Awww. Dangit. · 3:14am Apr 21st, 2017
I had three judges tell me they really liked my scribblefest entry, and one said it came close to winning something. But no dice. Oh, well. At least it finally got me to write a premise I'd been holding onto for a couple years.
Yowch. The winner announcement made it sound scribblefest it was a very tight race indeed
4503976 I don't know how tight. I just got tired of seeing past years' winners and wondering how they managed to impress anyone. I mean, some were just plain bad. So I figured maybe the competition level wasn't very high, but I mentioned that to a bunch of people who also decided to give it a try. Might have shot myself in the foot there, or maybe people just stepped up their game. I've only read two of the other entries and only one of the winners from this year.
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I've never followed the contest, but sorry to hear man. It sounds like you're saying there have been a lot of repeat winners?
4504687 I haven't followed it much before, either, but we'll get stories about this time of year submitted that have a comment in the form saying it won one of the categories, and they're rarely good. I'd read maybe 5 or 6 from previous years. One was good, one could have been good if it hadn't botched the format, and the rest were terrible. This year looks like a good crop, at least. I know several of the authors are good, and I'd already read one of the stories and liked it.