Welcome back to Smash ‘Em Up Sunday!
SEUSfire
On Sunday morning at 9:30 AM Eastern in our Discord server’s voice chat, come hang out and listen to the stories that have been submitted be read. I’d love to have you there! You can be a reader and/or a listener. Plus if you wrote we can offer crit in-chat if you like!
Last Week
Community Choice
/u/katpoker666 - “Dear Manic and/or Depressed Me” -
/u/gdbessemer - “One Libation” -
/u/rainbow--penguin - “A Fresh Outlook” -
Cody’s Choices
Not enough submissions for Cody’s Choice this week
This Week’s Challenge
December is here and so is the end of year! So we’ll be doing one of my favorite things, reflecting on what has happened. It has been two years since we did a SEUS in Review so we have plenty to pull from. Each week will be looking at a six month chunk of time.
This back half of the year has been chaotic and I appreciate you all sticking with the feature and playing this game. Real life responsibilities have derailed a lot of the focus and energy I have to keep up with SEUS, but you all keep coming back for more. You stuck with it through comedy genres, another world tour, another round of literary taxidermy, another round of spooky horror prompts where we played into tropes a bit, another stab at taking away senses, and finally this long drawn-out reflection on the last two years. No incredibly long post today. I want to get it up and let you get writing.
Just know that I love reading what is posted. I love coming up with little challenges. I love hearing different ideas and seeing where they go. I’m hoping things calm down and I can get back to allocating resources to this to draw you all in and keep this being a place people can always come to.
While I’m rambling, a special shoutout to three writers with perfect attendance in writing for the feature this year. /u/AstroRide who has been here week after week for longer than the year, /u/gdbessemer who managed to always submit something and killed their personal goal, and /u/atcroft who might be the biggest supporter and cheerleader for the feature. Y’all are awesome!
How to Contribute:
Write a story or poem, no more than 800 words in the comments using at least two things from the three categories below. The more you use, the more points you get. Because yes! There are points! You have until 11:59 PM EDT 16 December 2023 to submit a response.
After you are done writing please be sure to take some time to read through the stories before the next SEUS is posted and tell me which stories you liked the best. You can give me just a number one, or a top 5 and I’ll enter them in with appropriate weighting. Feel free to DM me on Reddit or Discord!
Category |
Points |
Word List |
1 Point |
Sentence Block |
2 Points |
Defining Features |
3 Points |
Word List
Sentence Block
Defining Features
They don’t prepare you for the little noises.
(From Howey / Grossman)
Nominate your favourite WP authors or commenters for Spotlight and Hall of Fame! We count on your nominations to make our selections.
Come hang out at The Writing Prompts Discord! I apologize in advance if I kinda fanboy when you join. I love my SEUS participants <3 Heck you might influence a future month’s choices!
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I hope to see you all again next week!
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