Changes to Great Hites

Well it was bound to happen eventually. Great Hites is going to under go a few changes. I don't know if these changes are going to be the new thing with GH or if they are only temporary, but these changes are necessitated by my current schedule.

So here is what is going to happen.

* During the month of October you are only going to get one prompt (more on that to follow.) It is due on October 31.


* During the month of November and In to December if necessary I will play these stories so that you will have a whole month of guilt free listening while you work on your NANOWRIMO project. (Like I will be doing)

* At the Beginning of December I will give you another prompt that you might be able to guess at if you think really hard, and you will have until December 31st to finish it.

* During the month of January I will play the stories written in December, so that while you are winding down from the Holidays again you will have a guilt free month of "The Hite of podcast fiction."

So you are worried that from now until November you will have nothing to listen from Great Hites. that is where you would be wrong. I have asked a couple of the regulars to contribute some bonus material. And I will be putting out a 100 word bonus prompts now and again.

With all of these changes there are going to be a couple of changes to the rules so there they are and hopefully they are things that you can live with:

1. Maximum story length is going to be increased to a whopping 10,000 words. I figure if most of the writers were already writing 2000-3000 word stories in a week that they could use the breathing room for a month long project.

2. The rating on these stories will still need to be PG. I am not going to change that. Sorry to all of you that thought that I might but nope.

3. All the other rules stand. I need a story, a recording in MP3 format if you can, and I needs to be in by midnight on the date of the deadline. But you know me on deadlines, ask if you need more time, I am pretty flexible.

4. Please include your Name and "October story" or "December Story" as the case may be, in the subject so I can find it easily I have a busy in box.

PROMPT PROMPT PROMPT, I hear the crowds shouting.

But before I get to that, let me give you two things, 1, #changestoGH 2, #bonusprompts These are the two twitter tags I will be using to discuss the changes and of course the bonus prompts. So if you want to follow the conversations about those things, well you know what to do.

So the prompt:

"Creation, create your own creation story." This can be a birth story, the creation of the universe, life from lifelessness (thank you Star Trek II), an Adam and Eve type story, whatever you like. Used your imaginations this is a wide open prompt so please have fun with it. If you have questions about this please feel free to contact me.

Speaking of contacting me here is how

Jeffrey.hite at Gmail dot com

or you could follow me on Twitter I am JeffreyHite or @jeffreyhite

or you could skype me I am JeffreyHite

or you could leave a comment on the site. Not to worry, if it is a personal question I won't post it but rather just respond to you.


I think that just about covers everything. Except promotion: please please please tell everyone you know about this new prompt and lets see if we can get lots and lots of great stories. Do you remember Week 63? I want that but more, bigger, better and with more gusto.

Thanks
-Jeff

Hite's lofty Ideas (almost daily writing prompt) Number V

Today's writing prompt:

"if you collected baby drool and sold it as a cure for ageing."

Great Hites Prompt # 49

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This weeks prompt is:

"Chipped and broken coffee cups."


All Stories for this prompt are due by Midnight Tuesday April 7th. Email the text of the story and a recording if you would like me to include it in the podcast to jeffrey dot hite at gmail dot com.

good luck. And don't forget to come out to the site and vote for your Favorite stories this week.

Great Hites Prompt # 45

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This weeks prompt comes from my companies quarterly update meeting, and is:

"We are now in the Magic Quadrant."

If you were following me on twitter you got this one a bit early, since when I heard it I could not resist.


All Stories for this prompt are due by Midnight Tuesday March 17 th. Email the text of the story and a recording if you would like me to include it in the podcast to jeffrey dot hite at gmail dot com.

good luck. And don't forget to come out to the site and vote for your Favorite stories this week.

Don't forget to go out to iTunes or podcast pickle or both and leave a review. It is a great way to let people know about great hites and what you think of it.

Just a quick review of the rules:



1. All stories submitted must be based on the weekly topic and in before Tuesday at midnight. (your local midnight is fine)
E-mail of the text of the story (pasted into the e-mail) to me at jeffrey dot hite at gmail dot com along with a recording if you want it added to the podcast.

2. Stories must have a maximum rating of PG. If you want examples of my strongest violence or most suggestive language read or listen toRun For your Life, Adam And Eve. or Going Down with the Ship And yes, I get the final say. Hey it's my site I make the rules.

3. Stories submitted should be between 100 to 3000 words, any shorter will get lost in the fray, any longer and it will drown out the other works, and as I said in rule number 2: Hey it's my site I make the rules.

4. Protecting your hard work. I know some sites don't do this, but I will do my best to protect your work. My entire site is protected by creative commons, I think it is worth your time to license your work, head out to the creative commons site get a license and paste the html code at the end of your story in the e-mail and when it gets posted I will include that. This is the one rule that is not hard and fast I think if you have worked hard on something you should protect it, but it is your call.

Great Hites Prompt # 42

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This weeks Prompt comes from Justin (the Space Turtle) Lowmaster and is:

"in the largest bookstore in the city. "

All Stories for this prompt are due by Midnight Tuesday February 24th. Email the text of the story and a recording if you would like me to include it in the podcast to jeffrey dot hite at gmail dot com.

good luck. And don't forget to come out to the site and vote for your Favorite stories this week.

Great Hites Prompt number 40

This weeks Prompt is:

"It is only Tuesday. "

All Stories for this prompt are due by Midnight Tuesday February 10th. Email the text of the story and a recording if you would like me to include it in the podcast to jeffrey dot hite at gmail dot com.

good luck. And don't forget to come out to the site and vote for your Favorite stories this week.




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Great Hites Prompt number 40

This weeks Prompt is:

"It is only Tuesday. "

All Stories for this prompt are due by Midnight Tuesday February 10th. Email the text of the story and a recording if you would like me to include it in the podcast to jeffrey dot hite at gmail dot com.

good luck. And don't forget to come out to the site and vote for your Favorite stories this week.




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Great Hites Prompt number 39

This weeks Prompt is:




"The flames lept higher that they would have thought possible. "

All Stories for this prompt are due by Midnight Tuesday February 3rd. Email the text of the story and a recording if you would like me to include it in the podcast to jeffrey dot hite at gmail dot com.

good luck. And don't forget to come out to the site and vote for your Favorite stories this week.

Don't forget to go out to iTunes or podcast pickle or both and leave a review. It is a great way to let people know about great hites and what you think of it.

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The Prompt

I had a question about a week ago how the prompt could be used. The question was basically, do you have to use the prompt verbadium, or even use it in your story.

Here is the way I look at the prompt. If the prompt tickles your fancy use it. If you can quote the prompt great. If it is just an idea that stirs something in you and it has something to do in some way with the prompt, then use it that way. basically I don't care how you use it. If it is a one word prompt obviously fitting it into your story should be pretty easy. But like the prompt from this previous week that was quite long, I don't expect you to use it word for word, in fact, unless you are a much better writer than I am I can't see how you could do that. (BTW I think most of the people that write for Great Hites are better writers than I am.)

Long and short of this, the prompt is there as a way to, for lack of a better word, prompt you into writing something. It is an idea, a grain of sand that you might turn into a pearl.

To everyone who has submitted thank you. For all of you listening thank you.

- Jeff

GreatHites Prompt # 38

This weeks Prompt is:

"The Cold was Shocking"

All Stories for this prompt are due by Midnight Tuesday January 27th. Email the text of the story and a recording if you would like me to include it in the podcast to jeffrey dot hite at gmail dot com.

good luck. And don't forget to come out to the site and vote for your Favorite stories this week.

Don't forget to go out to iTunes or podcast pickle or both and leave a review. It is a great way to let people know about great hites and what you think of it.

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GreatHites Prompt 37

This weeks Prompt is from:




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Weekly writing prompt Questions

I was wondering if anyone would like to change the way that we do the weekly prompt.

Here are the changes that I can think of.

1. I post three or four prompts that you could vote on.

2. I could post the prompts further in advance, maybe a month.

3. We could let people suggest weekly prompts.
A. Either writers only like the 100 word stories.
B. Anyone could suggest a prompt.

The Next question is do you like the longer prompts that kind of steer you in a direction or the more wide open shorter prompts (one or two word prompts)

Let me know what you think about these, or if you have any suggestions of your own.

Thanks

-Jeff

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