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TOPIC: ART [ writing-centric ] CONTEST ~ { CLOSED; expect results later today or tomorrow }


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ART [ writing-centric ] CONTEST ~ { edit for submission and request procedures }


@ Jags: "everything must be written from scratch. i don't want you using something you've written last year or something. just for the sake of fairness. using a concept (such as a setting, plot idea, ect.) is fine; just don't use the exact words. it has others who don't have something like that at a disadvantage."

Excuse my skepticism, please, but as this contest was announced just yesterday (or the day before?) I find it hard to believe that you've already written an entry AND that it's 1,183 words.

The fact that you're going to be an author isn't much of an excuse to be writing too much. An author's job is to convey their message well, and with any kind of limitation. If that limitation is 1,000 words, an author can do it. So you shouldn't be hiding behind that for an excuse.

Also, (I have no experience with you about this per se) generally an entry made a day after a contest has begun is pretty shoddy. That and if it's over the limit, it still needs reworking. A limit is given to be a challenge, and so that we don't have entries that are pages and pages long.

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-- Edited by Duskstar on Thursday 3rd of June 2010 10:55:53 PM

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@twigstorm;
aha, alright. you're welcome ~

@jaggedpine;

like dusky said. even a friend i know whose writing is amazing and churned out in a day probably couldn't be done in the twenty hours since you've entered.

even if it has been written in twenty hours, i highly doubt something you've scribbled down so quickly is worthy of being submitted so quickly. since this can hardly be considered timed writing (unless of course you've left it until the last minute), all i can advise you is to look it over.

still, perhaps you might be an amazing speed typer. however, my limit still holds. i would allow 1001 or 1002 words, but 183 over? :/ surely there is something you can get rid of.

also: (tl;dr? skip ahead) writing a lot has no connection to being an author. techinically i am an author too, seeing as i write. any of the authors of crappy mary-sue fanfictions on fanfiction.net can call themselves authors, too--doesn't mean that they're any good.
being a published author doesn't technically mean you're any good, either; i can name a handful of authors whom i cannot believe were published, but that is just opinion. certainly, there are people who think they're great!

bottom line, true, talented authors can control what they write. just becuase you are to be a published author does not mean you can break the rules--in this case, the word limit.

after all, there is always the secondary accent piece of art to be used if you cannot fit in descriptions.


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Okaaaay, whatever you say...

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yes, it is whatever i say :/


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I sent my entry, tell me if it didn't make it. =)

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RE: ART [ writing-centric ] CONTEST ~ { edit for submission, prizes, and rules }


You're jumping to conclusions. I CAN write that much in a short amount of time, and you never know, maybe you'll like it. But it seems no one can ever please you.
Some people are different than others. They're not all the same.


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@jaggedpine;
am i?
maybe.
is that so?
i have stepped outside my house within the last week, yes.

still, i have said nothing that meant you could not submit now if you desired. i merely pointed out the unwise decision of choosing to finish in under a day despite the given rough month. everything else was only to say that you cannot go so far over the limit.

you, of course, are welcome to take my words any way you wish, even to perceive an insult where there is none meant.



-- Edited by Souki on Saturday 5th of June 2010 05:18:14 AM

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Ok, I gotta another question *Shot*
Like with the whole art part of this, is it just a picture that has something to do within your writing or what?
Like if you wrote a story about a kittypet getting in a fight and all that, would you draw a scene from the story for your art part? [This is an example. Thats just corny and I already have mine planned out, even if it might fail OTL]

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@twigstorm;
haha, it's fine.
yeah, it's got to have something to do with the story. doesn't have to be a scene of the story, per se; it could be a drawing of a picture, an important object, ect.


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