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Must finish story!

At 3/1/13 04:09 AM, FlyingColours wrote: Must finish story!

Then what the h e double hockeysticks are you doing here?! Get back to Word! lol

Same here. I cant wait to see the results. Good luck bro!

I've reached my quota of four replies per topic, and I have to wait half an hour to post the last part of my story.

There are so many competitors in this one! My chances are slim at best...

At 3/2/13 08:23 PM, FlyingColours wrote: I've reached my quota of four replies per topic, and I have to wait half an hour to post the last part of my story.

There are so many competitors in this one! My chances are slim at best...

This happend to me because I forgot to reformat my story's conclusion post. While I waited I was scared another would post and split up my story. Didn't happen tho. ^^

Haha, fixed my story. Now you can actually read it.

Anyway, luck to all! I always have such a short attention span with these things, but I'll try to read all the submissions.

Great!

Well, the contest is closed. Now comes the waiting! How do you guys think you did?

Well this contest was certainly awesome. A lot of great entries. Is this what I have been missing from the Writing Forum?

At 3/3/13 09:12 AM, Sectus wrote: I was impressed by the massive amount of entries this contest received. Originally I assumed there would be little challenge, but it is clear that Newgrounds has a swelling community of talented writers.

Well that was what happened last contest. :)

I think we need to thank Tom and the staff for this awesome competition since they put this up on the front page.

I hope some of other stories wont have it counted to much against them for that code crap.

At 3/3/13 07:16 PM, TheInnerScience wrote: I hope some of other stories wont have it counted to much against them for that code crap.

I certainly hope the other judges don't. I know I didn't. Yeah it made it hard to read at times. That is not on the fault of the writer though.

At 3/3/13 11:34 PM, The-Great-One wrote:

At 3/3/13 07:16 PM, TheInnerScience wrote: I hope some of other stories wont have it counted to much against them for that code crap.

I certainly hope the other judges don't. I know I didn't. Yeah it made it hard to read at times. That is not on the fault of the writer though.

I hope they fix it soon.

At 3/7/13 05:02 PM, starwarsjunkie wrote: Reviews: Round 1

The Merchant by Jason Pick

Not really sure what to say about this one. You've definitely got some genre hopping with the change from poem to prose and it was very random... but other then that I don't know. Try to put more work into plot next time, maybe?

Yeah

Wow, you guys are fast! There are so many entries this time.

Cant wait for results!

still a little bummed out the fact that i was unable to finish my piece in time

Always next month, so cheer up mate:)

At 3/10/13 03:56 AM, 4urentertainment wrote: Just wanted to say I'm almost done with judging the entries. The-Great-One is already done. Shouldn't be too long now!

I'm getting there too. Give it a couple of days and I'll have my marks done.

Man, I'm excited to see the results, this was an exciting one.

Its a good thing we didn't have newgrounds decide to post all their NaNoWriMo novels in one discussion for rating!
85 pages of size 12 is about what each writer would be putting in!

At 3/12/13 05:49 PM, starwarsjunkie wrote: I'll Be Home For Christmas by RightWingGamer

Very sad. But also well done. I like the switches and how you worked the IM style exchange into it. The poetry was well done except for the second to last line it felt like you were stretching to find a word to rhyme with "person", but ah what do I know? Good use of exchanging perspectives as well.

Yeah, I was kinda desperate for that last rhyme. I even tried googling one, but the only other rhyme I could find was "worsen", which I had already used.

Still, I'm really glad that you liked it. I've been writing my own novel for months now, and I'm glad to hear that people enjoy my writing style. I find it to be very encouraging, and hope that my future works hold up as well as (or better than) this one did.

At 3/12/13 05:49 PM, starwarsjunkie wrote: Possessed by Zag

Again, I don't know much about poetry in terms of structure, rhyme scheme, and all that so I'll just assume you did it all right! I do like the idea of the whole piece, its kind of a darker take on "Poltergeist". The switch to prose and then back to poetry is well orchestrated, especially working the poem into what the man hears. It doesn't interrupt the flow which is good as well. Unfortunately its rather short, I feel like you could get some more mileage out of the prose side of the story. Maybe he gets to talk to the spirit?

First of all, I really want to thank you for the review.
It was a pleasure being a part of this contest. This was actually the first writing contest I've ever participated in.
I tend not to be very adept at writing short stories. Typically, I wind up making them far too involved and then they require the attention of a novel (or at least a novella)

For that reason, I didn't want to go too deep into this. If I did, I probably wouldn't have had anything at all to submit at all. I also figured that I'd try my hand at flash fiction, something I've always really wanted to test out, but have never had an idea for.

Again, I appreciate your time and effort. Aside from giving me an opportunity to write, I've enjoyed seeing the entries from the other contestants, so even if I don't win anything, this contest was definitely worthwhile.