New Nonsense Writing Contest - Prizes Worth Over 30 STEEM - Ends Sun 12 Jan (Day 9 of 10)

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Here it is Saturday, hence Day 9 of 10. To make this as simple as possible, all submissions can be sent so long as it is still Sunday where you live. For me, this means it will run into the middle of Monday - never mind. Anything that arrives late can always be resubmitted next time.

I will then post a list of the winners of the 2 MAXUV tokens. This can be up to 10 entries, but could be fewer. That will give everyone a chance to vote on their favourite pieces. More importantly, it gives everyone a chance to read those pieces.

Those finalists can then be voted upon for a couple of days and I shall then announce the winners of the larger prizes. To avoid it being wholly determined by tribal voting, I shall then mix together my own favourites with the most voted.

The Next Nonsense

I think that 10 days is a nice Goldilocks number - not too short and not too long. Enough to marinade an idea without then overcooking it.

This means a 14-day cycle, starting on a Friday, ending the following Sunday, with then a few days to process all entries. There may be a day or two of overlap.

I'm still thinking on whether to give a theme or some surreal prompts or perhaps specify a format. Any feelings on this, let me know below.

Restrictions can be liberating, so long as you can abuse them.

What am I looking for?

With this first contest being so open-ended, I've seen this expressed a few times: the paralysis of choice.

Indeed, there is a vast choice of formats and styles, never mind picking a topic. At one extreme, we have un-edited nonsense such as automatic writing or the exquisite corpse game. The mind dislikes processing the unprocessable, hence will try to form some Gestalt meaning even from the most asemic of writing.

At the other end, we have the fully edited writings that have gone through various iterations until "just right" - or "good enough". Published nonsense poems and surrealist literature will fall into this category. The words are used as fantastical creatures paraded through an intoxicated landscape, but the product is a crafted articulation of a vision and the effect on the reader has been consciously sought.

As I read through the kaleidoscope of submitted writings, a few have made me laugh out loud (yes, it does happen!) But this is not a comedic contest and laughter not always a response to humour. Sometimes, you've just been holding the telescope the wrong way round. You've been led down the garden path only to fall into a semantic illusion.

If one was to define nonsense, then "semantic surrealism" would be close to the mark.

So, apart from the immediate emotional responses, not limited to laughter, the second criterion is more mental: what visions does the writing create? The imagination is infinitely flexible and hence able to stitch together fragments into some kind of whole, even if unstable.

Life itself is riding a knife-edge between order and disorder, both of which are dead ends that somehow animate the dance. Most writing just assumes we are strolling down a path wide enough to ignore the edges; nonsense is more like tightrope walking.

All of us have forgotten how we learnt to balance. Only by observing children do we reconnect with that ability to fall over. Nonsense takes us back to falling over again.


Can you spot the conceptual error in this picture?

Nonsense submitted

Newest nonsense

More Nonsense for @rycharde's Contest by @fitinfun

I'm crazy or upset by @mariela53

Fly High Hungry Gull by @belkisa758

My nonsense. My entry to the contest for @rycharde by @sacra97

The nightmare! Nonsense or News? My Second entry for @rycharde contest by @felixgarciap

Newish nonsense.

Aus dem abenteuerlichen Leben von Karl May by @filosof103

This is my nonsense post by @tariqul.bibm

The gifts that the Three Wise Men brought me this 2020. by @por500bolos

Nonsense or News? My Contest Entry Post for @rycharde by @fitinfun

Hopefully! Nonsense or News? My contest entry for @rycharde by @felixgarciap

New Nonsense Writing Contest - Prizes Worth Over 30 STEEM - Ends Sun 12 Jan/// Nuevo concurso escritura sin sentido - Premios valor de más de 30 STEEM - Finaliza 12 enero by @mariita52

Lo bonito de estar loca y andar suelta by @giocondina

Nonsense Writing Contest ~ Week One by @snook

Sosnesne Righting Countess by @enginewitty

Newsome nonsense.

untitled comment by @ecoinstant

The Bleeken Nod by @bia.birch

“Hatha hend abounde!” by @bia.birch

Camping report by @eturnerx

untitled comment by @carlgnash

Newless nonsense.

Factual Fiction. by @thehive

¿New Year's Resolutions? Bleh! by @por500bolos

The flying nonsense (words that seem to fly straight into your ear and to your brain) by @sayee

Flash fiction: After all, what is the meaning of life ..., original by @janaveda by erm... @janaveda

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I think you just taught me a new word, asemic. I think I write like that, sometimes, like in code, like open-ended, where it is up to interpretation like beauty and art and music and movies are in the eye of the beholder, like a pile of puns in a fun hun factory haha.

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Thanks! Frankly, was a new word to me too. I hope these detours through the jungles of nonsense help people increase their degrees of freedom of expressions.

I know some people enjoy these, but sadly I seem to get more messages on discord than comments on steem, so thanks again!

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i love me some bananas in that crazy jungle which reminds me of my life in vietnam and discord seems to be more popular than steemit or at least used differently by some people in some ways

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Hi @rycharde, a small upvote and a tip from the ADDAX trading game! Round 2 has closed - Round 3 to start soon.
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Hi @rycharde, a free $trendotoken from the TULIP Mania Game!
Round 3 will start soon and full details will follow. Thanks for playing!

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You have received a 6.0% upvote based on your balance of 15.0000 TMPS!

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Oh so this knucklebone sandwich is 29/thirty-seconds done with yet, eh?

I have been playing with an autovoter on @ecoinstats, and your name has suddenly popped to the top of my get rich quick list! Don't forget to remember that everything is automated!

Now, as you showed us how to do, the top holders of INCOME will be voted by an automatic mobile voting machine that will spruce additional value to this program. Its entirely unrelated!

But how could I stop by this post and not co-quiesce, a second time!

Oh and what's this about untitled comments! There were titles! In fact, the first 4 words of any nonsense must now furthermore be known as its title ~ This work is thusly known ad infinitum as "Oh so this knucklebone" and my previous work shall drown itself in history under the guise of "I can't believe I"

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lmao, is this an entry or an exit?
I do appreciate the tangential comments, just that the brewery is so often illiquid.
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An economic system based on Liquid Flows! Fascinating! how about !coffeea

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Well as promised here I am with my aforementioned entry to the Donald Trump lookalike contest... Oh sorry on reviewing some of the entries perhaps I have misunderstood the concept slightly. Never mind, a quick change of tack and it's onward and upward.

Oh it's a nonsense writing contest, I could likely add any of my comments posted on the platform and romp home as the undisputed Emperor of nonsense, but that would merely shatter the last 3% of my remaining self esteem, those comments were from the heart, in all honesty, not my heart but a heart, and it was human too, or so the gentleman I bought it from assured me.

Where were we? Ah yes, nonsense.

I will refer you to a recent speech I gave for the 666th chapter of the Women's Institute, otherwise known as the W.I here in England on October 31st last year. I trust you may glean a touch of nonsense from within if you search hard enough.

Ahem ahem clears throat

Ladies, ladies ladies. We find ourselves in unusual times, our place as Ladies in the community and on the world stage has been given a makeover of late and as well as the vote, we now also have the right to curse, drink fortified wine and spit.

In these unprecedented times we owe a debt to the very section of society who gifted these rights to us. Of course I refer to our obvious overlords MEN!

Without whom, where would we be?

Who would catch the spiders that often make their way in to our beautifully cleaned homes. Who would put up shelves? Clearly as Ladies we are far too fragile and dainty to accomplish such unseemly tasks.

As a 49 year old British man, I feel particularly equipped to understand the challenges we ladies feel on a daily basis. I think I may have thought of a few more drawbacks that may not have occurred to you betwixt your daydreams of new curtains and flower arranging.

If the humble Lady continues her rise through the upper echelons of the nations public services, broadcasting, the arts, who will perform those vital tasks that shall remain incomplete?

I refer of course to laundry, ironing and the most feminine of pursuits sandwich making. In a recent study by the leading male scientists the average time it took a man to make a sandwich was some 57.4 minutes, compared with the average lady scoring some 4.2 seconds.

Faced with such overwhelming empirical evidence and data I am certain that the obvious solution is clear. The lady must return to her natural habitat, the home, maybe even more specifically the kitchen!

If we do not tackle this issue which is only slightly more pressing than climate change a whole generation of children may grow up completely bereft of the knowledge of how to fashion a napkin in to a pretty swan.

I think we have all become familiar with the concept of fake news in recent times and I am sure we can all agree that the word and concept of misogyny belongs tightly locked in to that category. Only recently a man informed me that the word misogyny itself was created by a lady, doesn't that just show how far you have come? I wish I could pat each of you on the head for your exceptional contribution to furthering our species.

Why not hand back the right to vote, that stuff is just confusing anyway right? Treat yourself to a bright new lipstick and a 5 pack of dish cloths and do what you were born to do cook, clean and gossip.

I paused at the end of what I deemed to be a rousing speech and waited for the ovation, it never came, I think perhaps the content was too complex for them to process.

Fin

Okay, okay, I know that I am gonna be stoned in the village square but no ladies were harmed in the creating of this satirical nonsensical account. If anything, it was a ridiculous lambastation of dumb-ass, male-mini-minded Victorian values.

P.S please, please, nobody bring this piece or writing to the attention of my good lady, she will quite categorically destroy me!!! She may also refuse to catch the next spider that creeps in to the house... Eek!

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Thanks very much. Pity it can't be resteemed - although the resteem button is there in all its mocking uselessness. So upvoted your most recent - only recent - post!

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IKR I have been woefully absent.

That solitary post was detailing a pretty dark health-period, from which I have returned full of apathy, tiredness and ineffective caffeine optimism renewed vigour and excitement for the block-chain and my greatest love of all ((to quote Whitney Houston)) ENGAGEMENT!!!

Interestingly I wrote THIS a little earlier which kinda speaks to the very comment to which I am currently responding, right now, this very moment.

Yup I do realise the irony of promoting a contest that is about to end, but judging by the response, I woudl venture to suggest there will be many more editions...

As a lover of nonsensical ramblings and foolishness I intend to be a frequent entrant, so will drop a cacophonous bolt of lightning gentle reminder to folks when the next one is live.

I don't want to make any false and unfounded promises this early but the bots that have interacted with the post so far seem very interested!!!

Kudos to you on a FAB idea @rycharde I shall try and pay a visit to some of the entries with a choice comment or two when I arise from my slumber in the miserable, rainy, cold, damp U.K gloriously sunny morning.

Take great care and feel free to block the hell outta me nobody needs to be assaulted by such lengthy, rambling comments... Nobody!!! 🤐

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