Flash Challenge # 9 is now Open for submissions. You must be registered at Liberty Hall to participate, view the rules, and receive your trigger.
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How Liberty Hall’s Flash Challenges Work:
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Challenges start on Friday mornings and end on Monday mornings. Actual start and finish times might vary each weekend, depending on the Moderator. There will be an announcement made on Liberty Hall when the Flash Challenge is OPEN. You are free to start once we post the announcement.
How to take up the challenge:
1. Ensure you have at least 1.5 hours to do the challenge.
2. Read these rules and the formatting guidelines.
3. Send a request for your Flash Trigger to the given email address.
4. Check your email immediately for the trigger. (see Troubleshooting if you have problems)
5. Begin writing your original story inspired by the trigger. Flash is usually 1000 words or less. You may write more than 1000 words, but others may hold this against you during voting. We will accept any length story. Please write a brand new story, do not edit or rework a story you’ve already written.
6. Email your titled story back to the “reply-to” email address before time runs out. The time limit is noted in your trigger email. It is usually 1.5 hours, but it may be less.
What happens next?
We post all stories anonymously on Monday morning. Your story will be in one of several groups.
On Monday and Tuesday, each group critiques and votes on the stories. We also open up the Guessing Frenzy. You are encouraged to comment in the group(s) that DO NOT contain your entry. However, you may comment in any group. Critiques and comments are open through Friday.
A Final Vote Off between the winners of Best Flash in each group occurs on Wednesday. Final Best Flash voting starts and ends Wednesday! The Overall Winner of Best Flash chooses the next weekend’s trigger. Please begin to consider your trigger if you are a finalist in the Vote Off.
Thursday, we open the “Reveal Thyself” board, and you may optionally reveal which story you wrote.
Friday, all topics are locked and the next Flash Challenge Begins.
Troubleshooting
If you do not receive your flash trigger within 5-10 minutes of request:
1. Check your email; you may need to manually force a send/receive.
2. If you manually forced a send/receive and you still do not have your trigger, contact a moderator or administrator immediately.
Just sign it as Keeley's submission...
Still, it was fun.
Oh, and it ran over a thousand words. Not by much though.
I didn't sign it as mine, but my name is in the address, so it shouldn't be too hard to figure out.
I'm definitely rusty on these Challenges. Must do them more often.
[This message has been edited by Keeley (edited May 27, 2005).]
And once again I think the story I wrote is pretty decent. Will I be wrong again?
Noel "Nipponb"
Glad that you guys liked the trigger. After two weeks of photos, we are using words as triggers. Granted, stories may still be similar, but I truly believe they'll be good stories that will someday be publishable. I've peeked at a few while preparing them for post and I've not been disappointed.
Presently, we have 8 entries... a few ongoing and should come in soon. We've also had two drop-outs (authors who have requested the trigger, but did not send in a submission.)
[This message has been edited by HSO (edited May 27, 2005).]
Thank you.
quote:
I'm never good at figuring out whether what I write is any good or not.
Perhaps interestingly, I didn't like my story much last week. I finished it and thought, "No one is going to like it. And this is what I get for pandering to the women." After I submitted, I let my wife read it. She said it was great. And since it won, I now know that if I don't like what I've written, it's probably good.
I like it now, though.
We have 20 entries. A somewhat slower pace than last week's challenge.
Of course, this is Memorial Day Weekend in the US, so I suspect some of you celebrating that.
When we had only 20 stories, I averaged the word count at 801 words. I suspect it's slightly higher now -- I'm just not awake enough or bored enough to average them again. Maybe later. Expect some heavy reading, though. Good thing we have groups.
Just a reminder of the schedule:
Writing period open now through Monday 0900 GMT + 1, or 0400 EST
Critiques and comments open through Friday
Monday and Tuesday is group voting
Wednesday is Final Vote for Overall Best Flash
Thursday is Reveal Thyself Day
Friday we start a new challenge.
Sometime on Saturday, the previous challenge is deleted from the boards, so copy your crits and comments on Friday if you want to save them for future reference.
10 hrs left.
People are raving about FC9! Or they are raving mad. I'm not sure which. But don't miss out!