Hey, you got most of yours in, that's awesome!!
It might be worth trying to negotiate an update of the final listing after a couple of weeks grace? Not trying to change the ending date of the challenge (because deadlines are real things), but just a listing update.
Freya herself has said we can still submit after the deadline, so I'm not terribly worried about it. That being said, I do wonder what that will mean for the final anthology for stories submitted after the deadline. I suppose a listing update could address that?
Yes, that's what I was thinking. The argument would be that it matters more for this than for any other event because the stories are interrelated (and teething problems, yadda, yadda).
Thank YOU ALL!!!!! I just said, "Hey, you know what might be fun?," and all of you took that and made this Author's Challenge so successful!!!! YOU GUYS did all the work. YOU spent all the time and effort writing and creating and thinking and working together and coming up with such amazing stories. So, I thank YOU!!!!!!!!!
I'm doing that!!
I loved it!
Lol, mine will be going back to their world in the final part. But that doesn’t mean an alternate universe couldn’t happen.
I wasn’t able to get another story out for the conference because my Geek Day story got too big, over 20k words. Would anyone be willing to beta read it to help catch any glaring errors before I submit it?
That's very reassuring! I mostly get high ratings with the red H, but I get very few comments and little reader interaction. This gives me hope!I had a really nice experience overnight - reader @plainplane kindly read through the three parts of my 'Three's the Charm' series after encountering one of my characters, Fatemah, in a conference story by @Sapphira_Vex, and left a comment (below) to prove it! I know that this is just a single example, but given that we know that by far the majority of readers don't leave comments, it would be reasonable to assume that many other readers are also exploring our various stories through the cross-referencing - please take this as a contribution to the post conference feedback form, @FreyaGersemi . Thanks @Sapphira_Vex for the referral!
(also, this series took a slight beating at the hands of LW readers because of a cuckold scene, so it's particularly nice for me to see it get some love through another avenue).
plainplaneabout 3 hours ago
Just came by to learn about Fatemah after her appearance in 'After the Workshop' by Sapphira_Vex for the Lit Con event. So first, thank you for lending your character to that story.
As for this series, it was wonderful. I particularly have to disagree with TheKidGoesWest about Alex. As they themselves pointed out the honey trap couldn't work with only the other 3 working against Ahmad, the additional character was necessary. But I also found Alex to be my favorite character overall, but especially in pt 2. I also loved how you handled the 'bust', obviously it would never go down like that, but that just added to the humorous way you did it.
Bryan, I would offer but I am not sure how much time I have with an upcoming house move.
I'm so happy that you had fun with this challenge!! And to stretch beyond what you thought you could do AND THEN to have it be such a highly-rated story is amazing!!! Clearly, you had your boundaries set too closely. Next move: push even further!!!!
