Weird Tales Writing Contest!

[naamah_darling]

Received the following in my inbox this morning, and am thoroughly amused. I know you are all smart and witty enough to do something awesome with this idea, so get to it!

WEIRD TALES WRITING CONTEST!You've seen the latest wave of spam -- you know, the faux outrageous news headlines: "Osama trains goats for tactical bombing." "Laika the Russian

Comments

[daemonnoire]

Time to find headline: 5 minutes.
Time to write story: 30 minutes.
Time to edit precious bits out of story to pare it down to the requested 500? *sigh* Way too much.

[naamah_darling]

Ahahahaha! Well, save the longer version for your own amusement, at least! And good luck!

[daemonnoire]

Honestly, it'll probably be a better story at 500. I do tend to over describe. But yeah, I'm planning on saving both versions.

[shadowflyer]

Who was it that said the hard part of being a good writer is being able to kill your babies?

[smellykaka]

What a cool idea...

Considering the amount of penis enlargement spam I've received, some of these stories might be obscene :)

[copperwise]

Well crap. Between getting ready for Faerieworlds and actually going, I don't get time until the 5th to write anything. And I just got the perfect spam this morning...

[cissa]

Gods. I am so tempted, even though words are not my medium of choice.

I even have a file of the *ahem* better penis enhancement spam titles i've gotten...

[naamah_darling]

You know, I don't think the point is to be really good. I'd go for it! Amuse the judges!