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Welcome to the third round of the Fortnightly Writing Competition!

So me and TwinMoon decided I would host this one alone so that he could enter again. The theme this time is going to be: Scribes

Just so you know, this doesn't mean it has to star a scribe. It just has to relate to who a scribe is, or what they do, or simply be inspired by the profession.

ENTRY RULES:
- Write a story of around 500-800 words
- Entries must be in before June 26th
- Post your entries (or link to your entry) in this thread
- Voting will take place on the 26th-27th of June
- The winner sets the subject for the next competition and starts the next competition
- Top three entries will get a trophy!

VOTING RULES:
- EDIT: Anyone can vote. Originally, I had made a more restrictive rule, but I thought there was more opposition to the voting being open.
- You get two votes, not in any order. (So basically, you give one tally to each person.)
- Voting ends at midnight EST on Saturday the 28th. Any votes made after that point don't count.

Trophies:
« Last Edit: 13 Jun 2008, 21:43 by ShadeJackrabbit »

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Re: Fortnightly Writing Competition (June 12th - June 26th)
« Reply #1 on: 13 Jun 2008, 10:39 »
Which time-zone are you going by?
I intend to enter this time, if only so I can vote.

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Re: Fortnightly Writing Competition (June 12th - June 26th)
« Reply #2 on: 13 Jun 2008, 11:15 »
I feel strongly that non-entrants shouldn't be excluded from the voting.

Re: Fortnightly Writing Competition (June 12th - June 26th)
« Reply #3 on: 13 Jun 2008, 12:41 »
Everyone should be able to vote, this isn't some snooty artists guild it's a measure of how good your story is and people don't have to write in order to appreciate it.

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Re: Fortnightly Writing Competition (June 12th - June 26th)
« Reply #4 on: 13 Jun 2008, 13:33 »
Look it seems each person who runs each competition sets their own voting rules, so let's just stop fighting about this rounds voting rules or instead have a off subject discussion about a permanent voting rules for all rounds, this seems like setting a constant standard will avoid all these arguments.

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Re: Fortnightly Writing Competition (June 12th - June 26th)
« Reply #5 on: 13 Jun 2008, 13:35 »
I feel strongly that non-entrants shouldn't be excluded from the voting.
No offence but I thought you only wanted entrants of the first round of this competition to be able to vote, that's the way it seemed anyway.

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Re: Fortnightly Writing Competition (June 12th - June 26th)
« Reply #6 on: 13 Jun 2008, 13:48 »
The only I said about it in the first round was "Everyone gets two votes".

Re: Fortnightly Writing Competition (June 12th - June 26th)
« Reply #7 on: 13 Jun 2008, 21:40 »
...huh. It seemed there was more opposition to letting it open last round, so since nobody has submitted yet, I'll change that rule.

Just trying to keep everyone happy.  :-[

EDIT: Oh yeah, and I'm on EST.
« Last Edit: 13 Jun 2008, 21:43 by ShadeJackrabbit »

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Re: Fortnightly Writing Competition (June 12th - June 26th)
« Reply #8 on: 13 Jun 2008, 21:55 »
Hooray for democracy!!!
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Re: Fortnightly Writing Competition (June 12th - June 26th)
« Reply #9 on: 15 Jun 2008, 10:14 »
I agree that everyone should be able to vote in all rounds for this competition, I think the initial argument was that non entrants might not be bothered to read the entries. However I still think it's a good idea to have a consistent rule for this either way for every round.

TwinMoon, I'm sorry, I misunderstood what you meant in the first round but now I understand.

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Re: Fortnightly Writing Competition (June 12th - June 26th)
« Reply #10 on: 16 Jun 2008, 17:44 »
I'm a bit stuck for this theme so I'm currently unsure if I'll enter but I might. However if anybody enters I'll vote(if there is at least 3-4 entries).

Not to sound pessimistic but let's say that no one or only one or 2 people enter, I hope that wont discourage the continuation of this competition.

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Re: Fortnightly Writing Competition (June 12th - June 26th)
« Reply #11 on: 16 Jun 2008, 18:21 »
It is a difficult theme, I think it's because people don't have experience with scribes in their everyday lives ideas don't pop up immediately.
I'm working on something though.

All contests sometimes have a round which is less appealing, or people are on holiday or something. It's only the third round, you are being too pessimistic ;)

I'm sorry, I misunderstood what you meant in the first round but now I understand.

You're forgiven ;)

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Re: Fortnightly Writing Competition (June 12th - June 26th)
« Reply #12 on: 16 Jun 2008, 18:25 »
I probably am, it's just sometimes when these competitions start to get very few entries sometimes people start to think it's not worthwhile, I disagree but it has happened before.

Re: Fortnightly Writing Competition (June 12th - June 26th)
« Reply #13 on: 17 Jun 2008, 17:27 »
Bad limerick ;)


There once was a scholar named Tybal,
Who drank wine while 'scribing the Bible;
Had too many a glass,
Got drunk off his ass...
Ended up sued by God for libel.


EDIT: not an entry, btw--wee bit below 500 words :)

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Re: Fortnightly Writing Competition (June 12th - June 26th)
« Reply #14 on: 20 Jun 2008, 14:18 »
Fish Fish
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Once upon two times, on the small village of Villeville, which can be found in the very outskirts of the eastern coast of America, there was a man that kind of settled in that village. He was from New York, but due to the lack of funds, as known as money, or green pieces of paper, he came in to make a new start. He had no other choice. So at this village was his grandmothers house. She was still alive, and still a stupid old lady, who grandson hated or disliked, but what can you do? Sometimes life doesn't bring things the way , you want to. You just have to get over it and get up fast. otherwise, you'll get stepped over.
 So there he was, took him long way to reach that old pathetic boring town of fishermen, but he was ready to do what is needed.The town was really not much of beauty. And the weather didn't help at all. It just had the essential. One newspaper, a grocery store, some houses, a church and a whole bunch of curious citizens, the kind that asks personal questions demanding an answer even if most of the times the answer to the question is absent. You can't avoid them as well, many have tried to do so, but it's quite impossible. Especially if you're famous. Even a little.
 He was just a journalist on the New York Times, and he was writing novels- when he got the time for it of course. But since there was hardly time for anything if you're a new yorker, he just kept on being a journalist. So local folks kept asking all the silly questions. But he managed to live. He had to. He needed a job. And he knew the place for one.
 He remembered from his childhood that there was a local newspaper. Pretty overrated by those who live there, and pretty unheard of by those who don't. And he was on the second part. He took all his pride left, and opened the door. Most of the people working in there, were suprised to see someone they haven't seen for so many years, others carried on writing articles, and others were in the toilet and couldn't see. However, he could barely recognise one of them to say hello or something, so he just said Morning to all of those that stared at him. He entered the boss's office. Suprisingly enough for a boss's office this one was like the others on the outside, and if it wasn't for that cool looking computer standing on it, he wouldn't be able to tell he was the boss. No ashtray's as well. "Hello, Mat. Nice to see you again, after so long," his boss said opening his arms to embrace him which he did in the next second, trying to make Mat feel welcome but he managed to achieve the exact opposite."Eh..hello," was the only word Mat replied. They sat talking about childhood and job relative matters for a couple of minutes. Mat managed to cool a little, but he lost his cool when George said about the wage. Before he managed to say or do anything though George said that he could earn more if he wrote articles that could make first page. Didn't so good at all, but it sounded about good enough to worth a shot, thought Mat. So they shook hands.


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Re: Fortnightly Writing Competition (June 12th - June 26th)
« Reply #15 on: 21 Jun 2008, 03:10 »
Would an interviewer classify as a scribe? I'm just trying to work out what occupations would qualify for such a title.

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Re: Fortnightly Writing Competition (June 12th - June 26th)
« Reply #16 on: 21 Jun 2008, 04:18 »

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Re: Fortnightly Writing Competition (June 12th - June 26th)
« Reply #17 on: 21 Jun 2008, 09:50 »
Chapter One
Always carry a UV marker pen with you. When you go to a shop or a friend's house, if you see something you like, put your name and postcode on it. If it gets stolen and subsequently recovered, the police will get in touch with you so that they can 'return' it.

Re: Fortnightly Writing Competition (June 12th - June 26th)
« Reply #18 on: 25 Jun 2008, 01:23 »
Wow, good entries so far! Hopefully we'll get some more before it comes time to vote.

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Re: Fortnightly Writing Competition (June 12th - June 26th)
« Reply #19 on: 25 Jun 2008, 17:37 »
Well, I said I wanted to enter, so here it is: Writing History

My inspiration let me down a little, so I just made it into a writing excersise - using only indirect speech instead of the long confusing / confused dialogs I usually write.

728 words.
« Last Edit: 25 Jun 2008, 17:40 by TwinMoon »