Anything Goes Writing Contest ~ Hangout Mode

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Poll Pimps = TEH SEX	31.9%	[ 30 ]
GGW XI Playoffs	8.5%	[ 8 ]
Due AUGUST 15	12.8%	[ 12 ]
PROMPT ROUND	17.0%	[ 16 ]
Woot panda!	29.8%	[ 28 ]
Total Votes:			[ 94 ]

[Rotsab M. Hyolf]

The Solarised Night

Holy crap that took a long time for me to finish all of my critiques. I had15 entries (some of them were so terrible that my critique was longer than their entry) and one of the entries *coughs Rotsab coughs* was nearly 16 pages long.

I'm glad he submitted though. His awesome-sauce won him first prize.

xD S'only 6k. Wait, didn't this originally say 20k?

I will admit to the sixteen pages being likely, hahaha. I had to really minimize the font in Word to get it to all fit on ten pages.

Wing McCallister

The Solarised Night

Wing McCallister

The Solarised Night

Holy crap that took a long time for me to finish all of my critiques. I had15 entries (some of them were so terrible that my critique was longer than their entry) and one of the entries *coughs Rotsab coughs* was nearly 16 pages long.

I'm glad he submitted though. His awesome-sauce won him first prize.

Yet he never enters here. Such a shame, isn't it?

But I have dragged his a** out here at least three times.
Rotsab, what gives?

He entered PK's comp (and won), he entered TLM's comp (and will probably win since there are only 5 of us and he used the same entry that won in mine), so why not the AGWL?

He fears me?

Haha, it's the prompts to be honest. I'm bad with coming up with a story from scratch; I like the prompts because they give a launching point. AGWC is a bit hard for me in terms of coming up with something.

Also, hey, I get the prices joke!
It was funny because it flew right over the thread creator's head.

[phantomkitsune]

Solar: I've seen the movie, I don't know if it's the same.

Wing: He's too busy have encounters in the woods.

Rotsab: I tend to get prompted when I'm stuck by demanding prompts from people. A truly egregious sestina was the result of asking Wing for a prompt for a different contest. I read that sestina aloud at an open mic night, and was met with dead silence and deer-in-headlights looks.

Also, yes. That whole thing, just . . . the utter incomprehension. I was both sad that it went over her head and terribly amused that it was right there in front of her and other people would get it, but she didn't and even made it easier to find. I am a terrible person.

I also need to do that more.

[Wing McCallister]

Just do it.

[The Solarised Night]

Rotsab M. Hyolf

The Solarised Night

Holy crap that took a long time for me to finish all of my critiques. I had15 entries (some of them were so terrible that my critique was longer than their entry) and one of the entries *coughs Rotsab coughs* was nearly 16 pages long.

I'm glad he submitted though. His awesome-sauce won him first prize.

xD S'only 6k. Wait, didn't this originally say 20k?

I will admit to the sixteen pages being likely, hahaha. I had to really minimize the font in Word to get it to all fit on ten pages.

20k was mentioned because the total document was 27k last I checked but I did yours in a separate word document because it was incredibly long. I got mixed up in which spot I was replying to so I changed it to pages.

[The Solarised Night]

phantomkitsune

Solar: I've seen the movie, I don't know if it's the same.

Wing: He's too busy have encounters in the woods.

Rotsab: I tend to get prompted when I'm stuck by demanding prompts from people. A truly egregious sestina was the result of asking Wing for a prompt for a different contest. I read that sestina aloud at an open mic night, and was met with dead silence and deer-in-headlights looks.

Also, yes. That whole thing, just . . . the utter incomprehension. I was both sad that it went over her head and terribly amused that it was right there in front of her and other people would get it, but she didn't and even made it easier to find. I am a terrible person.

I also need to do that more.

It is a 5 part mini series about a girl from modern day London that walks through the space-time vortex that appears behind her bathtub and switches places with Lizzy Bennett and kind of throws the whole story out of whack.

[phantomkitsune]

The Solarised Night

phantomkitsune

Solar: I've seen the movie, I don't know if it's the same.

Wing: He's too busy have encounters in the woods.

Rotsab: I tend to get prompted when I'm stuck by demanding prompts from people. A truly egregious sestina was the result of asking Wing for a prompt for a different contest. I read that sestina aloud at an open mic night, and was met with dead silence and deer-in-headlights looks.

Also, yes. That whole thing, just . . . the utter incomprehension. I was both sad that it went over her head and terribly amused that it was right there in front of her and other people would get it, but she didn't and even made it easier to find. I am a terrible person.

I also need to do that more.

It is a 5 part mini series about a girl from modern day London that walks through the space-time vortex that appears behind her bathtub and switches places with Lizzy Bennett and kind of throws the whole story out of whack.

Oh, yeah, I saw it on DVD all in one go, which was why I thought it was a movie.

[The Solarised Night]

phantomkitsune

The Solarised Night

phantomkitsune

Solar: I've seen the movie, I don't know if it's the same.

Wing: He's too busy have encounters in the woods.

Rotsab: I tend to get prompted when I'm stuck by demanding prompts from people. A truly egregious sestina was the result of asking Wing for a prompt for a different contest. I read that sestina aloud at an open mic night, and was met with dead silence and deer-in-headlights looks.

Also, yes. That whole thing, just . . . the utter incomprehension. I was both sad that it went over her head and terribly amused that it was right there in front of her and other people would get it, but she didn't and even made it easier to find. I am a terrible person.

I also need to do that more.

It is a 5 part mini series about a girl from modern day London that walks through the space-time vortex that appears behind her bathtub and switches places with Lizzy Bennett and kind of throws the whole story out of whack.

Oh, yeah, I saw it on DVD all in one go, which was why I thought it was a movie.

Wing's comment reminded me of Miss Bingley's sexual preference in that series.

[Rotsab M. Hyolf]

phantomkitsune

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Rotsab: I tend to get prompted when I'm stuck by demanding prompts from people. A truly egregious sestina was the result of asking Wing for a prompt for a different contest. I read that sestina aloud at an open mic night, and was met with dead silence and deer-in-headlights looks.

Also, yes. That whole thing, just . . . the utter incomprehension. I was both sad that it went over her head and terribly amused that it was right there in front of her and other people would get it, but she didn't and even made it easier to find. I am a terrible person.

I also need to do that more.

Hmm. My problem is that I tend to be very scatter-brained with ideas, so I won't really settle on just one. Even now I have an outline and half of my story written up for the April portion of Solar's contest, and I'm wondering if I should instead do a cursed casino. xD Add 'anything' and it's really crazy. If I write a piece I feel super confident in I'll probably submit it.

That sounds like a horrible experience! Was it because they didn't understand it, or was it a silent show of appreciation? I have to tip my hat to you for going up to begin with, though; takes a fair bit of bravery! Supposedly statistics indicate more people are afraid of public speaking than death? ("Which means you'd rather be the guy in the coffin than the one giving the eulogy!" )

Ahhahaha, yeah, pretty much. I don't think it's terrible! If someone is going to consider themself deserving of being a judge/critic, they have to be willing to accept judgement and critique themselves.

On a similar note, I'm very tired of people complaining how they want to quit the Writer's Forums and so on, so forth. I didn't know they were being forced to endure it.

The Solarised Night

20k was mentioned because the total document was 27k last I checked but I did yours in a separate word document because it was incredibly long. I got mixed up in which spot I was replying to so I changed it to pages.

Ahh, okay! I'll try to be less verbose with this month's entry to your contest. xD

[phantomkitsune]

Rotsab M. Hyolf

Hmm. My problem is that I tend to be very scatter-brained with ideas, so I won't really settle on just one. Even now I have an outline and half of my story written up for the April portion of Solar's contest, and I'm wondering if I should instead do a cursed casino. xD Add 'anything' and it's really crazy. If I write a piece I feel super confident in I'll probably submit it.

That sounds like a horrible experience! Was it because they didn't understand it, or was it a silent show of appreciation? I have to tip my hat to you for going up to begin with, though; takes a fair bit of bravery! Supposedly statistics indicate more people are afraid of public speaking than death? ("Which means you'd rather be the guy in the coffin than the one giving the eulogy!" )

Ahhahaha, yeah, pretty much. I don't think it's terrible! If someone is going to consider themself deserving of being a judge/critic, they have to be willing to accept judgement and critique themselves.

On a similar note, I'm very tired of people complaining how they want to quit the Writer's Forums and so on, so forth. I didn't know they were being forced to endure it.

I do, too - I tend to have at least two tabs of writing going at once (right now it's just four tabs of critique I'm working on). I can get focused on one topic for a while, though, so I have like three and a half form poems about kestrels, including the one I posted here.

It was because they didn't understand it - I also hadn't done a dramatic enough reading, and had spoken too fast, because I was nervous over the reception of the poem (rightly, as it turns out). I'm mostly pretty okay with public speaking: I took speech classes in school, which really helped.

If someone is going to consider themselves worthy of being a judge, they should have a basic comprehension of English, to my mind. Yeah, there's popular appeal, and I suppose that some people just want to know that their writing is likable or some such nonsense, but literary merit and grammar and spelling and theme and plot are actual things that matter.

Haha, yes, I know whomof you speak.

[Rotsab M. Hyolf]

phantomkitsune

I do, too - I tend to have at least two tabs of writing going at once (right now it's just four tabs of critique I'm working on). I can get focused on one topic for a while, though, so I have like three and a half form poems about kestrels, including the one I posted here.

It was because they didn't understand it - I also hadn't done a dramatic enough reading, and had spoken too fast, because I was nervous over the reception of the poem (rightly, as it turns out). I'm mostly pretty okay with public speaking: I took speech classes in school, which really helped.

If someone is going to consider themselves worthy of being a judge, they should have a basic comprehension of English, to my mind. Yeah, there's popular appeal, and I suppose that some people just want to know that their writing is likable or some such nonsense, but literary merit and grammar and spelling and theme and plot are actual things that matter.

Haha, yes, I know whomof you speak.

Oh, nice! Haha, I have three word documents open that I'm meant to be working on, myself.

Ah, okay. Well, at least you learned from it? Haha, trying to read a poem at an open mic sounds terrifying to me. (Yet I love acting in front of audiences; weird, huh?)

I agree one-hundred percent. Though, this contest seems more like a writing request for people to write about their characters, and less a genuine 'how good is your writing'? I get more upset with weird rules, if I'm being honest. (Only romance if you know that it is something spiritual and never physical, no homosexuality because God hates gays, no using the word 'green' because it makes me nauseous; instead use 'teal'.) I was saying in another topic how much I wish my English teachers had pressed on the importance of being technically correct; I think it's where all of these writers who go 'read my story but just tell me if the idea is good k" come from.

[The Solarised Night]

No worries, Rotsab. Had your piece been even slightly less entertaining than what it was or had the few errors you had been all in the beginning 500 words, I would have lost patience and just stopped reading. I just don't have the capacity to deal with stories longer than 3000 if they are littered with errors. I did say that in my contest rules but very few people seemed to pay attention to the prompt yet alone the rules.

[Wing McCallister]

Rotsab M. Hyolf

You're actually quite in the mix in terms of AGWL standings. I think you just need to suck it up and throw your entries into the pile.

[phantomkitsune]

Hmm. Let's see how many different contests I can submit this story to. It looks like it needs to be exactly 3k, to fit in various minimums and maximums.

[Wing McCallister]

LOL Good luck with that PK. razz

[The Solarised Night]

@PK: That actually sounds quite amusing. Mega-multi-purpose story FTW! Is this the circus-themed one you are entering for my plushie comp as well?

@Wing: Thanks for the grant funding for the writing contest. It lightens the load a lot.