Dangerous Game 2: Danger Harder · 4:34pm Jan 4th, 2015
So there I was, sitting down and writing away at Stopped Clock and planning out more of The Devil's Details, feeling productive and virtuous. Progress was being made in chapters, characters were being blithely tortured, a reasonable writing speed on current projects was being maintained. Everything was lovely.
Then I discovered that The More Most Dangerous Game existed.
And before I could say, "No, god damn it, I have things to write, I don't need another idea clamouring for release -", my arsehole brain piped up, "Hey, I've got an idea!"
God damn it, brain.
Theatrical moaning aside, I've been looking forward to this. I submitted a piece to the original Most Dangerous Game contest, did gratifyingly well in the Outside Insight contest, and this should be good fun as well. The Fallout: Equestria prompt's spurred a fair amount of plotting. There's good potential there, though my current idea's very much a diversion away from the plot - though not the themes - of the original. Maybe that'll come back to bite me, maybe it won't. I'll see how it goes.
If you're following me and reading this (or stumbling across this random blog and patiently humouring my blithering) write a piece as well. It'll be fun, and what's there to lose apart from your dignity and writing self-worth? (And if you're following me, what are you doing with those?) If you're currently reading Stopped Clock, I'll get the next chapter finished and uploaded tonight or tomorrow before I start on my contest entry.
You were probably getting tired of all that light-hearted comedic timey-wimey murder, anyway.
You should give your brain a promotion!
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That'll just encourage the poxy thing.
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Exactly! The more contests you enter, the better!
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But then too many ideas are spawned and my ongoing inability to split my attention between multiple keyboards with multiple octopus-esque appendages means that none can ever be addressed as immediately as I would like and you can see how this might become a source of aggravation especially when more story ideas are continually spat forth from this accursed cognitive machinery upon the pile fit to rival Everest such that the task of turning each to concrete words would make Sisyphus himself pat me on the shoulder and say "That's hella rough, bro," and I can run this sentence on all day, just you watch.
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I'm watching and waiting. Please go run on some more
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Be careful what you wish for.
As I was saying - and I can run this sentence on all day, just you watch with those eyes of yours, assuming you're using eyes and not some sort of other sensory means to access this sentence though I can't conceive of what that might be other than a text-to-speech program or some sort of flexible computer screen which transforms text into Braille which although probably not a thing which exists really should due to its inherent use for the blind or otherwise visually impaired and would spare them from having to use such text-to-speech programs though I admit to little knowledge of the exact technologies used in their circumstances or how Braille indentation may be achieved on a screen yet my gut instinct says the technology to achieve such is out there and it's just a matter of applying and supplying it in the face of sufficient demand which may or may not exist at present or in future and might require some sort of widespread eye-afflicting calamity which would see everyone invest in these technologies after they'd finished walking into walls and saying things like, "Why the hell am I blind now?" and in that eventuality you definitely would see major investment into technologies to overcome sight-related barriers and thus everyone could once more read things on screens such as the lovely fics that shall be spawned from this contest to which I'm submitting an entry which rose unbidden from the depths of my arsehole brain.
I feel like James Joyce if Joyce was a moron. Also, my brain and fingers hurt. I hope you're happy.
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That was excellent.
I hope your entry lives up to the hype you just created.
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Glad to satisfy. Post-apocalyptic run-on sentency Equestria, coming soon to a contest near you.
"Danger Harder " made me think you were talkin to me for a crazy minute, but I wish you well and look forward to whatever you write. Moonlight Palaver was a great story that might not otherwise have been written but for the last MDG contest.
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Glad you still think highly of Moonlight Palaver.
I'll vindicate that crazy minute and blether to you just now.
It's a good thing these contests do in that they encourage people to write at all - exercising creativity is a nice enough reason in itself, but a bit of the thrill of competition and potential for prizes and everlasting fame seems to encourage people to put forward work they wouldn't have previously conceived of, and to put effort into writing it well. I wouldn't mind them being even more of a regular thing, just to get as many people's creative juices flowing as possible.
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Still think highly of it? I reviewed it!
As for the contest, I am very much looking forward to it; every time I log into fimfiction everything in the feature box looks the same to me. But I do have one major disappointment, which I made known:
Here's hoping that this contest will be as good as the last!
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Imagine undignified squeeing noises filling this space.
Yet to read all of Background Pony, myself. I read the first chapter and loved it - it could have been a great story in its own right - but every time I muster the courage to continue, the length of the rest sends me meeping away in terror. One day, I'll tackle it.
I wonder what other classics might have come up for consideration. Did they settle on five categories as a maximum to the regrettable exclusion of Background Pony in favour of better-known pieces?
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Not gonna lie: Background Pony is a very difficult story to read. But it's worth it at the end.