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DLP May Contest

Discussion in 'Announcements' started by Xiph0, May 1, 2011.

  1. Xiph0

    Xiph0 Yoda Admin

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    Category for May will be Time Travel. Should be pretty :awesome As always, submissions due by end of the month. Submissions forum will be open as soon as April results are up.
     
  2. Voice of the Nephilim

    Voice of the Nephilim Death Eater DLP Supporter

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    Would it be within the rules to submit a mid-story chapter for an entry, provided it fit into the time-travel genre?
     
  3. knuckz

    knuckz Seventh Year

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    I'd like to know that as well, but in regards to the first chapter of a story. Can we submit that?
     
  4. Celestin

    Celestin Dimensional Trunk

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    You don't plan to submit The Unforgiving Minute chapter, do you? Because we may as well announce its winning already and move to the next month contest. ;)

    EDIT: Unless of course others will do something similar (like Joe who is just reading this thread).
     
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  5. MattSilver

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    Yeah, I think that's cool. Voice did it with Ouroboros - which was in Feb's contest and now sits in WBA awaiting further updates.

    Submitting a chapter in the middle of a story well underway, however, seems a bit iffy to me. It'll require knowledge of the rest of the story, or would have to be edited as stand-alone just for the contest. It might get passed over by a few judges because they've never read the rest of the story and don't want to go through another 50,000 words or so... Just a thought.
     
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  6. Voice of the Nephilim

    Voice of the Nephilim Death Eater DLP Supporter

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    For the Feburary contest, I submitted the first chapter of a story. There were other "issues" with it, but the fact that it was the first chapter was not one of them.

    Ha, thanks. I was going to move on to other stories with 'The Tenth Hour' complete, but if the category is 'Time Travel', then I have motivation to do otherwise.

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    This is a valid point. I think in general, the idea of the story is simple enough, especially the 11th hour, that picking it up at that point wouldn't be that disorienting, but I'd be curious to see Xiph's thoughts on the matter, since they probably are the only ones that matter.
     
  7. knuckz

    knuckz Seventh Year

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    Awesome, because I have a really... interesting idea for a time travel fic, but it'd be impossible for it to be encompassed in a single chapter (it would possibly be over 100,000 words long otherwise).
     
  8. Antivash

    Antivash Until we meet again... DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    No. No in progress. It was agreed at the start. Only "new" works. (Or storys that haven't been posted before.)
     
  9. Voice of the Nephilim

    Voice of the Nephilim Death Eater DLP Supporter

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    I can't recall reading that. At least there's no question now.
     
  10. Antivash

    Antivash Until we meet again... DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    I swear it was in one thread or another. Probably thinking of a staff thread when someone asked in private...
     
  11. T3t

    T3t Purple Beast of DLP ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    I'm sure that I read that somewhere, because I thought of several stories that would otherwise have been submitted and realized, nah, can't do that.

    We can sign up to judge soon? I've got nothing in the pipes for time-travel, though I'll probably be working on Romance and Independent entries.
     
  12. Antivash

    Antivash Until we meet again... DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    Volunteering can start now, I suppose, but judges probably won't be selected for a while probably. Also keep in mind, anyone selected for April judging is auto-DQed for judging May.
     
  13. T3t

    T3t Purple Beast of DLP ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    I haven't been selected for any of the months, so yeah I guess I'm putting my name in again.
     
  14. Riley

    Riley Alchemist DLP Supporter

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    I'll put in for judging
     
  15. Ash

    Ash Moves Like Jagger DLP Supporter

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    I'd like to judge as well.
     
  16. H_A_Greene

    H_A_Greene Unspeakable –§ Prestigious §– DLP Supporter

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    I'll try judging again.
     
  17. KrzaQ

    KrzaQ Denarii Host DLP Supporter

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    Can I judge now? Pretty please.
     
  18. Aekiel

    Aekiel Angle of Mispeling ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    I'll give it a go.
     
  19. Joe

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    Time-travel, is it?

    I can write time travel with my cock tied behind my back.

    Was there a word limit on these things?
     
  20. addictedforlife

    addictedforlife High Inquisitor

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    Xiph0 wrote it when he put down the rules in the DLP January Awards Judges Application Thread here.
    'Cuz I seriously need to find myself something to do.
     
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