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I'm not sure if we'll be doing categories at all yet - I'd like to see what kind of response it gets first. If there's like three people who enter, it might as well all be one contest.

There's three or four options for who will decide the winners:
- Just Spaniard (or just me, I suppose, but I was hoping to be able to join it now and again XD)
- The VCs as a group
- The crew as a group

If we do do categories, I would agree that it'd be best if people enter one piece per category. If we don't, then I would say that they can enter as many pieces as they end up writing. One prize per person.

Winners would be announced at the end of the month, same as the Tektek and Raffle winners.

I have no idea what we'll do for prizes - I'd like them to be good enough that people will be even slightly interested in doing this, but obviously it has to be within a reasonable price range. Might go shopping on the Marketplace later and see what I can find.

There's no word limit, as long as they're within reason and tell a complete story - a novella is too long, a single sentence (in most cases) too short. Otherwise, they can exercise their judgement. If we get a lot of overly-long or too-short pieces, then we can put in a word limit, but we invited these people based on their literacy. I like to think that with literacy comes some common sense. 3nodding

And it looks great, Talon. I really like it. Thanks for doing this! heart

Hmm. Another possibility for the judging is that we have a rotating 'panel' of judges - three judges each month, and the panel changes every month. That might be a bit more difficult to organize, but we have enough crew members to do it, and that way no one's stuck with having to do it every month - and then any Crew member can join the contest as well, because then they just won't be on the 'panel' that month.

Then the panel can present their chosen winners (and potentially runner-ups) to Spaniard, who can then make the final call on whether this is a fair judgement. She would also be the one to announce the winner.

I dunno. It's a bit more complex, but then it also adds in fail-safes. Thoughts?

Well, first people have to write their stories, love... sweatdrop If they're only getting the prompt on the first of the month, that gives them a month to put in their stories. I think we should have three weeks for people to submit stories, and then the contest closes on the last week of the month so we have time to judge the stories. Then we announce the winner in the next Newsletter, along with the next month's prompt.

I know it's your week off, but, yeah. I have to post this on the 20th, so, ..Yeah. :3

The List;;

'Dreamland' by hulusis in the Fantasy subforum. The last post of any sort was on March 18th, but it hasn't actually started yet. For me, that's the only thread that hasn't been active lately. :3

Lulz, thanks guise. Good work! :3

In other news, Talon has a to-do list. Talon apologizes for her inactivity. She's been feeling a bit lackluster lately, mostly due to the soul-withering presence of her brother, but will muster up the energy to do things by the weekend at the latest. If she doesn't, please feel free to stab her electronically and bug her to no end.

1. Post as Jessica, Zandakar, and.... maybe Sicarius in Classifieds (waiting on the lovely Silencia for Doll Girl and Mena~).

2. Take a gander at the sub-forums, because that's your job, Talon, do itttt.

3. Get to Silencia's PMs, Talon, you a*****e, because she's been waiting a freakishly long time now.

4. Get Classifieds moving. Where da hell is everypony?

5. Plan out the SeeDs role play. I know you don't have time to put it into action just yet (and, due to lack of interest in the guild, you may just have to do it in Barton Town, so you have more role players seeing it), but you can at least make it better, like you did for Classifieds. Of course, you had Silencia's help on that one, but you're a big girl, and I think you can do it.

6. Maybe do something for the writing contest holy s**t you totally forgot about your English homework, and you'd best be starting that now, idiot.

Welp, that's all for now, folks. No I don't know why I was talking to myself leave me alone.

You can if you want. One should have been sufficient, though. Give her until the 25th; if she hasn't responded by then, go ahead and move her thread to the Junkyard and let her know. Thanks!