Writing Contest | May-June 2013 | OS, SS and FF - Page 7

Originally posted by: Ribbon

This is a great initiative. Though I am not even close to being a writer, I have a doubt/ question.

Wouldn't promoting the FF/SS/OS be unfair to participants to might not have that many friends? If the work is just reviewed on likes and comments, it wont be fair if an entry is superb but has lost out on comments/ likes due to some reason.

Apart from that, I am looking foward to reading all the awesome stuff coming up :)

I second that! Although the idea is superb...I'm having hesitations about the judgement..like if a work is published first, it'll get more time to get likes and comments while if someone like me who is lazy and posts at the last possible moment..we'd get less comments/likes. The judgement won't seem fair..

how about making a kind of neutral jury?

I will see if I can participate in this one. Haven't tried writing on my own characters ever :-)

Originally posted by: Mais

I second that! Although the idea is superb...I'm having hesitations about the judgement..like if a work is published first, it'll get more time to get likes and comments while if someone like me who is lazy and posts at the last possible moment..we'd get less comments/likes. The judgement won't seem fair..

how about making a kind of neutral jury?

I was thinking of putting up a jury as well as the counting the votes...there are bound to be some neutral members on IF who are tasteful readers but don't write much...pick some members and make them read the entries, all of them and they can be that deciding voice if the story is really good but due to late entry, it doesn't have that much of a feedback. PM promotion is something you can't ever stop but see it this way, all who write won't read. I know I won't except if it's written by a friend. Like I'll read Pree's and Shazzy's or Kesha's but I won't read some random xyz's no matter how good it is. So isn't it a bit unfair?

Or something like

- all entries of a particular category to be published by a due date
- after that date, no entries allowed and a particular time for the "voting" or "judgement". Like another global topic where all entries are listed/linked and people can easily read them and give comments while in the BG, a neutral jury will be doing the same.
- when all votes are counted, results can be announced.

Yeah, it's a bit time consuming but it seems like a fair, unbiased way of judging...

^ Okay, I am already putting up all entries here. Writing Contest Collections - Post links here!

Originally posted by: .Destiny.

Erm, no! I am RK 😆

That means I might despise u. 😆

Originally posted by: Clumsy_Wings

That means I might despise u. 😆

Why don't you ask everyone to PM their entries to you, so YOU post them up for everyone and it remains neutral?

^ That will defeat the purpose of this contest. This contest is to basically call the writers to writing forum and enhance their skills in more than one way. :)

Hey der like u said here 2. The first line of your post should be "Written for Writing COntest" so that the raters will know which topic is in the competition and which isn't.
U mean when we post our story we don't have to write that as our title like u had this written "Writing Contest | May-June 2013 | OS, SS and FF", we can have the title of the story when we post it in the header and just post this in the post of the first chapter of our story