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Yay. Welcome to HQ, Rhap-chan! wink Anyway, sounds like everyone's in favor of the writing contest? So here's a quick outline I typed up just now. Let me know what you think!

Quick Guidelines
- There's no entry fee, but note that donations are always accepted from readers and staffies alike! (All the money will be going to the contest at this point! Sorry, we still can't afford to pay our wonderful staff of troopers as of yet...)
- We're still looking for a qualified panel pf judges, so raise your hand if you're interested. Should we include non-staffies on the panel? (What did you mean by tiered judging, Jahoclave? I'm intrigued.)
- Once we have a panel of judges, they can each select 2 - 3 of their favorite pieces to be included in the final round.

April 8 - 15th: Round One
- This is a free-for all. Anyone can post anything on this thread, the judges will read through each entry after submissions are closed, and declare the finalists in the April issue of the 'zine.
- Each winner will be awarded 100g.

May 8 - 15th: Round Two
- Again, this is another free-for-all since we're just collecting entries for the final round. Writers from the last round can revise their entries and post again. Finalists will be announced in the May issue of the 'zine.
- Each winner will be awarded 100g.

June 8 - 15th: Round Three
- Submissions are closed! This thread will be hosted at the guild forum, and only finalists will be posted in this round. Judges will offfer a critique for each piece, and our READERS will be the ones voting for the winner a la American Idol. xp
- The winner will be awarded 5000g.

This is just a bare bones outline. Please help with the details and problems we may encounter later on! Perfect though I may seem, aha, I've never run a contest like this before! xd

Anyone seen peiormentis or Zacharra lately? I think I'll PM then and see how they're doing! wink Also, Serieve... Feel free to update the index as you see fit. This is a team effort, so just do what we gotta do!

No fusses here about the contest. As for any future confilicts, I can't see them as of yet. I'm sure they'll be slapping us in the face soon enough. xp

Sadly, I haven't been doing much on my share of the issue, but I'll get to it. It's late now, so I'll be doing the index tomorrow. And really, that's all I had to say. 3nodding

I counter point. If we wanted to, we could get new judges. We could start looking for them from the beginning, or call for some once the first round ends. 3nodding

Hum, well I'm in an excessively pissy mood right now. Anyways, by tiered, I meant exactly what you came up with their. As for rewriting, I'm not sure I'm too keen on that either since, unless they did something major to the story, the judges probably won't even notice it. I'd say, if you get enough entries, then it warrents having two rounds, but anything under about 10 and there is no need to have too rounds.

And actually, I think a ten point scale judging on things like characterization, grammar, plot line, etc... would work best. That way you have a score for all those categories, and then an average score. We used that system to a lot of success in the first real contest the forum ever had.

I also object to allowing anybody on staff with the zine to enter. I dunno, but the flamboyouant bias within that is apparent. Which is why I suggest anybody on staff that wants to enter should use a mule and never tell us about the mule. Though, if you're going to judge... stare

A good mood? Then you should probably watch out lest our pissyness rubs off on you.

Oooh, torture! Goody! twisted

Just got a good idea from Serieve's comment on the journal! From now on if anyone spots a typo in the draft or something of that imperfect nature, just leave me a comment and I'll fix it right away!

Ahem, Dragon Lilly? This should be right up your alley! wink