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>>devas
They are indeed. It's the reason why "ot" keeps flourishing despite its intrinsic madness.
(I still say we should do it one of these times just for the heck of it, but I'm not submitting it)
They are indeed. It's the reason why "ot" keeps flourishing despite its intrinsic madness.
(I still say we should do it one of these times just for the heck of it, but I'm not submitting it)
Bad timing; will be traveling this weekend. But I'll (probably) have internet, so will do my best to join in.
>>CoffeeMinion
If you're not part of the ot solution, you're part of the ot problem, CoffeeMinion.
(I still say we should do it one of these times just for the heck of it, but I'm not submitting it)
If you're not part of the ot solution, you're part of the ot problem, CoffeeMinion.
>>devas
There's still a problem that prompts are revealed while they're still being submitted. People can comment on them and then you can see the comments and plan your prompt based on what's already been submitted. On the other hoof, submitting earlier means more users will see your prompt before they vote.
Imagine if we did that for stories. You could learn about submissions before submitting your own.
There's still a problem that prompts are revealed while they're still being submitted. People can comment on them and then you can see the comments and plan your prompt based on what's already been submitted. On the other hoof, submitting earlier means more users will see your prompt before they vote.
Imagine if we did that for stories. You could learn about submissions before submitting your own.
>>CoffeeMinion
Please, no.
Every time someone posts ot or votes for ot, somewhere, someone kills a cute puppy dog and a cute kitty cat. T_T
You monsters.
Please, no.
Every time someone posts ot or votes for ot, somewhere, someone kills a cute puppy dog and a cute kitty cat. T_T
You monsters.
>>Trick_Question
Prompts are not meant to be competitive. Neither are they anonymous, so none of the rules applicable to stories apply to rules.
Prompts are not meant to be competitive. Neither are they anonymous, so none of the rules applicable to stories apply to rules.
>>Moosetasm
Say, have you ever read Every Time A Pegasus Flaps Their Wings, A Kitten DIES by Estee?
There's a reason for our "monstrous" actions.....
Say, have you ever read Every Time A Pegasus Flaps Their Wings, A Kitten DIES by Estee?
There's a reason for our "monstrous" actions.....
How Did I Get Here? Really? AGAIN?! What is This, a Crossover Episode?
[Random Prompt Which Fits a Story Idea You Already Had: Pinkie Pie is secretly (____). No Surprise Here! A Quality Villain: The Pencil Thief. A Foal is Involved. Filly, Interrupted. A Leaky Roof? The Glue of Friendship!]
Cashing In My Reality Check; Crisis Averted. Sleep to Dream Of Farmsters and Hen.
Crazy Little Thing Called Love. Don’t Select The Promise of a Long Lost Friend, The Faker. Star-Crossed Lovers Break Bad, The Ethos Knife Between Fire and Ice.
100 Days, Vessels, Journeys… Fog over Canterlot.
The Sun Goes Down, Closer to the Edge. All the Time in the World. No Gods, No Masters!
[Random Prompt Which Fits a Story Idea You Already Had: Pinkie Pie is secretly (____). No Surprise Here! A Quality Villain: The Pencil Thief. A Foal is Involved. Filly, Interrupted. A Leaky Roof? The Glue of Friendship!]
Cashing In My Reality Check; Crisis Averted. Sleep to Dream Of Farmsters and Hen.
Crazy Little Thing Called Love. Don’t Select The Promise of a Long Lost Friend, The Faker. Star-Crossed Lovers Break Bad, The Ethos Knife Between Fire and Ice.
100 Days, Vessels, Journeys… Fog over Canterlot.
The Sun Goes Down, Closer to the Edge. All the Time in the World. No Gods, No Masters!
>>PinoyPony
Somepony accidentally submitted it as a prompt one round and then to be funny ponies kept submitting it as a prompt for more than a year afterwards...
...infidel.
Somepony accidentally submitted it as a prompt one round and then to be funny ponies kept submitting it as a prompt for more than a year afterwards...
...infidel.
>>Trick_Question
No, Trick, it's been THREE years. Check it out:
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/200535/the-writeoff-association/thread/203327/distant-shores-discussion-comments-reviews#comment/4662277
No, Trick, it's been THREE years. Check it out:
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/200535/the-writeoff-association/thread/203327/distant-shores-discussion-comments-reviews#comment/4662277
Reminder: I'll be available in #mentors or via email/FiMFic PM for anyone who wants another set of eyes on their entry. However, I'll be out of town on Sunday, so I can't promise I'll be on duty then. I'll try, but I don't know what the hotel wi-fi will be like or what my schedule will be. If you want help, even on an incomplete draft, you might want to play it safe and ask on Saturday. I will keep a status message up in #mentors saying whether I'm on duty.
>>Monokeras
Of course they're not. If they were meant to be competitive, we'd vote on them, tally the votes, and one of them would win and be used as a rule for the entire contest to follow.
...wait.
Prompts are not meant to be competitive.
Of course they're not. If they were meant to be competitive, we'd vote on them, tally the votes, and one of them would win and be used as a rule for the entire contest to follow.
...wait.
>>Trick_Question
It's okay, readers don't actually care how related an entry is to the prompt.
Time to write an entry that is very tenuously connected to the prompt but will make it to finals regardless.
It's okay, readers don't actually care how related an entry is to the prompt.
Time to write an entry that is very tenuously connected to the prompt but will make it to finals regardless.
Man, I got nothing here. D:
Edit: I'm handling the kids solo this weekend. I figured that would make it tricky to do horse. And indeed it is.
Edit: I'm handling the kids solo this weekend. I figured that would make it tricky to do horse. And indeed it is.
>>Trick_Question I always thought if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
>>CoffeeMinion I didn't have anything come to mind, so I started to write a sarcastic note in the comments about the prompt. At 500 words, I picked it up and moved it to my docs. Darnit. At least I got *done* this round. (I'm watching my kids too, but they're 21 and 25 so it doesn't take much)
>>CoffeeMinion I didn't have anything come to mind, so I started to write a sarcastic note in the comments about the prompt. At 500 words, I picked it up and moved it to my docs. Darnit. At least I got *done* this round. (I'm watching my kids too, but they're 21 and 25 so it doesn't take much)
Welp. Have to spend all weekend writing essays about Frankenstein. :/
Good book. 8.5/10. No real hero. Satisfying ending.
So.
Yeah.
(I will probably be drawing entries, though. ;) I have a good feeling about this round.)
Good book. 8.5/10. No real hero. Satisfying ending.
So.
Yeah.
(I will probably be drawing entries, though. ;) I have a good feeling about this round.)
>>georg
Sounds like you're on the opposite end of the adventure as I am. :-)
At any rate: with suitably irritating dramatic timing, The Idea (TM) has, at last, emerged. I can only hope that the small people will go to bed at a decent hour tomorrow so I can actually write it!
21 and 25
Sounds like you're on the opposite end of the adventure as I am. :-)
At any rate: with suitably irritating dramatic timing, The Idea (TM) has, at last, emerged. I can only hope that the small people will go to bed at a decent hour tomorrow so I can actually write it!
I can't get my idea ready in time. Will have to leave for work soon, and won't have enough time to finish. I think I'm out.
1 halfway decent idea.
0.5 children still (semi-)awake.
Can it be done?
(No, no it cannot)
(BUT LET’S TRY IT ANYWAY AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS)
nope nope nope abort mission containment breach detected
whoops, I tried, but I need sleep instead. Ah well, this will be finished at a later time.
So I finally come back around to this and think I might try again, and then I realize it's also Ludum Dare weekend and I have a festival to go to on Saturday. Oops.
So I have to choose, and I decide I'm going to go for Ludum Dare this time, and then I fail at being at all prepared for it, and then some of my friends have an emergency which keeps me up Saturday night all the way through the morning, so I don't manage either of the creative things. *facehoof* Though I did catch most of the festival, at least.
I'll just have to look forward to reading instead. ^_^
So I have to choose, and I decide I'm going to go for Ludum Dare this time, and then I fail at being at all prepared for it, and then some of my friends have an emergency which keeps me up Saturday night all the way through the morning, so I don't manage either of the creative things. *facehoof* Though I did catch most of the festival, at least.
I'll just have to look forward to reading instead. ^_^
Yes! I've DONE it! Just in time too. I hope my work is as enjoyable to read as it was to write. n.n
Hey, folks! Busy month for me, but just so I don't forget to do it later, I've created a folder in the FIMFiction Writeoff Association group for stories published there which originated from this Writeoff round.
As a reminder: DO NOT PUBLISH YOUR WRITEOFF STORY TO FIMFICTION YET! You'll disqualify yourself in the judging if you break your anonymity!!
AFTER your name shows up on the Writeoff gallery page (at the start of Finals if you don't make Finals, or at the end of Finals for finalists), THEN you can finish polishing it up and unleash your story on the Fimfic world. Add it to the story folder so your fellow authors know it made the leap!
Also, if you expanded a story from the last minific round into a >1000-word FIMFic story, add it to the "It Could Have Gone Better" folder.
--
Standard disclaimer: A long while back, The Writeoff Association group locked story addition privileges on its folders to "Contributors" due to frequent drive-by story spam. Anyone who has even submitted a story to the Writeoffs should have "Contributor" privileges. If you don't, reply to this message or PM me on FIMFiction and I'll fix things for you.
As a reminder: DO NOT PUBLISH YOUR WRITEOFF STORY TO FIMFICTION YET! You'll disqualify yourself in the judging if you break your anonymity!!
AFTER your name shows up on the Writeoff gallery page (at the start of Finals if you don't make Finals, or at the end of Finals for finalists), THEN you can finish polishing it up and unleash your story on the Fimfic world. Add it to the story folder so your fellow authors know it made the leap!
Also, if you expanded a story from the last minific round into a >1000-word FIMFic story, add it to the "It Could Have Gone Better" folder.
--
Standard disclaimer: A long while back, The Writeoff Association group locked story addition privileges on its folders to "Contributors" due to frequent drive-by story spam. Anyone who has even submitted a story to the Writeoffs should have "Contributor" privileges. If you don't, reply to this message or PM me on FIMFiction and I'll fix things for you.
And that's all nineteen, including my own.
Overall, I was pleased by the quality of stories in this round. There were a few standouts that really made me think and feel, which good stories should do. It was hard to rank at the bottom of the slate: most of the stories I ranked low had technical problems (which isn't the main reason why I normally low-rank a story) but the underlying stories were still very interesting and thought-provoking. There wasn't anything I really didn't enjoy.
I hope my feedback has been helpful. Don't take what I write as feedback too seriously if I come off as being condescending. I tend to get carried away in the heat of the moment when I see a minor suggestion.
Overall, I was pleased by the quality of stories in this round. There were a few standouts that really made me think and feel, which good stories should do. It was hard to rank at the bottom of the slate: most of the stories I ranked low had technical problems (which isn't the main reason why I normally low-rank a story) but the underlying stories were still very interesting and thought-provoking. There wasn't anything I really didn't enjoy.
I hope my feedback has been helpful. Don't take what I write as feedback too seriously if I come off as being condescending. I tend to get carried away in the heat of the moment when I see a minor suggestion.
>>Trick_Question
That awkward moment when you gotta leave actual feedback on your own submission...
And that's all nineteen, including my own.
That awkward moment when you gotta leave actual feedback on your own submission...
>>MLPmatthewl419
I always use random.org to choose the order in which to add my own story to the list of reviews.
I always use random.org to choose the order in which to add my own story to the list of reviews.
Only two arts and they're both spoiler alerts! :raritydespair:
...although they're both highly amusing.
...although they're both highly amusing.
>>Trick_Question
>>Xepher
>>Posh
>>CoffeeMinion
>>Rao
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>>Trick_Question
>>scifipony
>>Xepher
>>Posh
>>Trick_Question
>>Skywriter
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>>Trick_Question
>>Xepher
>>Rocket Lawn Chair
>>Posh
Speaking with complete honesty, I don't have it in me to go through each and every comment. Given my extreme work-rate during these writeoffs, I expected to stumble sooner or later, but I still disappointed myself. Seeing that I've produced this sort of mixed and muddled result takes the wind out of my sails. My reach exceeded my grasp. So no in-depth responses from me today, I'm afraid.
That said, I really am grateful for every piece of feedback received. Criticism, praise, or a mix of the two: it's all valuable material for future reference. The specific critique about the uncertain style and lack of clarity is a bugbear I've long needed to deal with. I've got the message, don't you worry.
So thank you all for the helpful feedback, and apologies for the disappointment and dissatisfaction incurred along the way (that was absolutely not my intention, believe you me). Maybe next time, I'll be capable enough to up my game, but I'm clearly not quite there yet.
Lastly, many congratulations to >>Skywriter, >>Rocket Lawn Chair, and >>Xepher for knocking it out of the park. I salute your exemplary efforts, and I hope to see you again in future writeoffs.
>>Xepher
>>Posh
>>CoffeeMinion
>>Rao
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>>Trick_Question
>>scifipony
>>Xepher
>>Posh
>>Trick_Question
>>Skywriter
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>>Trick_Question
>>Xepher
>>Rocket Lawn Chair
>>Posh
Speaking with complete honesty, I don't have it in me to go through each and every comment. Given my extreme work-rate during these writeoffs, I expected to stumble sooner or later, but I still disappointed myself. Seeing that I've produced this sort of mixed and muddled result takes the wind out of my sails. My reach exceeded my grasp. So no in-depth responses from me today, I'm afraid.
That said, I really am grateful for every piece of feedback received. Criticism, praise, or a mix of the two: it's all valuable material for future reference. The specific critique about the uncertain style and lack of clarity is a bugbear I've long needed to deal with. I've got the message, don't you worry.
So thank you all for the helpful feedback, and apologies for the disappointment and dissatisfaction incurred along the way (that was absolutely not my intention, believe you me). Maybe next time, I'll be capable enough to up my game, but I'm clearly not quite there yet.
Lastly, many congratulations to >>Skywriter, >>Rocket Lawn Chair, and >>Xepher for knocking it out of the park. I salute your exemplary efforts, and I hope to see you again in future writeoffs.
>>BlueChameleonVI
Hey man, you've been tearing things up like no one else has in a long time. The rest of us are probably just glad to have someone with your level of energy and enthusiasm contributing at the level you've been able to.
If scaling things back some helps keep it fun and rewarding... well, I didn't get one in this time myself, so I feel that.
But please don't get discouraged. Next time Gadget!
Hey man, you've been tearing things up like no one else has in a long time. The rest of us are probably just glad to have someone with your level of energy and enthusiasm contributing at the level you've been able to.
If scaling things back some helps keep it fun and rewarding... well, I didn't get one in this time myself, so I feel that.
But please don't get discouraged. Next time Gadget!