Hatrack River Writers Workshop: Femal/Male Writing Experiment

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Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :

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EDIT: This is where the posts are located and where you will vote:http://www.munsil.net/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=57

Please email me (DO NOT SUBMIT HERE) 13 lines or so of fiction writing that:
1) was completed before February 2005
2) and has not been critiqued or viewed at Hatrack
3) that you will allow to be posted at another forum for several weeks

Please preface the email subject line with 'Hatrack Experiment'.

The submitted pieces will:
1) Be placed at http://www.munsil.net/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=57&sid=4859a520e229e2b7ab9dd703f13653d8 for no more than 2 weeks
2) Will be posted by me, so that there is no clue as to your identity/gender
3) Will be removed by me by March 19, 2005

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EDIT: For some reason the !@@#$#@ forum software won't let me allow non-registered people to vote, even though there is an option to allow that.
So, to vote, please email me your votes, and I'll post the results here instead.
Please make it intuitively obvious. Something along the lines of:
#1 [your vote here]
#2 [your vote here]
etc
Sorry.

On Friday, March 11th I will reveal the gender of the writers (but not their identify) and will post the results here at Hatrack.

If you receive an email spamblocker message from me, don't worry, I will get the email anyway, as I sort through spam mail. I will add you to my allowed senders list.

mikemunsil

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Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :

We have 5 entries already.

We need more.

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Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :

We have 8. Surely more of you wrote BEFORE you became a Hatracker?

Posted by franc li (Member # 3850) on :

Yes, but many of us joined this forum because we wanted our writing to be better.

Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :

We have 11 now.

Posted by keldon02 (Member # 2398) on :

So send something bad franc li! It absolutely can't be worse than the drivel I write!

Posted by djvdakota (Member # 2002) on :

I'm TRYING to vote, Mike. I really am. But nothing happens. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG!!! <sobs violently>

Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :

Hmmm. I MAY have shot myself in the foot. Let me see.

Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :

KAPOW!!!

For some reason the !@@#$#@ forum software won't let me allow non-registered people to vote, even though there is an option to allow that.

So, to vote, please email me your votes instead, and I'll post the results here instead.

Sorry.

Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :

We have 13 entries and have had to change how we vote. Please email me your votes.

Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :

We have 15 entries so far and 1 vote.

Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :

We have 16 entries so far and 3 votes. Those who have not voted for later submittals, please do so.

I am going to cut off the submittals at noon today and leave the experiment open to voting.

At the moment the results are hard to interpret, given just 3 votes. Please vote if you haven't. The voting is NOT restricted to those who submitted. In fact it would be better if we had more voters who have not submitted.

Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :

18 total entries

As of 4pm Central Time US, we have 7 votes.

Some trends are starting to show up, but we haven't seen enough voting yet. Please review the entries at http://www.munsil.net/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=57 then email me your votes.

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Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :

Please vote.

Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :

We have 11 votes. I'd like to see at least 7 more.

The results are starting to get interesting. Wouldn't you like to see them?

Then, vote please.

Pretty please?

Posted by MaryRobinette (Member # 1680) on :

It's easy to vote. I just did and the story snippets are really interesting. There's one or two that I'd like to read all of. The one with The Scientist and The Artist in particular.

Since I've already voted you could just send it to me...I promise not to tell who you are.

Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :

I agree about that snippet. What a great start!

So far, and as you would expect, there is a great deal of gender confusion out there. :0

We have 14 votes.

I received MANY comments that it was harder than the voter thought it would be, to tell the difference. They were right.

There are several surprises, though. Let's get about 4 more votes and I'll reveal all. Well, almost all. I won't reveal who wrote what, just their gender.

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