I am going to keep this short and sweet. It is true and this time I don't think I will try to bring it back from the dead again. With everything that is going on in my life I don't foresee being able to do GreatHites any more. I have really enjoyed the project, but I think it is time the let is slip quietly into the grave.
I do want to say thank you to everyone who has helped out it along the way. I have made some incredible friends, learned so very much and will really miss time that I have spent working on GreatHites. I am not totally stepping away from the podcasting sphere, but for now, I am focusing my efforts on Flying Island Press and the many great things going on there. You will occasionally hear me here, as I get the itch to get behind the microphone again thank you to everyone along the way, it has been a great ride.
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Thursday, July 8, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
A week of stories has been skipped.
Yeah I goofed. It happens folks and I am sorry. In one of my rare moments of being on top of things last week I got the Bloomin' Fuchsia Stories put together and then even had a live feedback show with them. Unfortunately the moment of being on top of things was sponsored by, failure! I completely missed the stories about making your own fun while growing up. I promise that I will amend this, I have all the audio with me today and will work to get it lined up today at lunch. Sorry about the confusion!
In the mean time, please take a moment or two and listen to / read the Bloomin' Fuchsia stories that are out there now. I think you will find there are some really good stories there.
In the mean time, please take a moment or two and listen to / read the Bloomin' Fuchsia stories that are out there now. I think you will find there are some really good stories there.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
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
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
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Authors and Contests
This week Great Hites had it's first double digit week. 12 stories about werewolves and vampires. This weeks seems to have brought a lot of great authors to join in the fun. Among those was Val Griswold-Ford (a published author) she is offering a signed copy of her story from this week. Here is her blog for more details. http://vg-ford.livejournal.com/512878.html
Thank you to all of the great Authors this week and don't forget to go out an promote your story this week. This was a great week and it is all thanks to you.
Thank you to all of the great Authors this week and don't forget to go out an promote your story this week. This was a great week and it is all thanks to you.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Great Hites Promos
Here are all three Great Hites Promos, all of them are available for you to play in your own podcast.
Download Great Hites Promo By: Danny Machal
Download Great Hites Promo By Mick Bordet and Norval Joe
Thursday, July 2, 2009
The German English Joke
If you have never seen this before , here is the joke that I talked about during the Great Hites 59 podcast. I have always thought it was funny. Thanks
Achtung!
Alles touristen und non-technishen looken peepers! Das machine is nicht
fur der fingerpoken und mittengrabben. Is easy schnappen der springen-
werk, blowenfusen und popencorken mit spitzen sparken. Das machine is
diggen by experten only. Is nicht fur gerwerken by das dummkopfen. Das
rubbernecken sightseeren keepen das cottenpiken hands in das pockets.
Relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights
Achtung!
Alles touristen und non-technishen looken peepers! Das machine is nicht
fur der fingerpoken und mittengrabben. Is easy schnappen der springen-
werk, blowenfusen und popencorken mit spitzen sparken. Das machine is
diggen by experten only. Is nicht fur gerwerken by das dummkopfen. Das
rubbernecken sightseeren keepen das cottenpiken hands in das pockets.
Relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Great Hites 59 Pulled
Well if you have listened to GH 59 you know why, but for those of you that have not, well I goofed it up big time. The levels are all wrong and there are a couple of goofs where there are sounds over laid where they should not be over laid. I will be fixing this as soon as I get home. Sorry folks. I will Try to do better.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Call for Promos
A few weeks ago, I made a call for a new promo for GreatHites and The Greatest Hites Anthology Volume I. I asked, begged and implored you to come up with ways that GreatHites had inspired, cajoled, shamed, or tortured you into writing.
We had to call out the Secret Council of three and the Dark load Hite has had to make his will known to all, but in the end we have gotten some very good material. Please keep it coming. Thank to all of you who had helped. I will be posting the promos shortly, on GreatHites and I will be sending them out to other podcasts soon. If you have a podcast and would like to help promote GreatHites or the new anthology, please let me know and I will make sure you get one of these new Promos.
In the mean time the Secret council of three (you will know them by their black cloaks) will be among you. Dragging you in front of your microphones to get your own ideas on promoting the new anthology.
We had to call out the Secret Council of three and the Dark load Hite has had to make his will known to all, but in the end we have gotten some very good material. Please keep it coming. Thank to all of you who had helped. I will be posting the promos shortly, on GreatHites and I will be sending them out to other podcasts soon. If you have a podcast and would like to help promote GreatHites or the new anthology, please let me know and I will make sure you get one of these new Promos.
In the mean time the Secret council of three (you will know them by their black cloaks) will be among you. Dragging you in front of your microphones to get your own ideas on promoting the new anthology.
I Goofed
This morning I posted Great Hites 59. I was so proud of myself for getting it out early. Everything was going fine until I got a tweet saying "Why didn't my story make it into the podcast." I was horrified that I had forgotten someone, but that is what I had done. Very luckily Few people had down loaded the podcast yet, and I was able to correct the mistake.
Just let this be a warning to you podcaster, check to make sure you have all your segments in order before you post your newest cast.
Sorry again to Danny Machal. And thank you for being gracious enough to forgive this podcasters errors.
Just let this be a warning to you podcaster, check to make sure you have all your segments in order before you post your newest cast.
Sorry again to Danny Machal. And thank you for being gracious enough to forgive this podcasters errors.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Great Hites spurs other writing
Once long ago a boy had a dream. That dream was to inspire people to write great stories. Long ago this boy was me and really the people I hoped to inspire were mostly me.
When I started Greathites I hoped that I would inspire some people to come join me in writing, if not great stories, then at least write interesting ones. I think I have been able to do that. Recently it has come to my attention that GreatHites has helped people go a step further and I could not be happier. a couple of people have found GreatHites and sites like it the 100 word story contest to be low risk places to jump start their writing. Or a place to test ideas for their much larger stories.
I cannot explain how happy this makes me. I also don't think that I deserve any of the credit. I hope that you, all of you, who read and listen to the stories every week, and those of you who write stories every week, know that you deserve the credit. It is you and that have made GreatHites what it is, a great place to write a story that is both challenging and accepting. So I ask all of you to tell people you know about the great things that are happening here, and of course keep writing.
I have once before credited Mur Laferty (Ms. Laferty to her friends) and ISBW for jump starting my writing, and it would not be fair to not do so again. But I hope I (really not me but GreatHites and all of you) can return the favor by helping others who feel that crazy siren song calling them to write, to go the next step and put it out there for other people to read. Because writing for the sake of writing is all well and good, but even if you don't intend to make it your career, you should at least share your creations with others.
There have been some changes recently including the addition of a steering committee guest hosts and anthology that I hope will not change atmosphere, instead improve it making this more of a community effort. And I hope that our community will grow to the point that will will have to make some hard decisions about how we present all the stories we get each week, and that I am forced move the stories onto a remote web server, but for now I am happy.
Thank all of you for helping a little boys dream come true and making it so much more.
Now get out there and write!
When I started Greathites I hoped that I would inspire some people to come join me in writing, if not great stories, then at least write interesting ones. I think I have been able to do that. Recently it has come to my attention that GreatHites has helped people go a step further and I could not be happier. a couple of people have found GreatHites and sites like it the 100 word story contest to be low risk places to jump start their writing. Or a place to test ideas for their much larger stories.
I cannot explain how happy this makes me. I also don't think that I deserve any of the credit. I hope that you, all of you, who read and listen to the stories every week, and those of you who write stories every week, know that you deserve the credit. It is you and that have made GreatHites what it is, a great place to write a story that is both challenging and accepting. So I ask all of you to tell people you know about the great things that are happening here, and of course keep writing.
I have once before credited Mur Laferty (Ms. Laferty to her friends) and ISBW for jump starting my writing, and it would not be fair to not do so again. But I hope I (really not me but GreatHites and all of you) can return the favor by helping others who feel that crazy siren song calling them to write, to go the next step and put it out there for other people to read. Because writing for the sake of writing is all well and good, but even if you don't intend to make it your career, you should at least share your creations with others.
There have been some changes recently including the addition of a steering committee guest hosts and anthology that I hope will not change atmosphere, instead improve it making this more of a community effort. And I hope that our community will grow to the point that will will have to make some hard decisions about how we present all the stories we get each week, and that I am forced move the stories onto a remote web server, but for now I am happy.
Thank all of you for helping a little boys dream come true and making it so much more.
Now get out there and write!
Thursday, May 21, 2009
reposting
Just a quick question. Should I go back to reposting the GreatHites Stories here. Was doing that for a while, but it seemed like overkill. What are your thoughts. Thanks
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Great Hites Promo in Weatherchild
Yesterday I asked a number of people to play the Special Birthday Promo for GreatHites in their podcast, this morning I woke up to it already being a part of one of my current favorite stories, Weather Child.
Thank you all who agreed to play it including, but not limited to: Scott Roche, Justin Lowmaster, and especially Philippa Ballantine.
If you would like to play the promo the link for it is below, drop me a line when you play it and I will make sure everyone knows about your great podcast as well.
Thanks everyone.
Download Weather Child Promo
Download GreatHites Birthday Promo
Thank you all who agreed to play it including, but not limited to: Scott Roche, Justin Lowmaster, and especially Philippa Ballantine.
If you would like to play the promo the link for it is below, drop me a line when you play it and I will make sure everyone knows about your great podcast as well.
Thanks everyone.
Download Weather Child Promo
Download GreatHites Birthday Promo
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.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Great Hites 44
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Hear Promos From:
Weather Child
Personal Effects Dark Arts
I talk about:
Wagwire
and Jeff's Random Thoughts
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Great Hites Delay
Alright Folks, Last ween was one of my worst weeks as far as work goes in a very long time. I worked late every day, and I had a major exam over the weekend, plus I had a to work over the weekend. All this means that I didn't get The podcast out. I am very bummed because I have not missed a week in a long time.
This week is looking better. So that is a good thing.
Here is what I am going to do for last week. I am going to put all the stories for this week and last week in one Podcast this week. It will be a longer one, but I think that is the best way to get back on track.
So If you wrote a story for the fall of the wall, or if you are writing a story for the belly button lint they will be up probably on Wednesday night or Thursday morning of this week. I will do my best to keep this from happening again.
Thanks for sticking with me folks.
-Jeff
This week is looking better. So that is a good thing.
Here is what I am going to do for last week. I am going to put all the stories for this week and last week in one Podcast this week. It will be a longer one, but I think that is the best way to get back on track.
So If you wrote a story for the fall of the wall, or if you are writing a story for the belly button lint they will be up probably on Wednesday night or Thursday morning of this week. I will do my best to keep this from happening again.
Thanks for sticking with me folks.
-Jeff
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Great Hites 42
This week we had stories from six people:
Daniel Machal
Ashley Redden
Guy David
Norval Joe
Justin Lowmaster
Jeff Hite
Hear the Promo For Scott Roche's ArchAngel
See the poll above.
Download
Daniel Machal
Ashley Redden
Guy David
Norval Joe
Justin Lowmaster
Jeff Hite
Hear the Promo For Scott Roche's ArchAngel
See the poll above.
Download
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Great Hites 41
This week we have four Stories, One from
Ashley Redden
Peter S.
Norval Joe
And Jeff Hite
Last week we had a three way tie, between Justin Lowmaster Lawrence Simon and Norval Joe
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Ashley Redden
Peter S.
Norval Joe
And Jeff Hite
Last week we had a three way tie, between Justin Lowmaster Lawrence Simon and Norval Joe
Download
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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.
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