Sour grapes

[devi]

The shortlist of winners for a story competition I entered has just come out. It is probably Bad and Wrong of me to be looking over the list of titles and thinking an awful lot of them are trite-sounding rubbish. I mean, "Somebody's Mother"! "The Summer's Day"! "Saturday's Kiss"! What is it with the 's thing? And "The Great Plains of Africa", ew. I really hope that's meant ironically. Though "The Happiest Mosquitoes in Breson" does sound quite interesting.

Fear Me, competition judges! Pass me over and I'll... I'll... mock your shortlist on my blog! Oh noes!

(Mine was called "We Wait In Joyful Hope". I like nicking chunks of prayers.)

Oh well. Insert standard grey-weather/stuckness/eye-strain grump here, then it'll be out of the way.

Comments

[mr-snips.livejournal.com]

Oh man, the colons! I fear the colons!

Me too:-)

I think it might have something to do with committees - when marketing say that "Eternal Darkness" maximises your profit potential by including the largest possible number of key survival horror words per phrase, and your lead designer screams that his girlfriend the goth poet created the title "Sanity's Requiem" especially for his game and he's leaving if you don't use it, what else can you do, after all?