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  • Judith Chandler
    Nov 6 1:44 PM
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    Which do you prefer? Having the idea for a contest, setting up the contest, or watching the entries come in and judging them at the end.

    I have to confess I enjoy having the original idea for the contest the best. Judging the contest can be like work and sometimes I don't know what to say. Reading the entries as they come in can be enjoyable. Depends on the entries!

  • polly filla
    November 7 ↑
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    I don't like judging - I like laying out the idea, and I like reading the entries...and although I comment on all entries, I'm not keen on commenting on bad writing

    Judging's a hard one, because I know what I like, yet I also know that what I like is not the be-all-and-end-all of good writing...


  • Cynewulf
    November 7 ↑
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    None of the above.

  • hendiadys
    November 7 ↑
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    How difficult it is either to set a contest or to judge it, when you know from the outset that you're not going to enjoy so many of the entries.

    • polly filla
      November 7 ↑
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      I don't 'know from the outset that I'm not going to enjoy so many of the entries' ...that's a bit presumptuous

      although I do understand that certain contest subjects will attract more drivel than others...heading your contest 'Love, What Does It All Mean?' would probably get a plethora of 'teen' diary-entries, and only a few philosophical poems...if any!


      • hendiadys
        November 7 ↑
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        One of the ambiguities of English is saying "One" and sounding like Elizabeth II or saying "you" and possibly being misunderstood.

        • polly filla
          November 7 ↑
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          hahaha - yes!

          I'm with Virginia Woolf when she has Orlando passionately denouncing the English language for it's clumsiness

  • ea
    November 7 ↑
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    I like thinking of the contest ideas; it's as creatively interesting or as stimulating as writing the poems themselves. If I get an interesting entry, I'm happy.

  • Judith Chandler
    November 7 ↑
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    It's nice to have at least one entry with something distinctive about it.
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