It sounds like a book I have read, where a young lad finds a camera , and the pictures it produces seem nonsensical at first, but then it appears to be showing a dog coming closer to the camera, the boy takes it to a a nicknack store in town that everyone shuns for reasons that become apparent later in the story. I'm a bit vague on the details, I wonder if anyone knows what it is?

Malc

I believe it is a Stephen King short story, I remember him talking about it in an interview. I haven't read it and don't know the name, but I remember reading him talking about how each photograph he takes, no matter what he shoots, shows a snarling dog running closer and closer to the camera. It sounded pretty cool.

Crumbs, I hope I think of something genuinely fully original before it starts, or at least something very funny.

And Saphire and Steel rules.

It sounds like a book I have read, where a young lad finds a camera , and the pictures it produces seem nonsensical at first, but then it appears to be showing a dog coming closer to the camera, the boy takes it to a a nicknack store in town that everyone shuns for reasons that become apparent later in the story. I'm a bit vague on the details, I wonder if anyone knows what it is?

The Sun Dog. It's in the compilation "Four Past Midnight".

Can't resist, here's the set-up - has it been done before? Warning, will be deleted in a couple of days time in interests of security - so get yer comments in now. Please keep under hats. Let me know if I'm an idiot for sharing this, I've had a few beers.

I'm a bit confused about this - does it have to be a good story, or can it be 50,000 words of rubbish?
Does it get judged (or even read) or anything?

The aim is to write 50,000 words in a month, no matter how bad.

In that case - why? What's the aim?

I've got the plot, I just can't think of a decent way into it and I'm really not liking my main character.

BETEO! Fling plot developing words at me, and mayhap I can steal one and get some propulsion into this thing!

BETEO! Fling plot developing words at me, and mayhap I can steal one and get some propulsion into this thing!

Fire.

Fire.

That's fine, I get that - it's just like playing a video game. I just figured there would be something at the end of it, what with it being an organised event, even if it was only getting others to comment on your story.

So there's absolutely* no point whatsoever, save the enjoyment of writing?
That's fine, I get that - it's just like playing a video game. I just figured there would be something at the end of it, what with it being an organised event, even if it was only getting others to comment on your story.
I mean, if you want to write 50k words in a set time, you can do it any time you like.

*First time I typed that as 'abosultey'. WTF?

Just what the world needs, more garbled stories with ill-thought-out plots... and who the heck cares about word counts any more? A novel isn't a university essay ffs, it's supposed to mean something and express something. Just shovelling words onto a page to meet an artificially imposed target is a waste of time, sorry.

Unfortunately I failed in mine. Complete mental block a third of the way through and active dislike for my characters. And I just couldn't continue writing not like them one jot. I still like the plot though, if I can make it more immediate, mayhap I'll try again.

So... yours is a romance, then?

Thread resurrection-me-do.

So Pete (also anyone else), the next Nanowrimo starts soon - will you be having another crack?

How's the play going? And the quiz?

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the False Prophet?

I'd like a short story to illustrate please, something to send out to publishers as a means to get illustration/cover work or maybe get lucky and get the whole thing sold as is. The more fantastical the better really, probably aimed at kids and/or geeks.

Anyone interested?

Or... if I write something can someone hammer it into shape for me?

And he came hard in her mouth and his dick jumped around and rattled on her teeth and he blacked out and she took his dick out of her mouth and lifted herself from his face and whipped the pillow away and he gasped and glugged at the air, and he came again so hard that his dick wrenched out of her hand and a shot of it hit him straight in the eye and stung like nothing he'd ever had in there, and he yelled with the pain, but the yell could have been anything, and as she grabbed at his dick, which was leaping around like a shower dropped in an empty bath, she scratched his back deeply with the nails of both hands and he shot three more times, in thick stripes on her chest. Like Zorro.

...his dick, which was leaping around like a shower dropped in an empty bath

Pete has kindly agreed to help out.

Next stop: RICHES BEYOND OUR WILDEST IMAGINATIONS!!!!!11111

Also - got an idea.