CafeDoom's Sixth Annual Writing Competition -- Rules thread

[Rev. Austin]

Ah, I see what you did there, you tinker!

[delboy]

Up to 30 now. Read a couple of cracking stories tonight. Suddenly the leadership board is getting crowded - in a good way!

Derek

[Ed]

I fear I'm lagging behind quire badly -- I'm only into the early teens with my reading

[william]

All read...wow.

Now the first stage of cuts...the hard part. 

[delboy]

Phew! That's it. Just read the last of the stories. I feel like I've been put through a wringer - in the nicest possible way. Some cracking stories there - my short list kept getting longer and longer. I have 13 pages of notes to review now, and about a dozen stories to reread and from which to choose my top three.

It was luckily I had a few days off this week - no idea how I would have managed this without that time. I'm definitely not cut out to be an editor.

Onwards to round two!

Derek

[Ed]

I'm seriously struggling to get through them all.

[delboy]

Time to award yourself an extension, Ed? The benefits of being in charge? There nay be other folks who'd appreciate that too.

Derek

[Ed]

No, I'll get through them one way or another, Del

[Robert Essig]

I'm on #44.  This doesn't really resemble what it is like to be an editor.  If I had to read 50 stories in two weeks I would certainly think twice about editing anthologies.  It is good fun though.  If there's a competition next year, I'll surely enter. 

I think a similar comp with flash fiction would be fun.

[jingold]

Robert -- Shock Totem has a flash contest set up like this too (it'll probably start up again in January).  The stories are prompt-based and you only have a week to write them, but it's great fun too.

On another note--and as much fun as it always is--I'll be really glad when this is over.  Between checking the voting thread like a crazy person and reading all the entries, I've been useless writing-wise for the past week and a half.

[Pharosian]

Between checking the voting thread like a crazy person and reading all the entries, I've been useless writing-wise for the past week and a half.

Thank goodness I'm not the only one!   

[delboy]

I've been useless for far longer than a week and half!

[Kenwood]

I'm on #44.  This doesn't really resemble what it is like to be an editor.  If I had to read 50 stories in two weeks I would certainly think twice about editing anthologies.  It is good fun though.  If there's a competition next year, I'll surely enter. 

I think a similar comp with flash fiction would be fun.

We get nearly 100 submissions a week at Shock Totem, sometimes more. I'd gladly take 50 every two weeks. Haha.

[Robert Essig]

I'm on #44.  This doesn't really resemble what it is like to be an editor.  If I had to read 50 stories in two weeks I would certainly think twice about editing anthologies.  It is good fun though.  If there's a competition next year, I'll surely enter. 

I think a similar comp with flash fiction would be fun.

We get nearly 100 submissions a week at Shock Totem, sometimes more. I'd gladly take 50 every two weeks. Haha.

I stand corrected.  Damn that's a lot of stories.  My last anthology received 200 submissions in four or five months.  100 a week would melt my brain, though I would have to assume you have some slush readers.

[Kenwood]

I'm on #44.  This doesn't really resemble what it is like to be an editor.  If I had to read 50 stories in two weeks I would certainly think twice about editing anthologies.  It is good fun though.  If there's a competition next year, I'll surely enter. 

I think a similar comp with flash fiction would be fun.

We get nearly 100 submissions a week at Shock Totem, sometimes more. I'd gladly take 50 every two weeks. Haha.

I stand corrected.  Damn that's a lot of stories.  My last anthology received 200 submissions in four or five months.  100 a week would melt my brain, though I would have to assume you have some slush readers.

There's five of us reading, which is great, but it's still tough on all of us, especially those with kids.