108 lines
4.0 KiB
PHP
108 lines
4.0 KiB
PHP
<?php require_once("./session.lib.php"); ?>
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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
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<head>
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<meta charset="UTF-8">
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
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<title>x.x.x [about]</title>
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<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.png" />
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<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.png" />
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
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<script type="text/javascript" src="utilities.js"></script>
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<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="xxx.org.za RSS feed" href="/feed" />
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</head>
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<?php flush(); ?>
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<body>
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<div id="container">
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<?php include_once("./sidebar.inc.php"); ?>
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<main id="main">
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<div id="maintext">
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<h1>about this site</h1>
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<p>It works thus: you send in a submission, a story, poem, whatever.
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It gets published here. The catch is that no submission can be longer
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or shorter than one hundred words. Our editorial policy is fairly lax,
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which means that if you simply submit an expletive repeated one hundred
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times, we'll ask you to justify its literary worth or face <b>censorship</b>.
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</p>
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<p>
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The underlying logic being that one never gets as much time as one might
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like to write interesting unprosaic prose. Hence, the idea is to keep all
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stories very short, and in doing so, encourage creativity. The ideal, by
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extension, is to write one story every day.
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</p>
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<h2>Submission rules</h2>
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<p>
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All submissions must follow three rules:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li><p>All submissions must be exactly one hundred words in length,
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excluding the title. No more, no less. And please don't try and put half your
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story in the title!
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</p></li>
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<li><p>Only one submission per person per day (it's really quite addictive).
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Although we have been fooled into accepting two…
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</p></li>
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<li><p>Each submission should be internally readable. It is fine if you want to
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have a long story consisting of several hundred-word shorts, but each short
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must be internally consistent and readable, and only one short can be
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submitted each day.
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</p></li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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Pictures can also be submitted. We will post them. However, pictures are
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reputedly worth a thousand words, so they have to be <em>very small</em>
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pictures. Each image should be sent with a title. The current rule is that
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pictures should have a total area of exactly 100000 pixels -- that's
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500x200, 667x150, or 1000x100, for instance.
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</p>
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<p>
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Economy and style. Elegance. You get the notion. (Or, of course, for some, sophomoric and maudlin; angry.)
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</p>
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<h2>Why <span class="xxx">xxx</span>?</h2>
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<p>
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It's hard to set the mood in one hundred words. So we're going to go
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out on a limb here and say there is nothing explicitly pornographic
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on this website.
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</p>
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<p>
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All <span class="xxx">x</span>'s are not made equal, and in this case,
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the outer two <span class="xxx">x</span>'s are supposed to be Roman numerals,
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the centre <span class="xxx">x</span> a multiplication sign. Simply put, ten by ten.
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</p>
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<h2>Something is broken</h2>
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<p>
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If you find anything which seems to be broken, please <a href="<?= hidden_email('mailto:' . site_email('webmaster')) ?>">email us</a>
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and tell us.
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</p>
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<h2>Similar concepts</h2>
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<p>
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<a href="http://www.oneword.com/">oneword</a> is a similar site --
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you get sixty seconds to write about one word. Another interesting
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and very analogous site is <a href="http://www.100words.com">100 words</a>:
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the idea is similar, entries of one hundred words, but they are published
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in one-month (per person) batches. Let me know if you find any others.
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</p>
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<p>
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Various writers have also (often famously) explored similar concepts.
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasunari_Kawabata">Yasunari
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Kawabata</a> has an excellent book of short stories, entitled
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm-of-the-Hand_Stories">Palm-of-the-Hand Stories</a>;
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<a href="http://www.neilgaiman.com/">Neil Gaiman</a> called hundred-word
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stories "drabblets".
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</p>
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</div> <!-- .maintext -->
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</main> <!-- .main -->
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</div> <!-- .container -->
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<?php include_once("./bottombar.inc.php"); ?>
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<?php open_db('close'); ?>
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</body>
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</html>
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