Contest results thread!

[Ironsword]

Well done chaps!

Good stories, hopefully there will be many more!

[Ludens]

Congratulations guys!

[pevergreen]

So who wrote that anonymos one?

[Monk]

So who wrote that anonymos one?

It was submitted Anonymously (literally, i couldn't say if i wanted), the person said they just wanted to use the contest to experiment with writing again and I honored that. I couldn't really deny the request as the entry didn't break any rules, besides s/he seemed rather happy with their work so in that sense who was I to even try to deny them?

Edit: Though I am considering a new rule for the next contest that deals with anonymous submissions. We'll see. It wasn't an issue this go around.

[Henry707]

Permission to speak frankly. I did enjoy reading through the stories but my word some of them were depressing. Would I be alone if I asked for a bit more a spark & less teenage angst?

I hope this doesn't sound negative as I found the standard overall very high, just be good to get away from death, drugs, hopelessness etc.

What do you all think?

Henri

[Tamur]

Everyone is of course free to explore what's interesting to them. But from a writing standpoint, starting a story with misery and ending it with misery is like using black ink to draw on black paper.

And, as with an entirely black picture, it's hard for the reader to see anything but the lack of form, shape, etc. The story wallops the reader over the head with the point that the main character is miserable, but little else can make its way through. Also, there's a law against walloping readers with anything (except for camels, of course).

The same goes for happy-happy bunny stories. White on white doesn't make for terribly interesting reading either. As with so many things in life, drawing from both extremes as needed is a good place to be.