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Post by Kessie on Nov 1, 2011 15:25:01 GMT -5
choosybeggar: Haha, I know that cake. I've eaten it, too. The Minecraft cake is definitely not a lie. :-) @dave: It's a long-running joke from this game called Portal. You solve puzzles at the behest of a computer AI that's trying to kill you, and she promises you cake should you solve all the puzzles. At one point you find a place where somebody has written on the wall, "The cake is a lie, the cake is a lie, the cake is a lie." Also, I'll look forward to seeing your time travel story! I'm currently a little stuck on mine because I'm not sure if my found item fits the editor's requirements.
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Post by newburydave on Nov 2, 2011 19:17:57 GMT -5
Hey Kessie; My takeaway is that it must be something in a container that triggers the temporal shift. I'm going with something in a bottle. The location of the bottle is key to the temporal shift in my story. That's one of the plot devices I plan to use, and when a child starts playing with the bottle... I've got a three act outline roughed out. It's going to be a Christian time travel romance if I can pull it off. I plan to do a little theological speculation about the nature of God's sovereign operation of the created universe in response to prayer. Hope I don't get burned as a heretic. Write on Sis SGD dave
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Post by Kessie on Nov 2, 2011 21:45:20 GMT -5
I'm a bit concerned because mine is a note inside a clock that tells how to use the clock as a time travel device. I hope that fits the criteria. So far my story is about a kid finding out that his missing father is actually under a curse from a jealous witch, and he has to figure out how to break the spell one minute at a time. I'm afraid it's not very Christiany, but it amuses me.
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Post by dragonlots on Nov 5, 2011 11:07:30 GMT -5
Hi guys,
About objects – I’m not being picky. I really want writers to write well ‘out of the box’ with this one. Break the writing rules! Cross genres – really get creative.
Besides, the object must directly or INDIRECTLY spark a time travel adventure. In Timestalkers it was indirect. The found tin type caused the professor to write a thesis which was found in the future. The device itself was some sort of oval that glowed when they traveled and left a circular burn pattern on the ground.
Since folks seem to be a bit confused about this – I’m explaining part of what went on in the movie. Strongly recommend you hunt it down and take a look. It’s well done!
I have gotten a number of pitches from writers who are unsure if their ideas will work. What I’m telling everyone is – write it and submit.
Genres are wide open. If someone writes me a mystery following the guidelines – or a romance – or a general fiction – well, I’ll seriously take a look at it.
I will say that one writer is doing a Santa Claus story. It was pitched to me at MileHiCon. No, I don’t want to see a story with the same theme from anyone else.
Would really like to see someone do a story based on mythology – would prefer NOT Greek or Roman since they’re overdone.
Stories do NOT have to have a Christian theme. The Antho is being done by a secular publisher who is open, as is the editor, to stories that have faith based characters as long as it is important to the plot. Preachy stories will get an auto reject.
I will also share that we ‘might’ have a well known SF writer contribute a story. I can’t say who. Not until I actually have the piece in hand. My publisher and I have already agreed if we get a story from this person – it goes in the anthology. Sorry, I can’t say more.
The Editor
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Post by dragonlots on Nov 5, 2011 11:36:10 GMT -5
Found this on Wikipedia. Maybe it will help. It's the plot line for TimeStalkers
Dr Scott McKenzie (William Devane is a college professor and ardent fan of the gunslinger culture of the Old West. A year ago, McKenzie watched his wife and son die in a car crash caused by a criminal attempting to flee the police. With his friend, General Joe Brodsky (John Ratzenberger), McKenzie attends an auction of Wild West memorabilia, where they agree to bid on a pair of steamer trunks and split the contents between them. As the auction is conducted, flashbacks show the items' histories in the 19th century. At the time a man, Joseph Cole (Klaus Kinski) is looking for a gunslinger who has a pair of distinctive ebony handled pistols. Some cowboys he encounters on the road point him towards the town of Crossfire, California. At the town saloon he inquires about the man but is harassed by a trio of local thugs, one of whom shoots at him, hitting instead one of the trunks which Dr McKenzie is bidding on in the present. Cole quickly shoots all three men dead, an event memorialized by a local photographer. In the present, McKenzie and Brodsky win the trunks at auction and McKenzie begins sorting through the contents, noticing the picture of the men who Cole killed.
Under photo enhancement, McKenzie notices Cole in the background of the picture and identifies the gun Cole is carrying as a .357 Magnum from the 1980s. Despite this, chemical and spectroscopic testing indicates that the photograph is at least 100 years old. McKenzie becomes convinced that Cole is a time traveler. After writing up his findings he is approached by a woman, Georgia Crawford (Lauren Hutton) who claims to be working on similar ideas. Together they locate Crossfire in the present. When they split up to search the town, Georgia ducks into an old barn and removes a crystalline device which she uses to travel back to the 1880s. There she searches for Cole at a nearby river but her horse is spooked by a rattlesnake. She dispatches the snake with a futuristic gun. Hurrying back to town she is followed by Cole, who had observed her from afar. He arrives too late to stop her from traveling to the present but he uses a device of his own to find out when she traveled to. In the present, McKenzie hears a noise and arrives at the barn just in time to see Georgia return from the past. When he confronts her she admits to being one of a number of time travelers from the 26th century. Returning to McKenzie's home she explains that Cole is a renegade scientist from her time who she has been sent back to stop. She believes that Cole, who developed the time travel technology with her father, is intending to change history. Through research, Georgia and McKenzie determine that Cole is likely trying to kill Matthew Crawford, an adviser to President Grover Cleveland.
The gunfighter who Cole is searching for, the mysterious "Star Handled Stranger" was a gunslinger who crucially helped protect the President and his escort from bandits. Matthew Crawford was Georgia's ancestor and killing him would erase her entire family from history, including her father who had opposed Cole's desire to continue research on time travel. McKenzie and Georgia enlist Joe Brodsky's help in determining President Cleveland's movements, but before Brodsky can give them the information, Cole murders him and flees into the past. Finding a copy of the information, they discover that Cole is traveling back to July 11, 1886, when the mysterious "Star Handled Stranger" helped save President Cleveland from a bandit attack. Traveling back in time to 1886, Georgia and McKenzie watch as the attack begins. When the Stranger arrives on the scene and tries to enter the attack he is shot dead by Cole. McKenzie then takes the Stranger's signature pistols and rides towards the battle himself. Cole follows him. While McKenzie manages to kill the attacking bandits, Cole shoots Matthew Crawford. McKenzie then kills Cole in a one on one duel. Returning to the stagecoach, Georgia and McKenzie discover that Matthew Crawford was merely wounded. As the stagecoach drives off, Georgia and McKenzie return to the present where Georgia gives him a gift before returning to her own time. She is somehow able to send the knowledge of the death of McKenzie's wife and child back to his earlier self so that he is able to save their lives. [edit] Cast
William Devane - Scott McKenzie Lauren Hutton - Georgia Crawford John Ratzenberger - General Joe Brodsky Forrest Tucker - Texas John Cody Klaus Kinski - Dr. Joseph Cole Tracey Walter - Sam James Avery - Blacksmith R. D. Call - Bart John Considine - Doctor Crawford / Matthew Crawford Danny Pintauro - Billy Gail Youngs - Mrs. Laurie McKenzie Patrik Baldauff - Callan Ritch Brinkley - Barman J. Michael Flynn (as Michael Flynn) A. J. Freeman Tim Russ
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Post by Kessie on Nov 5, 2011 13:35:30 GMT -5
That sounds like a great movie. *goes to hunt it on Netflix*Hey, it's available on Instant! dragonlots: Thanks for answering my question! I'll churn through the rest of this now.
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Post by dragonlots on Dec 16, 2011 20:18:31 GMT -5
Only about five and half months left before the deadline. I know that sounds like lots of time, but it's going to go quick. I'd love to start seeing stories in January so I'm not rushing about at the last minute trying to get them read, edited, back to the authors, waiting to hear back about changes, sending/receiving contracts and getting the final selections back to the publisher.
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Post by newburydave on Dec 18, 2011 19:10:17 GMT -5
Dragonlots;
I've got one on the anvil. I'll try for a mid January submission date. I know that will just be a beginning if you like my story enough to pursue it.
I've decided to try the Screen play writing model to keep my wordcount within the 6000 limit. So far, so good.
SGD dave
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Post by celesta on Dec 29, 2011 16:45:45 GMT -5
Where are the guidelines up on fb?
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Post by dragonlots on Dec 29, 2011 18:24:40 GMT -5
@celeste On my Facebook as well as WolfSinger. Also, at the beginning of this thread.
@dave Can't wait to see it.
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Post by celesta on Jan 19, 2012 22:59:50 GMT -5
They should be in third person meaning they must be or first person might get in if it was a really awesome little story?
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Post by dragonlots on Jan 20, 2012 11:22:17 GMT -5
If your story is accepted - the bio will need to be in third person.
Your story can be in third or first person.
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Post by celesta on Jan 20, 2012 17:52:46 GMT -5
lol! Okay, thanks!
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Post by dragonlots on Jan 30, 2012 11:23:37 GMT -5
Checked with publisher so I know Celesta & Kessie have submitted their stories. They haven't been forwarded to me yet.
Also have one from Alan L. Lickiss which I got at CoSine. (He printed it out.) Have already read the first couple of pages and am loving it!
I've gotten some pitches from other folks and the antho is shaping up to be varied and interesting.
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Post by celesta on Jan 30, 2012 16:30:17 GMT -5
Yay! How exciting!
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