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[DonValentino]

Topic is: MOMS! My mom's birthday is coming up, so write something about a mother. Anyone's mother.

Style: Whatever! Go crazy! Poetry, Flash, a scene, a 500-word sentence if you want!

Rewards: Whatever they were last time since I didn't claim any!

Rules: "There are no rules" -Thomas Edison, the bad boy of science

Deadline: 11.22.15 11.59.pm.est.

Edited by DonValentino, 10 November 2015 - 08:18 PM.

[Swar]

[DonValentino]

[Keil]

Can my entry be a painting of a fruit bowl, made by someone else, but I wrote "my mom is the best mom I ever had" in washable marker because no one trusts me with permanent marker?

[DonValentino]

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

[Keil]

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

 

Yes, that is good and all, but when is the deadline?

[DonValentino]

Yes, that is good and all, but when is the deadline?

ah yes of course, thank you.

[Shane]

I don't really want to enter this just because of the theme. It feels like you're taking advantage of the contest format.

[DonValentino]

I don't really want to enter this just because of the theme. It feels like you're taking advantage of the contest format.

What do you mean?

[Guppie]

I don't really want to enter this just because of the theme. It feels like you're taking advantage of the contest format.

Like...what? You think he's going to steal someone's entry to write in a birthday card?

[Shane]

Like...what? You think he's going to steal someone's entry to write in a birthday card?

That's what it feels like.

[Keil]

That's what it feels like.

 

You should have wrote an unapologetically erotic Oedipal entry if you felt that way.

[Grumpy]

I don't think that was the intent at all, it sounded to me like he chose that as the theme because he had mothers on his mind.

 

I couldn't cobble anything together but I swear sooner or later I am going to enter one of these.  Right now I'm struggling on my committment for NaNoWriMo though.

[DonValentino]

That is hilarious lol never even thought of that 

[Swar]

Lmao I'm sure DonVal wouldn't do that... If he was a bad writer, I would understand the concern, but he's really good. He doesn't need that

[Guppie]

That's what it feels like.

I'm honestly going to be very surprised if any of the entries are fit to be put in birthday cards

[Coops]

Also, this topic is pretty broad. It could be interpreted a number of ways. I'm curious to see what kind of entries we get.

[Guppie]

@DonValentino how 'bout that voting thread?