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Showing posts with label Hysterical Historicals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hysterical Historicals. Show all posts

Saturday, November 30, 2013

#HystericalHistoricals

If you are entering the contest.  Please post your stories and e-mail the link @ greylocke (at) gmail (dot) com

I'd like to get them all posted and the poll up by monday morning.

Friday, November 29, 2013

#HystericalHistoricals 2 Days left

You have 2 days to get your Hysterical Historical written and to send me the link so I can get the voting poll up.

If you would like to get involved in this short story contest click on the following link.

#HystericalHistoricals

The Contest is open to anyone.  If you wish to enter a short story but don't blog, you can e-mail the story to me and I will post it here on this blog so other can read it and vote on it.

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

#HystericalHistoricals Update

If you are interested in writing a Hysterical Historical story you have 10 days to get it done and post it on the 1st of December and send me the link.

I will post up the links to all who have written a story and I will post a voting poll for the stories.  The readers will read your stories and then vote as to which they think is the best.

To read the rules for the writing contest please click on the following link:  #HysetericalHistoricals

Thursday, November 14, 2013

#HystericalHistoricals

Hysterical Historicals:  I read that in a book.  And it gave me an idea.

A bunch of somewhat historically grounded gun bloggers write short stories based in history that are hysterically funny.

The Blogger writing the story would be the protagonist of the story.  It must be of a historical event, however the blogger would write it as a secondary character and act, to the historical event.

They would tag the story as a "Hysterical Historicals"

And I would link them all in a post here and our readers would vote for the best "hysterical Historical"

The story must have a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 40 paragraphs and would ideally be read in less than 20 minutes.

What say you Bloggers?  Do you accept the challenge?

Some thoughts as to historical events;

Ben Franklin testing lightning with his kite.

Nicola Tesla testing his free energy transference machine

Alexander Graham Bell Testing his phone.

The building of the Intercontinental Railroad.

Teddy Roosevelt riding a bull moose across the lake.

The Wright Brothers and their magnificent flying machine.

The main thin being the writer/blogger is a secondary character to what is going on an the main protagonist of the story.

Is anyone up for the challenge?

If you are you have until the end of the month to write your story and e-mail me the link or post a comment here on this post with the link.

On the first of December I will write up a post linking all of the entrants.submissions and post it here.  If someone likes your story they must leave a comment here on the main post.  On the 10th of December all voting will be closed and the votes tallied.  The first place winner will get a Gold Star to put on their blog, the second place winner will get a Silver Star to place on their blog and the third place winner will get a Bronze Star to place on thier blog.

This is not limited to just Gun Bloggers.  If you have been writing a blog for at least a year, you too can enter a story for the voting.

Now the rules of the DO NOT's.  These are to be whimsical stories, stuff that kids could read.

So please no extreme violence, rough housing is ok, no I repeat NO sexual overtones.  But winning the kiss of a maiden or a cute boy if the writer is female is allowed.  And please no deaths.

Seriously please write a story that any child could read and enjoy.  And remember the tagline

Hysterical Historicals

On twitter you can use the hashtag #HystericalHistoricals to spread the word to others as well.