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[TNT]

http://www.elftown.com/wiki.html?name=Ebony%20and%20Ivory

Here's a little thing I've done recently. Like, today. Took one day to write so it's probably got some mistakes but critisism is welcome.

[Jurgen]

Interesting but I get the feeling I got ripped off because the story ends with the cat playing with steak but no real mention of what is goin to happen next.
You've given me an opening chapter that screams "There's more after the break". Excellent tactic, you'll get pestered by people to post more and more, that's how Hairy Knuckles got to where it is now. You'll be really hacked off with people p-mailing you all the time but on the other hand you'll have adoring fans.

[TNT]

I nearly always get stuff like that... people telling me my story was too short and they wanted to read more. If there's any requests for stories, continues or characters to be made dont be afraid to ask. :D
I'll do anything for "favours" :hump:
J/K, J/K... dont hurt me. :wall:

[Jurgen]

*Waits patiently for a read and reply of at least one of his multitude of works from his own topic*
Courtesy.

[TNT]

*tackles Jurgen, steals his talent and runs away with it* MINE NOW! You ever thought of writing a book?

[Jurgen]

Does the pope shit in the woods? Of course I've thought of writing a book but because of my innately ChAoTiC nature I never can write a novel. I can make a killing out of short stories and anthologies, because that's the only way I'm allowed to be as fragmented as I want to be. Like with Hairy Knuckles at the moment I like the present end but I'm being constantly pestered to do more. I want the end of the story to be Liz crying herself to sleep in a holding cell, it's the sort of brutal nastiness and unfinished business that I can look back on in a few years time and have another whack at. I start projects, future me can finish them.

We all know that if we could leave things for our past selves to do we would, so if future me would leave a book for me to finish it's only fair that I make him do all the work in future right?

[DarkPirateShea]

Ok, so I haven't read either of you guys' stuff (sorry sorry, but I can't read if I'm not in a reading mood, I just can't).

But Jurg, there's a book called "Gil's All Fright Diner" by A. Lee Martinez that I keep being reminded of when I read your posts. I think it might have something to do with the style of humor or something. You should check it out.

[Jurgen]

That requires the spending of money, something I'm not very good at, what with having none to bloody spend at the moment. This job sucks, all I do is plough my wages away into the bank to pay for this pigging course.

[TNT]

I have that problem too, start one book idea, keep wanting to go back and keep writing it but I just cant pull myself to do it and I go and start other small stories. It's annoying as hell.

[Jurgen]

Oh don't get me wrong, I don't want to write a full novel, if I did I would, I like to chop and change, I have a sort of pre emptive boredom. If I do something for too long I stagnate and begin to get annoyed at it. If I do something for a while and move onto something else before I start to get too bored then it'll still be fresh when I uncover it later on.
Like pizzas in my bedroom.

[TNT]

I think if you're gonna have to write a book on scheldule you've got to set a number of words to write each week or something. I should really ask a proper writer...

[Jurgen]

No because then you start forcing it. I wrote the 3rd, 4th, and 5th chapters of Hairy Knuckles in less than an hour but I didn't do anything more for weeks. That's how a muse works, it isn't always there, until you've been at this game for some SERIOUS time it's best to work at your own pace, setting targets will just infuriate you in the end.

[TNT]

Ok. My own pace sucks though...

Who wants to play a game! :dgrin:
Tell a story in six words.

[Lithanial]

poor man wins lottery, eats cake.

[Jurgen]

Chokes on cake, feeds the worms

[TNT]

Your own story, not a continuation.
Like "Baby shoes for sale, never worn."

[DarkPirateShea]

well i dunno, i think the continuation makes it more interesting....

ya know?

....man buys shoes, has no baby....

[Lithanial]

tries going clubbing with new shoes

[TNT]

Babies mug him for the shoes

[DarkPirateShea]

shoes don't make good clubbing partner

[Lithanial]

since bouncers dont let trainers in

[Jurgen]

But trainers bounce on bouncers' heads

[Lithanial]

while stompy boots perform much better

[RazorJAK]

You guys do realize that there is at least one bouncer in here, right?

[Jurgen]

I should hope so considering I have before now taken the mantle of doorman. Mainly because I was the only member of puresound to look remotely like a door. I have worked with a variety of bouners in my time and most of them are thoroughly bloody nice chaps, however this is fiction we are writing, so crack on.

Except when running from angry doorstaff

[sableagle]

... in which activity skates are handy.

[TNT]

Run from the evil doorman, his

[Jurgen]

wrath is about to be unleashed

[TNT]

upon the unexpecting baby lepards that

[Jurgen]

Dwell so endearingly at the club

[TNT]

Quickly, you must run among the

[sableagle]

frogs in the hilltop trees where

[TNT]

the lilies, daffodils and bluebells sway

[sableagle]

to the rhythm of the brass

[TNT]

band playing down by the bay.

[TNT]

If anyone cares I'm up to writing chapter ten on the story originaly posted on this thread... if you want to see the chapters just ask.