You’re out of rum?! Glad to hear something out of the ordinary is happening for you.
You’re running the risk of your wife ghosting you – and therein lies a story.
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This is what is known as “situation normal” for the last 32yrs of our lives. Most folks point to Mrs * as proof of heaven as only an angel could have the patience to tolerate m for so long.
I have attempted to correct this condition 2x today. The universe is conspiring to keep me un-rummed. I am NOT happy about this. Not happy at all.
Yes please. My forum name is Clinken – which feels like a suitably spooky name for this contest.
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Welcome, Clinken! Look forward to reading what you come up with!
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Sounds like fun! I’d like to give it a shot!
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Awesome! Welcome!
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Hopefully incoming this weekend. First draft and edit done.
This has been a very weird experience. I don’t read ghosts stories, or horror for that matter, so I had no idea what I was doing. I watched a couple of utoobs for clues and then set off into the uncanny (v)alley with a handful of bullet points.
But where to start?
I had endless clichés to draw from, but that’s no use, so I decided to explore some of the folklore in this part of the world. There’s plenty of it after all. And there I found the end of my ball of string, or the start of it. (Apologies will have to be made, though.)
I tend to draft in a kind of stream on consciousness manner: whatever comes into my head is put down, and sense (or nonsense) made of it later. Given the theme, that led me to some surprising and sometimes unpleasant places. Most of the latter I drew back from, but the whole idea is for something dark, so I had to tread the path one way or another.
My weakness in this “genre” – I have discovered – is that I can’t forego humour when it presents itself. I just can’t. If the opportunity to clarify the etymology of egghead presents itself, what is a storyteller to do? Ignore it? Or do it in a spooky way? Come on!
Anyway, fun was had, and learning too, and that’s as fine a way to waste some time as anything.
Let the deadline loom.
Nothing wrong with humour in a ghost story; humour and fear are closely aligned.
I’m not entirely convinced…
No, me neither.
I don’t think I could write fear, though. I’m not sure what that feels like. There are plenty of life reasons for this state of mind.
Uncanny is my limit in this area, I think. And that’s something I learned writing for this, for which I’m grateful. Uncanny with occasional wit can work, probably, I think, possibly.
I liked this idea. Have been pouring lots of cold water over my head. I think it’s really helping.
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The original is far too long. I will endeavor to explore a newly discovered side road. Wish me luck. The impending deadline will help I am sure.
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Just sent mine in — not a conventional format, but I hope it works
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A formatting question: can I rely on italics being preserved (assuming they are present in the RTF I submit)? I need to highlight certain paragraphs and italics would be my preferred way to do this…
If you have any special formatting requirements (like italics), just make sure you let me know in the email when you send them over so I don’t miss them.
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Good luck!!!
Confused troubled ghost
believes he is still alive…
poltergeist heaven.
A haiku I wrote
whilst thinking about fiction.
Could be it’s twaddle.
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