Discussion -- August 2014 75-Word Writing Challenge

[Boneman]

Where's the like button gone? I like Springs, who voted for my entry!!! Thank you so much.

 

[Void]

My vote went to Wordspinnner for a wonderfully chilling story. I live in fear of the blue screen!

 

[Culhwch]

Where's the like button gone? I like Springs, who voted for my entry!!! Thank you so much.

Still there for me - bottom right of each post, between the post number and '+ Quote' button!

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Not there for me, Cul....

And you're welcome, Boneman. I'm expecting the novel of the consequences...

 

[Void]

<< that's what I see, no like button either!

 

[nixie]

Thank you Parson and Telford for the mentions. Too many good ones to mention but Dusty got my vote.

 

[holland]

Lots of amazing entires this time, my vote goes to CAPTCHA by HoopyFrood.

 

[Ashleyne]

I’m in a state of felicity to find that I have two votes! Thank you, J-sun and telford, for being my first two '75 word challenge' voters ever!

 

[Boneman]

Still there for me - bottom right of each post, between the post number and '+ Quote' button!

All I've got is whitespace between those two...

 

[nixie]

Boneman I don't have the like button here either.

 

[Serendipity]

Teresa Edgerton and Mosaix came a close second, but in the end my vote went to TheEndIsNigh because of the nice little twist at the end!

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

So difficult.

Being a little slow, I didn't read the instructions properly and thought I had three votes like in the 300 word, so after a lot of soul searching I got it down to four, almost cried when I had to decide which to drop and settled on three. ONE VOTE! Nooooo!

Well, The Dusty Zebra got it.

My not-short-enough-short-list was:

Perpetual Man
The Dusty Zebra
Cat's Cradle
Alchemist

So many great entries though...

 

[Ashleyne]

My long shortlist this month is:

Terrible Twos by Bowler

A Study in Linguistics by ratsy

Jimmy by Victoria Silverwolf

Your Heart Belongs To Me by Karn Maeshalanda

First ContactHumanity’s Darkest Hour!(A Star Captain Timothy Spahl Adventure) by Cat’s Cradle

Taken in Lights by Remedy

You Have Been Judged by Alchemist


My vote goes to The Alien Encounter or Nerd in Space by Starbeast.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

And I note TDZ is doing Shakespeare again, nicely picked up with Jasmine!

Aww, thanks, TJ! It makes it all worthwhile when someone gets it. (Though, like Teresa, I keep doing it even if nobody does, because it amuses me.)

Where's the like button gone? I like Springs, who voted for my entry!!! Thank you so much.

My like button is gone, too (I'm in VB3Fluid, so my post number is in the bar at the top of the post, but there is only +quote and reply on that side at the bottom).

Many tickled thanks to Kerry, CC, Kylara, TJ and Parson for the lovely comments about my story, and to Parson for the shortlisting, and gigantic thanks to nixie and Kerry for the lovely, lovely votes that I found today!

 

[Lenny]

My picks for this month, in order of posting. Shortlist, shorterlist, vote:

Ashleyne. B. Watts
Victoria Silverwolf
alchemist
Groot
Perpetual Man
HoopyFrood
Parson

 

[J-Sun]

Thanks for the reassurances, @springs, @Remedy, but now I understand the "gray area" - my pre-poll post (or at least part of it) should have been a post-poll post. Got it.

Speaking of the poll, what happens if there's a tie?

-- Oh yeah, and my 'like' button is gone, too (vb3 fluid).

 

[Ursa major]

If there's a tie, we have a tiebreaker poll.

And if it's a tie after that, we declare a draw.

 

[J-Sun]

Makes sense. Thanks.

(LIke I say, I've seen these threads all along but never participated in one, and I didn't recall seeing any tiebreaker polls, so wasn't sure. Maybe just forgot.)

 

[nixie]

Evening J Sun, does this mean you will participate next month.

 

[alchemist]

With my Like button gone (and that may have been my fault for everybody's), thanks to springs, kerrybuchanan, Ashleyne and Lenny for the mentions/shortlistings.