Secret Author Stories Contest 2024 Talking Topic

[CassieQ]

1 hour ago, BentedWreath said:

I just thought of something at the moment. The badge for whoever gets the most guesses, or however it will be decided, said something along the lines of "found the hidden." Would the author that was guessed incorrectly the most be considered "the most camouflaged?"

I like it 

[kbois]

@Jason Rimbaud and @Lee Wilson... if you want proof of who wrote Hide and Seek you'll need to look no further than @Mikiesboy next chapter of his story Sold Into Freedom that will drop Wednesday. In editing this I noticed that tim mentions a road trip. Hmmmm... might be foreshadowing seeing how the story has been written for a while. 

 

Edited August 11, 2024 by kbois

[Mikiesboy]

4 minutes ago, kbois said:

In editing this I noticed that tim mentions a road trip.

[Gary L]

22 hours ago, Lee Wilson said:

My customer in France uses CEST, which I believe means Central European Summer Time. Once daylight saving time hits. Regardless. Except for the couple weeks a year where we change our clocks on different days, we’re 6 hours apart.

Interesting.  Haven’t seen it referenced like that in Spain, which should be aligned with Great Britain time wise as the meridian passes a few miles inland from Valencia, Barcelona etc.  In fact, it was aligned until Franco changed the time zone in honor of Hitler…… 

[Gary L]

15 hours ago, BentedWreath said:

I just thought of something at the moment. The badge for whoever gets the most guesses, or however it will be decided, said something along the lines of "found the hidden." Would the author that was guessed incorrectly the most be considered "the most camouflaged?"

Or perhaps the author who told the most lies!

[kbois]

27 minutes ago, Gary L said:

Or perhaps the author who told the most lies!

I wonder who that could be? So many suspects! 

[Cane23]

1 minute ago, kbois said:

I wonder who that could be? So many suspects! 

There should have been a team award for that! 

[Gary L]

41 minutes ago, kbois said:

I wonder who that could be? So many suspects! 

One or two authors should not be allowed on any road trips until further notice!

[kbois]

1 hour ago, Gary L said:

One or two authors should not be allowed on any road trips until further notice!

I get car sick. 

[Gary L]

3 hours ago, kbois said:

I get car sick. 

Really?  What about your pets?  Greta loves the car and is so clever she can close down the page on iPad I’m looking at!   She ain’t helping me with my rereads…..

un abrazo desde Valencia 🤗

but no running away, hey. There will be questions and analysis of every author who has been tricking me, and others…..

[kbois]

35 minutes ago, Gary L said:

Really?  What about your pets?  Greta loves the car and is so clever she can close down the page on iPad I’m looking at!   She ain’t helping me with my rereads…..

un abrazo desde Valencia 🤗

but no running away, hey. There will be questions and analysis of every author who has been tricking me, and others…..

Spain is a long way from Florida and we've got a ton of hungry swamp puppies and I've got a best friend who will help me with anything... no questions asked... hehe. 😂

[Gary L]

“Do not poke. She bites”.  I’m super scared 😰 

[kbois]

13 minutes ago, Gary L said:

“Do not poke. She bites”.  I’m super scared 😰 

I love when people pay attention to my profile and heed the warning... 🤣🤣

[CassieQ]

It's been interesting to see the guesses so far.  For me anyway. 

[W_L]

8 hours ago, Gary L said:

One or two authors should not be allowed on any road trips until further notice!

I'll be taking California Zephyr in a few weeks, it doesn't count since it's not on a road.

[Gary L]

6 hours ago, kbois said:

I love when people pay attention to my profile and heed the warning... 🤣🤣

Because we love you 🥰 

[Mark Arbour]

@Cia  isn’t there supposed to be a poll on the stories?

[centexhairysub]

Where do we submit our guesses?  

[BendtedWreath]

1 hour ago, centexhairysub said:

Where do we submit our guesses?  

We've been submiting them right here. 

Edit: If you go back to page 16 or so of this thread, you'll find the lists Cia posted.

Edited August 12, 2024 by BentedWreath

[chris191070]

5 hours ago, Mark Arbour said:

@Cia  isn’t there supposed to be a poll on the stories?

I believe @Cia is posting the poll sometime this week.

[Cia]

I'm carefully going over ALL the guesses to see who got the most correct, which will be announced this Thursday. If you want to guess before then, get it done now!   For everyone else who has been playing (THANK YOU, by the way, this has been a great Secret Author Contest season, ha ha!) I've added a poll to the topic. 

Care to vote on your favorite story? Yes, you have to pick just ONE. Which one is it? Who shall win? Voting ends on Wednesday night at 11:59 PM (PST). The Poll has to be in a new topic because nooooo the secrets don't end, I just had to find out NOW that I can't edit a topic and add a poll after you all start commenting and my sneaky 'just merge the topics and add a poll that way plan' didn't work. It ate the poll. Just disappeared it. NO FAIR! I thought I was so smart. 🤤 Grrr. LOL

 

[Cia]

POLL Topic is here. 

 

[Jason Rimbaud]

Um, I lied on every guess I made. Does that help?

J

[BendtedWreath]

Choosing my favorite was very difficult. I liked something from every story. Below is how I worked it out:

On a scale of 5/5....

Writing Style: 

Behind the Walls: 6/5
Sparkling Water: 6/5
Nox or Not?: 5/5
Alltopia: 5/5
Hide and Seek: 7/5
Christmas in Glacier Bay: 7/5
The Fascinator Murders: 5/5
Ceramic Dreams: broke the mold
Off the Rails: 5/5
Hiding in Plain Sight: 5/5
Yacht Club: 7/5
For Ever Young: 6/5
Take Me to Your Leader: 5/5

"Hidden" Theme:

Behind the Walls: 6/5
Sparkling Water: 6/5
Nox or Not?: 7/5
Alltopia: 8/5
Hide and Seek: broke the mold
Christmas in Glacier Bay: 6/5
The Fascinator Murders: 8/5
Ceramic Dreams: 6/5
Off the Rails: 6/5
Hiding in Plain Sight: 7/5
Yacht Club: 6/5
For Ever Young: 6/5
Take Me to Your Leader: 6/5

Ultimately, I went with the story I felt fit the theme the most in terms of, well, hiding. 

[Jason Rimbaud]

15 minutes ago, BentedWreath said:

Choosing my favorite was very difficult. I liked something from every story. Below is how I worked it out:

On a scale of 5/5....

Writing Style: 

Behind the Walls: 6/5
Sparkling Water: 6/5
Nox or Not?: 5/5
Alltopia: 5/5
Hide and Seek: 7/5
Christmas in Glacier Bay: 7/5
The Fascinator Murders: 5/5
Ceramic Dreams: broke the mold
Off the Rails: 5/5
Hiding in Plain Sight: 5/5
Yacht Club: 7/5
For Ever Young: 6/5
Take Me to Your Leader: 5/5

"Hidden" Theme:

Behind the Walls: 6/5
Sparkling Water: 6/5
Nox or Not?: 7/5
Alltopia: 8/5
Hide and Seek: broke the mold
Christmas in Glacier Bay: 6/5
The Fascinator Murders: 8/5
Ceramic Dreams: 6/5
Off the Rails: 6/5
Hiding in Plain Sight: 7/5
Yacht Club: 6/5
For Ever Young: 6/5
Take Me to Your Leader: 6/5

Ultimately, I went with the story I felt fit the theme the most in terms of, well, hiding. 

all I'm saying is I hope you voted for mine!

J