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Thank you everyone, this is very cool. There are some entries you think you might have a chance to do well with, and others where your story makes you kind of happy when you're done, and where you think that that is its own reward… this entry was one that I liked, and that would have been enough. But I'm really pleased it seems to have resonated with people.
Thank you, TJ, for the Best Title Award, that I gladly share with mosaix. I laughed when I thought of the title, and its double meaning. (And ColGray's title is terrific - might be a much longer story you could write from this entry, ColGray... using that title, of course!)
I want to add Parson, Christine Wheelwright, ColGray, and The Judge to my 'Thank you!' list, for your mentions.
I want to mention that I've had many-many Challenges over the years (many) where I had trouble meeting the genre (when it was something new to me), or theme; I feel bad that I mentioned in my voting post that I thought some stories missed one or the other of these. I actually have no idea in this Challenge if I met the genre, because it was something I'd never tried before; and judging whether or not other people may have missed should have been something I kept internally, that would be reflected only when I made my lists and voted. We enter the Challenges, I think, for fun, to stretch our writing muscles, or for camaraderie, and we just try to do as well as we can with the genre and the theme, and in getting our ideas down on the screen. Hope I didn't offend anyone.
I will try to come up with an interesting pairing for the genre/theme for next month. It's always the hardest thing in the Challenges for me, coming up with the new prompts, should I win. Thanks to everyone who Challenged this month, or who didn't, but still read and voted. CC
Thank you, TJ, for the Best Title Award, that I gladly share with mosaix. I laughed when I thought of the title, and its double meaning. (And ColGray's title is terrific - might be a much longer story you could write from this entry, ColGray... using that title, of course!)
I want to add Parson, Christine Wheelwright, ColGray, and The Judge to my 'Thank you!' list, for your mentions.
I want to mention that I've had many-many Challenges over the years (many) where I had trouble meeting the genre (when it was something new to me), or theme; I feel bad that I mentioned in my voting post that I thought some stories missed one or the other of these. I actually have no idea in this Challenge if I met the genre, because it was something I'd never tried before; and judging whether or not other people may have missed should have been something I kept internally, that would be reflected only when I made my lists and voted. We enter the Challenges, I think, for fun, to stretch our writing muscles, or for camaraderie, and we just try to do as well as we can with the genre and the theme, and in getting our ideas down on the screen. Hope I didn't offend anyone.
I will try to come up with an interesting pairing for the genre/theme for next month. It's always the hardest thing in the Challenges for me, coming up with the new prompts, should I win. Thanks to everyone who Challenged this month, or who didn't, but still read and voted. CC