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"atheist@home" |
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02 Nov 2005 09:00:11 AM |
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An easy two hundred bucks. |
This is what I hope is the first of a number of challanges funded by
yours truly.
The first being a short story about an encounter between Satan and an
atheist.
The story can be serious or humorous but cannot be mean spirited in
any fashion.
Any a.a. regular can contribute.
Votes on whichever story is the best will be posted by a.a. regulars
and whoever wins the most votes will win the prize.
I reserve the right to decide which subjects should be addressed
<Unless someone has a better idea which will be more than welcome> and
also the right to do nothing but accept the judgement of the majority.
I will not be voting, offering up an opinion or denying the winner the
award unless the story is written in the childish BAAWAA knight sort
of silliness.
This is a new thing and I need help in organizing it.
Is anybody interested?
Suggestions are welcome.
atheist@home#1554
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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| Title: Re: An easy two hundred bucks. |
02 Nov 2005 01:57:15 PM |
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On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 09:00:11 GMT in alt.atheism, atheist@home
("atheist@home" <atheist@home.com>) said, directing the reply to
alt.atheism
This is what I hope is the first of a number of challanges funded by yours truly.
Funded, eh? Oh. I see.
With all candour, I feel duty bound to point out that there are
probably better ways to become a patron of the arts. However I have
had my dinner jacket (US: "Tux"[1]?) dry cleaned recently, so I'm all
ready.
The first being a short story about an encounter between Satan and an atheist.
The story can be serious or humorous but cannot be mean spirited in
any fashion.
Erm, this is Satan we're talking about.... I've already opened
WinWord...
Any a.a. regular can contribute.
Votes on whichever story is the best will be posted by a.a. regulars
and whoever wins the most votes will win the prize.
I reserve the right to decide which subjects should be addressed
<Unless someone has a better idea which will be more than welcome> and
also the right to do nothing but accept the judgement of the majority.
I will not be voting, offering up an opinion or denying the winner the
award unless the story is written in the childish BAAWAA knight sort
of silliness.
This is a new thing and I need help in organizing it.
Is anybody interested?
Well, yes, but I also want to write for it, so that disqualifies me, I
presume. But if I could help out on the admin side, I'd be delighted
albeit that my wife has been in foreign parts for a week or so, and I
must reserve Saturday for tidying up.
Or calling a company to do it for me. Though I am glad to report I
have changed the filter and bag in the vacuum cleaner (and don't talk
to me about Dyson. Nice idea, shame about the implementation).
Suggestions are welcome.
The most interesting to my mind (such as it is, alas) would be a
wide-ranging series of moral & ethical dilemmas.
More generally, that's a really nice idea. More power to you.
Best,
TW,
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"Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You."
- Attrib: Pauline Reage.
#442. www.video2cd.co.uk. Your 8mm films on DVD.
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| User: "Jim07D5" |
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| Title: Re: An easy two hundred bucks. |
02 Nov 2005 12:00:54 PM |
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"atheist@home" <atheist@home.com> said:
This is what I hope is the first of a number of challanges funded by
yours truly.
The first being a short story about an encounter between Satan and an
atheist.
The story can be serious or humorous but cannot be mean spirited in
any fashion.
Any a.a. regular can contribute.
Votes on whichever story is the best will be posted by a.a. regulars
and whoever wins the most votes will win the prize.
I reserve the right to decide which subjects should be addressed
<Unless someone has a better idea which will be more than welcome> and
also the right to do nothing but accept the judgement of the majority.
I will not be voting, offering up an opinion or denying the winner the
award unless the story is written in the childish BAAWAA knight sort
of silliness.
This is a new thing and I need help in organizing it.
Is anybody interested?
Suggestions are welcome.
atheist@home#1554
As a comparator, take a look at:
http://www.gckschools.com/vhs/eng3/fall/romantic/danwebread.htm
--- Jim07D5
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| User: "atheist@home" |
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| Title: Re: An easy two hundred bucks. |
03 Nov 2005 01:02:34 AM |
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On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 12:00:54 GMT, Jim07D5 <Jim07D5@nospam.net> wrote:
"atheist@home" <atheist@home.com> said:
This is what I hope is the first of a number of challanges funded by
yours truly.
The first being a short story about an encounter between Satan and an
atheist.
The story can be serious or humorous but cannot be mean spirited in
any fashion.
Any a.a. regular can contribute.
Votes on whichever story is the best will be posted by a.a. regulars
and whoever wins the most votes will win the prize.
I reserve the right to decide which subjects should be addressed
<Unless someone has a better idea which will be more than welcome> and
also the right to do nothing but accept the judgement of the majority.
I will not be voting, offering up an opinion or denying the winner the
award unless the story is written in the childish BAAWAA knight sort
of silliness.
This is a new thing and I need help in organizing it.
Is anybody interested?
Suggestions are welcome.
atheist@home#1554
As a comparator, take a look at:
http://www.gckschools.com/vhs/eng3/fall/romantic/danwebread.htm
Yes.
It would curl my hair if I had enough for it :-)
atheist@home#1554
--- Jim07D5
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| User: "Jim07D5" |
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| Title: Re: An easy two hundred bucks. |
02 Nov 2005 04:34:46 PM |
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"atheist@home" <atheist@home.com> said:
This is what I hope is the first of a number of challanges funded by
yours truly.
The first being a short story about an encounter between Satan and an
atheist.
The story can be serious or humorous but cannot be mean spirited in
any fashion.
Any a.a. regular can contribute.
Votes on whichever story is the best will be posted by a.a. regulars
and whoever wins the most votes will win the prize.
I reserve the right to decide which subjects should be addressed
<Unless someone has a better idea which will be more than welcome> and
also the right to do nothing but accept the judgement of the majority.
I will not be voting, offering up an opinion or denying the winner the
award unless the story is written in the childish BAAWAA knight sort
of silliness.
This is a new thing and I need help in organizing it.
Is anybody interested?
Suggestions are welcome.
atheist@home#1554
Can it be written as a play, or a screenplay, or something like a
Platonic dialog (all lacking narrative, and the dialog having no
plot)?
--- Jim07D5
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| User: "atheist@home" |
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| Title: Re: An easy two hundred bucks. |
03 Nov 2005 01:01:26 AM |
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On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:34:46 GMT, Jim07D5 <Jim07D5@nospam.net> wrote:
"atheist@home" <atheist@home.com> said:
This is what I hope is the first of a number of challanges funded by
yours truly.
The first being a short story about an encounter between Satan and an
atheist.
The story can be serious or humorous but cannot be mean spirited in
any fashion.
Any a.a. regular can contribute.
Votes on whichever story is the best will be posted by a.a. regulars
and whoever wins the most votes will win the prize.
I reserve the right to decide which subjects should be addressed
<Unless someone has a better idea which will be more than welcome> and
also the right to do nothing but accept the judgement of the majority.
I will not be voting, offering up an opinion or denying the winner the
award unless the story is written in the childish BAAWAA knight sort
of silliness.
This is a new thing and I need help in organizing it.
Is anybody interested?
Suggestions are welcome.
atheist@home#1554
Can it be written as a play, or a screenplay, or something like a
Platonic dialog (all lacking narrative, and the dialog having no
plot)?
I won't be judging anything that is submitted except as I said mean
spirited stuff.
I don't mean cynical, just mean as in all Christians are idiots and
such.
atheist@home#1554
--- Jim07D5
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| User: "The other Donald" |
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| Title: Re: An easy two hundred bucks. |
02 Nov 2005 11:33:46 PM |
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"atheist@home" <atheist@home.com> wrote in message
news:i86hm1tf8d9vvasomebja9ca2t2p38ffqi@4ax.com...
This is what I hope is the first of a number of challanges funded by
yours truly.
The first being a short story about an encounter between Satan and an
atheist.
The story can be serious or humorous but cannot be mean spirited in
any fashion.
Any a.a. regular can contribute.
Votes on whichever story is the best will be posted by a.a. regulars
and whoever wins the most votes will win the prize.
I reserve the right to decide which subjects should be addressed
<Unless someone has a better idea which will be more than welcome> and
also the right to do nothing but accept the judgement of the majority.
I will not be voting, offering up an opinion or denying the winner the
award unless the story is written in the childish BAAWAA knight sort
of silliness.
This is a new thing and I need help in organizing it.
Is anybody interested?
Suggestions are welcome.
It will be a fight to the death between Elroy and Elf.
What's the prize for second place?
--
-Donald in Austin
AA #2104
Apatriot #22
Atheist FF/EMT
.....and ordained minister
Stork pin recipient: May 1, 2003 -Madelyn
-Mr. Worf, set phasers on "***** You" and fire at will. -Doc Smartass
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| User: "atheist@home" |
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| Title: Re: An easy two hundred bucks. |
03 Nov 2005 06:25:56 AM |
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On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 23:33:46 GMT, "The other Donald"
<the_donald_13@yahoooY.com> wrote:
"atheist@home" <atheist@home.com> wrote in message
news:i86hm1tf8d9vvasomebja9ca2t2p38ffqi@4ax.com...
This is what I hope is the first of a number of challanges funded by
yours truly.
The first being a short story about an encounter between Satan and an
atheist.
The story can be serious or humorous but cannot be mean spirited in
any fashion.
Any a.a. regular can contribute.
Votes on whichever story is the best will be posted by a.a. regulars
and whoever wins the most votes will win the prize.
I reserve the right to decide which subjects should be addressed
<Unless someone has a better idea which will be more than welcome> and
also the right to do nothing but accept the judgement of the majority.
I will not be voting, offering up an opinion or denying the winner the
award unless the story is written in the childish BAAWAA knight sort
of silliness.
This is a new thing and I need help in organizing it.
Is anybody interested?
Suggestions are welcome.
It will be a fight to the death between Elroy and Elf.
Heh, probably.
What's the prize for second place?
A second chance in the next round?
Where ya been?
I thought maybe you got raptured out.
atheist@home#1554
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| User: "The other Donald" |
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| Title: Re: An easy two hundred bucks. |
04 Nov 2005 08:47:20 PM |
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"atheist@home" <atheist@home.com> wrote in message
news:28ijm11viunl43sclkcm4d7gv5bep7o6qn@4ax.com...
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 23:33:46 GMT, "The other Donald"
<the_donald_13@yahoooY.com> wrote:
"atheist@home" <atheist@home.com> wrote in message
news:i86hm1tf8d9vvasomebja9ca2t2p38ffqi@4ax.com...
This is what I hope is the first of a number of challanges funded by
yours truly.
The first being a short story about an encounter between Satan and an
atheist.
The story can be serious or humorous but cannot be mean spirited in
any fashion.
Any a.a. regular can contribute.
Votes on whichever story is the best will be posted by a.a. regulars
and whoever wins the most votes will win the prize.
I reserve the right to decide which subjects should be addressed
<Unless someone has a better idea which will be more than welcome> and
also the right to do nothing but accept the judgement of the majority.
I will not be voting, offering up an opinion or denying the winner the
award unless the story is written in the childish BAAWAA knight sort
of silliness.
This is a new thing and I need help in organizing it.
Is anybody interested?
Suggestions are welcome.
It will be a fight to the death between Elroy and Elf.
Heh, probably.
What's the prize for second place?
A second chance in the next round?
Where ya been?
I thought maybe you got raptured out.
Work, school, more work....
The NG's were burning and inordinate amount of my time. And even if that was
just 30 minutes a day, I couldn't spare it to write post after post
debunking the same nonsense that is dumped in here daily: "Darwinist
Hitler," "Abortion causes prostate cancer," "Three-eyed, Kansas inbreds say
Evolution is the God(tm) of secularists," etc, ad nauseum.
They care not for facts, and I'm bored with wasting my time looking up those
facts time and again.
I still read the posts almost daily and occasionally check out the
interesting links to articles that I may have missed, but when my day starts
at 6:00 am and runs straight through until the following evening at 9:00,
I'm beat and not up to heckling with a bunch of people that that relish
their ignorance.
On a high note: I see light at the end of the tunnel, so I can take some
time this weekend to attend a Klan rally at Austin City Hall and annoy the
***** out of them, followed by a Sunday holding my traditional "Sunday
Services" on my boat on Lake Travis. The weather is still warm enough, and I
haven't 'winterized' it yet.
Plus, I saved 15% on my car insurance.
--
-Donald in Austin
AA #2104
Apatriot #22
Atheist FF/EMT
.....and ordained minister
Stork pin recipient: May 1, 2003 -Madelyn
-Mr. Worf, set phasers on "***** You" and fire at will. -Doc Smartass
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| User: "atheist@home" |
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05 Nov 2005 06:02:31 AM |
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On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 20:47:20 GMT, "The other Donald"
<the_donald_13@yahoooY.com> wrote:
"atheist@home" <atheist@home.com> wrote in message
news:28ijm11viunl43sclkcm4d7gv5bep7o6qn@4ax.com...
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 23:33:46 GMT, "The other Donald"
<the_donald_13@yahoooY.com> wrote:
"atheist@home" <atheist@home.com> wrote in message
news:i86hm1tf8d9vvasomebja9ca2t2p38ffqi@4ax.com...
This is what I hope is the first of a number of challanges funded by
yours truly.
The first being a short story about an encounter between Satan and an
atheist.
The story can be serious or humorous but cannot be mean spirited in
any fashion.
Any a.a. regular can contribute.
Votes on whichever story is the best will be posted by a.a. regulars
and whoever wins the most votes will win the prize.
I reserve the right to decide which subjects should be addressed
<Unless someone has a better idea which will be more than welcome> and
also the right to do nothing but accept the judgement of the majority.
I will not be voting, offering up an opinion or denying the winner the
award unless the story is written in the childish BAAWAA knight sort
of silliness.
This is a new thing and I need help in organizing it.
Is anybody interested?
Suggestions are welcome.
It will be a fight to the death between Elroy and Elf.
Heh, probably.
What's the prize for second place?
A second chance in the next round?
Where ya been?
I thought maybe you got raptured out.
Work, school, more work....
Work pfffttt!...School, Hell yeah :-)
What are you studying?
The NG's were burning and inordinate amount of my time. And even if that was
just 30 minutes a day, I couldn't spare it to write post after post
debunking the same nonsense that is dumped in here daily: "Darwinist
Hitler," "Abortion causes prostate cancer," "Three-eyed, Kansas inbreds say
Evolution is the God(tm) of secularists," etc, ad nauseum.
Lol!
I know the feeling.
I don't even bother with those type threads anymore.
They care not for facts, and I'm bored with wasting my time looking up those
facts time and again.
It's exhausting and not worth the effort.
I still read the posts almost daily and occasionally check out the
interesting links to articles that I may have missed, but when my day starts
at 6:00 am and runs straight through until the following evening at 9:00,
I'm beat and not up to heckling with a bunch of people that that relish
their ignorance.
Damn!
You get up at about the time I'm going to sleep.
And I don't think I could survive days that long anymore.
I'm not in here as much as I once was.
Whether it's politics or religion it's mostly the same old thing,
rehashed all to hell and back.
I was trying to get something new started here but at this point I
don't have much hope for it.
Gotta have more responses if I'm going to sell blood to pay
people off :-)
On a high note: I see light at the end of the tunnel, so I can take some
time this weekend to attend a Klan rally at Austin City Hall and annoy the
***** out of them, followed by a Sunday holding my traditional "Sunday
Services" on my boat on Lake Travis. The weather is still warm enough, and I
haven't 'winterized' it yet.
I went to a Klan rally once.
Spooky as hell.
Gave me the heebie jeebies.
The boat sounds great.
I envy you that.
Plus, I saved 15% on my car insurance.
Lol!
Good to hear from you :-)
atheist@home#1554
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| User: "atheist@home" |
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03 Nov 2005 12:36:32 AM |
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On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 09:00:11 GMT, "atheist@home" <atheist@home.com>
wrote:
This is what I hope is the first of a number of challanges funded by
yours truly.
The first being a short story about an encounter between Satan and an
atheist.
The story can be serious or humorous but cannot be mean spirited in
any fashion.
<snip>
This is a new thing and I need help in organizing it.
Is anybody interested?
Suggestions are welcome.
To those who have responded so far.
I don't quite know how to do this.
I suppose submissions should be of a certain length, a minimum number
of submissions <I would hate to just have one that wins by default or
even just two or three.
There should be a date for submissions.
I also wonder if it would be better to offer $200.00 once in a while
or maybe $50.00 or $75.00 on a more regular basis?
Also anyone who helps come up with the rules will be allowed to
submit.
Should non fiction pieces also be considered?
Should people submitting be allowed only one win a year or every six
months?
I'm more than willing to do this if enough people are interested and
it doesn't have to be people who plan on submitting anything.
atheist@home#1554
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| User: "chibiabos" |
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| Title: Re: An easy two hundred bucks. |
03 Nov 2005 02:28:04 PM |
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In article <1usim1pecccs1vovml0mmnd34sfv3o04mc@4ax.com>,
<"atheist@home"> wrote:
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 09:00:11 GMT, "atheist@home" <atheist@home.com>
wrote:
This is what I hope is the first of a number of challanges funded by
yours truly.
The first being a short story about an encounter between Satan and an
atheist.
The story can be serious or humorous but cannot be mean spirited in
any fashion.
<snip>
This is a new thing and I need help in organizing it.
Is anybody interested?
Suggestions are welcome.
To those who have responded so far.
I don't quite know how to do this.
I suppose submissions should be of a certain length, a minimum number
of submissions <I would hate to just have one that wins by default or
even just two or three.
There should be a date for submissions.
I also wonder if it would be better to offer $200.00 once in a while
or maybe $50.00 or $75.00 on a more regular basis?
Also anyone who helps come up with the rules will be allowed to
submit.
Should non fiction pieces also be considered?
Should people submitting be allowed only one win a year or every six
months?
I'm more than willing to do this if enough people are interested and
it doesn't have to be people who plan on submitting anything.
atheist@home#1554
If I were making up the rules for your contest (which I'm not), I'd
insist on _stories_, not dialogs, not platonic duels of words that are
boring as hell, but structured plots that have a definite setting,
characters (we already know who two of them would be), conflict and
resolution. The damn things have to be interesting. They have to have a
beginning, a middle and an end, and these have to make sense within the
context of the story.
The key words are setting, character(s), conflict and resolution.
A short story should also aim for a unity of effect. Instead of
shotgunning a dozen different ideas at the reader, pick _one_ and give
it the treatment it deserves.
Plays and screenplays would be okay if they included the above elements.
Winners would be judged on originality, style, coherence, command of
the language (including vocabulary, spelling, grammar and punctuation)
and plot. If I were judging, I'd want the story to tell me something
_new_, and tell it in a way that makes me go, "Wow, how cool" without
the distractions of poor grammar or ignorance of basic rules of style.
If you don't know what a paragraph is, or how to break up a run-on
sentence, you probably shouldn't enter the contest.
Stories could be as short as desired but you might want to think about
an upper limit. 5,000 words, say. You have indicated a short story
format, which usually falls in the 2,000 to 10,000 word range, so
anything of that size would be eligible.
I'm also a big believer in blind judging for contests like these.
Submissions should be reviewed by the judges with all authors' names
removed. (We assume the plot does not reveal the author's identity, but
that can't be enforced.)
$0.02 deposited.
-chib
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Member of S.M.A.S.H.
Sarcastic Middle-aged Atheists with a Sense of Humor
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| User: "Jim07D5" |
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03 Nov 2005 03:52:21 PM |
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chibiabos <chib@nospam.com> said:
In article <1usim1pecccs1vovml0mmnd34sfv3o04mc@4ax.com>,
<"atheist@home"> wrote:
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 09:00:11 GMT, "atheist@home" <atheist@home.com>
wrote:
This is what I hope is the first of a number of challanges funded by
yours truly.
The first being a short story about an encounter between Satan and an
atheist.
The story can be serious or humorous but cannot be mean spirited in
any fashion.
<snip>
This is a new thing and I need help in organizing it.
Is anybody interested?
Suggestions are welcome.
To those who have responded so far.
I don't quite know how to do this.
I suppose submissions should be of a certain length, a minimum number
of submissions <I would hate to just have one that wins by default or
even just two or three.
There should be a date for submissions.
I also wonder if it would be better to offer $200.00 once in a while
or maybe $50.00 or $75.00 on a more regular basis?
Also anyone who helps come up with the rules will be allowed to
submit.
Should non fiction pieces also be considered?
Should people submitting be allowed only one win a year or every six
months?
I'm more than willing to do this if enough people are interested and
it doesn't have to be people who plan on submitting anything.
atheist@home#1554
If I were making up the rules for your contest (which I'm not), I'd
insist on _stories_, not dialogs, not platonic duels of words that are
boring as hell, but structured plots that have a definite setting,
characters (we already know who two of them would be), conflict and
resolution. The damn things have to be interesting. They have to have a
beginning, a middle and an end, and these have to make sense within the
context of the story.
I like this, too. It sounds more like a good judging criterion than a
criterion for acceptance of submissions: halfway through, is the
outcome uncertain, and do you care?
The key words are setting, character(s), conflict and resolution.
A short story should also aim for a unity of effect. Instead of
shotgunning a dozen different ideas at the reader, pick _one_ and give
it the treatment it deserves.
Plays and screenplays would be okay if they included the above elements.
Winners would be judged on originality, style, coherence, command of
the language (including vocabulary, spelling, grammar and punctuation)
and plot. If I were judging, I'd want the story to tell me something
_new_, and tell it in a way that makes me go, "Wow, how cool" without
the distractions of poor grammar or ignorance of basic rules of style.
If you don't know what a paragraph is, or how to break up a run-on
sentence, you probably shouldn't enter the contest.
Stories could be as short as desired but you might want to think about
an upper limit. 5,000 words, say. You have indicated a short story
format, which usually falls in the 2,000 to 10,000 word range, so
anything of that size would be eligible.
I'm also a big believer in blind judging for contests like these.
Submissions should be reviewed by the judges with all authors' names
removed. (We assume the plot does not reveal the author's identity, but
that can't be enforced.)
--- Jim07D5
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| User: "Elroy Willis" |
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03 Nov 2005 12:31:00 PM |
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atheist@home wrote in alt.atheism
atheist@home <atheist@home.com> wrote:
The first being a short story about an encounter between Satan
and an atheist.
Should non fiction pieces also be considered?
Not on this first one. :)
--
Elroy Willis
www.elroysemporium.com
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| User: "Yang, AthD h.c, Kicking AWOLs Cocaine Snorting Ass" |
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02 Nov 2005 09:04:16 AM |
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On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 09:00:11 GMT, "atheist@home" <atheist@home.com>
wrote:
This is what I hope is the first of a number of challanges funded by
yours truly.
The first being a short story about an encounter between Satan and an
atheist.
The story can be serious or humorous but cannot be mean spirited in
any fashion.
Any a.a. regular can contribute.
Votes on whichever story is the best will be posted by a.a. regulars
and whoever wins the most votes will win the prize.
I reserve the right to decide which subjects should be addressed
<Unless someone has a better idea which will be more than welcome> and
also the right to do nothing but accept the judgement of the majority.
I will not be voting, offering up an opinion or denying the winner the
award unless the story is written in the childish BAAWAA knight sort
of silliness.
This is a new thing and I need help in organizing it.
Is anybody interested?
Suggestions are welcome.
atheist@home#1554
I'll do the short story contest and I don't even need a financial
incentive! Of course I'll get soundly beat by Elf Sternberg....
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Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division
Proudly plonked by Lani Girl and Crazyalec (aka aka Yang's little poltregeist *****)
The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.6 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: 12.5 million FEWER jobs than Clinton and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -2027 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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"Now, did I want to go? Hell no."
-duke (duckgumbo32@cox.net), aka Earl J Weber, 63
year old mateless, heirless biological failure
of Afton Oaks Apartment, Baton Rouge, on why
a Neocon chickenhawk like him pussied out of
the Vietnam War.
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02 Nov 2005 01:46:36 PM |
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atheist@home" <atheist@home.com> wrote in alt.atheism
This is what I hope is the first of a number of challanges funded by
yours truly.
The first being a short story about an encounter between Satan and an
atheist.
The story can be serious or humorous but cannot be mean spirited in
any fashion.
Any a.a. regular can contribute.
Votes on whichever story is the best will be posted by a.a. regulars
and whoever wins the most votes will win the prize.
I reserve the right to decide which subjects should be addressed
<Unless someone has a better idea which will be more than welcome> and
also the right to do nothing but accept the judgement of the majority.
I will not be voting, offering up an opinion or denying the winner the
award unless the story is written in the childish BAAWAA knight sort
of silliness.
This is a new thing and I need help in organizing it.
Is anybody interested?
I am.
Suggestions are welcome.
Did you have a minimum and maximum length in mind? Can it be in
screenplay format?
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Elroy Willis
www.elroysemporium.com
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03 Nov 2005 12:56:03 AM |
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On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:46:36 GMT, Elroy Willis
<elroywillis@swbell.net> wrote:
atheist@home" <atheist@home.com> wrote in alt.atheism
This is what I hope is the first of a number of challanges funded by
yours truly.
The first being a short story about an encounter between Satan and an
atheist.
The story can be serious or humorous but cannot be mean spirited in
any fashion.
Any a.a. regular can contribute.
Votes on whichever story is the best will be posted by a.a. regulars
and whoever wins the most votes will win the prize.
I reserve the right to decide which subjects should be addressed
<Unless someone has a better idea which will be more than welcome> and
also the right to do nothing but accept the judgement of the majority.
I will not be voting, offering up an opinion or denying the winner the
award unless the story is written in the childish BAAWAA knight sort
of silliness.
This is a new thing and I need help in organizing it.
Is anybody interested?
I am.
Suggestions are welcome.
Did you have a minimum and maximum length in mind?
I think that's important.
What do you think as far as minimum and maximum?
And how long a time to accept submissions for each contest period?
Can it be in screenplay format?
Yes.
I don't want to have much input as far as format.
I also think maybe it would be better if I did not pick the subject.
Just let people submit what ever they like.
Again, any suggestions are welcome.
atheist@home#1554
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03 Nov 2005 01:53:47 PM |
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atheist@home <atheist@home.com> wrote in alt.atheism
Elroy Willis <elroywillis@swbell.net> wrote:
atheist@home" <atheist@home.com> wrote in alt.atheism
Suggestions are welcome.
Did you have a minimum and maximum length in mind?
I think that's important.
What do you think as far as minimum and maximum?
I think that should be up to the people who actually plan on reading
the stories and voting on them. Many people might balk at the stories
if it takes them an hour to read each one.
I would suggest a minimum of at least five minutes reading time, and
a maximum of thirty, or something like that, but people read at
different speeds, so even that kind of restriction could be a problem.
I'd say you need to take another poll and ask for people who are
willing to read and vote on the stories and see what they say, and
let them vote, or something like that.
And how long a time to accept submissions for each contest period?
If it were me, I'd say a month. And I'd make it a rule that story
submitters can't submit their stories until the last day or two, so
that other story-tellers can't read the other stories, and borrow or
try to out-do them. I think it would lead to more individuality in
the stories.
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Elroy Willis
www.elroysemporium.com
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