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Post by Mikauzoran on May 13, 2015 0:30:26 GMT
Unfortunately, I'm thinking the word count is going to be an issue as far as fair judging goes, and if we make exceptions once, it'll start happening more frequently as there will be grounds for complaints. That's not exactly the precedence that I want to set with the rules. If it were just another thousand words, there might be some wiggle room, but it sounds like you've definitely gone over into the scope of a 10k contest entry.
Sorry. Law student, so I'm kind of a stickler for rules. It's not just your entry in particular that we have to think about when making this decision but the rest of the entrants in this contest and future entrants in future competitions. It's hard, but we have to be fair to everyone. :/
So I'm going to say no unless Crimson reverses/remands my ruling. Sorry, KK.
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kkrazy256
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I would literally die for any Transformer
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Post by kkrazy256 on May 13, 2015 1:01:44 GMT
That's fine, Mikau. I'll post it as a regular story. Thank you for the quick decision! I always get restless when I have a unpublished story sitting around.
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Post by Mikauzoran on May 17, 2015 19:43:39 GMT
So. The deadline is coming up on the twenty-fourth. How is everyone doing? How's it coming along? How many people expect to have a submission for this contest?
I've got mine done, but it still has to be edited some more. I need to smooth out the ending.
Anyway. Good luck everybody!
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armadillo3
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Antique store books are the best!
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Post by armadillo3 on May 20, 2015 17:33:09 GMT
Oh man.. Only four days left and I haven't even started! Thanks a lot school!! Oh well... I still really want to try and write something for this. Maybe the really close deadline will keep me from second guessing?
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Post by ichthyophobia on May 20, 2015 18:27:01 GMT
I've tried to start this thing like three times and never managed to get past 300 words. I have all the murder details worked out, though, so hopefully once I get something I like it should go fairly quickly. This prompt required more research than I normally do.
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Post by Mikauzoran on May 23, 2015 16:57:12 GMT
Please have all submissions in by tomorrow.
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Post by ichthyophobia on May 24, 2015 5:49:17 GMT
I will have something posted for this; I just have to strip 300 words out of it somehow. Hopefully I can do that without losing crucial evidence.
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Post by Nikudou Natsumi on May 24, 2015 13:37:06 GMT
How many words is it?
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armadillo3
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Antique store books are the best!
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Post by armadillo3 on May 24, 2015 19:28:54 GMT
Okay.... I should have known better than to try and do this in such a short period of time. I'll post it whenever I finish, but there's no way I'll be done by the end of the day.
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Post by Mikauzoran on May 24, 2015 23:04:20 GMT
So. We have about an hour left before voting was supposed to start, but it doesn't look like we'll have enough entries to vote on, and I doubt three people will post something in the next fifty-six minutes. I don't think I'm even going to bother posting mine. :/
I think the most prudent course of action would be to pick a new theme for the next contest and hope that it inspires more people to enter next time. I don't really want to drag the contest out by extending. We extended the last contest, and I hate doing that because it feels so unprofessional. I'm really trying to push for stricter adherence to deadlines because that's something that's really important in the professional world--and life in general.
So let's band together and think of a new theme. Maybe we can generate some ideas and then vote on the new theme instead of the fics since we don't have enough for the contest? How does that sound everyone? Let's all make an exciting theme for next time!
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Post by StarlightDragons on May 24, 2015 23:45:44 GMT
//cries because WHY FINALS. WHY. LET ME WRITE.
but yeah. sounds like a good idea. I'm currently empty of theme ideas, so I'll get back to you on that XD
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Post by ichthyophobia on May 24, 2015 23:55:41 GMT
Aww, I posted! If you post then two people will have posted! And also this was a *really* difficult theme; I don't blame people for not going for this one.
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Post by Mikauzoran on May 25, 2015 0:08:04 GMT
Yes, but three entries are needed for it to be a contest. I posted mine anyway, but time's up. Time to move on to the next thing. ^.^
What do you think about the next theme? Some ideas:
First Date: blind date, older generation, unusual date spot
Phobia: How can something so common be so terrifying?, conditioned response, trauma
Photograph: a loved one, loss, joy
Those are kind of just off the top of my head, but... ^.^; Ideas?
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Post by Mikauzoran on May 25, 2015 0:17:21 GMT
Let's have ideas by Wednesday, and then I'll start voting and have it go from Wednesday night until Saturday. Sunday I'll open the new contest with the theme we decide upon.
If you suggest a theme, please include three optional prompts like I did in my post above, otherwise I'll have to come up with some if the theme wins. And, if you haven't noticed, I kind of suck at themes and prompts. ^.^;
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Post by StarlightDragons on May 25, 2015 0:20:47 GMT
I like phobia and photograph, hm...
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