Thank you to everyone who submitted something for BrevityQuest. Bounty has now been awarded. But please, more than anything, keep writing. Short can be good.
Good things come in small packages.
Sometimes, you don't need a long, involved factual. Sometimes, you don't have the attention span for a 3,000 word story. Brevity has a certain appeal.
What?
- BrevityQuest07
- We're looking for well-researched and tightly-written writeups of 300 words maximum
- Fact and fiction are acceptable; poetry or continuous prose
- New writeups only, please
When?
- 00:00:00 Thursday 15 November — 23:59:59 Friday 14 December 2007, server time
Who?
How many?
- Flood new writeups and you will be punished
- Produce a solid writeup each day and you'll be rewarded
- If you prefer to submit just a few writeups — or even only one — for the entire quest that's fine too.
Why?
- First prize will be something fun landing through your mailbox
- Second and third prizes will be golden trinkets of the traditional variety
- Every entry will receive a 10xp bounty
- Judgement is entirely arbitrary, and depends on what we see as contributing the most to e2
Inspiration?
66 ~ 69 ~ 98 ~ 212 ~ 220 ~ 263
Hop to it!
Keeping things brief
- sodriety - originalzin
- The Cryptic Corporation - Serial Number
- revolution - Noung
- gyokuro - Oolong
- permalancer - Scribe
- Don't lick stuff when it's cold - the.web.hermit
- Going to the hardware store to buy a loaf of bread - originalzin
- God on learning to play music - themanwho
- hieros gamos - Ancientsnow
- Intellectual property - GlowingFish
- Gethsemane - hapax
- Skidaddle - The Debutante (ineligible for bounty or prizes)
- Musicovery.com - Apollyon
- apex predator - originalzin
- Obturator nerve - Rai Tai
- Is The Golden Compass against religion? - AspieDad
- The customs of your tribe are not laws of nature - Noung
- Workhouse - Noung
- lacrimal bone - no_one
- The man in the hole - originalzin
- Corbett - Wntrmute
- Polyculture - Noung
- The Faith to ask for Faith - originalzin
- A step out of time - The Debutante (ineligible for bounty or prizes)
- monoculture - Noung
- Why are people afraid of touching? - TheLady
- Chabudai Gaeshi - Condoriano
- The Nature of Home - originalzin
- Manic Times - Condoriano
- negative contracting - originalzin
- permanent makeup - libertas
- If you're not in the picture you can't get framed. - originalzin
- The nurses wear white. - momomom
- kulak - Noung
- beeline - chappyzoodle
- You have won second prize in a beauty contest! Collect $10. - libertas
- The Cobbler and his Family - mywiseman.com
- Olkiluoto - Serial Number
- Arachibutyrophobia - kanoodle
- colorway - hapax
- the stars are wreckers' lamps - fallensparks
- Onan - CheshireMog
- gubbertush - kanoodle
- Split for spine - SharQ
- If I don't save the wee turtles who will? - libertas
- smitty - oringinalzin
- The Sultan and the Harem - mywiseman.com
- Abraham - Noung
- the tiniest desert in the world - hapax
- The Politically Incorrect Houseplant - oringinalzin
- sand table - smartalix
- two-word poem - Glowing Fish
- polis - Noung
- Uffizi - TheLady
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Glowing Fish
- pea soup - ascorbic
- Tolerate intolerance - oringinalzin
- Ginger Nuts - Andrew Aguecheek
- Theotokos of Vladimir - evilmoxie
- Chicken soup - TheLady
- Faithfulness - DonJaime
- November 4, 2007 - Ysardo
- Eudaimonia - Noung
- Qiviut - hapax
- concept - creases
- intuition - creases
- Poeas - kanoodle
- Label whore - originalzin
- Hairy Bittercress - kanoodle
- Everybody is in too many pieces - eien_meru
- Coyote arm - XWiz
- post hoc ergo propter hoc - originalzin
- surname - Noung
- Cray-3 - moosemanmoo
- Cockatoos eating you out of house and home - telni
- The Most Offensive Civil War Memorial, Ever - originalzin
- the Road - Ereneta
- One Thousand Ounces of Gold Classic - chappyzoodle
- The Baby-Sitters Club - libertas
- BFF - bewilderbeast
- What a Treatment Center is Like - originalzin
- Sensual Holocaust - telni
- weeds - hapax
- pumpkin pie spice - LaggedyAnne
- NFFNSNC - hapax
- Thrum - hapax
- Flirty Fishing - Ancientsnow
- Rubik's Perpetual Calendar Cube - TenMinJoe
- Two-word poem - waverider37
- invisible friend - Sinepyriah
- Weight, weightless, and the scalpel's blade in-between - SharQ
- Two-word poem - TheLady
- Two-word poem - Oni no Ng
- jenkem - aionaever
- Small but still a person - Endperform
- You Are My Sunshine - Danneeness
- fleshlight - aionaever
- 100-word psychological thriller - colonelmustard
- Two-word poem - ushdfgakjasgh
- Oswald Tschirtner - Serial Number
- If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others - Danneeness
- Two-word poem - Tom Rook
- brief thoughts on some long-standing misconceptions - Mitzi
- phone call - etouffee
- low tide - graceness
- Fusensho - Dimview
- Two-word poem - Mortuorum Dialogi
- Bowler - The Custodian
- An Unseen Enemy - BookReader
- American football - Hazelnut
- Samantha in the Moonlight - Don Jaime
- Arto Salminen – Serial Number
- Space Gunner Hank Saves the Day – Don Jaime
- All In Your Hands - graceness
- The shortest detective story ever - Apollyon
- Aetiology - hapax
- Sagari - Dimview
- Nebuchadnezzar II - passport
- Shrug - hapax
- stupid wars - Gorgonzola
- If it be your will - graceness
- tanguin - Apollyon
- Tell me a story about clouds - moosemanmoo
Honourable mentions