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DG is right and it's still the official support thread for the only official Lit contest. Beware of fake contests. But keep writing!
Forgetting A. I. R. would be like my forgetting my marriage to Liz Taylor or my graduation, Summa cum Laude, from Stanford. Those events are purely figments of my imagination, just like A. I, R. is the figment of somebody else's imagination.
the problem with telling lies is remembering them...
Some people think if you tell them often enough they will become true.
But a lie is still a lie, no matter how many times you tell it.
When living in a glass house, I suggest you not throw stones.
As if anyone on these pages and on this site tells the truth.
Hell, TxRad doesn't even live in Texas. He lives in Maine and he's a woman and not a man. So who's lying now?
The only honest man, er woman, here is from Scouries, who lives in Liverpool England and not Miami Florida (lol).
Good morning Tex. How about those HoustonTexans? I saw you at the game Sunday. You were the one with the pink bra on your head, right?
How ya doing Freddie. Last I heard you were dead. It came from that honest man.. uh... woman you were talking about.
Naw I wasn't at the game, I had to work. Anyway my pink bra is in the laundry. Some asshole spilled coffee on it. All that soggy toilet paper. What a mess.
Forgetting A. I. R. would be like my forgetting my marriage to Liz Taylor or my graduation, Summa cum Laude, from Stanford. Those events are purely figments of my imagination, just like A. I, R. is the figment of somebody else's imagination.
Hi everyone! I've un-retired and submitted a story for the Holiday Contest. Looks like it will be the only Text with Audio in the contest. I hope it makes it in up in time to count. Submitted it last night.
Does anyone know if the Survivor Contest is happening next year? I didn't do anything ALL YEAR except for the one I submitted last night. I want to actually participate in Survivor next year, although I'll still only do Text With Audio stories.
Like I said in the other thread, Welcome back. And submissions run through the seventh so you have time.
You could go to the contest forum and ask one of the moderators there. Just doing Audio will put you at a handicap though.
I just spent some time reading through this thread and saw the comment about an author writing 2/3 stories featuring the same characters.
Scouries called it out for being a chapter series, which are not allowed. Others say its a "series" which is different.
Now to me if you have, lets say Bill and Kate. and story one features them screwing their maid. Now if installment#2 features them going down to Cancun and screwing their maid(or another girl) fine, its a series.
But if the next story is Bill and Kate waking up the morning after guess what? It should be a chapter is is the same characters in a continuous event.
But this is word play anyway. Chaptered stories or series, it shouldn't be alright to keep going to an established setting/characters because they already have a fan base.
Not only that, but if people have seen it before and know they don;t like it they will skip it and the author is saved a lower vote.
so saying "its not a chapter" is semantics and a sneaky way to get an unfair advantage.
Now here is how I see it. From Laurel's contest announcement(she says this in all of them)
Write a memorable and original holiday tale,
Now, I know there is room for interpretation, but to me original means its not the same people and places you have repeatedly used.
so if Bill and Kate's romantic night wins you Valentines day, then its BS that Bill and Kate's hot X-mas party should get another one.
This has already been answered several times so I'll try it this time.
Go read the stories from last to first. If you don't need anything to understand the story other than what is in the story. It is a stand alone story. That makes it eligible for the contest even if the stories start minutes apart.
This is just more of scouries bullshit to disrupt things and you people seem to fall for it ever time instead of looking for yourself.
let me ask you this. I wrote a a series that before I pulled some of it from here was 51 chapters. So if for Valentines day I decide to bring those 2 back in a "stand alone" story that's "original"?
To me, if you want to revisit your "friends" from a story from time to time, fine.
But for contests I would think a person would want to make the effort to do something different rather than ride prior success.
Some excellent entries in this contest. Good job everyone.
Unfortunately my idea kind of bogged down, then I got distracted by work and wanting to finish another, non-contest related, story instead. Maybe next year, and/or next contest.
Good luck to those who have entered!
Maybe you can take what you had for this one and "spin" it towards V-day, that way its partially done.