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SF Short Writing Challenge Discussion and Voting.

Posted: 2017-02-17 06:23am
by The Romulan Republic
This is the voting thread for my short story writing competition, since its too late to add a poll to the original thread.

Poll will be open until Midnight (Eastern time) on the 24th. of February.

Link to the story thread: https://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic ... 9&t=165991

Re: SF Short Writing Challenge Discussion and Voting.

Posted: 2017-02-17 07:01am
by Crazedwraith
I imagine 'don't vote for your own fic' would be a good rule?

Re: SF Short Writing Challenge Discussion and Voting.

Posted: 2017-02-17 07:16am
by The Romulan Republic
Agreed. It would be rather in poor taste.

Also, I forgot to add a time limit to the poll. My bad. I will post a tally of the votes after the 24th. and none cast after that will be counted.

Re: SF Short Writing Challenge Discussion and Voting.

Posted: 2017-02-19 04:05pm
by LadyTevar
I gave you a 10-day poll limit. Hope it's enough

Re: SF Short Writing Challenge Discussion and Voting.

Posted: 2017-02-19 04:20pm
by The Romulan Republic
More than enough. I had intended to set it at a week, but given the slow rate of voting, and the time it may take some to read the stories, your's may be better.

Thanks for fixing that oversight on my part.

Re: SF Short Writing Challenge Discussion and Voting.

Posted: 2017-02-19 08:03pm
by LadyTevar
The Romulan Republic wrote:More than enough. I had intended to set it at a week, but given the slow rate of voting, and the time it may take some to read the stories, your's may be better.

Thanks for fixing that oversight on my part.
NP. Just sorry I couldn't get my story down to 500 words without losing too much plot

Re: SF Short Writing Challenge Discussion and Voting.

Posted: 2017-02-20 08:30am
by The Romulan Republic
Its tough. My story lost an entire scene/location, in addition to various more minor tweaks, to fit the word limit.

Re: SF Short Writing Challenge Discussion and Voting.

Posted: 2017-02-21 09:22pm
by Alferd Packer
Well, I found it a satisfying task, in all, and I really enjoyed the other entries. Arbitrary restrictions on your writing style force you flex your writing muscles, for want of a better term. I mean, I could've written a 5,000 word short story on my subject, but would that have made it better? Maybe, maybe not. But it was cool to see how everyone else dealt with the word limit, and how that compared to mine.

Re: SF Short Writing Challenge Discussion and Voting.

Posted: 2017-02-22 03:33am
by madd0ct0r
Link to the thread with stories in it http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=165991

Re: SF Short Writing Challenge Discussion and Voting.

Posted: 2017-02-22 03:45am
by The Romulan Republic
Is the OP link not working?

Re: SF Short Writing Challenge Discussion and Voting.

Posted: 2017-02-22 03:49am
by madd0ct0r
I'm blinded by my own hubris.

And it goes off the side of my phone screen...

Link is in the op people! Nothing to see here.

Re: SF Short Writing Challenge Discussion and Voting.

Posted: 2017-02-28 07:26pm
by The Romulan Republic
So I take it the poll time limit has expired.

In that case, I hear by proclaim the winner of the first SF Short Writing Challenge a tie between "Sic Semper Tyrannis", by Stewart M, and "The First Principle of Magic", by GrandMasterTerwynn.

Thanks to everyone who participated. We got some good stories out of it.