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Contest ends in one hour and forty minutes.
time is GMT. dead line was hours ago.
Contest ends in one hour and forty minutes.
time is GMT. dead line was hours ago.
I really don't see the need for an extension, part of the challenge is completing the work under a set amount of time, almost anyone could create a masterpiece if they spent long enough on it
I'm sure they're all fine, congrats to all who've submitted something (even a WIP) anyhow, I know it's a busy time of year, I look forward to reading some of these.
I think an extension would be nice personally and from a subjective prospective, i was so busy personally and only had 2 days to write that bit between work.
I read your submission and you have not even started, and you were way past 4000 words. So judging from what you wrote space operas are, I wonder how could you not act according to your own theme. So far the only real event in entire story is appearance of killer shrooms. So yes extension would be nice for someone who did not even wrote a glimpse of what he intended. Do not get me wrong you are an excellent writer judging from your WiP. You use a lot of seldom heard expressions, catchy phrases, and overall you are really good. But if you had no time to finish your submission you should have just said so. I am busy too, so I wrote 2300 word story and fitted everything into it. Any way good luck, I hope you get your extension because I am really hoping to hear the rest of your work.
Well my guess is there is going to be an extension, so ill have to do a rewrite to keep up with
all of the slackers.
If your not a slacker. And you believed your work was your best instead of okay then you wouldn't have to rewrite. you just proved my point. Just want a minimumn bare work shortest story possible just so u can pass :L even when there is proper competition which cant due to time constraints and external pressure T_T. Also an extension has niether been confirmed nor denied as of present T_T
and complete
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I wish I had one-thousand dollars to donate to the hive so I could get extensions whenever I wanted. Oh well.
So let me put it this way, if there's an extension can I join? Write up and enter a piece despite not having produced a WiP for the original deadline?
So let me put it this way, if there's an extension can I join? Write up and enter a piece despite not having produced a WiP for the original deadline?
So who's making the poll or is there any need shall we just decide the winners right now?
Considering how there is about 3-4 contestants and one of them doesn't even follow the theme so would either be marked down loads or disquallified.
Also who r the judges?
Eh, I don't know, now I kind of feel like Gauss. I don't think anyone else should be able to join after the deadline, that kind of sparks an unfair competition as Gauss said, just my opinion though.
So who's making the poll or is there any need shall we just decide the winners right now?
Considering how there is about 3-4 contestants and one of them doesn't even follow the theme so would either be marked down loads or disquallified.
Also who r the judges?
It is not that twif is lazy or other user who participated. It is just that I read their stories about the lifes of some losers on some stations. They prolonged the action so much that they did not even get to the part of supernatural forces or advanced technologies. All that they wrote is just a life of some guy that can very easily be tranfered into this century or even before this century. Assuming that shuttle is hellicopter, space station oil platform and there you go. Imo so many users wrote too much and did not even got to the point of this contest.
I'm beginning to think we should just do away with short story contests. There's always so much drama around them you could take a swim in it. :/
No one should be disqualified, TWIF should stop be a lazy ass imo.
The point you're not getting is that it was in space. It had space ships. It had space engines. The theme was centered around a man's inability to fly space ships whose engines he fixed. I made it interchangeable so it'd feel new and original, not because I couldn't follow the theme. There are thousands of stories that could be written in any era with any setting, but they chose the ones that they did and that's what matters. Many stories have had settings flipped around, or time shifted either in the future or in the past. That doesn't make it not a space opera, it just makes it different than what you imagine a space opera to be.
The point you're not getting is that it was in space. It had space ships. It had space engines. The theme was centered around a man's inability to fly space ships whose engines he fixed. I made it interchangeable so it'd feel new and original, not because I couldn't follow the theme. There are thousands of stories that could be written in any era with any setting, but they chose the ones that they did and that's what matters. Many stories have had settings flipped around, or time shifted either in the future or in the past. That doesn't make it not a space opera, it just makes it different than what you imagine a space opera to be.
I'll be extending for one week. exactly 7 days. so the 11th at 23:59 GMT 0:00