HDC Idol II 2011-2012

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Despare's entry -

Anne was born clairvoyant but on this day she could see something new... damnation was expected to be brought down upon her because she was soon to be found out. You see, God hates invokers, psychics, and the such so for her to stay safe from the elders she'll just have keep lying and she must not predict the future for anybody. Questions came to her from her friends in the village like never before, it was as if a neon sign was hovering above her that read "Psychic" and suspicious eyes fell on her with the weight of bricks. "Run and save yourself tonight!" A voice inside her yelled, vexing her in a way she couldn't explain. This puritan village was full of xenophobes and closed-minded fools who couldn't deal with a gift like hers. She'd have to leave, take her zebu and try to make it over the undulating hills of sand that stood between her and... someplace else. It would be an ordeal but she had to leave tonight. It didn't matter where she ended up living, as long as she indeed ended up living.

Judge #1's verdict -

I give Despare a B.

I really like this story, and it has a good flow to it.

Judge #2's verdict -

You used every letter, as instructed, and you came in at 188 words. You fulfilled those instructions. However, the assignment was to write a story. Despite excellent descriptive skills, this isn't a story. It's only the setup. There's no resolution. Since the instructions stated to write a story "around 200 words" there's no excuse for come in at such a low word count and not offer us a complete story.

GRADE: B-

Judge #3's verdict -

That was indeed a thing you turned in.

For using the word zebu, I'm going to up your grade to a C.

Overall Grade - B-

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THE SECOND TEST OF HDC IDOL II - THE GOBLINS

I am here to address the Goblins. Each one of you will be given a task which you have to perform to the best of your ability, wit and intellect, based upon the knowledge you have of the genre.

For this first task, the common theme I have chosen is - VINTAGE LIMERICKS.

Here is your task, Goblins -

Write an effective limerick based on any vintage horror movie of your choice. (vintage = pre-Romero's Night of the Living Dead era)

Your limerick must capture the essence of the movie.

(limerick = 5-line meter in the rhyme scheme of a-a-b-b-a)

Goblins - The Return, Nightmare of Death, Ferretchucker, The Villain and Chronogrl - put your thinking caps on and get to work.

Once you are finished, please PM your entry to me, or send it via email to [email protected]. Do NOT post your entry directly in this thread.

You all have 96 hours, starting from NOW! All the best!

[ChronoGrl]

Very cool entries from Despare and Roshiq... Roshiq, congrats on your first English language story!

That was a tough challenge, though I think I'd prefer it to our limerick. ;)


Now, according to my calculates...

96 hours should = Sunday, September 25th at 1:42 a.m. EST. Please let me know if I'm off.

I'ma gonna go ruminate on this now. :D

[hammerfan]

If The Goblins don't get their submissions in before Friday at 5:00 pm eastern time, you'll have to wait until some time on Monday for my grade. I'm going to Washington, DC for the weekend.

[roshiq]

Originally Posted by ChronoGrl

Very cool entries from Despare and Roshiq... Roshiq, congrats on your first English language story!

Thank you:)

Originally Posted by Judge #1

I enjoyed the story, and actually wanted more. I found myself wishing it was a novel.

Actually initially I thought about it like that in a broad set up with lots of characters & few sub plots but that was years ago and later lost the interest as I've always being a very lazy "writer" with poor/wrong choice of words. :o

[The Villain]

Well at least this one won't take me as long as the other one.

[The Villain]

Having a harder time with this then i thought. When i write, i like to write a lot so limiting myself to five lines is really hard.

It's also hard trying to capture the essence of the movie while also making it funny. That seems contradictory to me. At least i have a lot of time.

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UPDATE

48 hours have passed, and no entries in so far.

[ChronoGrl]

Mine's in. :D:cool:

[The Villain]

As is mine. Do you think anyone else is gonna do one this time Chrono or is is just going to be me versus you for the final? :D