Look here! I did thirty years with a bunch of people like this.

I'm given a task, I spend a month sweating over it, and then 24 hours before the deadline someone (and we won't say who, will we? {lots of W's in that sentence})suggests that we change the rules.

I've no idea what's supposed to be happening now, so until I'm told differently here's how it is.

Sunday morning (very early Sunday morning, maybe) I'll open a new Forum thread called RLG 2 and in it I will announce to the world my randomly generated first line.

Anyone wanting a quick preview, or a partial leak (?), should send their cash in a brown envelope to the normal address.

Okay?

John

Oooh get him and his frothrightness...yes I meant froth

Alright, Alright! Don't get your socks in a twist! Can't wait till early Sunday morning, me!!!

Depending on the line, I'll see if I'll incorporate it into my generated storyline...but I think it would be fun if we all did the same!

Yes, as usual, it's me causing all the trouble...

Wordylicious

So, Wordy, you want a line that will help you write a story about a female entomologist, involving a thief and an earring, set in a library, and it's about illusion?

Now, I'm not saying that what I have in mind has very lttle to do with any of that, BUT what I have in mind has ....

I guess you know the rest!

John

Naw John,

You misunderstood. Every RLGer will have to use the line you announce on Feb 1st as the first line of their story - no matter what it is...the tricky part is to write the story, with the first line you chose AND the plot each one of us got from the story starter website. The website doesn't give you a first line you have to use...it only gives the plot.

You seeeeeeee? It not be set in stone this...t'was simply a suggestion, but in t'end everyone can either choose to use the RLG with a plot of their own or the RLG with the plot from the website thingymajig.

Oh bums...I've probably confused things more...just forget I said anything...


:D

Naw John,

You misunderstood. Every RLGer will have to use the line you announce on Feb 1st as the first line of their story - no matter what it is...the tricky part is to write the story, with the first line you chose AND the plot each one of us got from the story starter website. The website doesn't give you a first line you have to use...it only gives the plot.

You seeeeeeee? It not be set in stone this...t'was simply a suggestion, but in t'end everyone can either choose to use the RLG with a plot of their own or the RLG with the plot from the website thingymajig.

Oh bums...I've probably confused things more...just forget I said anything...


:D

Wordy

Not being satisfied with confusing everybody, you want to confuse us twice!

I had sort of realised that we would use the RLG line combined with our own muse-generated story line, but thanks for explaining it again to me (twice)!

Another bad night??

John

John,

You may well ask, 'another bad night?'

It seems to me that my whole life has been one loooong bad night...but mustn't complain eh!!??

Regarding my tendency to confuse matters...just call me Confuse'us, everybody else does. There's logic in my reasoning if you look really really hard.

C x

So it's use the RLG line that's set and either create your own story from that line, or use that other website to create the story?. And the line is the only thing set in stone, right?

Steven

Steven

Yes, I think that's right.

You must use the RLG line to open your piece, but if you want to you can also use the story line as created by that 'other' site!
Mind you, Steven, that's only my interpetation of what's happening. Any second now you-know-who could pop up and change the rules again!

Look out, I think I heard her opening another bottle of wine!

Regards - and good luck (I think we're all going to need it)

John

Correct. The RLG has to be the opening line but, beyond that, anything goes. (Cue for inuendo from Wordy and Sue)...

We all seemed to keep it short last time too but that might have been post New Year sloth.

Can't wait for tomorrow!!! As if I don't have enough to do...

ee.

Instead of a fragment of a line for a sentence, can we have a compound sentence, to make the exercise a little more tricky for the writers.

Steven

Steven

Don't know if you saw the original RLG - I apologise if you did, but the line was more than a fragment. In fact, it was As she opened the car door she changed her mind.

Likewise, what I have in mind for tonight - exciting, isn't it? - will also be a complete sentence; maybe even a complete compound sentence; perhaps even a complete compound comprehensible sentence - although I doubt it!

And what's all this about wanting to make it more tricky for the writers? Whose side are you on?

This is difficult enough, already!!

Best wishes
John

<Added>

Perhaps that should say: This is difficult enough already!!

Yes, Steve, Jumbo and Dee - that is correct. You see, I can make sense! Can't I?

Now look here Steve, I won't have you harrassing Jumbo so close to RLG Day - that's my job!

He's been working on this sentence for two weeks, sitting in only a pair of socks and size 14 boots. (Sounds like something you can use in your horror stories!) He has tweaked, nipped and tucked it to perfection and is practically bursting to reveal all...(is everyone imagining this with me?)and now you want him to think of a compound sentence!

<shakes head> Poor deflated Jumbo.

C.W.N x

John, the more complex and trickier the better I'm on the side of the readers when I write
Wordsworth, of course everybody will be expecting the most grand Random Line they've ever read lol

I'm sure his mind will be bombarded,
with flows of sentences compounded,
and with our suggestions rendered,
he won't find himself confounder’d.

Steven [I just couldn't resist]

Steven,

Take it from one who knows, go and have a sit down in a dark room for a couple of hours. The pain will go - eventually!


Dee

You'll be lucky to get 500 words out of this one!


And Wordy

Will you stop changing your name, please! I know I'm slow - pause for heckling and jeering - but what the heck does C.W.N. stand for?

And how come all our last names now start with a small 'x'?

Sockless, shoeless, deflated Jumbo, x