20-minute warning (*SUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED) · 5:43pm Sep 25th, 2015
"Dream A Little Dream Of Me" contest update:
After a far-too-late (and far-too-fun!) night preparing and confirming entries, I have emerged from sleep.
There are 20 entries I have already responded to confirm, and two more in my Inbox that I just acknowledged. If you entered and haven't heard back from me yet, PM ME RIGHT AWAY. (*edit: Our final total is 23 entries!)
At 11:00 AM PDT, submissions are officially locked and the final version of your entry will be pulled from the document link you submitted.
Oh, and, er ... I probably should have mentioned this way earlier 
, but:
The entries will initially be presented Writeoff Association style. For purposes of judging, I've anonymized them, with the intention that my judges (and you!) can read/rate/enjoy the entries without being biased by who submitted them. During the judging period, please do not claim ownership of your work, or publish the entry anywhere else. As soon as results are announced, I'll go back and fill in all the names so you can see who was who, and if you wanted to publish your entry separately, do it then. 
(Breaking anonymity is NOT grounds for disqualification, because this is coming on such short notice, but if you've talked about your entry somewhere already, it would be cool if you could go back and edit identifying information out for the weekend.)
When do we get to hear the "definitive" answer you had in mind when you wrote it?
FIVE MINUTES LEFT AND I JUST REALIZED IT ACTUALLY WAS JOHN CENA ALL ALONG
BRADEL WAS RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT
*sob*
In true hipster poet fashion, I'm sitting at a table outside a coffee house, trying to drown out the other patron's chatter with music from artists they've never heard of.
aaaaaaaandTIME!
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Time indeed called! One final entry in that 20-minute window, bringing us up to 23.
I'm now processing everything
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23?!
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What's the meaning of this?
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Oh my god, I am both loving and loathing Google Docs' import feature right now. A few poems played with formatting in awesome ways that break FIMFiction's importing ...
So, we're doing this writeoff style...
*considers doing writeoff-style reviews*
*begins maniacally refreshing*
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About halfway done assembling the doc, prodding a few entrants for their permission slips ...
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Just two entries left to format: the one that Google Docs screwed up the import, and the one that's
ETA for announcement post and submissions going public is about ... an hour?
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DEAR AUTHOR #4
I HATE YOU
SO MUCH
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(@ author #4)
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SO.
MUCH.
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Submissions are ready to go live (modulo one author's permission to repost). Writing up the blog post now.
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And... how do we know who author hash symbol four is?
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Now that the entries are live, you can take a look at chapter #4 and see what melted my brain.