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[Tonia Laird]

The Grey Nayr wrote...

wangxiuming wrote...

The Grey Nayr wrote...

motomotogirl wrote...

 Aww, I think this could be a temporary end to my writing endeavors.  Pretty sad not to even warrant top 20 out of 400 entries.  Pardon me; I'm going to go drown my head in a toilet.

Congratulations to the winners 

I know the feeling, pal.

Personally, I'd like to see the original five choices from before they changed the rules mid-game.

Or see which writers read which entries. The sake of knowing is enough, but the different writers have their own tastes and preferences and knowing which one judged me could help me determine what exactly made my story not good enough to even be in the top 20.

I'm thankful that the writing team changed the rules mid-game! It was very generous of Mr. Gaider to expand his original role in
this contest. His tweets updating status on the competition came over the weekend, which suggests that the team volunteered their personal time give everybody a fair shot.

Keep in mind that 20 out of 400+ entries is less than 5%. There's no shame in not making the top 20. Rather, it should only highlight the magnificent works of those who did manage to place there. Being in the top 95 percentile is an enormously difficult task and takes both luck and skill.

Changing the rules seems a little unprofessional on some levels to me. Not to mention it makes chances of making the top five drastically lower. A bunch of forum staff probably aren't as thoroughly critical as the whole team of actual DA writers.

My entry had an error early on that both me and my proof-reader/editor missed. I didn't find out about it until much later after I sent it in and it probably screwed me to some degree. I would imagine that the writing team are big on exact grammar/punctuation.

No sane editor would ever pass up a great piece of work because of a typo and I'd like to think no sane BioWare writer/editor would either.  There were many amazing entries, and I know I agonized over more than a few that I read.

Also, I was so happy to see how supportive all of you writers were/are of each other. My best writing comes out of peer review, so I encourage everyone to take advantage of it every chance you get.

And congrats to the winners, I was really impressed with your work.

[Firky]

Thanks again to the writers/editors for reading them all. That was the best bit of the comp (in my mind, anyway.)

Tonia Laird wrote...

No sane editor would ever pass up a great piece of work because of a typo and I'd like to think no sane BioWare writer/editor would either. 

Mine made it to the Top 20 and I found one spelling mistake, one grammatical error and one tensing error in it, after the fact. (And there were likely a couple more errors that I'm not clever enough to know I even made, because I don't do that much creative writing.)

I find an average of one error in stuff I write for magazine publication every couple of months. Sometimes I've made the error. Other times, an editor has made it, while they are changing what I've written. It's annoying, and readers complain from time to time. I think people just accept it as part of the gig, though.

Where is the gold standard for absolutely error free writing? I find little mistakes in novels all the time. And academic writing. And the newspaper.

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

Firky wrote...

Thanks again to the writers/editors for reading them all. That was the best bit of the comp (in my mind, anyway.)

It was great, yes

The chatter between the competition entrants was pretty awesome too, IMO.

[Firky]

(Yes. That too.)

[CuriousArtemis]

Tonia Laird wrote...

No sane editor would ever pass up a great piece of work because of a typo and I'd like to think no sane BioWare writer/editor would either.  There were many amazing entries, and I know I agonized over more than a few that I read.

Also, I was so happy to see how supportive all of you writers were/are of each other. My best writing comes out of peer review, so I encourage everyone to take advantage of it every chance you get.

And congrats to the winners, I was really impressed with your work.

Just to be clear (since my name is part of this long multi-quote) I don't blame the BW staff for how they conducted the contest AT ALL.  Yes, I was very sad I didn't win, and the disappointment hit me harder than I realized it would.  Other contestants have confessed the same.  

However, I did recover, and I'm writing again.  I do think my entry was very good, so I'm not hating on myself or my writing anymore.  Some of the winning entries were also really good.

All in all, I think it was a great contest, and it inspired me to write a story I'm really proud of!

Tryynity wrote...

Dont be discouraged or too disappointed - 400+ entries are alot - we have a huge community of talented writers.

No one could say Tolkien is a bad writer, however I yawned all the way through the Lord of the Rings, I was only 10 or 11 at the time, but my only memory is "when is this freakin journey going to finish."I am glad Jackson made a movie because I would never re-read it.

I really want to read Silmarillion but not sure if I will make it through 

Am I going to regret announcing that to all ? 

I stupidly said something similar in world chat once to some "grammer natzi" harassing someone for their lack of grammer skills in World Chat on LotRO, and the natives came after me LOL

I am only saying this because - your story may be good but did not appeal to the tastes of the judge.  Get concrit though to be sure you cannot improve on it.

I'm sure my story can be improved.  I've put it out there, posted it to FFN and added it to the list of stories that one person is putting together in one thread.  I haven't gotten any critical comments yet though.  

About LOTR ... hahaha well guess what, I found it boring, too  I know, sacrilege, right?  Puh-lease.  But the movies, now THOSE were entertaining!! 

Modifié par motomotogirl, 11 février 2012 - 08:19 .