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Sanctimoniously Registered: Dec '05	Date Posted: 4/9/06 8:04pm Subject: RE: SFF Writer's Guild Writing Contest: February 2006
	Ah, finally! Congrats, KD! Thanks to the judges and Dorkman for all their work (and suspense )...and to the entrants for their participating. Can't wait to read all the entrants. -----signature----- In For a Quick Garden http://www.myspace.com/sanctimoniously
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LordNeo Registered: May '04	Date Posted: 4/10/06 7:36am Subject: RE: SFF Writer's Guild Writing Contest: February 2006
	when will the entries be up, I really want to read them -----signature----- "Did you come here to kill, or did you come here to die? Did we really think that spaceships would descend from the sky?" ---------- "I’m an early bird and a night owl. So I’m wise and I have worms."
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BigE Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 4/10/06 7:40am Subject: RE: SFF Writer's Guild Writing Contest: February 2006
	Yay! Scores! Thanks for the comments. I'm glad that the story was enjoyable for the most part. I never watched Invasion actually, but aliens posing as humans is admittedly an old bit. At one point I thought that I was writing a kind of 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' sort of tale. It was the only 'plot bunny' (as they say in FanFic) that I could come up with, so although it isn't terribly original I ran with it. I'd sure like to see a marked up copy of my story pointing out the comma errors. Frankly, I had always loathed English class, mostly because of things like that. There are times when I write something in Word and the Grammar Check points out things that it doesn't like, but I try to punctuate so that something is read in a specific way. Unfortunately, my writing style doesn't always agree with Word and I suppose that may be something to work on. -----signature----- Aha! That's it. Hold it right there. Pronoun trouble. It's not "he doesn't have to shoot YOU now," it's "he doens't have to shoot ME now." Well I say he DOES have to shoot me now!! So shoot me now!
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droideka27 Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 4/10/06 8:21am Subject: RE: SFF Writer's Guild Writing Contest: February 2006
	Congrats, Knight_Dilettante!! -----signature----- "The ability to speak does not make you intelligent" -- Qui-Gon
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Master-FatBurt Registered: Jul '03	Date Posted: 4/10/06 10:28am Subject: RE: SFF Writer's Guild Writing Contest: February 2006
	Congrats to all involved and well done Knights. As I said earlier in the thread that if Dorkman is going to have time issues for the forseeable future I would be happy to step up as a host. I´ll be able to do more when I´m back from my holidays if Dorkman does decide to step down (The decision is his though). Personally I´d like to say thankyou to Dorkman for hosting the first contest and dealing with the hiccoughs along the way. I look forwards to being involved in many more after this shakey though successful start. -----signature----- rules are meant to be broken All Bluebirds are Blue COME ON BARRA!!
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ImpMarchFace Registered: Jan '05	Date Posted: 4/10/06 10:38am Subject: RE: SFF Writer's Guild Writing Contest: February 2006
	I lost by one point?! BLASPHEMY! Congrats to Knight, I can't wait to read yours and everyone else's stories. I'll have to work even harder on my next entry... Thanks to the judges, thanks to Dorkman for hosting, and thanks to the other participants. Hopefully with this first round out of the way, the next round will go by much smoother. Any idea as to when that's going to be? -----signature----- "Frito Lay is not canon" - darth-sinister
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DorkmanScott Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Mar '01	Date Posted: 4/10/06 10:55am Subject: RE: SFF Writer's Guild Writing Contest: February 2006
	You can access the encrypted ZIP file here. Click under the "Free" column, and wait to get a download code. The password for the ZIP file to protect the authors' first publication rights is: gam!bol You will have to enter that password when extracting the data. The ZIP file will also be deleted after 30 days of no downloads, so if any author is concerned about it staying up too long, there's no problem. I also have a link to kill the download if it stays up too long. M. Scott -----signature----- Yes We Did http://www.ryanvsdorkman.com Check out my blog: http://dorkmanscott.blogspot.com
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LordNeo Registered: May '04	Date Posted: 4/10/06 4:58pm Subject: RE: SFF Writer's Guild Writing Contest: February 2006
	so when will the next contest be ready? -----signature----- "Did you come here to kill, or did you come here to die? Did we really think that spaceships would descend from the sky?" ---------- "I’m an early bird and a night owl. So I’m wise and I have worms."
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Coruscant Registered: Feb '04	Date Posted: 4/10/06 6:04pm Subject: RE: SFF Writer's Guild Writing Contest: February 2006
	Well, unless we have any qualms about some particular part of the contest besides the delays, it should be pretty quick. We can't really do anything about the delays because well... they just happen. Sounds like Fatburt's gonna take the Hostship?
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JediNemesis Registered: Mar '03	Date Posted: 4/11/06 12:09pm Subject: RE: SFF Writer's Guild Writing Contest: February 2006 - Date Edited: 4/11/06 1:16pm (1 edits total) Edited By: JediNemesis
	Second one has been decreed already and the thread is here From what I gather, droideka has decided to oversee the contest personally. Hopefully RL won't start playing up for her like it did for Dorkman. BTW, I'm going to download and read the entries ASAP. Then we can start discussing them - it does say that this thread shall remain open for discussion of the winning and other stories . . . EDIT: Download isn't working for me - I think it doesn't like AOL. Is there anyone who'd be OK to e-mail me the zip package? -----signature----- BeTS Best Author '08 NEW Eleven Summers - http://boards.theforce.net/a/b1/29657584 Lightning and Diamonds - http://boards.theforce.net/a/b1/29251762 Into The Shining Day - http://boards.theforce.net/a/b1/29224914
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ImpMarchFace Registered: Jan '05	Date Posted: 4/11/06 3:07pm Subject: RE: SFF Writer's Guild Writing Contest: February 2006
	JediNemesis posted: Second one has been decreed already and the thread is here From what I gather, droideka has decided to oversee the contest personally. Hopefully RL won't start playing up for her like it did for Dorkman. BTW, I'm going to download and read the entries ASAP. Then we can start discussing them - it does say that this thread shall remain open for discussion of the winning and other stories . . . EDIT: Download isn't working for me - I think it doesn't like AOL. Is there anyone who'd be OK to e-mail me the zip package? I can email them to you. My email is castdownpbj@yahoo.com; drop me an email and I'll send them your way. -----signature----- "Frito Lay is not canon" - darth-sinister
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BigE Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 4/13/06 10:12am Subject: RE: SFF Writer's Guild Writing Contest: February 2006
	DorkmanScott posted: You can access the encrypted ZIP file here. Click under the "Free" column, and wait to get a download code. For whatever reason this isn't working for me. It asks for a download option (pay or free), and after I choose one I get an upload page. Very strange. -----signature----- Aha! That's it. Hold it right there. Pronoun trouble. It's not "he doesn't have to shoot YOU now," it's "he doens't have to shoot ME now." Well I say he DOES have to shoot me now!! So shoot me now!
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JediNemesis Registered: Mar '03	Date Posted: 4/13/06 10:20am Subject: RE: SFF Writer's Guild Writing Contest: February 2006
	BigE posted: It asks for a download option (pay or free), and after I choose one I get an upload page. Very strange. I think you have to scroll right down . . . Oh, and IMF, thanks very much -----signature----- BeTS Best Author '08 NEW Eleven Summers - http://boards.theforce.net/a/b1/29657584 Lightning and Diamonds - http://boards.theforce.net/a/b1/29251762 Into The Shining Day - http://boards.theforce.net/a/b1/29224914
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NYCitygurl Title: Generally Out to Lunch Manager: SFFBC, C&G, NSWFF Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 4/13/06 2:04pm Subject: RE: SFF Writer's Guild Writing Contest: February 2006
	If anyone else is having trouble, then I can email or PM them to you. Fatburt and I both have them from judging, and I'd be happy to pass them along. -----signature----- "Not till the moon falls. Not till the world ends."
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LordNeo Registered: May '04	Date Posted: 4/14/06 6:14pm Subject: RE: SFF Writer's Guild Writing Contest: February 2006
	I read a few of these today and I really enjoyed The Atlantean one, although the cannibal thing was a little gross -----signature----- "Did you come here to kill, or did you come here to die? Did we really think that spaceships would descend from the sky?" ---------- "I’m an early bird and a night owl. So I’m wise and I have worms."
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