Gosh you all need to just do whatever you feel like doing according to Chuck's directions. This is all a creative experiment. If Chuck outlined exactly what he wanted in a 30 minute YouTube video some of us would still mess it up. Other people would be able to replicate it exactly and then it would be if Chuck just did it himself. The explanation and reward are just enough to get us excited and experiment. At best you may get some positive feedback and a Scooby snack at worst Chuck will ban you from the substack. All and all just have fun with it.
Ok. Not sure if you understand mine and Eric’s newly penned relationship? He is seriously absurd, so it’s absurd to take him seriously. We were having fun. We were reminiscing. We were enjoying a good back-and-forth thing. Now we’re ready to go at it again.
Yes, it was fun to see how fast things exploded. But I did want peeps to take more time and not shoot off the cuff. Flash fiction doesn't mean instant.
Jaime Stevens, editor of "Stories to Skip at Bedtime" and sometimes lover of egg nog ice cream, can be found can be found turning out copies of her newest novel "Blood Bags" in the Children's section of her local Barnes and Noble. Youngest receiptiant of the Veggitales Award for Christian Excellence in writing hasn't slowed her down one bit. Jaime is currently working on her 3rd novel "A Plushie for the Afterlife."
I don't understand what you want me to do with my bio. Do you want me to take any funny out and make it plain and serious? I feel like mine was inherently comical.
You said in the first Joe Rogan interview that what you like to do is charm people into a story, make them laugh which lowers their defenses, and then after they are invested, you sorta have them trapped so you can lead them to a darker place. You don't open with screaming, but eventually you want them to scream at some point. And ever since then, I've wondered if listeners ever resented you for luring them in like that. Is it a double-edged sword?
The last time I was was truly fooled was the ending of 'Drag Me to Hell.' The button/coin switch was so obvious, but I fell for it. Part of my admiration for the film lies in my disgust for myself in missing the trick.
Here are my original bios. And if I wasn't 3,000 miles away, I would be thrilled to get my hands on that swag. But alas...
Earl Thistlewhite, 'The Marylebone Transcription', was the winner of the Fort Lupton Friends of the Library Pancake Breakfast Flash Fiction or Short Poetry Prize two years running. The Southern Weld County Times Dispatch had this to say about his debut novel, 'Views in Absinthe Green': "One of the most readable books I've read this year." He is currently working on a short story collection, tentatively entitled 'Muses of Precarious Deliberation'.
R.W. Williams, 'Sincerely, Anonymous', resides in Delaware.
Helena Ellison: Contributing author of 'Historia Veneficii'. Enjoys rose gardening and country side driving. Winner of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize. Member of the Latin National Honor Society and the International Guild of Knot Tyers North America. Currently working on a modern translation of the Heptameron. Collects antique blades and spring lancets. Earned a bachelors degree in history and masters degree in historical forensics at Miskatonic University.
Any chance those of us who won’t be at Dark Del can get a button or two? Happy to pay or make a charitable donation. Also, regarding iffy swag, do you have extra Choke-era beads laying around?
Cletus Potter, author of 'Moonshine Madness', is an award-winning writer known for his successful series, 'Toothless Tales.' Raised in the sticks of Missouri, his backwoods upbringing fostered his literary career. He has placed first in numerous writing competitions, including the coveted 'Alligator Award' prize for Southern fiction. When he's not writing, Cletus can be found drinking hooch on his porch with his family while cooking-up Southern cuisine.
C & C, Poet Bard of The Satanic Temple and author of 'What Would the Community Think?' and "In Memory of Mr. Greaves.' She is also the author of Lucien Greaves' sub-substack 'Confessions of a Tiddy Counter by Cheap & Crass.' She can be found on twitter providing constructive feedback to Satanic Temple members (now ex-members). She is currently compiling a second American Satanic bible that offers a variety of short Satanic stories. The project is currently called "The Canonical Writings of Cheap & Crass." Watch out for her debut show 'Cheap & Crass Satanic Story Time' on SatanicTV. You can also find her counting bosoms on Satanic Wednesday movie nights.
Here's mine. If you want me to tweak it, please let me know. But it's what I got right now.
Baxter R.R. Wellington IV, creator of the 9 book series, "The Verisimilitude of Dire River Reveries of the Third Inclusion," doesn't believe you can encapsulate a human soul within a paragraph. Wellington once playfully mused during an interview with the Worldbuilders United magazine that, "Any novel less than six-hundred pages does a disservice because life is not a brief glimpse but an ever-lasting ride. My books try to capture what can't be captured." To read a Wellingtom is to sit among the finest; George R.R. Martin, J. R. R. Tolkien to name a few. And now him. He lives by himself in Portland with 9 cats and an African Grey parrot named Areowena.
Emmanuel Goldstein, “Yeti Ferlinghetti,” is a professional ignorant and writes only when it is compulsory. They are the author of somewhere in the range of 1440 to 2400 articles, treatises, diatribes, opinions, facts, lies, half-truths, hypotheses, manifestos, and blurbs. This is their first autobiography. They hold no degrees beyond their personal 36, depending on how they are feeling at the time. They share a cramped living space between a local pub and the crack of a teacup with their cat Laser.
Hah, thanks. But there's a big pin on the back!
So, it’s a decoration and a weapon. Clever😉
We have to use our names and be as real as possible? And not funny?
I think he wants serious bios of the characters created before. Unsure.
I'm unclear. Do we lose the prior cross talk? I thought my posts were absurdly serious. But then again, I live in my own absurdist world.
We had a good thing going, I agree.
Gosh you all need to just do whatever you feel like doing according to Chuck's directions. This is all a creative experiment. If Chuck outlined exactly what he wanted in a 30 minute YouTube video some of us would still mess it up. Other people would be able to replicate it exactly and then it would be if Chuck just did it himself. The explanation and reward are just enough to get us excited and experiment. At best you may get some positive feedback and a Scooby snack at worst Chuck will ban you from the substack. All and all just have fun with it.
It was just a question.
Ok. Not sure if you understand mine and Eric’s newly penned relationship? He is seriously absurd, so it’s absurd to take him seriously. We were having fun. We were reminiscing. We were enjoying a good back-and-forth thing. Now we’re ready to go at it again.
I am not complaining.
Yes, it was fun to see how fast things exploded. But I did want peeps to take more time and not shoot off the cuff. Flash fiction doesn't mean instant.
Who was the writer who said “I would have written a shorter letter, but I didn’t have time.”?
Blaise Pascal. I forget I have google sometimes.
Honestly, I sort of rushed mine because I didn't know how much time I had.
I just got an absurdism tattoo a few weeks ago.
We can cut-and-paste the prior cross talk, if it still works. We just need a good baseline of bios.
Posting any bios John?
Im going to sit this one out and observe.
Invent a name and persona. Don't get caught being funny. Play it straight at first.
Any chance of a posted button? I'd love to be there but my leerjet is in for it's MOT!
I want one of those buttons. I’ll pay, just name your price!
The cost is one ticket to Burbank
😂😂😂
Careful, I might send the entire box to you.
you can probably sell them off here and donate a pretty good chunk to the dog rescue that you donate to every holiday season
agree- Count me in for multiple buttons to SLC
Will send a self addressed envelope and a pack of Tim Tams for one of those buttons if someone ends up with the whole box! 😆
I see your Tim Tams and I raise a box of Cadbury's.
I will toss in some Mr. Kipling cakes in with the Tim Tams. 😆
Walkers Crisps!!
Spice Girls mug. lol
Jaime Stevens, editor of "Stories to Skip at Bedtime" and sometimes lover of egg nog ice cream, can be found can be found turning out copies of her newest novel "Blood Bags" in the Children's section of her local Barnes and Noble. Youngest receiptiant of the Veggitales Award for Christian Excellence in writing hasn't slowed her down one bit. Jaime is currently working on her 3rd novel "A Plushie for the Afterlife."
I’m Planning to come with a trunk full of all your books and I’d love a button or two!
Done!
I love the buttons!
I don't understand what you want me to do with my bio. Do you want me to take any funny out and make it plain and serious? I feel like mine was inherently comical.
Yes, he'd like us to "tame down" our original bios, that is, if they were too loud to begin with.
Exactly. We must arrive at funny and absurd. To do that we must begin as normal and straight.
Can you make the buttons explode? I’ve got a score to settle with a co-worker. I’m sure you know how it is.
You said in the first Joe Rogan interview that what you like to do is charm people into a story, make them laugh which lowers their defenses, and then after they are invested, you sorta have them trapped so you can lead them to a darker place. You don't open with screaming, but eventually you want them to scream at some point. And ever since then, I've wondered if listeners ever resented you for luring them in like that. Is it a double-edged sword?
The last time I was was truly fooled was the ending of 'Drag Me to Hell.' The button/coin switch was so obvious, but I fell for it. Part of my admiration for the film lies in my disgust for myself in missing the trick.
Here are my original bios. And if I wasn't 3,000 miles away, I would be thrilled to get my hands on that swag. But alas...
Earl Thistlewhite, 'The Marylebone Transcription', was the winner of the Fort Lupton Friends of the Library Pancake Breakfast Flash Fiction or Short Poetry Prize two years running. The Southern Weld County Times Dispatch had this to say about his debut novel, 'Views in Absinthe Green': "One of the most readable books I've read this year." He is currently working on a short story collection, tentatively entitled 'Muses of Precarious Deliberation'.
R.W. Williams, 'Sincerely, Anonymous', resides in Delaware.
Helena Ellison: Contributing author of 'Historia Veneficii'. Enjoys rose gardening and country side driving. Winner of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize. Member of the Latin National Honor Society and the International Guild of Knot Tyers North America. Currently working on a modern translation of the Heptameron. Collects antique blades and spring lancets. Earned a bachelors degree in history and masters degree in historical forensics at Miskatonic University.
Any chance those of us who won’t be at Dark Del can get a button or two? Happy to pay or make a charitable donation. Also, regarding iffy swag, do you have extra Choke-era beads laying around?
What Greg said! Also just halfway through Choke and intrigued to know what the Choke-era beads are?
Keep reading!
Cletus Potter, author of 'Moonshine Madness', is an award-winning writer known for his successful series, 'Toothless Tales.' Raised in the sticks of Missouri, his backwoods upbringing fostered his literary career. He has placed first in numerous writing competitions, including the coveted 'Alligator Award' prize for Southern fiction. When he's not writing, Cletus can be found drinking hooch on his porch with his family while cooking-up Southern cuisine.
C & C, Poet Bard of The Satanic Temple and author of 'What Would the Community Think?' and "In Memory of Mr. Greaves.' She is also the author of Lucien Greaves' sub-substack 'Confessions of a Tiddy Counter by Cheap & Crass.' She can be found on twitter providing constructive feedback to Satanic Temple members (now ex-members). She is currently compiling a second American Satanic bible that offers a variety of short Satanic stories. The project is currently called "The Canonical Writings of Cheap & Crass." Watch out for her debut show 'Cheap & Crass Satanic Story Time' on SatanicTV. You can also find her counting bosoms on Satanic Wednesday movie nights.
Here's mine. If you want me to tweak it, please let me know. But it's what I got right now.
Baxter R.R. Wellington IV, creator of the 9 book series, "The Verisimilitude of Dire River Reveries of the Third Inclusion," doesn't believe you can encapsulate a human soul within a paragraph. Wellington once playfully mused during an interview with the Worldbuilders United magazine that, "Any novel less than six-hundred pages does a disservice because life is not a brief glimpse but an ever-lasting ride. My books try to capture what can't be captured." To read a Wellingtom is to sit among the finest; George R.R. Martin, J. R. R. Tolkien to name a few. And now him. He lives by himself in Portland with 9 cats and an African Grey parrot named Areowena.
Emmanuel Goldstein, “Yeti Ferlinghetti,” is a professional ignorant and writes only when it is compulsory. They are the author of somewhere in the range of 1440 to 2400 articles, treatises, diatribes, opinions, facts, lies, half-truths, hypotheses, manifestos, and blurbs. This is their first autobiography. They hold no degrees beyond their personal 36, depending on how they are feeling at the time. They share a cramped living space between a local pub and the crack of a teacup with their cat Laser.