Tag: contest
member name: Dale C.
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April 29, 2007 12:20 AM EDT --
For those of you still following the First Chapters contest, I went through around 10:45 on the last night of the second round and simply recorded the average rating and number of votes for the 20 . . .
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August 26, 2007 09:25 PM EDT --
I've been thinking about how I'm going to approach the job of going through the entries starting tomorrow and doing my little part to make sure the best entries make it to the next round. . . .
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May 02, 2007 09:50 AM EDT --
Here are the ratings for the 10 semi-finalists in the First Chapters competition approximately 24 hours after the third round started. Astroturf comments are probably from friends of the author. . . .
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May 05, 2007 12:06 PM EDT --
It's a whole new contest after the latest fraud sweep at around 10:30 Central Saturday morning. Everyone went up this time, with some entries going up a lot more than others
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May 12, 2007 11:56 AM EDT --
I originally wrote the following article for the Fantasy Amateur Press Association (FAPA) a group of about three dozen members of science fiction fandom, some published authors and some not. I . . .
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September 01, 2007 01:00 PM EDT --
In the original First Chapters contest I did several reviews in stream-of-consciousness style. I just opened NotePad in a window and read the entry, writing down whatever reaction I had as I was . . .
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July 11, 2008 09:01 PM EDT --
Announcing the top ten entries in the Writing Wombat Slushpile Simulator Contest. And our winner is:
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John L. (springycom)
Today.02
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Jamie . . .
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April 04, 2007 12:01 PM EDT --
Most of us received the letter from gather.com telling us basically that (a) we didn't make the final 20, and (b) they will do this again. I know most of us are tired and disappointed. . . .
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January 18, 2009 09:27 PM EST --
If you’ve been around aspiring writers much you know that a good percentage of them produce the writing equivalent of really bad karaoke. You also know that there are undiscovered gems out there. . . .
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June 03, 2007 06:40 PM EDT --
The First Chapters Cantest was a Zero Sum game for the most part. Twenty people out of 2000 or more got to the second round. Everyone else lost. Some of us did find . . .
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June 18, 2008 09:54 PM EDT --
Note: This is an entry in the Writing Wombat Slushpile Simulator Contest. I am posting it to maintain the author's anonymity. All rights to this content remain the author's . . .
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March 19, 2007 10:24 AM EDT --
A lot of us have gone through our two week viewing period or about to wind it up. I'm interested in how other contestants experienced the contest. How did it feel as your ratings bounced . . .
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March 26, 2007 10:19 AM EDT --
A lot of us are waiting around for the First Chapters contest results to be announced. I had an idea that might help us pass the time and maybe help our writing a bit too. It's called . . .
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June 21, 2008 02:11 PM EDT --
We're getting enough entries that it may be getting a little harder to find all of them. Here are links to all of the entries so far in alphabetical order by title. As new entries come . . .
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March 15, 2007 09:55 AM EDT --
Anybody who has been on gather for the last month or two has probably heard about the First Chapters writing competition. Frankly Science Fiction doesn't seem to be doing too well over there. . . .
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September 29, 2007 09:36 AM EDT --
After over a month of the First Chapters Romance contest, a lot of people are probably sick of hearing about it. A lot of people are sick of getting e-mails about it. Hey, I'm getting sick . . .
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June 27, 2008 07:00 PM EDT --
Note: This is an entry in the Writing Wombat Slushpile Simulator Contest. I am posting it to maintain the author's anonymity. All rights to this content remain the author's . . .
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July 09, 2008 01:09 AM EDT --
Here is a list of the authors who have entered the Writing Wombat Slushpile Simulator Contest. Authors are listed by Gather screen name. If an author is listed more than once that means . . .
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July 15, 2007 10:30 PM EDT --
Version 2:
Have you ever wanted to kill someone? What if you knew killing them would be easy? Just point and click. The person dies a painful death weeks later. Nothing . . .
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July 12, 2008 01:48 PM EDT --
I'm not going to link the details for anyone but the top ten to specific entries, but several people have expressed an interest in the statistics for the rest of the field. Something to keep . . .
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