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[terminus]

Mine is, at the moment, set entirely in London and Manchester.

Alec North (and his various supporting cast members) will be interesting to bring to the page.

[Harry Fawkes]

Hot seems like an understatement!

Intrigue, suspense and no doubt full on action IS COMING OUR WAY THIS CHRISTMAS.

To all you Bond fans out there, T'will be a holiday to look forward to I bet.

Alec North.

I like the bloody sound of that. What a wonderful and fresh idea. A new Double O for the game and a spy to reckon with I'm sure!

Well done Terminus

As for you, Mr. Bryce, is all I can say is that you have always writen in a terse, somewhat fleeting style if I may point out - full of skill and breakneck speed that no doubt comes from a hard-earned craft.

So, kindly get to work and bring on "NOT QUITE A HOLIDAY". I am sure it will no doubt be a story that will simply have us by the balls (excuse my French).

Joyce my dear, you are what I call a wonderful story-teller and you have a style to your work that indeed raises the hair on your reader’s neck, and no less.

I probably haven’t said this before, (and if I have kindly forgive me for repeating it): Your Circle Trilogy is and will always be amongst my favorite reads.

And now I am simply dying to see what you are going to come up with for us in Christmas.

....Well, enough said I think.

I shall now compose myself and control my excitement at such good things to come.

Mind you, is all we need now to make this one hell of a blast of a Christmas are 2 more writers who, in my book, deserve one hell of an applause.

They are none other than the CBn writers who go by the names of VOLANTE and CHRISNO1.

I openly challenge them to stop whatever they are doing and write a short story that’ll blow us away!

Come on guys, join up and give us a ride!

WHAT IS CHRISTMAS WITHOUT THE WORLD OF JAMES BOND

Harry Fawkes

[Joyce Carrington]

Thanks, Harry.

I'm going back to Bleaktown for this one. Clinkers'll know what I'm talking about. I hope he will post something new too. I'll PM him.

[Bryce (003)]

Cheers Harry. Wow...whenever we do meet up someday...It's going to be one Hell of a bender...and bar tab. Not to mention the "shop talk".

I wouldn't call it a challenge though. We're all just trying to entertain fellow fans and give everyone something to enjoy as we all await Project X and Bond 23.

Hell, take the "Expendables" approach - Bond, Carrington, Fawkes, North, O'Shawnassey, Bryce and Brand -

"If the world's in that much danger - You need the best....No....Really."

LOL!

CUT TO : Seven figures in HALO rigs going out the back of a C-130 at dusk over the Atlantic and descending upon Cunard's Queen Mary 2

The terrorists will need more guys....

[terminus]

Now THAT'S a story I'd want to read


I did a pass of the opening of the story this evening - trying to get into the mindset for the character, describe what he looks like, where he lives, what he drives and what sort of person he might invite into his bedroom. Not incredibly happy with it - it just slows the story down, so I am looking at jumping into the story 'in media res'.

[tdalton]

I might actually make an attempt at doing this. I tried once before to write a much lengthier fan-fic with not much success (it was probably a bit too ambitious for a first attempt), but I think I might have a decent enough idea to build around for a shorter story, so I might go ahead an make an attempt at it.

I am, though, very much looking forward to reading what everyone else comes up with, though.

[Joyce Carrington]

Yippee! Glad to hear you'll be making an attempt, tdalton. That's all we're doing, too. Luckily we were challenged well in advance so in theory we have the time to make it work.

Who else? The more the merrier.

[terminus]

I might actually make an attempt at doing this. I tried once before to write a much lengthier fan-fic with not much success (it was probably a bit too ambitious for a first attempt), but I think I might have a decent enough idea to build around for a shorter story, so I might go ahead an make an attempt at it.

I am, though, very much looking forward to reading what everyone else comes up with, though.

Tdalton, if your fanfic is anywhere near as good as your input into Ultimate Bond, then you'll do fine

[tdalton]

I might actually make an attempt at doing this. I tried once before to write a much lengthier fan-fic with not much success (it was probably a bit too ambitious for a first attempt), but I think I might have a decent enough idea to build around for a shorter story, so I might go ahead an make an attempt at it.

I am, though, very much looking forward to reading what everyone else comes up with, though.

Tdalton, if your fanfic is anywhere near as good as your input into Ultimate Bond, then you'll do fine

Thanks.

Hopefully it will turn out OK. I'm thinking about making one of the scenes I proposed for one of the UBs (the one with Bond and Goodnight on an assassination mission, with a new character standing in for Goodnight) that didn't make it in as the centerpiece of the story and then building around it.

[terminus]

I don't suppose that people would mind if you wrote a short story using the version of Goodnight from the UB treatments, tdalton. I, for one, would love to see what you'd do with that version of the character in a prose format.

[Harry Fawkes]

THE RETURN OF IAN FLEMING’S JAMES BOND

A REMARKABLY BEAUTIFUL WOMAN WITH ONE HELL OF A DARK AND VIOLENT PAST…

BETRAYAL….

MURDER….

GRATUITOUS SEX….

A RIPPING YARN OF INTRIGUE THAT’LL HAVE YOUR HEART MISSING BEATS BY THE SECOND….

JAMES BOND IS BACK IN ONE OF HIS MOST DEADLIEST ASSIGNMENTS EVER TO HIT CBN

H A R R Y F A W K E S’
CHARM THE DEVIL

A RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK WILL BEGIN ON CHRISTMAS DAY WITH THE HIGHEST STAKE EVER ON THE TABLES…

OO7 HIMSELF


HARRY FAWKES WRITING AS IAN FLEMING
IS BACK
WITH ANOTHER SHOCKING PAGE TURNER

THIS CHRISTMAS

‘NEVER TRUST THE DEVIL WHEN SHE BEARS YOU FLOWERS, MR. BOND’

_________________________________________

[terminus]

Oh my! I like the sound of that.

[Joyce Carrington]

That makes me want to improvise my own teaser! Here we go:

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This Christmas...

... Joyce Carrington does something stupid.

AGAIN.

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How about that?

[Bryce (003)]

That makes me want to improvise my own teaser! Here we go:

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This Christmas...

... Joyce Carrington does something stupid.

AGAIN.

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How about that?

Well....Nobody Does it Dumber.

Go get 'em gorgeous.

As to stupid things, I can truly just think of one - Agreeing to meet two wankers you only knew from a Bond fan site on a wet wind swept night in Amsterdam.

May the stupidity continue.

[Joyce Carrington]

As to stupid things, I can truly just think of one - Agreeing to meet two wankers you only knew from a Bond fan site on a wet wind swept night in Amsterdam.

May the stupidity continue.

Biggest mistake of my life.

[Bryce (003)]

As to stupid things, I can truly just think of one - Agreeing to meet two wankers you only knew from a Bond fan site on a wet wind swept night in Amsterdam.

May the stupidity continue.

Biggest mistake of my life.

Luckiest of ours.

Amsterdam, L.A., Vegas, Paris, Monte Carlo....The Adventure Continues.

[terminus]

So that's five participants if I've counted right - myself, tdalton, Bryce, Harry and Joyce? Have I missed anyone else?

[Bryce (003)]

Volante might join the fun. So, the cast seems to be set, but again, this isn't a challenge or a contest by any means. Just something for all of CBn to enjoy over their eggnog or (in my case) some single malt flavored Jamaican Mountain Blue Roast after stockings and any gifts.

Ideally my own "present" will be wearing some black satin stockings.

....and very little else.

I'm five pages into this thus far. It's a brawl in a hotel suite. There's a time limit. You'll see a side of Joyce, John and Matt that just goes with the job. The bit with Gala (the new 005) will have you clapping your hands.

On it goes. Cheers.

From Los Angeles with Love,

- 003

[terminus]

Oh - didn't mean to suggest it was a competition - just counting off how many other stories I'd be able to enjoy

I need to get back to mine, have let it sit for a week to ferment.

[tdalton]

Oh - didn't mean to suggest it was a competition - just counting off how many other stories I'd be able to enjoy

I need to get back to mine, have let it sit for a week to ferment.

Thankfully it isn't a contest. I doubt I'd fare well against the very fine authors in this thread.

Anyway, I've got to get back to mine as well. I've got a page or two done on it, more introductory than anything else, and need to really nail down the minor details of the plot for it. I've got the characters pretty much set (terminus and those who have either read or participated in the Ultimate Bond threads will definitely recognize one of the characters, which is a new twist on an old Fleming character, and perhaps a second, original character who I've used in those treatments, but will be going by a different name in this particular story).

[Bryce (003)]

Excellent to hear tdalton.

I've been having a bit of fun staging the action this evening and then describing it.

During one of her visits here in L.A., Joyce and I watched the sun come up with an all night Matt Helm marathon and I also gave her hand-to-hand combat lessons. She can attest to how devious my mind works in such terms. Part resarch, part training and, unfortunately (for myself and a few sorry bastards), part experience.

Yeah, I'm having fun.

If you thought the stairwell fight in CR was nasty, wait for what three double-o's can do when confronted.

TALLY HO!

[Harry Fawkes]

Just to make one thing clear all - This is a challenge.

Not of course in the sense of the whole thing being a competition between us. That would be simply pathetic.

When I said challenge I truly meant the whole thing to be a ‘personal challenge’ to us all to come up with the 'goods'; a challenge to yourself, if you will, to get what is inside you out of you and onto pen and paper (in our case onto this site).

To be honest with you all I am, unfortunately, finding the whole issue of a Xmas Bond short to be one hell of a excruciating dare myself.

Believe me, the story is there, inside my mind (I can see it all clearly playing out scene by scene). I have all the characters and their backgrounds ‘set up’, the beautiful locations, the intense drama (Hell, the blasted thing is even overtaking my own thoughts and, to an extent, feelings) but, fcku!, I can't seem to get myself to sit down at my PC and actually give it 'life'.

And there rests the challenge I was referring to.

I, like perhaps most of you out there, have challenged myself to write a short story that is worthy of this site and post it on Christmas day. Succeed or not, I'm going to try hard. I have to, now that I've set my bleedin’ mind to it. So, my fellow Fan Fic writers, that is the tangible dare that faces me; us.

It's not just about writing a ‘short’ to say I've written another Bond story; but rather, it is about coming up with something good; bloody worth reading in fact….

Having said all that, I'm sure I will succeed (That is, breaking the barrier between having a good idea evolve inside my mind and the gruesome and painful process of getting the bastard out of me and into 'book' form in time for the ‘deadline’ so to speak).

And therefore I offer the challenge to others out there to challenge themselves into accepting such a challenge of actually challenging themselves to come along and join the challenge of writing a Bond short for Christmas

(I am going to log off now and go smoke a cigarette outside and have a little cry because I think I've bitten on more than I can chew believe it or not. But, nay, worry not, ye of little faith (myself that is). I shall succeed! I shall overcome! Is all I need is a bleedin’ muse or somethin’ to get me bleedin' writing again!)

…Or shall I just write another teaser?

I love doing them. They get me into the spirit of it all with hardly any effort at all


Harry Fawkes AKA Roger Mulvaney MRQ

[terminus]

I sympathise, Harry - have found myself in the same position. Have clear ideas about what I want to write - but getting it onto paper (or, the screen) is sixty six percent of the task!

[Harry Fawkes]

CLASSIC BOND RETURNS TO CBN THIS CHRISTMAS

IN

CHARM THE DEVIL

H A R R Y F A W K E S

[MkB]

C'mon Harry, you have it in you! You'll charm us all

I'm a retired fanfic writer, guys, but I'm looking forward to reading you!

[Joyce Carrington]

Don't despair, folks - just have fun writing and don't worry about anything else.

Besides, still a month to go! No rush. Take it easy.

[MHazard]

I started this thread, so I guess it's up to me to submit one. I'm halfway done but James hasn't told me how he's getting out of the fix he's in. I'm confident he will but we'll have to see if it stacks up to the rest of your efforts.

[terminus]

I have two pages done!

EDIT: Make that about four! Just need to finish off a fight sequence, set North up with his romantic interest and give North's ally a nice exit scene, and then we're all done. I'd say about six pages in total. A lot shorter than my previous story - more of a vignette really.

[Joyce Carrington]

I'm coming up on three pages now. I think my screenwriting training is starting to interfere with my prose: I'm just writing a couple of short scenes as effectively as possible - get in, move the story forward, and get out. Not that that's necessarily such a bad thing, but... it's different I guess.

On the other hand, it's not December yet. Still time to rediscover my prose roots.

[Harry Fawkes]

I haven't started writing yet but my mind is lucid about the whole thing which means by tonight I should get down to the ‘hard stuff’.

To give a slight intimation at what I'm trying this time, let's just say I'm going to take the reader way back to the days when our hero was but a young Lt Commander starting off in the British Intelligence Service with, therefore, a ‘time-line’ happening shortly before Ian Fleming's Casino Royale.

Charm the Devil then will be a secret occasion in the life of Ian Fleming's James Bond, as seen through my eyes naturally.

To be more specific the story is set sometime after he is actually designated a OO Agent with that illustrious licence to kill for Her Majesty's Secret Service.

So, gentle readers out there, to wrap up, I am going to actually ‘work’ as Ian Fleming for the next few weeks and see where I get.

Kindly wish me luck because when you call on the devil we all know you've obviously got to give the lady Her due...

See you soon

Harry Fawkes

PS Well done to all the other writers out there attempting the Christmas ‘Challenge’. From what I’ve read of your comments here you seem to be doing fine building up your own stories. Keep in there and don’t give up!

I for one can’t wait to read your work.