After agonizing over this forever, we have come to an agreement for the top 3 winners for the Valentine’s Day writing contest.
1st Place: @Supertoria12
2nd Place: @Gagsy
3rd Place: @Adam-Beilgard
Congratulations to all 3 of you! @TomFulp will be contacting you shortly regarding your payment of winnings. Thank you @GoryBlizzard for helping me judge! Thank you, mystery 3rd person, for helping us out as well.
I just want to say that judging was incredibly difficult. We were faced with having to choose our favorites out of a pool of entries where all of them were amazing. We fought about this every night and went to bed irritated with each other like old married people.
I’d like to add my thoughts regarding your entries. Also, I plan to host another writing contest in a few months, for cash prizes, but I’d like to NOT judge. I don’t want anyone feeling like maybe I just don’t like them. That’s certainly not the case and I passed up entries by some people who are definitely my favs.
So, if you’d like to judge a future contest, holla at me. I’ll fund the prizes and set the rules but hand off judging to 3 other folks.
I read all stories 32894789279 times so if I leave you off here, PLEASE call me out. It doesn’t mean I didn’t read your entry; it means I posted something wrong while copying my notes.
@TehPopTartKids You use humor very well! Everything you write is fun to read and I have no doubt Elon Musk will still be alive in 2080
@Boss Very descriptive writing! (mounds of hairy asses hahahaha) I feel like you wrote a very specific part just for GoryBlizzard. Great job writing “the trip” I’m pretty sure I had a contact high.
@Xinxinix I was so in love with the atmosphere in your story. It had that “Do Androids Dream” and “Sin City” feeling to it that I crave when I’m reading, and I loved the ending as well.
@Little-Rena I really enjoyed this one. It was very well written, and I’m not just saying that to be nice or whatever! I mean there was cake AND paddling and that’s great.
@dragonadam0 This was short but sweet! The ending wrapped up the emotions nicely.
@ChirayuWriter I enjoyed all of your entries! I think I may end up hosting a poetry contest for people who are more comfortable writing poems. We have great poets here.
@LiamRomK We fought about yours a lot, we really enjoyed it! I love your ending. I love that they chose an imperfect love because it was real. They knew they’d have issues and things wouldn’t always be perfect, but it was their love and they chose that instead of utopia, a great message in my opinion.
@DiskCrash We fought about yours a lot as well, we enjoyed it. I particularly think you do an excellent job at your setting and describing things. I wanted badly to know what happened with your characters when it was all over.
@VanilOS I enjoyed how yours was so far into the future that they changed the name. It was a fun read!
@QAN You are excellent at writing dialog and in such a short time, you established your characters well.
@RainyG You did an excellent job capturing the pain at the same time as the love. The dilemma, the suffering, the selflessness. Very emotional read
@Emeraldia-the-kitty I love anything with cats! I appreciated all of the mentions of kitties!
@TangoStar This was a very sweet story. Like while reading it, it played in my head like an indie romance movie. It had a great arch for the plot, and you developed both characters well.
@SSNormanDie You did a very good job writing suicide, self-harm, and that entire conflict. I won’t go so far as to detail my personal struggles other than to say that I relate, and you captured this internal struggle perfectly.
@Urichov I know you said you threw it together last minute, but you did quite well! I do hope you enter another contest.
@TopazAzul You did very well writing the arch of the relationship, and it ended with babies so clearly it worked.
@Adam-Beilgard You did an excellent job tying all of this together! The ending was perfect. All 3 judges agreed regarding how much we enjoyed your entry and the way you wove it all up.
@Gagsy Excellent writing the relationship between the 2 boys as well as the romance in a truly short time which I think is difficult. I was extremely impressed with how in depth all characters and their relationships were developed for a short story--- and it was a fun read.
@Supertoria12 This one played out in my head like a movie and both Gory and I had it as one of our favorites immediately, there was no fighting regarding this one. We loved it. I felt the romance was very beautifully written in how diverse the description was regarding their emotions, their actions, the physical aspect---and then the setting was also incredibly well developed. You could easily finish writing this one, it’d make a good book.
@Mitchelf I only saw one page for your entry, and I looked through the entire thread a few times. What you did enter was good though!
@CIEIRMusic This one was short but sweet! I was dark but you quickly established the nurse’s frame of mind and it was an interesting read.
@RemileOduen I enjoyed yours as well! It’ a genre that I appreciate, and I think you did an excellent job writing that genre, time period, etc. You captured emotions perfectly.
@LunarAvocados Yours was a fun read too! You also did a great job with character banter.
@Unabated I enjoyed yours very much. You are an excellent writer; I enjoyed your entry at Halloween as well. You wrote the relationship between the detectives very well and your ending was perfect.
@Mabelma Man, I couldn’t stop reading this one. Like once I started, I had to finish, I had to know what happened to them. I enjoy a dark love story! This one was dark.
@PeterLassier You did an excellent job writing both dialog and the character relationship. I got super attached to your characters and I loved the ending. We really enjoyed your entry, we agonized over this one too.
@Fersto I thought this one was incredibly sweet, and it made me smile to read it. You did a fabulous job showing that deep emotion in a short story.
@CrosEl I loved your entry but I need to confess that one reason I loved it was because it reminded me of the Futurama episode where Zoidberg smells---mind you, I am not accusing you of plagiarizing or anything like that! You did a great job writing the drama and the dilemma!
@HandoNosejob Sometimes all you have left of romance are the memories right? Very well written, I enjoyed the read.
| It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose|||Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.||||
