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Contest January-February 2016 Short Story Contest Voting Thread

What is/are you favorite story or stories? (you may select up to three)

  • Story One: A Fracturing Line

    Votes: 9 32.1%
  • Story Two: Out of Formation

    Votes: 11 39.3%
  • Story Three: A Day in the Life of a Temple City

    Votes: 4 14.3%
  • Story Four: Blasphemy

    Votes: 10 35.7%
  • Story Five: The Seraphon Legend

    Votes: 9 32.1%
  • Story Six: The Loom at the Threshold

    Votes: 13 46.4%
  • Story Seven: Changing Times

    Votes: 3 10.7%
  • Story Eight: Sunblood

    Votes: 5 17.9%
  • Story Nine: Certainty

    Votes: 4 14.3%
  • Story Ten: The Monument

    Votes: 5 17.9%
  • Story Eleven: Sun Turns Gears of War

    Votes: 7 25.0%

  • Total voters
    28
  • Poll closed .
Cool. Three way tie.
:banghead::beaver::artist:

Three winners. Three themes next time. Easy.
 
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Ha, I feel like it's more likely to be a series or remarks masquerading as insight. We shall see. o_O
I think we all enjoy a good masquerade! Put a little confidence behind it and it is as good as the truth!
 
Post it up! I want to see the rewrite!
 
It's no biggie for me either, really. But I consider Daughter of Bob, age 13, who enjoys the fiction here, as my benchmark. I know she has been exposed to worse on TV and in recess, and the time of me saying "you can't watch that because I don't want to explain..." are long gone, but the sentiment can be portrayed more subtly without too much effort. For everything else, we have mahrlect.:jawdrop:

And were you really trying to tell me not to swear while taking about GW employees? When I first joined L-O, I thought "Cruddace" WAS a swear word.
The only reason I used actual swear words was mainly because marhlect is really for lizardmen as it wouldn't fit for the sorcerer or the hooman
 
You don't write enough! I am looking forward to more! I want to see how this turns out.
 
This is Slannada.

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Point taken.

Three way tie, huh?

If you liked it then you better put a vote on it.


EDIT Read the post below, and then the next bit of this one.

@thedarkfourth You and @Otzi'mandias are messing with my head. I didn't think either of you had time to enter this comp. Mind you, I didn't think Essmir did either...


EDIT 2 - WRT to themes - I developed a big list of themes recently, and there is always the "Ratty's Big Hat of Themes" technique from the U-E - here he pulls two unrelated keywords out of the warp.

I have decided that knowing / choosing the theme doesn't give an advantage in the comps - unless you have written the perfect story and choose the theme to suit - breaking the original story requirement. (But there is plenty of bending of that rule happening anyway)

If a future winner is interested talking themes with me or others, they will never be able to prove anything anyway - I've just discovered that evidence can just "disappear".

Edit 3 - I said something embarrassing at work today, Scalenex. Is there any chance you could...?
 
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