The 2016-2017 Sekrit Solstice Sci-Fi Fantasy Story Swap

There, sent in.

I was all ready to send it in the 8th and then got sick to the point I was almost incoherent and had to remove all my last edits because they made no sense and finally crawled into bed without remembering to send it off. So, so, so glad there was a second extension.

So yeah, didn't get beta'd and I probably purpetrated all sort of crimes against punctuation, basic formatting and the English language in general. The beginning is a bit too slow still. And I just know there will be at least one word that doesn't mean what I think it means and propably one timeline error.

But you know, I'm pretty happy with it as is.

Cobramisfit, you are god for organising this.

Gifter, if I don't respond immediately on Monday, I'm just not in condition to read yet, I promise it will have nothing to do with your gift!

And now I'm back off to bed before the fever meds kick in.

It's getting closer! Daylight Saving Time starts this weekend, which means we have one less hour to wait!


Can't wait to see if my gifter is someone whose writing I'm already really familiar with, or if it'll be a totally new reading experience!


Gaahhhh!! So exciting!!!

*runs around in circles with a wine glass in each hand*

Sooooooooooooooooooooooon.........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*thunks head against desk*

Uhhhhhhgggggggg.

*dreams of ripping keyboard from computer, tossing it through plate-glass window*

Damoclian said:

Also, a diamond in the rough is still a diamond!

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D'aww!

CobraMisfit said:

Or Aladdin.

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I was wondering where my bread went.

I'm really looking forward to Monday too... last year I was all and and and. But who knows, perhaps this year I'll be and then with a bit of and finally some :eggplant. As Forrest Gump would say, Sisyphus is like a box of chocolates. You never know if you'll get a praline or a tiny magically charged weapon that will turn you into a sheep.

Lillian_Blaire said:

*thunks head against desk*

Uhhhhhhgggggggg.

*dreams of ripping keyboard from computer, tossing it through plate-glass window*

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You can do it! I know it's so frustrating when the words won't come. You're almost at the finish line! See it coming up ahead? Smell the sweet sweat of victory? No? Perhaps it's me then. Or paddismac.

paddismac said:

It's getting closer! Daylight Saving Time starts this weekend, which means we have one less hour to wait!


Can't wait to see if my gifter is someone whose writing I'm already really familiar with, or if it'll be a totally new reading experience!


Gaahhhh!! So exciting!!!

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You just gave me a whole new perspective of Daylight Savings Time!

feyngirl said:

I'm really looking forward to Monday too... last year I was all and and and. But who knows, perhaps this year I'll be and then with a bit of and finally some :eggplant. As Forrest Gump would say, Sisyphus is like a box of chocolates. You never know if you'll get a praline or a tiny magically charged weapon that will turn you into a sheep.

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You mean... The Sheepinator?

E.F.B. said:

You just gave me a whole new perspective of Daylight Savings Time!

You mean... The Sheepinator?

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That is more satisfying than it has a right to be. *got a bunch of pro-Nickleback tweets* *zap! zap! zap!*

E.F.B. said:

You mean... The Sheepinator?

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Ba baaaah ba bah baaaaa ba bah baaaaaaaaaa.

feyngirl said:

You can do it! I know it's so frustrating when the words won't come. You're almost at the finish line! See it coming up ahead? Smell the sweet sweat of victory? No? Perhaps it's me then. Or paddismac.

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Thank you!!

It smells a big like manure....I won't assign blame.

*kicks back with a glass of wine* You know it's the 12th here right now, right? *watches ensuing panic with glee*

What? I gotta do something for entertainment until the stories get distributed!

*is panicked and writing frantically, so much so that she doesn't have proper time to write a full comment*

*Eyes jaymz. Wads up spit ball. Tosses into wine glass*

*Back to writing*

I've been working on edits, feeling great...until I looked down and noticed I'm only on page ten. Out of lots and lots of pages.

Also, what's a comma splice? Apparently I do that a lot and my beta reader doesn't like it?? What, like I'm supposed to knows howda writ?

I lied. I'm only on page EIGHT!! *sobs*

*picks spitball out of wine glass and flicks it at Blinkk* Write like the wind, Blinkky!

I dunno what a comma splice is either, Lil. But I wouldn't sweat it. The story doesn't need to be publication ready at all.

*spitball hits head. Doesn't notice. Still writing.*

I'm pretty sure a comma splice is another term for a run-on sentence that uses too many commas, so like this sentence here is a run-on on purpose, where sentence 2 starts at the first comma, comma-splice, see?

I could be wrong though. I don't know.

*giggles at the spitball stuck to the back of Blinkksies head*

That sounds plausible, Cliff.

Cliff Face said:

I'm pretty sure a comma splice is another term for a run-on sentence that uses too many commas, so like this sentence here is a run-on on purpose, where sentence 2 starts at the first comma, comma-splice, see?

I could be wrong though. I don't know.

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Hmm. What you're saying makes sense. I'll have to see if run-on sentences are the problem because I don't usually have a problem with them, but rather, struggle with too many small, choppy sentences and repetitive words and telling rather than showing, which no one likes but I can't seem to avoid because I'm trying to reiterate what I'm saying but I guess it isn't necessary and it underestimates the intelligence of the readers, which is the number one no-no among writing, so.

Jaymz Connelly said:

*kicks back with a glass of wine* You know it's the 12th here right now, right? *watches ensuing panic with glee*

What? I gotta do something for entertainment until the stories get distributed!

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*stuffs bird into dirty sock and throws into plot bunny closet*

I fed them after midnight

tiddlywinks said:

I fed them after midnight

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Uh-oh. *runs away*

Aaaaand I fed them sushi!

tiddlywinks said:

*stuffs bird into dirty sock and throws into plot bunny closet*

I fed them after midnight

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*plots with the plot bunnies about sending zombie pirate ideas to Tiddly - and laughs (cause that's what kookaburras do)*

I wish I knew what a comma splice is, I'm afraid I might do one.

According to Wikipedia:

A comma splice is the use of a comma to join two independent clauses. For example: It is nearly half past five, we cannot reach town before dark. Although acceptable in some languages and compulsory in others (e.g. Bulgarian or French),comma splices are usually considered style errors in English.

Pfft. I don't think there's anything wrong with the occasional comma splice.