. She's going to sell him to raise the funds. He agrees to go along with it so that their daughter doesn't get fucked over by her mother's mistake. They have bittersweet goodbye sex.

(We don't hear much more about the crime after that. The other four chapters follow the husband with his new owner. It eventually becomes a sweet "girl buys boy, boy seduces girl for fear of dying in penniless squalor and/or condemning his daughter to the same, feelings ensue" kind of story.)

 

[MelissaBaby]

Is it okay if the crime is nothing more than a macguffin to get things started?

I'm working on a story set in a matriarchical world where men are property. In the first chapter, which is all I plan to submit for this challenge, a woman comes home and informs her husband that she's reached a settlement with her employer. They won't press charges for the embezzling if she can pay them treble damages. She's going to sell him to raise the funds. He agrees to go along with it so that their daughter doesn't get fucked over by her mother's mistake. They have bittersweet goodbye sex.

(We don't hear much more about the crime after that. The other four chapters follow the husband with his new owner. It eventually becomes a sweet "girl buys boy, boy seduces girl for fear of dying in penniless squalor and/or condemning his daughter to the same, feelings ensue" kind of story.)

I think it would only be appropriate if the commission of the crime was included in the narrative, not just addressed after the fact. But that's just my opinion.

 

[lushusboobs]

I look forward to it.

 

[WifeWatchman]

Is it okay if the crime is nothing more than a macguffin to get things started?

Only if you provide us with McMuffins as a bribe. Just kidding. You do you.

 

[Voboy]

Is it okay if the crime is nothing more than a macguffin to get things started?

My crime happens entirely off-screen. I mention it in a different story, but it's off-screen there too. My whole story for this one is composed of the detectives chasing down the perp.

 

[Devinter]

I would like to participate in this competition. Please sign me up!

I'll start working on my entry tonight.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Looks like I'll have my story done in time to meet the posting deadline ...

 

[MediocreAuthor]

Ugh... I haven't even started. I'm never gonna get it done. Lol