At 6/30/09 06:07 AM, 4urentertainment wrote: Just a suggestion.

At least when I was judging myself, I always looked at the plot. The general "what's happening here" jist always mattered to me. Any story that had a plot which felt tacky and unoriginal was usually down-rated for those reasons. I however trust people like Zerok and GumOnShoe to keep plot and similar factors in mind as well as the execution of the idea.

At 6/30/09 07:48 AM, Lost-Chances wrote: At least when I was judging myself, I always looked at the plot. The general "what's happening here" jist always mattered to me.

I always thought that it should matter for any author, which is why it does to me, as well.

Any story that had a plot which felt tacky and unoriginal was usually down-rated for those reasons. I however trust people like Zerok and GumOnShoe to keep plot and similar factors in mind as well as the execution of the idea.

I have faith in them and their fellow judges, otherwise I would not have submitted my entry for the competition this month.

Can anybody like tell me how shit mine is yeah thanks

At 6/30/09 08:31 AM, Sawdust wrote: Can anybody like tell me how shit mine is yeah thanks

The theme was hard. Don't break yourself over the idea you did badly. You probably did better than a lot of people.

Holy shit, I completely forgot that I was planning to write a story for this until about five minutes ago. I came up with another idea and I'm going to see if I can finish it up in a day or two. Wish me luck, unless of course you're my competition. Then you can feel free to curse me with the evil eye.

And by a day or two I, of course, mean thirteen hours as that's all that's left.

At 6/30/09 10:54 AM, Jercurpac wrote: And by a day or two I, of course, mean thirteen hours as that's all that's left.

It actually gets locked July 1 at midnight. Well, technically July 2. As in you have 100% of July 1 to work on it.

:D

At 6/30/09 10:55 AM, Zerok wrote:

At 6/30/09 10:54 AM, Jercurpac wrote: And by a day or two I, of course, mean thirteen hours as that's all that's left.

It actually gets locked July 1 at midnight. Well, technically July 2. As in you have 100% of July 1 to work on it.

D

Well, until about 2 pm to be precisely precise. I have work and they're rarely receptive to the, "I can't come in I'm writing a story for a contest on Newgrounds.com," excuse. Hopefully it's enough time to work this into something decent. It's a clever idea, but I'm currently brutalizing it. This is generally where I say fuck it and go play video games, but I think I'm going to challenge myself to finish it and post it no matter how awful I think it is.

At 6/30/09 10:55 AM, Zerok wrote:

At 6/30/09 10:54 AM, Jercurpac wrote: And by a day or two I, of course, mean thirteen hours as that's all that's left.

It actually gets locked July 1 at midnight. Well, technically July 2. As in you have 100% of July 1 to work on it.

D

That's fantastic. I only realised what the date was and picked up writing where I left off. Right now I'm powering through it. I've still got a lot of plot development to go, but I'm definitely over the half way mark. Hoping to get it all done tonight though.

whoops

err... sorry... wrong thread

And here I was, thinking I was the only one who was going to submit a story this late, and I find WritersBlock and Jercurpac still going to submit stories.

On another note, this is probably the biggest competition we've had. I don't know if it's because the world limit was increased or because we've had more entries, but currently we've got 69 posts.

Damn, I hate work!!! I've been so busy I haven't been able to enter the MWC, and I won 3rd in May, or was it march?

Anyways, good luck guyz!

Gives competition the evil eye

Good luck everybody, latecomers as well! I am interested to see what the pressure brings out in your stories. Some people write the best under those conditions

I would put my story on my user page...but I don't know how

Ah, so we're nearing the end of this contest. I've been looking through a few already, and I'm looking forward to reading the rest. Good luck to everyone once again, and I hope you last-minuters manage to get something in! :P

At 6/30/09 06:52 PM, drorfannkyl wrote: I would put my story on my user page...but I don't know how

You can post things to your userpage blog here. That page is accessible through your account screen and under "Make a New Post".

At 6/30/09 06:52 PM, drorfannkyl wrote: I would put my story on my user page...but I don't know how

Go to your profile and click the tiny red text that says make a new post.

Well, I submitted mine with a few last minute changes.

I was going to give mine a title, but then I realized that it would almost be inappropriate to give the story a name after I went through the trouble to keep any of the characters in the story nameless on purpose. Besides, I couldn't think of anything that was both appropriate and not cliched.

Well, I'm finally finished with my submission, and it is now up on the contest thread. I'm happy with it, although I wish I could've done a few more revisions, but you work with what time you have, correct? I'd like to thank everyone who commented on my first draft; your comments helped me greatly. If anyone still wants to comment on my piece, you can comment on my first draft post on my userpage, and I'll be thankful for your comments.

As with last time, if anyone wants to hear comments on their submission, I'll be glad to give them. I know my opinion does not mean much, but it's there if you want to hear it.

I'm off to rest now, and I wish everyone luck. I've read all the submissions so far and I've seen some pretty good stuff. I look forward to seeing how you guys did.

At 7/1/09 05:40 AM, blakedatch wrote: As with last time, if anyone wants to hear comments on their submission, I'll be glad to give them. I know my opinion does not mean much, but it's there if you want to hear it.

If you've read mine and have a comment, feel free to share it here.

Contest to close in about 16.5 hours.

I may not be around at 12AM EST to officially lock the entry thread (if another mod is, I'd appreciate it), so consider it to be SOFT LOCKED at exactly 12:01 AM July 2. I will heartlessly delete any entry post beyond that point.

:D

At 7/1/09 07:17 AM, Zerok wrote: Contest to close in about 16.5 hours.

I may not be around at 12AM EST to officially lock the entry thread (if another mod is, I'd appreciate it), so consider it to be SOFT LOCKED at exactly 12:01 AM July 2. I will heartlessly delete any entry post beyond that point.

D

Hohshit a race against time! I'm over 3,000 words in on my entry but I think I've still got another 1,000 words to go. It will be a fun night for me :)

At last, I'm finished. My story's in the submissions thread. It's also in my blog here.

I might as well add a reminder that the competition will be closing in 8.5 hours. 12PM Newgrounds time. The clock is ticking.

Oye more heavyweights submitted! Alas, I see the prize drifting away! And there is still time for last minute submissions! I wonder who else will suprise us with their story.

It's nice to see some great quality pieces submitted. The more this contest proceeds, the more I'm convinced a literature portal could really work on NG. Good luck everyone.

:)

I learned about this contest yesterday. Yesterday was plotting day, and for the past two and a half hours I've been on a typing spree. It's on my userpage, let me know what you think.

At 7/2/09 12:15 AM, Fyndir wrote:

At 7/1/09 07:17 AM, Zerok wrote: I will heartlessly delete any entry post beyond that point.

Poor Rapemuffin, 13 minutes too late.

But does it count that he submitted his first part at 11:49 NG time? He just didn't finish posting the rest.

At 7/2/09 12:15 AM, Fyndir wrote:

At 7/1/09 07:17 AM, Zerok wrote: I will heartlessly delete any entry post beyond that point.

Poor Rapemuffin, 13 minutes too late.

I know I know - I have no one to blame but myself. And I'm 20 minutes late, if you count the "Alternate Ending" post.

So how many blowjobs will it cost to not have my story deleted?

At 7/2/09 01:20 AM, Dobio wrote:

At 7/2/09 12:21 AM, RapeMuffin wrote: So how many blowjobs will it cost to not have my story deleted?

Haha, I wouldn't dare delete it, but 20 minutes has to deserve some sort of mercy. ;)

I'd at least leave RapeMuffin's submission until zerok drops by and sees it, he has after all got a foot in the door with his first post.

At 7/2/09 01:43 AM, shadow1124 wrote: Shit, I didn't see the Eastern time stipulation. I thought I still had some time left (Pacific Time where I'm at). I had a really good one going too...

Well, crud. All that work for nothing.

Anybody want to read it just for the hell of it? I'd like some feedback at least.

sure, I'd read it and give you some feedback. It's probably better than mine anyways.

At 7/2/09 01:43 AM, shadow1124 wrote: Shit, I didn't see the Eastern time stipulation. I thought I still had some time left (Pacific Time where I'm at). I had a really good one going too...

Well, crud. All that work for nothing.

Anybody want to read it just for the hell of it? I'd like some feedback at least.

Post it in your blog and link it here. Some of us may bother to read through it. For next time, remember that all these contests are to Newgrounds time. 12:00 PM in whatever time zone that is. I actually had half a day on the 2nd of the month because my time zone is +12 hours to that of Newgrounds.

I'm just setting up my scoring sheet now and I'll enlighten you all to some brief statistics:
Number of submissions: 45
Number of submissions eligible to win: 34/35 (depending on whether RapeMuffin is chopped out or not)
Number of submissions that failed to meet basic requirements: 9 (this is length and paragraph issues)
More than half of the disqualified submissions submitted their stories within the first week, and all but one submitted within the first two.