Secret Author Stories Contest 2024 Talking Topic

[BendtedWreath]

2 minutes ago, Gary L said:

For future works! 

Ah, so the betrayal runs that deep. I see, I see. Such subterfuge. 🤣

[Mancunian]

24 minutes ago, Gary L said:

And @Mancunian, @kbois and others are in Gary’s naughty corner along with his ex- hero @Mark Arbour and others pending on extenuating circumstances.

To think I trusted people on this site. Unreal.  Watch out for 1⭐️ reviews…. 👿👿👿👿👿
 

seriously, great fun, even though my final total will be 2/13 if I’m lucky….

But you know you love us really. 

[W_L]

Here's my random matches:

Stories:

1. Off the Rails- Lee Wilson
2. The Fascinator Murders-Ieshwar
3. Alltopia- Jason Rimbaud
4. Hide and Seek- Mikiesboy
5. Sparkling Water- Quokka
6. Ceramic Dreams- Mark Arbour
7. Behind the Walls- drsawzall
8. Hiding in Plain Sight- kbois
9. Take me to Your Leader- W_L (Am I telling the truth or misdirecting)
10. Nox or Not?- astone2292
11. For Ever Young- Thirdly
12. Christmas in Glacier Bay- Cassie Q
13. Yacht Club- Mancunian

 

Edited August 8, 2024 by W_L

[Jason Rimbaud]

Hmm, I’m at a dilemma, I have my guesses too.  And I want to win, maybe we SA can Pm cia with our guesses so we can play too to not spoil the contest 
 

j 

[Thirdly]

Just now, Jason Rimbaud said:

Hmm, I’m at a dilemma, I have my guesses too.  And I want to win, maybe we SA can Pm cia with our guesses so we can play too to not spoil the contest 
 

j 

Or we can go @Lee Wilson's route and guess most but swap ours for fairness's sake.

[kbois]

14 hours ago, Mark Arbour said:

I am writing 2 separate series and publishing a chapter a week to avoid getting lynched by my readers, and you think I have time to jot out thousands of more words?

Rough estimate... how many more thousands of words do you think you might be able to jot out? 

Asking for a friend. 

[Gary L]

9 minutes ago, Mancunian said:

But you know you love us really. 

But it hurts when it’s a fellow Mancunian…. The only thing worse would be if you tell me you are a City fan…. You aren’t, are you? And I so loveD your stories….

[BendtedWreath]

1 minute ago, Gary L said:

But it hurts when it’s a fellow Mancunian…. The only thing worse would be if you tell me you are a City fan…. You aren’t, are you? And I so loveD your stories….

I can't. I just can't....

[Mancunian]

1 minute ago, Gary L said:

But it hurts when it’s a fellow Mancunian…. The only thing worse would be if you tell me you are a City fan…. You aren’t, are you? And I so loveD your stories….

Definitely not a City fan. And only loved, as in the past tense? I hope you still love them, there is more to come in time and when I can get back around to it @raven1 and I are doing a re-write of Thr Boot Three Years On. It got put on hold as I've been ill recently, I'm happy to say things have improved some over the last week or so.

[Mark Arbour]

11 minutes ago, kbois said:

Rough estimate... how many more thousands of words do you think you might be able to jot out? 

Asking for a friend. 

Some jot down words in stories. Others do it in the forums.  😂

[kbois]

@Cia when is the deadline for these guesses? 

Some of my guesses might have to sit in a petri dish and see if anything grows. 

[Thirdly]

Okay just for the heck of it, I randomized the randomized lists and this is now my guess:

Sparkling Water- Mancunian

Yacht Club- CassieQ

Nox or Not?- Jason Rimbaud

Hiding in Plain Sight- Mikiesboy

Alltopia- Thirdly

Take me to Your Leader- drsawzall

Hide and Seek- Lee Wilson

Behind the Walls- astone2292

Off the Rails- Ieshwar

Ceramic Dreams- kbois

For Ever Young- W_L

The Fascinator Murders- Mark Arbour

Christmas in Glacier Bay- Quokka

Edited August 8, 2024 by Thirdly

[BendtedWreath]

7 minutes ago, Mark Arbour said:

Some jot down words in stories. Others do it in the forums.  😂

Whoa, are those fighting words regarding words?

[kbois]

7 minutes ago, Mark Arbour said:

Some jot down words in stories. Others do it in the forums.  😂

I can safely say I jotted down more than 1000 and less than 30,000.

[kbois]

16 minutes ago, Mancunian said:

Definitely not a City fan. And only loved, as in the past tense? I hope you still love them, there is more to come in time and when I can get back around to it @raven1 and I are doing a re-write of Thr Boot Three Years On. It got put on hold as I've been ill recently, I'm happy to say things have improved some over the last week or so.

Speaking of @raven1, he's been conspiculously missing during this event. Him and that @weinerdog must be laying low until after the reveal. 

Edited August 8, 2024 by kbois

[BendtedWreath]

I immediately thought they might be on vacation. 

[Mancunian]

3 minutes ago, kbois said:

Speaking of @raven1, he's been conspiculously missing during this event. Him and that @weinerdog must be laying low until after the reveal. 

I can't speak for @weinerdog, but I do know that @raven1 has been ill and he has also been spending some quality time with his partner, and working on a s short story about.....something that I posted, lol. 

[BendtedWreath]

I hope @raven1 gets well soon. 

[Mancunian]

1 minute ago, BentedWreath said:

I hope @raven1 gets well soon. 

Oh he's fine now, like I said he has also been spending some quality time with his other half and enjoying life. That is when he hasn't been editing for me.

[kbois]

7 minutes ago, Mancunian said:

I can't speak for @weinerdog, but I do know that @raven1 has been ill and he has also been spending some quality time with his partner, and working on a s short story about.....something that I posted, lol. 

Thanks for the update on Raven.  Hope he feels better soon! 

[Mancunian]

1 minute ago, kbois said:

Thanks for the update on Raven.  Hope he feels better soon! 

 

3 minutes ago, Mancunian said:

Oh he's fine now, like I said he has also been spending some quality time with his other half and enjoying life. That is when he hasn't been editing for me.

He's fine now, he told me it was one of those summer man colds, lol. 

I don't think I hurt him when I cracked the whip to get him to edit my SA entry, lol. 

[CassieQ]

22 minutes ago, kbois said:

I can safely say I jotted down more than 1000 and less than 30,000.

I can safely say the same

[BendtedWreath]

1 minute ago, CassieQ said:

I can safely say the same

I've written all of 823 more words on my project...which is better than nothing.

[Mancunian]

2 minutes ago, CassieQ said:

I can safely say the same

Just to give the readers a clue, my story has more than 1,000 words in it. 

[W_L]

20 minutes ago, kbois said:

I can safely say I jotted down more than 1000 and less than 30,000.

So average is 15,500, let's look for stories that fit that criteria  

24 minutes ago, Thirdly said:

Okay just for the heck of it, I randomized the randomized lists and this is now my guess:

....

For Ever Young- W_L

....

Good guess from an AI, the song is nice and I had used The Sound of Silence in one of my prompt-based stories before: Melody of Rain, though like most modern computer generated answer there's a good chance of false positives.