May be its too late to come here now. Well...

Congratulations for the winners , Alexander the Pretty Good and Monk! Both your works are excellent!

The works of the contestants are really of high quality. I wasn't here to participate (well...kinda forgot that the current capital of Italy even exists when I was hell-bent on becoming the Nerevarine and slaughter the Hands of Almalexia before going on to establish an Imperial mining colony in some cold, forsaken island...some of you know what game I'm talking about ) and I wouldn't win anyway, considering my considerably limited talent (what an arrogant snob I am... )

Anyway, that the contest finally sets up effectively surprises and pleases me as the .org is more than just a TW fansite as it can also be considered (in some ways) a sort of cyber mini-community in the internet brought together by common interest in the Total-War game franchise, and the contest helps in that regard.

I can see that each writers have their own techniques of approaching their respective stories and some clearly stands out as more "professional" pieces. Even if I participate I would not be one of them. You can try and read, say, Harry Potter (the sixth one is better throughout than the gloomy fifth, even though the ending is killing me...grr...how evil...), and try to examine how professional writers like J.K. Rowling set up their styles of writing in the ways that allow the reader to go through the entire story with absolutely no structural qualms. Similar "smoothness" can be, arguably, found in some especially spectacular pieces in the contest.

For those who didn't win, well, there is always next time. And time (for the young like me, Mwahaha) brings lots of opportunities of improvements or better lucks for all