Voting Thread: The Cardinal Sins of Carnal Writing

[Stella_Omega]

Just in case the votes haven't been tallied-
I found all of these to be well-written, regardless of the extreme challenge
I was simply not up to it, to my shame. But I have nejoyed the fruits of these brave soul's labor and i want to thank them all

Best Story: The best-written and most enjoyable embodiment of the author's chosen sin. -9
Best Parody or Comic Piece- 3
Guiltiest Pleasure -4
Most Disturbingly Hot -4 (don't those two go together anyway?)
Best "Serious" Rehabilitation of a Sin -8

 

[sophia jane]

Best Story: Pied Piper

Best Parody: going to pass on this one

Guiltest Pleasure: Dear Diary

Most Disturbingly Hot: Dear Diary

Best Serious Orange Juice Dialogue

ETA: Great job everyone. These were fun to read.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Kicking this up - last chance to vote! I will tally votes tomorrow morning.

Shanglan

 

[Selena_Kitt]

morning? *perk*

 

[BlackShanglan]

May I have the envelope please?

Here at last are the results for the voting. First, let me thank everyone for contributing; I had enormous fun reading the entries, and they set a remarkable standard of quality. It was all I could do not to start posting snippets of my favorite quotations to the thread. Voting was very close; all of the stories received some votes, and all of them were justly complimented for their achievements.

Before the totals for the categories, I shall introduce our writers. The authors of the stories are:

#1: "Perfect Strangers to Love": OhMissScarlett
#2: "Fire in the Foundry: an Exercise in Metaphor Torture": MalachiteInk
#3: "Dear Diary": Bedtime Storyteller
#4: "Pied Piper": SelenaKittyn
#5: "Breathless Stargazing": Oggbashan
#6: Excerpt from "A Far Cry From Heaven": AngelShadow
#7: "A New Point of View": English Lady
#8: Untitled "Orange Juice Dialogue": Colleen Thomas
#9: Untitled "Numerical Measurements": BlackShanglan
#10: Untitled excerpt for "True Story": lilredjammies

And the grand chief sinners ...

Best Story: Untitled "Numerical Measurements" by BlackShanglan. "Pied Piper" by SelenaKittyn was a close second.

Best Parody or Comic Piece: "Breathless Stargazing" by Oggbashan, in an incredibly tight race. "Fire in the Foundry" by MalachiteInk, "Dear Diary" by Bedtime Storyteller, and untitled "Orange Juice Dialogue" by Colleen Thomas locked in a three-way tie one vote behind the winner.

Guiltiest Pleasure: "Pied Piper" by Selenkittyn, with "Perfect Strangers to Love" by OhMissScarlett hot on her heels.

Most Disturbingly Hot: "Pied Piper" by SelenaKittyn, in another hotly contended category. "Fire in the Foundry" by MalachiteInk, "Dear Diary" by Bedtime Storyteller, and untitled "Orange Juice Dialogue" by Colleen Thomas met in another close draw one vote below.

Best "Serious" Rehabilitation of a Sin: Untitled "Numerical Measurements" by BlackShanglan, with untitled "Orange Juice Dialogue" by Colleen Thomas close behind.

Thank you all very kindly for participating and sharing some really excellent stories. All the best to our authors!

Shanglan

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Woo hoo!!!!!!!



We rock, go us!



I KNEW that one was yours, Shang, I just knew it... AWESOME job, everyone... this was a total blast...!

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Here at last are the results for the voting. First, let me thank everyone for contributing; I had enormous fun reading the entries, and they set a remarkable standard of quality. It was all I could do not to start posting snippets of my favorite quotations to the thread. Voting was very close; all of the stories received some votes, and all of them were justly complimented for their achievements.

Before the totals for the categories, I shall introduce our writers. The authors of the stories are:

#1: "Perfect Strangers to Love": OhMissScarlett
#2: "Fire in the Foundry: an Exercise in Metaphor Torture": MalachiteInk
#3: "Dear Diary": Bedtime Storyteller
#4: "Pied Piper": SelenaKittyn
#5: "Breathless Stargazing": Oggbashan
#6: Excerpt from "A Far Cry From Heaven": AngelShadow
#7: "A New Point of View": English Lady
#8: Untitled "Orange Juice Dialogue": Colleen Thomas
#9: Untitled "Numerical Measurements": BlackShanglan
#10: Untitled excerpt for "True Story": lilredjammies

And the grand chief sinners ...

Best Story: Untitled "Numerical Measurements" by BlackShanglan. "Pied Piper" by SelenaKittyn was a close second.

Best Parody or Comic Piece: "Breathless Stargazing" by Oggbashan, in an incredibly tight race. "Fire in the Foundry" by MalachiteInk, "Dear Diary" by Bedtime Storyteller, and untitled "Orange Juice Dialogue" by Colleen Thomas locked in a three-way tie one vote behind the winner.

Guiltiest Pleasure: "Pied Piper" by Selenkittyn, with "Perfect Strangers to Love" by OhMissScarlett hot on her heels.

Most Disturbingly Hot: "Pied Piper" by SelenaKittyn, in another hotly contended category. "Fire in the Foundry" by MalachiteInk, "Dear Diary" by Bedtime Storyteller, and untitled "Orange Juice Dialogue" by Colleen Thomas met in another close draw one vote below.

Best "Serious" Rehabilitation of a Sin: Untitled "Numerical Measurements" by BlackShanglan, with untitled "Orange Juice Dialogue" by Colleen Thomas close behind.

Thank you all very kindly for participating and sharing some really excellent stories. All the best to our authors!

Shanglan

*scarlet O'hara sigh*

Always the bridesmaid, never the brid.

thanks for doing the leg work on this shang, was quite fun

 

[Guest]

I'm glad the one that made me embarrassed to enter was yours, actually, Shanglan...that was too much fun tho! I loved all the stories and everyone who entered gets a HUGE hug!!

 

[Colleen Thomas]

For those who actually tried to rehabililate your sin, it might be helpful to explain your thinking.

I'll go first.

My sin was Orange juice dialogue.

I tried to redeem it, by setting up a situation in which the banal dialogue was a counterpoint to a stiutation going on beneath the surface. I felt like the "ordinaryness' of the conversation really brought out how unordinary the situation really was.

that was my intent at any rate.

 

[Guest]

For those who actually tried to rehabililate your sin, it might be helpful to explain your thinking.

Well, since i tend to write dialog intensive fiction, not having anyone say a word was tough! So, I took a writing exercise I'd already done and added the challenge of finding a pair of complimentary metaphors and pushing them to their limits. Without dialog, it was kinda boring, and since I classify "talking to one's self" as dialog, the only thing I could find was extreme metaphor. It was fun

 

[Selena_Kitt]

My category was: Egregious spelling and/or grammatical errors.

Figured the best way to do it was to write a character whose internal voice would lend itself to misspellings... and the Pied Piper story was actually just starting to kind of pour out of me when I realized it would be perfect for that part of the challenge... so I entered it...

 

[Kev H]

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, these were all so entertaining! I think flash fiction in some form or other is here to stay.

PS to Shan: Thanks again for the hosting/submitting...horse bridle. 21.95. Pet Mart. Overstock sale.

 

[BlackShanglan]

*scarlet O'hara sigh*

Always the bridesmaid, never the brid.

thanks for doing the leg work on this shang, was quite fun

Wait ... wait .. there's got to be some way that makes us married or something on the rehab vote.

Shanglan

 

[BlackShanglan]

I still can't believe OhMissScarlett got me hot and bothered over "Perfect Strangers." She has a gift.

I took numerical descriptions because I hate them with a passion. Carson was spot-on about my inspiration when he described my piece as "Rain Man porn."

Thanks very much, Kev, for the tip. It's been good to see you on the thread.

Shanglan

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I still can't believe OhMissScarlett got me hot and bothered over "Perfect Strangers." She has a gift.

I took numerical descriptions because I hate them with a passion. Carson was spot-on about my inspiration when he described my piece as "Rain Man porn."

Shanglan

Haha. Other than Bonanza slash, it's just the worst subject matter I could imagine, lol.

I was so off on any of my guesses as to which author wrote what. Now it all makes perfect sense, of course.

 

[smoochypig]

So, I took a writing exercise I'd already done ... It was fun

Has Carson been practising his metaphors again?

 

[oggbashan]

I had already written a run-on sentence as 'How not to do it' as an example of how to mess up Word's reading ease system so writing 'Breathless Stargazing' was a repeat.

Submitting it as an Earth Day entry has caused some consternation among the 'anons'.

Og

PS. For the record: Grade Level 12 (Word's highest) and reading ease zero.

 

[English Lady]

Thanks for setting this up Shanglan and I lurvbed your numbers

Malachite -I thought yours was really hot -what the hell does that say about me?*LOL*

I was so in awe of all the other entries!!! Well done everyone!

Okay, so I took the dreaded mirror scene. I wanted it to be in there for a real reason. I thought if osmeone had never seen their reflection in the mirror before then they probably would describe themselves internally, as it would be such a surprise...and from there came my untamed beast of a girlie

 

[Guest]

Thanks for setting this up Shanglan and I lurvbed your numbers

Malachite -I thought yours was really hot -what the hell does that say about me?*LOL*

I think it says you have a fabulous sense of the ridiculous and a love for metaphor extremism as big as mine Although, I must admit, I still LIKE it, even though I see its faults. Some of the lines are soo..extreme...that I grin when I read them.

I really enjoyed all the entries, especially those I kept wincing through -- and getting all hot over anyway. Now THAT is disturbing!

 

[BlackShanglan]

Okay, so I took the dreaded mirror scene. I wanted it to be in there for a real reason. I thought if osmeone had never seen their reflection in the mirror before then they probably would describe themselves internally, as it would be such a surprise...and from there came my untamed beast of a girlie

I loved what you did with it, EL, and that idea of the mirror as an unfamiliar concept is a great one. You know I have the most terrible resistance to mirror scenes, but you did it wonderfully.

Shanglan

 

[English Lady]

I loved what you did with it, EL, and that idea of the mirror as an unfamiliar concept is a great one. You know I have the most terrible resistance to mirror scenes, but you did it wonderfully.

Shanglan

I'm going to trasure these words -thanks

 

[Stella_Omega]

Thanks for setting this up Shanglan and I lurvbed your numbers

Malachite -I thought yours was really hot -what the hell does that say about me?*LOL*

I was so in awe of all the other entries!!! Well done everyone!

Okay, so I took the dreaded mirror scene. I wanted it to be in there for a real reason. I thought if osmeone had never seen their reflection in the mirror before then they probably would describe themselves internally, as it would be such a surprise...and from there came my untamed beast of a girlie

I don't know why I am so surprised, EL! I never would have expected that character from you- which says more about you than me, of course. Magnifico!

 

[English Lady]

I don't know why I am so surprised, EL! I never would have expected that character from you- which says more about you than me, of course. Magnifico!

*grinning* oh yes, I'm really an untamed beast...

 

[BlackShanglan]

*grinning* oh yes, I'm really an untamed beast...

But we're working on you. We'll have you in harness one day yet.

 

[Bedtime Storyteller]

I wrote "Dear Diary" with the cock of monster proportions, and I'm quite honored by those of you who voted it as both comic and disturbingly hot. Thanks for the vote of confidence!

I took that one on because I tend to write about very real characters in my stories with faults and imperfections, so the thought of something so outrageous struck my fancy. The problem, then, became: who would be so naive and so outspoken as to describe such a beast? ....and having once been a rather free-spirited college student with an Xrated diary, well, it just seemed to make sense that a sex loving coed would be the type to bare all (pun intended) to her diary, and perhaps even exaggerate just a smidgen. And that, dear friends, is how "Dear Diary" was born.

I must say I thoroughly enjoyed all the stories, so thanks to all of you who gave me such a nice break from the "ordinary" stuff!