Discussion -- 300 Word Challenge #3

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Starbeast said:
Thank you Hopewrites for your vote.

I enjoyed reading just about every story, it took days to decide on three, but I cast my votes for........


Glen - The Graveyard

Southron Sword - A Soldiers Memory

Devil's Advocate - When Angels Deserve to Die
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Hey, thanks for the vote, Starbeast. Much appreciated. Clearly, your taste is questionable. :p

Seriously though, thank you.
 
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Thanks for the mentions and Springs1971 for the vote. Sorry but I can't help you out with a spiderfree visa either. This time of year it's like holidaymakers getting their towels out on the poolside chairs, everyone's scrambling about for the best real estate, they're friendly though :).
 
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Aun, thanks for the vote :) very much appreciated!

Quokka; at least I know when NOT to visit now! Is there any time of the year when they, like, go to sleep ;) I keep thinking one day I'll write a travel guide for arachnophobes; when and where to visit, but I couldn't do the research, evidently :eek:
 
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Cast my votes (came into town just to do that, plus get a few groceries)

Honourable Mentions go to The Spurring Platty, Hex, Boneman and The Judge. It was so difficult to decide, the quality of the submissions being so good. Even those not getting HMs showed some exceptional quality. However, ultimately I plumped for (in no particular order):

Talysia
Aun Doorback
Perpetual Man
 
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Many thanks for the vote, Abernovo - you've made my day!:)
 
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A quick check in and I've got another vote!

Many thanks Abernovo, greatly appreciated!
 
Thanks for the vote Aun Doorback! That's two more than I had hoped so really happy at that.

Anyway, I have finally read and re-read the tales and savagely whittled them down (otherwise I would have 21 (!) to consider)

Here are my honourable mentions and *votes*

Phoenisthewriter
Paranoid Marvin
Starbeast
Quokka
*Boneman*
*TDZ*
The Judge
*Teresa Edgerton*
 
Blimey, an honourable mention and a vote. Thank you Abernovo and thank you so much Highlander, very much appreciated!! (A little worried about your freudian slip with the first on your list... serves me right for studying Freud on my course:eek:)
 
Oops indeed!

That's what you get for attempting touch typing rather than just my normal two-finger typing. It was in the same area as the "x" ... not close enough though...

Do'H !
(Sorry Phoenixthewriter - grovel grovel ...)
 
Not that few. We are still six out of thirty-six who's stories no-one has judged among the three best; and only twenty-eight have so far voted (two of whom didn't even submit stories). And it's not only (or even mostly) newcomers who are left out.

Seriously, the challenge is you against your limitations, not against the others who have written pieces.

I know, I know, it does feel nice when somebody says they like yours in particular (and actually winning is an adrenaline rush I never expected) but it's not the important part. And I'm not just saying that because I didn't get any votes this time, really; the standard is remarkably high, and people's taste unpredictable.
 
I second that emotion!! I've had challenges with votes and mentions and challenges with no votes and no mentions, and I always think other people's stories are better than mine, so whilst I'm genuinely pleased to get the votes and mentions, taking part has improved my own writing. (Except that sentence...) Editing a few hundred words down to 75 (as has been mentioned here) is incredibly hard work but we learn so much from it. My 300 worder started out at 437 words, so I had to lose a third - when I apply that to my (verbiose) wip, I find it so much easier to do. And the discipline of the monthly challenge stifles the procrastinator in me...:eek::)
 
Certainly! Honestly I'm not down at all, and it's really is myself against my own limitations. Am I writing to win? Do I write for the masses, or for myself? Write what makes me happy? Or what I think others will like so they'll vote.

Bah, I really enjoyed writing that 300 word piece of mine, and that's all that mattered to me. I'm new, this is only the 2nd contest I've entered, and I've got a whole lot of writing left in me.

I tell you what though, I'm biting my nails, so to speak, on who is going to take this one. It's close yet.
 
This chimed with a thought I was having about Abernovo's story (but it applies to others as well). This time -- and last time -- there were some excellent 300-word stories, ones I came really close to voting for, that ended up without any votes.

I love having three votes but I sometimes wonder what effect it has on the pattern of voting, if that makes sense.
 
Boneman said:
Erm... this is dangerous thinking, Hex. Stop it immediately or the moderators might think we only want/need one vote!:eek::D Personally, I want five votes...
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Eep. Can't have that. I love having three votes. I'll shut up now. Watch me.
 
Hmm, we seem to have been stuck at 28 voters for a few days now. I suppose (and hope) there's going to be a last minute rush.
 
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