Playing your joker !

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Playing your joker !

Just wondering if any authors on the site cared to give an answer to this question. If you had to pull all your work off the site, rip it up, never rewrite it, but could leave one piece in existence, which one would it be - and what are your criteria for selection ?

Mr Wisdom
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Mississippi, Remember her. Forget your friends. You make us laugh. You make amends. You are the Joker! Play!
Mississippi
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I think it's time I tracked down the mysterious poster who seems to be rampant everywhere I look!
Carly Svamvour
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Well, I too only have one piece on here so far - but it isn't anything that I would worry about saving. I do have a story called Home is Where the Heart Sings - if I were told that I was to destroy everything I've written except for one piece, it would be that one I'd choose to save. Maybe I'll post it later on tonite. Thanks for such a constructive posting. Carly :-)
Mississippi
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I have only two items to choose from, but when I think of all the heartache I had to suffer to force them out of me I think I'd sooner not leave anything, they weren't that good anyway, just very personal, a sort of scream in the night. The last one I'm still suffering from, I'm bleeding to death emotionally from that relationship in spite of all my friends telling me to forget her!
jamie_cameron
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For me it would have to be 'Nicht Afore Christmas': (a) because it is as close to the truth, actual and emotional as I am ever likely to get in my writing; (b) because it records the relationships in my wee family so well; (c) because it tiptoes along the tightrope of sadness to joy so precariously; (d) because I never knew I could write till I wrote that memoir. Wow, I haven't half put my head on the chopping block! Cheers and satisfying writing! Jamie Cameron
Tony Cook
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It would have to be 'Lying Like Angels'. It's a story that just came to me as I woke up - I ran through to my computer next door and wrote it. I'm still proud of it months later even though it's only got a 3 star rating - and I think it says something about my idealism and my cynicism.
Wendy Hollingto...
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For me it's "Mr Right" to echo Tony Cook - this story came to me as I was waking up one day - perhaps this is another topic for discussion "When do you get most of your ideas for writing?". Anyway, the story developed in my head for a day or two before I finally decided that I had to write it down as it had stayed in my mind so long. I was really pleased with the finished version as it sums up very well how I felt and I thought that the "twist" worked. Also, I thought tha I described that "Sunday morning" feeling just as I experience it. Wendy
auntie jackie
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Hi Andrew, What a question? I write so many different things that I found that I really did have to think long and hard. I would pick my poem entitled Love. Mainly because this is from my heart to my family, whom, although can be difficult at times are the reason for my very existence. Ta-Ra auntie jackie
gabrielle
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I've only posted one story so that's all there is folks. And hardly anyone has read it. If just one person responds to this I'll promise to post another.
andrew pack
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Well I was touched by this heartfelt plea, so I read Gabrielle's story and liked it. It begins like a simple love story, but by the end it is something rather different. Very natural dialogue and some nice descriptions of buildings. I never gave the answer to my own question, which is the story called "Cuckoo" down as Kidnap on ABCtales. (When you have a lead character called Cinnamon in most of your short stories, the C's don't last long enough). Why "Cuckoo" ? Because I think there's a voice there that is actually writing, rather than just having a go at it. And it was one of those times when the characters just say, stop trying to force the plot, I'll tell YOU what happens next. That always makes for a much happier marriage, but it doesn't often happen. My hope for the story was to try to write a crime noir with a heart of gold - a crime "blanc", I suppose - a mixture of Raymond Carver and Raymond Chandler. The 'hero' was supposed to be in the background of the story, and hardly play a role at all, but Alex wasn't having that and it eventually became less about the mystery and more about the effect of the investigation.
mark Yelland-Brown
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First of all Andrew I would like to say how much I enjoyed the `Cinnamon` stories. I'm still not sure about my writing "voice", I know I can sound `poetic` and when on form can write up a storm but I know I havn't found my true voice. I have a surreal alter ego"Quentin Rhubarb" who is useful for a cathartic experience of pure nonsense and I also dabble in Christain polemic for unashamebly prosylitizing purposes. The other strand of writing I would call my purest personal attempts at creative communication. If I had to leave one piece of work on the site it would be one from each of my afore mentioned genres. From Quentin Rhubarb it would be "The Daisies in my Garden Read Egdar Allen Poe", from Christain poems, "Hope", and from the others, "Small Talk and Cigarrettes".
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