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Post by ed on Aug 22, 2010 23:01:18 GMT
Hi all, We've got another comp going on over at CafeDoom. It's free to enter, top prize is publication in Shock Totem and 5 cents per word, second prize is $100 of Amazon vouchers, third prize is $50 of Amazon vouchers. Word limit is 5000. Full details can be found here: www.cafedoom.com/forum/index.php?topic=3426.0I would love to see some stories entered from the Filthy Creations gang. Good luck if you decide to enter. Cheers, Ed
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Aug 23, 2010 7:38:11 GMT
Hi all, We've got another comp going on over at CafeDoom. It's free to enter, top prize is publication in Shock Totem and 5 cents per word, second prize is $100 of Amazon vouchers, third prize is $50 of Amazon vouchers. Word limit is 5000. Full details can be found here: www.cafedoom.com/forum/index.php?topic=3426.0I would love to see some stories entered from the Filthy Creations gang. Good luck if you decide to enter. Cheers, Ed This a good competition. Loads of objective advice, a neat method of peer judging. I'd certainly recommend it even though everyone failed to notice that my story was a display of genius rarely seen in the mutliverse. Only kidding. Its well worth having a try. The standard was very high.
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Post by ed on Aug 23, 2010 8:46:57 GMT
Hi all, We've got another comp going on over at CafeDoom. It's free to enter, top prize is publication in Shock Totem and 5 cents per word, second prize is $100 of Amazon vouchers, third prize is $50 of Amazon vouchers. Word limit is 5000. Full details can be found here: www.cafedoom.com/forum/index.php?topic=3426.0I would love to see some stories entered from the Filthy Creations gang. Good luck if you decide to enter. Cheers, Ed This a good competition. Loads of objective advice, a neat method of peer judging. I'd certainly recommend it even though everyone failed to notice that my story was a display of genius rarely seen in the mutliverse. Only kidding. Its well worth having a try. The standard was very high. Thanks for the props, Craig. I hope you'll give it another try this year -- the more the merrier. BTW, the mutliverse can be a very strange and dastardly place, so don't take anything too much to heart
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Aug 24, 2010 14:47:19 GMT
No problem. I should also add it was a really friendly competition and although the standard was high there were plenty of people just bashing in a story for the fun of it.
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Post by ed on Oct 2, 2010 15:33:51 GMT
Only ten entries so far. A month until deadline.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Oct 3, 2010 16:06:36 GMT
I've been busy writing a novel and tinkering with several ideas.
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Post by ed on Oct 12, 2010 19:38:52 GMT
I hope you manage to get something ready in time, Craig. We've got a few entries from fairly well known writers, so it's shaping up to be a great comp, I reckon
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Oct 14, 2010 0:29:12 GMT
I collapsed on the writing front due to the busy music front. But I'm aiming to try over the next few weeks - kids are on holiday which is always a toughy. I really enjoyed it last time.
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Post by ed on Oct 19, 2010 9:38:05 GMT
Ah well, it's good to be busy doing something pleasurable, either way. I often wish I could play a musical instrument. The guitar would have been nice, but my fingers just aren't and never have been nimble enough for it. Both my sons play music, so I suppose I'll have to make do with living vicariously The comp is up to seventeen entries so far, which is short of the total for this time last year. Hopefully there'll be a last minute rush.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Oct 21, 2010 20:24:05 GMT
Managed to get a story in Ed. looking forward to reading the others. I put a shout up on facebook. I really like the Cafe Doom competition. it's a great concept.
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Post by ed on Oct 24, 2010 16:45:11 GMT
Managed to get a story in Ed. looking forward to reading the others. I put a shout up on facebook. I really like the Cafe Doom competition. it's a great concept. Thanks Craig. We've had a very poor response this year -- we've only got twenty-two entries to date, and by this point last year we had thirty-one -- nine more entries. I hate to say it, but if it keeps going at the current rate this may be the last year I run the competition. I think they're great prizes considering it's free to enter, and yet every year I struggle to cajole thirty or forty submissions out of a field of hundreds, perhaps thousands of aspiring authors. 'For the love of' ezines get more submissions. I don't understand it. I really don't.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Oct 25, 2010 22:27:04 GMT
I don't understand it either. I think its a fantastic competition and deserves a lot of success. I'm not a big one for forums - here, the vault and a couple of others occasionally but the competition definitely fuels my interest to visit and I will do so more - mostly because you really make an effort.
I've stuck up a link on my heavenmakers.com blog not than anyoen goes there. Damned shame really.
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Post by ed on Oct 25, 2010 23:21:14 GMT
Thanks Craig. Perhaps I'll be surprised by a last minute rush. Most years I really enjoy the comp, and the vibe it creates on the forum -- it's like a pressure cooker for a couple of weeks as people read through all the entries and choose their winners. Perhaps it's a blessing in disguise that it stays small and under the radar.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Oct 27, 2010 10:18:48 GMT
I got you one author who should have submitted by now- naturally anonymous ;D
Small is fine - I think things have a natural expansion and its generally far better to have good small thing than a big bad thing...
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Post by ed on Oct 27, 2010 19:12:21 GMT
Thanks Craig Now we're up to thirty entries I'm feeling better about the whole thing. Twenty would have sucked royally. I would have felt like I had let Ken down. After all, he's got to publish the winning entry, and I want him to have a decent few to choose from, and you're not guaranteed that with just twenty stories in the running. I think we'll probably finish on about forty now, which is a respectable figure.
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