!!OK- TO ALL MY ENTRANTS, I APOLOGISE FOR THE DELAY IN JUDGING THIS. I HAVE LOST MY HOME INTERNET. THEREFORE, THE ONLY CHANCE I HAVE TO GET ONLINE IS IN TEN MINUTE WINDOWS AT WORK BEFORE I HAVE TO BE UP AT MY DESK. I SHALL ATTEMPT TO GET IT DONE IN THE COURSE OF THIS WEEK. AGAIN- I APOLOGISE.!!
It's time for a multi-round contest, methinks. I've been here for just over a year and never done one, and besides, it's what all the cool kids are doing.
Or were. The new fad seems to be quickie contests. And those things suck. You shall see me dead before I host a quickie contest.
So anyway. This is the preliminary round; and is open to absolutely everyone. As many people as possible. Please?
To give you a quick overview; the top twenty shall win prizes in this round, and shall go on to the next stage of contention.
For those fussy people, the prizes are as follows:
First Place- 300 points and bragging rights.
Second Place- 200 points and the knowledge that you kind of have a knack for poetry.
Third Place- 100 points and that adequate feeling that we all know and love.
Seventeen Honourable Mentions of thirty points shall be given, along with the knowledge that you don't exactly suck.
Once I have chosen my twenty contestants from this round, things will heat up. Five people shall be eliminated from each subsequent round, with points being awarded only for first place.
Once we are down to the final five contestants, in the final (fifth) round of competition, there shall be prizes of 1,000 points for gold, 500 points for silver and 250 points for bronze. I would like to point out that these point values are subject to change along with the total number of points I have available to me, but hopefully that won't happen.
I will ask that you please read and follow the rules that shall come after I tell you the contest requirements. Most of them are just common sense, but there are a few important ones that relate to the multi-round nature of this contest.
Okay. Now all the technical jazz is done and out of the way, onto the contest requirements.
For this preliminary round I want to keep things fairly open to everybody, so I'm going to do an options contest. Contest themes will tighten as we progress in rounds.
OPTION ONE
The points for this contest were donated to me by my very good friend Yvette.
[She posts on here as Miss2u]
Yvette is an amazing woman and poet, and I would love to see some pieces celebrating her and her work.
If you are lucky enough to know her, then write me a tribute to her personally.
Brownie points if you take your inspiration from my personal favourite of late; "soul sighs".
When choosing this option, please tell me which poem of Yvette's you used, and link to it in your author's notes.
OPTION TWO
Titles. Nothing complicated about this. Pick one, take your inspiration from it, run with it. Go.
1. Like Strands of Fist and Bone
[Attention Counting Crows fans- this is included because I am currently in love with this line. I am NOT looking for a rewrite of Murder of One. If I suspect that this is what you have given me, I shall DQ you, no questions asked. You shall be free to enter again with something different of course; but I will not accept that same poem. I want something unique for this title.]
2. In The Distance
3. Queen Martini and the Jack of Daniels
[This is a concept that I have been mulling over for a few days now, and quite like. Therefore mucho suck-up points if you choose this and do it well.]
4. Seven
5. Asphyxia
6. The Compulsion Cabaret
7. Ravens and Roses
OPTION THREE
Again, very simple- pick a song you like (I shall try to include a broad range of genres, but the important thing here is MY taste, remember) and run with it.
1. Push by Matchbox Twenty
2. American Girls by Counting Crows
3. Many Rivers to Cross by Jimmy Cliff
4. Twisted Transistor by Korn
5. The City Sleeps in Flames by Scary Kids Scaring Kids
6. Stan by Eminem
7. Concrete Girl by Switchfoot.
8. Alternatively; any song by the following bands:
Switchfoot, Matchbox 20, Counting Crows, Five for Fighting, Fall Out Boy (Except "This 'Aint a Scene, It's an Arms Race"; because that song sucks. And if you like it, then you suck too).
On choosing the eighth variation on this option; message me before you enter telling me the song and band you want to write and wait for my reply before you enter. This is to allow me time to familiarise myself with your chosen song before judging.
Providing it's a song by one of the above-mentioned bands, I will respond, giving you the go-ahead to write your little heart out, and request that you label your author's notes with your chosen song and artist, aswell as the option information.
OPTION FOUR
The Car Crash Effect. That phenomena which renders you unable to look away from an event you really do not want to see.
There's your prompt. Go.
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This option seems to have been a little misunderstood. What I'm looking for really is a poem about the actual phenomena itself, the "I don't want to look and yet I cannot turn away" thing that people are grabbed with from time to time. The Car Crash Effect is just my name for it because it is most often heard of in witnesses to car or train wrecks- I don't really want poems about witnessing such an event. Just about The Car Crash Effect in itself.
Sorry for the earlier ambiguity.
OPTION FIVE
Edgar Allen Poe. A disturbingly amazing poet, an amazingly disturbing man.
Famed for the morbidity of his work. Only in modern times; our thresholds are a lot larger. What horrified and disgusted in Poe's time is mild today. We need a modern Edgar Allen Poe.
Take your prompt from some of his work; it doesn't matter what. Write your own piece, make it dark and morbid enough that it is not tame by today's standards. As dark as possible, please.
Bonus points if you write in Poe's style. Double uber triple bonus points if you write in Poe's most common meter. (Dactyllic Tetrameter and Trimeter, for those of you who know your metrical prosody). Even more bonus points if I can infer from your work which piece (or pieces) you took your inspiration from.
OPTION SIX
If you are a writer, then you have suffered from writer's block. I am currently experiencing a demonic four month long block and would like to read some interesting, original poetry on the subject.
Key Words-
INTERESTING
ORIGINAL
Hint hint?
OPTION SEVEN
This option has been changed since the beginning of the contest. Sorry for any confusion. It is now as follows:
Write me something about the right to freedom of speech. Now. This subject has been somewhat done to death in poetry; so make this piece excellent. Try to find a new stance upon the issue. How far does freedom of speech extend? What is the cost of this right? Okay, those aren't exactly new questions about the issue, but they're fitting right now.
To clarify:
This is not an attack on the policies of Allpoetry.com
The website is a wonderful medium for expression and the rules are there for a reason. Your poem is to be about the general concept of free speech in the wider world.
I have recently been informed that freedom of speech does not apply to Allpoetry ANYWAY (being as it is a privately owned website) and so any entry I would've received that was critical of their policies on these grounds would have been innaccurate anyways.
Okay. There you have my seven options. Now we come to the tedium of *the rules*. Most of these are just common sense, but I do ask that you read them all, because some are very important, due to the multi-round nature of this contest.
1. No Sticky Caps. If you use sticky caps, I do not want to be your friend.
2. Fresh writes only. I want this to be a real contest, not a contest to see who has the biggest archive of poetry. You can, however, enter as many times, in as many different options, as you like.
3. No bugging me to judge the contest. I should have no problem judging this within the seven day grace period, but if I don't, it will be because I am having difficulty accessing the internet, because I cannot do so from home. If this is the case, I will not be able to read any of your whining and nagging anyway.
4. Don't drown me in DirtyPretty. A little can be beautiful, a lot can be nauseating.
5. I only want poetry for this contest- no fiction. This is to minimalise the time it takes me in judging. However, this being said, I will not restrict in any way what poetry you can write. Rhyme, freeverse, metre- whatever you would prefer to write. Any length is acceptable.
6. Put your option details in your author's notes, please.
7. Please also put your username in your author's notes. I usually don't see the point in contest holders asking this, but in this case, it's important- I need to make sure I have twenty different individuals advance to the next round. As I'm allowing people to enter more than once, it's important that I'm able to check I don't include two (or more) pieces by the same person in my list of finalists. I guarantee you that none of my favourite poets shall receive any unfair preference- the purpose of this contest is for me to find new, amazing poets, as yet undiscovered to me, whose work I can enjoy.
8. So that I know you read these rules, please put "Yossarian Made It" in your author's notes. Just kidding. I hate when morons put things like that in their contest rules.
That said, have fun. Write well, write smiling, write for writing's sake.
UPDATE
Apologies for the length of time this has been open. I am having to hold it open in order to obtain a sufficient number of entries to carry through to round two. Please bear with me. As soon as I have twenty entries, I promise you, I shall close and judge on the spot. I would point out that you all can help speed things up by showing this contest to friends of yours to help me get more entries, but that would apparently be spamming, so don't, I guess.
It's time for a multi-round contest, methinks. I've been here for just over a year and never done one, and besides, it's what all the cool kids are doing.
Or were. The new fad seems to be quickie contests. And those things suck. You shall see me dead before I host a quickie contest.
So anyway. This is the preliminary round; and is open to absolutely everyone. As many people as possible. Please?
To give you a quick overview; the top twenty shall win prizes in this round, and shall go on to the next stage of contention.
For those fussy people, the prizes are as follows:
First Place- 300 points and bragging rights.
Second Place- 200 points and the knowledge that you kind of have a knack for poetry.
Third Place- 100 points and that adequate feeling that we all know and love.
Seventeen Honourable Mentions of thirty points shall be given, along with the knowledge that you don't exactly suck.
Once I have chosen my twenty contestants from this round, things will heat up. Five people shall be eliminated from each subsequent round, with points being awarded only for first place.
Once we are down to the final five contestants, in the final (fifth) round of competition, there shall be prizes of 1,000 points for gold, 500 points for silver and 250 points for bronze. I would like to point out that these point values are subject to change along with the total number of points I have available to me, but hopefully that won't happen.
I will ask that you please read and follow the rules that shall come after I tell you the contest requirements. Most of them are just common sense, but there are a few important ones that relate to the multi-round nature of this contest.
Okay. Now all the technical jazz is done and out of the way, onto the contest requirements.
For this preliminary round I want to keep things fairly open to everybody, so I'm going to do an options contest. Contest themes will tighten as we progress in rounds.
OPTION ONE
The points for this contest were donated to me by my very good friend Yvette.
[She posts on here as Miss2u]
Yvette is an amazing woman and poet, and I would love to see some pieces celebrating her and her work.
If you are lucky enough to know her, then write me a tribute to her personally.
Brownie points if you take your inspiration from my personal favourite of late; "soul sighs".
When choosing this option, please tell me which poem of Yvette's you used, and link to it in your author's notes.
OPTION TWO
Titles. Nothing complicated about this. Pick one, take your inspiration from it, run with it. Go.
1. Like Strands of Fist and Bone
[Attention Counting Crows fans- this is included because I am currently in love with this line. I am NOT looking for a rewrite of Murder of One. If I suspect that this is what you have given me, I shall DQ you, no questions asked. You shall be free to enter again with something different of course; but I will not accept that same poem. I want something unique for this title.]
2. In The Distance
3. Queen Martini and the Jack of Daniels
[This is a concept that I have been mulling over for a few days now, and quite like. Therefore mucho suck-up points if you choose this and do it well.]
4. Seven
5. Asphyxia
6. The Compulsion Cabaret
7. Ravens and Roses
OPTION THREE
Again, very simple- pick a song you like (I shall try to include a broad range of genres, but the important thing here is MY taste, remember) and run with it.
1. Push by Matchbox Twenty
2. American Girls by Counting Crows
3. Many Rivers to Cross by Jimmy Cliff
4. Twisted Transistor by Korn
5. The City Sleeps in Flames by Scary Kids Scaring Kids
6. Stan by Eminem
7. Concrete Girl by Switchfoot.
8. Alternatively; any song by the following bands:
Switchfoot, Matchbox 20, Counting Crows, Five for Fighting, Fall Out Boy (Except "This 'Aint a Scene, It's an Arms Race"; because that song sucks. And if you like it, then you suck too).
On choosing the eighth variation on this option; message me before you enter telling me the song and band you want to write and wait for my reply before you enter. This is to allow me time to familiarise myself with your chosen song before judging.
Providing it's a song by one of the above-mentioned bands, I will respond, giving you the go-ahead to write your little heart out, and request that you label your author's notes with your chosen song and artist, aswell as the option information.
OPTION FOUR
The Car Crash Effect. That phenomena which renders you unable to look away from an event you really do not want to see.
There's your prompt. Go.
-ADDED NOTE-
This option seems to have been a little misunderstood. What I'm looking for really is a poem about the actual phenomena itself, the "I don't want to look and yet I cannot turn away" thing that people are grabbed with from time to time. The Car Crash Effect is just my name for it because it is most often heard of in witnesses to car or train wrecks- I don't really want poems about witnessing such an event. Just about The Car Crash Effect in itself.
Sorry for the earlier ambiguity.
OPTION FIVE
Edgar Allen Poe. A disturbingly amazing poet, an amazingly disturbing man.
Famed for the morbidity of his work. Only in modern times; our thresholds are a lot larger. What horrified and disgusted in Poe's time is mild today. We need a modern Edgar Allen Poe.
Take your prompt from some of his work; it doesn't matter what. Write your own piece, make it dark and morbid enough that it is not tame by today's standards. As dark as possible, please.
Bonus points if you write in Poe's style. Double uber triple bonus points if you write in Poe's most common meter. (Dactyllic Tetrameter and Trimeter, for those of you who know your metrical prosody). Even more bonus points if I can infer from your work which piece (or pieces) you took your inspiration from.
OPTION SIX
If you are a writer, then you have suffered from writer's block. I am currently experiencing a demonic four month long block and would like to read some interesting, original poetry on the subject.
Key Words-
INTERESTING
ORIGINAL
Hint hint?
OPTION SEVEN
This option has been changed since the beginning of the contest. Sorry for any confusion. It is now as follows:
Write me something about the right to freedom of speech. Now. This subject has been somewhat done to death in poetry; so make this piece excellent. Try to find a new stance upon the issue. How far does freedom of speech extend? What is the cost of this right? Okay, those aren't exactly new questions about the issue, but they're fitting right now.
To clarify:
This is not an attack on the policies of Allpoetry.com
The website is a wonderful medium for expression and the rules are there for a reason. Your poem is to be about the general concept of free speech in the wider world.
I have recently been informed that freedom of speech does not apply to Allpoetry ANYWAY (being as it is a privately owned website) and so any entry I would've received that was critical of their policies on these grounds would have been innaccurate anyways.
Okay. There you have my seven options. Now we come to the tedium of *the rules*. Most of these are just common sense, but I do ask that you read them all, because some are very important, due to the multi-round nature of this contest.
1. No Sticky Caps. If you use sticky caps, I do not want to be your friend.
2. Fresh writes only. I want this to be a real contest, not a contest to see who has the biggest archive of poetry. You can, however, enter as many times, in as many different options, as you like.
3. No bugging me to judge the contest. I should have no problem judging this within the seven day grace period, but if I don't, it will be because I am having difficulty accessing the internet, because I cannot do so from home. If this is the case, I will not be able to read any of your whining and nagging anyway.
4. Don't drown me in DirtyPretty. A little can be beautiful, a lot can be nauseating.
5. I only want poetry for this contest- no fiction. This is to minimalise the time it takes me in judging. However, this being said, I will not restrict in any way what poetry you can write. Rhyme, freeverse, metre- whatever you would prefer to write. Any length is acceptable.
6. Put your option details in your author's notes, please.
7. Please also put your username in your author's notes. I usually don't see the point in contest holders asking this, but in this case, it's important- I need to make sure I have twenty different individuals advance to the next round. As I'm allowing people to enter more than once, it's important that I'm able to check I don't include two (or more) pieces by the same person in my list of finalists. I guarantee you that none of my favourite poets shall receive any unfair preference- the purpose of this contest is for me to find new, amazing poets, as yet undiscovered to me, whose work I can enjoy.
8. So that I know you read these rules, please put "Yossarian Made It" in your author's notes. Just kidding. I hate when morons put things like that in their contest rules.
That said, have fun. Write well, write smiling, write for writing's sake.
UPDATE
Apologies for the length of time this has been open. I am having to hold it open in order to obtain a sufficient number of entries to carry through to round two. Please bear with me. As soon as I have twenty entries, I promise you, I shall close and judge on the spot. I would point out that you all can help speed things up by showing this contest to friends of yours to help me get more entries, but that would apparently be spamming, so don't, I guess.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on October 7, 2007
- Rewards: Gold: 300, Silver: 200, Bronze: 100, Honorable mention: 17 people
- Final notes: congrats to all
Contest Winners
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Spin me around on this dance floor you've created. The dust flies off the old windows when you open them for air. My lips are swollen from passionate kisses and late night affairs. I've always wanted to be infamous. We'll run• Commented on by judge. [remove]
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The ebony wings, of a bird in flight do smother the anxiety she feels.by broken.inside.xx 13 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 9 1:04 PM 2007• Commented on by judge.
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by amaranthine lover 32 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 11 10:09 PM 2007. In Abstract, Contemporary, Fantasy, Contest, noguest• Commented on by judge.
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Stuck in this rut I fell into by mistake,by katie-jo 9 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 9 8:08 PM 2007• Viewed by judge.
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I think I shouted something, I wonder, I couldn't hear my voice,by Deacon Kane 28 lines, on Sep 9 11:50 PM 2007. In Life• Viewed by judge.
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I pick up my pen and think, *What should I write about today?*by TacoSexyFail 36 lines, 5 comments, on Sep 9 8:29 AM 2007• Viewed by judge.
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I walked in casino
daydreams,by Twins 4 me 31 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 30 11:00 AM 2007• Viewed by judge.
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You're hosting a multi-rounder?! Woah.
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Lmao. Yes. I have nothing to write
So I figured I'd find a way to entertain myself, find some great stuff to read, and hopefully a little inspiration while I'm at it.
Won't you enter? Pleeeeeeeaaaase? *Cheesey grin*
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*sighs* I would enter, and want to... but I've had to quit too many multi-rounders lately because I've had no inspiration and haven't been able to write. I don't think it's fair to enter any more if I'm not writing "normally".
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Blargh. You shall be missed muchly, but it's fair enough I suppose.
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thank you and yours too
...we'll see if Chase enters this. He's SO a multi-rounder addict.
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Lmao, he better- I've messaged him about it. And what multi-rounder would be complete without some slam?
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Oh god.
I'm on the brink of burnout.
Seriously, I am. haha
Let me see what I can do though?
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Yeah, you better. Lolage.
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I smell hospitals in winter.
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...Huh? Too abstract. Please explain? Lol.
But hugs are alwaysa appreciated
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And you call yourself a Counting Crows fan?!
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Lmao, still don't recognise it. Haven't listened to much music since I lost y internet, as there's been no reason for me to be on the computer
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haha. That's SO a Nate thing to say.
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'tis the truth.
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WAIT! I recognise now! I love that song!
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Any Switchfoot song? You found my weak spot!
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Haha, wootage, another Switchfoot fan.
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I don't know if I'll be enterting or not...
I hate doing this, but my poetry is making me sad.
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WTF?
Also, it's asphyxia.
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I figured out why it was closed.
The mods closed it because you had a link to someone else's work.
Also, you can't have a contest option about Necrophilia. So the only entry you got in that option will have to be it. Because I had to erase it.
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Nice contest!
Tough but challenging. I will enter.
ps you can enter my contest 'a sense of the senses' if you would like, no obligation to do so.
good luck judging
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I will take a look, but honestly the main reason I hosted this contest in the first place is that I am completely unable to write of late- I have an immense block. So I can't promise an entry, but I'd be more than happy to take a look.
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I guess I was too busy writing my poem to add to this once I clicked on it that I totally forgot to comment...so, here's my obligated comment for clicking bit but I'd consider what you inspired to comment enough Good luck with the contest
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Honestly, you weren't at all obligated to click- the only reason I featured a contest was to get it seen more so that I'd hopefully get more entries.
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First I would like to say that I am quite familiar with Yvette's poetry and believe her to be one of the elite on this site. I also want to congratulate you on hosting your FIRST contest and hope it is a succesful one , but along with that I would like to include my 2 cents worth [ and that is all it is worth
} for it is merely an opinion. I do realize that "quickie" contests are the latest fad on here and you have every right not to like them and therefore not host or participate in any. However maybe you ought to refrain from stating your opinion so strongly with "they suck". I have been a member for about five years and I have learned that being curteous to everyone gets you a lot further and it is such a simple thing to do.We all are entitled to our opinions , but voicing them is not always the right thing to do , especially if it serves absolutely no purpose except for maybe offending a good amount of decent people. Due to the length of my membership I can attest to that even some of the great poets on here do have quickie contests. How nice it would be [especially since this is a multi racial , cultural and all together international site , if we all could adopt an attitude of "each his/her own" and not be quite so critical of that which is not of our taste. This is not meant to offend you in any way....it is merely meant to get you to think that there are probably just as many people who like those quickies as there are those that don't.
That said.....one more time I really do hope that your first contest is a success
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I'm sorry you took offence to that- I was only trying to be humorous.
I'm very much a believer in "to each their own". That part of the contest text is more aimed at a friend that I joke with because of our opposite opinions on quickie contests.
Furthermore, I don't even have that much against quickie contests themselves- just the fact that they seemingly popped up out of nowhere and all of a sudden so many people started holding them that it became frustrating because you couldn't find a normal contes to enter, which is what I usually do when I'm looking for inspiration, lol. -
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I actually did not take "personal offence" at itI guess it is/was more of a thing that I know there are a lot of people who do get offended or hurt very easily even at the slightest hint at something that could be directed at them. And then before there is a chance to even try to explain , a big argument has arisen between people who never even really gave each other chance to possibly become friends or fans of each other's poetry.
It really was more of trying to make you aware of that I guess.
It does take a lot more to offend me ........I only have one single person on my block list and that is a long story. He got upset and started trashing every single one of my writes , after I was curteous enough to give him a chance that he needed to change his entry a bit to fit the requirements of a contest I was hosting. I had even told him , that even though it was not right for the contest it was nonetheless a great write and that I enjoyed it. Heck, I even applauded the old geezer's entry<------see, now I am being offensive and I did that on purpose to show you that I do have a sense of humour and that I hope no hard feelings will have been created between the both of us,
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Lmao, of course there isn't.
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Thanks for stopping by, really anticipating reading from you if you choose to enter
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rofl... can i have an abridged version of all of the above? i'm honestly too lazy to read.
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Lmfao.
Round one of a multi round- twenty through here, five through each subsequent round. Prizes.
Options contest- tribute to Yvette (Miss2u), titles, song inspiration, The Car Crash Effect- "I don't want to watch, but I can't look away" inspiration, Edgar Allen Poe inspiration, writer's block, freedom of speech.
Usual rules about common sense, don't forget to put your name in your author's notes so that I don't put the same person though to the next round twice, more common sense stuff, blah blah blah I'm awesome.
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i think i can do that. we shall see.
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extremely new pre-write
i wish i would've noticed this contest sooner, but today happens to be the first time i've posted anything in months. might i please beg shamelessly that you allow this poem: http://allpoetry.com/poem/3360486
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Sorry, I can't do it, or it would be unfair towards all the other entrants who wrote from scratch because my rules said no prewrites.
If I go another week without getting enough entries to close it, then I will open it to prewrites, so keep checking back, but I can't do it before then. Also, if I do so, prewrites will be judged more harshly than fresh writes to make things fairer.
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I finally had something to write on freedom of speech.
It got hammered by one person who thought I wanted a most severe and critical review. I hope that constructive criticism reigns more freely than a free handed swipe so to speak.
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Thanks for your entry. If you look through the entries on which I've already commented; I hope you'll agree that my criticisms have been constructive thus far.
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Yes it would seem to me that you have the sense to judge wisely and not preach from a poetic and intellectual higher ground.
This I do appreciate greatly.
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Right now, I'm loving Colorblind by Counting Crows, and The Fatal Wound by Switchfoot (for the gorgeous harmonica parts). That whole car crash effect thing was really interesting though. Hope the contest is going well for you.
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Any idea when you might be judging this...just wondering
Ruth
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