You may have heard that Space Squid is having a release party this Saturday, 1pm, @ B.D.Riley’s Pub on Sixth street.
You may also have heard that there will be free appetizer plates (while they last) and drink specials.
What you may not have heard is that we’re holding an improv fiction contest, along similar lines as the 48hr. film project. Only in fifteen minutes. And of course it will be far more amazing, because, we’ve got all these talented writers in Austin who are just chomping at the bit to show everyone how much more awesome they are than all those lesser writers out there.
Here’s how it’s going to work:
1.) The audience provides one genre trope for each contestant and one genre trope for everyone.
2.) The contestants spend 15 minutes writing a work of breathtaking beauty based on the global trope and their individually unique trope (I will bring some pads of paper and writing utensils).
3.) Contestants read their work to the audience.
4.) With all their assumptions and belief systems shaken, the audience sheds a single, perfect tear.
5.) Using a precisely calibrated mechanism, the audience picks the winners.
6.) The winners pick their FABULOUS PRIZE from a grabbag box with such FABULOUS PRIZES as "Qayamat: City Under Threat," a Bollywood remake of Bruckheimer’s "The Rock."
7.) Everyone takes advantage of the drink specials and shows up to the Nebula banquet drunk and belligerent.
