[Syndicated.Corpse]

Mine is like a story poem?
Does that work?

[TheHands]

Is it more story or poem? If it's in verse then it's a poem, where as prose creates anything else (fiction or otherwise).

[HalcyonSpirit]

Aaaaand naturally, I get so caught up with work that I forget to update the competition status. Real quick:

Long story short (ba-dum-tsh!), we're in the voting period. Really we've been in the voting period since the 9th, but since I'm such a disorganized person I forgot to mention it. So voting's open until the end of the month. Please vote!


Paradiso by Straziante

Aura Weapon by neblix

Thinker by Random Hajile

Vote now! Voting open until November 1st!

[HalcyonSpirit]

C'mon people... so I messed up a round, that doesn't mean you all have to disappear! Vote already!

In other news, I had to write a piece of fiction for one of my classes. The class reviewed it today. Let's just say that not only was their comments unfair toward my piece in general, they were downright insulting toward both my work and creative writing in general. There's something to be said about a Creative Writing class that can't accept any actual creative writing beyond what their preconceived notions and biases have them believe. For fuck's sake, it wasn't even far out in left field, either!

Needless to say, I'm still fuming. Maybe I'll let you guys look at it once I'm done cleaning it up.

[SoulinEther]

Originally Posted by HalcyonSpirit

C'mon people... so I messed up a round, that doesn't mean you all have to disappear! Vote already!

In other news, I had to write a piece of fiction for one of my classes. The class reviewed it today. Let's just say that not only was their comments unfair toward my piece in general, they were downright insulting toward both my work and creative writing in general. There's something to be said about a Creative Writing class that can't accept any actual creative writing beyond what their preconceived notions and biases have them believe. For fuck's sake, it wasn't even far out in left field, either!

Needless to say, I'm still fuming. Maybe I'll let you guys look at it once I'm done cleaning it up.

That stinks. I think it's often a matter of ego... maybe they felt threatened by your creativity. That isn't to say their ideas aren't valid... I remember Imagery's short critique of my first submission to this competition. I was kind of taken aback by what he had said about a stream of consciousness work I whipped up, but in all fairness, he had good reasons to criticize my work. I'm not trying to say I'm infallible or anything, but that I understand, or at least can understand by extension.

Voting... I will try. I think. Maybe. just not this week, I've a million things going on and I should not even be posting here (but it's the only thing that I can focus long enough on doing...).

[HalcyonSpirit]

Ego? No, I think it was sheer ignorance, willful or otherwise, that was the root cause of it. But either way, I'm not complaining about the actual critiques I received during the session. I've taken them to heart and plan on heavily revising the story to make it better (it helps that I already knew it wasn't written very well in the first place). But out of the half-hour it was being reviewed, maybe five minutes contained any actual critique that pertained to my story. The rest was just willful bashing of the genre and some of the completely legitimate and creatively acceptable choices I made in the story. That's what has me so angry.

[SoulinEther]

Originally Posted by HalcyonSpirit

Ego? No, I think it was sheer ignorance, willful or otherwise, that was the root cause of it.

Well, it's terrible I say.

[HalcyonSpirit]

Oh, what to do, what to do...

Aside from myself, there's been no votes. I'm sad. Disappointed, even. I guess I can only blame myself for not keeping things organized these past two competitions, but still...

I think I'll call the Short Story competition from July as done and tally the few votes that I've gotten. As for the Freeform competition... We'll see. I think I'll just nullify this round and let everyone resubmit their pieces in the next round they're qualified for. Some input on this would be nice, of course.

But do not fear, I refuse to let this competition die! This month is Poetry month!

THE NOVEMBER 2009 POETRY COMPETITION HAS BEGUN!

I'll see about getting notifications out sometime in the next day or two.

[neblix]

I got high school and robotics club and kung fu and parkour and philosophy club.

My free time just went from really high to really low.

I usually reserve three hours a day for playing vid games, so my OCR Writing Competition time is almost insignificantly small.

So, I apologize.

P.S. I just turned 14 on Monday!!!

[HalcyonSpirit]

Well, it took forever, but

THE (FREEFORM) RESULTS ARE (FINALLY) IN!

1st Place: .rogerG by SoulinEther
Runners-Up: The Unknown by HalcyonSpirit, and The Mind's Prison by wouldntyouliketoknow

Here's the vote spread:

.rogerG by SoulinEther - 5
The Unknown by HalcyonSpirit - 3
The Mind's Prison by wouldntyouliketoknow - 3
Way of the Samurai by Zipp - 2
7 lbs. by TheHands - 2


All-in-all, not a bad batch of entries. I just wish more people had voted.

As for the September competition, everyone who entered will be allowed to resubmit their entry, unmodified, in the next qualifying round.