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I feel good that I've included an Earth Day theme to my story - but this damn story keeps kicking my ass. I re-write as a I write (not sure how many others do this), but it makes it challenging to keep track of how many words I've written vs how many wind up in the actual story. I know I've written easily three or four times its current word count of roughly 5000 words and the damn characters decided to mess with me this morning and throw me a curveball. I have two choices, scrap another 1000 words and re-write to get it submitted sooner OR keep going to see how this new plot twist works. We'll see!
It seems like participation is lower than usual.
Sun_sea_sky, do you know how many stories have been entered in the most recent previous contests?
Earth Day and Nude Day have always been the lowest participation contests because they have narrow, more difficult themes that aren't as mainstream as the others.
I don't have the numbers sitting in front of me, but I think Earth Day averages about 50-60 entries, with Nude Day having just a few more.
Sounds about right.
Earth Day was an attempt, I think, by Laurel and Manu to introduce a theme that is more universally celebrated, as opposed to mainly Western holidays. It was a good idea, but I think the subject matter is a little sidelining for some folks.
Earth Day was and is a way to get some "Green" into the contest system. Too many people are over thinking it.
Thanks again for the latest rounds of stats sunsea. It's especially interesting to see the number of postings in each contest.
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Has anyone ever done a Earth day contest story using this little bit of history?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Einhorn
found it while reserching for the contest. Can't really think of a way right off hand but it's interesting none the less
M.S.Tarot
But if Earth Day is going to be as tertiary to the storyline as that, I don't know why you'd even bother to have the reference.
Just saying that it wouldn't really be treating Earth Day at all. Sort of cheating the theme. Yes, you could enter it, but if consideration was giving to use of theme in the voting (which it doesn't seem to be), I think this would justify down voting. Again, sort of a "why bother?"
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To which I'd counter, "why not?"
If the rules are going to be as subjective and open as they are, why not take advantage of the fact and bring more attention to your stories? That's why we're here, right (well, some of us, anyway)?
Working on mine when I can between bouts of the young one being too loud to think.
With a week of vacation ahead of me ( despite having quite a few things to do ) I'm hoping to find enough quiet time to finish it in time. With any luck, I'll actually get it off to at least my editor before the deadline hits this time
I hate not giving a story a full 1st reader and then editor treatment, but I hate missing Earth Day even more. Maybe I'll be in the right state of mind to finish it this weekend or early in the week, providing time for both ( ML's schedule permitting. My editor is retired, with plenty of time on his hands, so if I've got at least 12 hours before the deadline, I'm good there. )