Ah, a list of writing tropes, joined by an “out of time to write” summation. I wish the author had put more effort into a way to join or interleave the ideas. As it stands, this only barely qualifies as a story.

Another absurdist start. If this ends in another hidden message trollfic...

Oh no, then it drops to meta about writer's block and the last minute. As they say in "Off to be The Wizard" rule number one is "Don't make the obvious joke." This did, and it's not even funny... or spellchecked.

Basically how I prepare for the write-off.

There's a few spelling mistakes in the story, I's that are not capitalized and "Dealt" is spelled wrong near the end.

Other than that I thought the story was funny. Meta-ness worked well.

Man, I hate to say it, but... I'm sick of meta already, you're a bit late to the slate.

Sorry. I mean, I'm sure you knew there would be a handful of other stories like this going around, right?

Anyways. A one-note joke metafic that doesn't even use half the words it's given... nooooot doing much for me.

Well, it probably won't end up at the very bottom of my slate, if that's any consolation.

All I can really do with this one, without echoing those above, is to make some observations:

Format:

Fantasy tropes that start with "O"
Crime drama tropes that start with "N"
Sci-fi tropes that start with "M"

(which, they're not really "tropes" exactly, more like first sentences to stories that follow certain tropes)

Jake Sully is the name of the main character from Avatar. They could just be two random names, though.

Talk of a "ten thousand word anthology" makes me think of the anthology of Writeoff entries that come with every Writeoff. (and 15 750-word entries would make an 11,250 word anthology, so I feel like I'm not far off-base). This seems to support the "this story is a writeoff metafic" theory.

If that's the case, I'm not quite sure what to make of the end?

Your stories were never going to get written. We just wanted to see how you delt with brainless employees. I hate say it, but both of you acted pretty baindead yourselves, and should have worked together.

So the end result was that the writeoffers were braindead and should have worked together? I don't really know how far to take this analogy.

I think this piece needs some clarity in its delivery. The final part isn't even written as dialogue, with the quotes and whatnot, but straight narrative that's just implied to be all dialogue. I'm just not sure what to make of it otherwise, like the ONM pattern. I like Ran's (Ran's? Someone said it) idea of reading a story: it can take work to write, but it shouldn't take work to enjoy.