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"Meka - writing comp."

Firstly congrats to IB on winning the competition.

I'm curious to know how you found the experience. Did you enjoy it, how about some feedback?

The email I received was also sent to several other people - does this equate to the number of entries you had?

What happened to the idea of the links to the other entries?

Are you going to post them all on here - or can we now post our own for feedback?

I've now bookmarked your page as I discovered your links to other competitions, which I think is a good idea. I may well enter a story I wrote and posted on here a while ago to one of them as for an extra fee you can get feedback.

*claps*

Well done the bartender.

I really enjoyed having a go at the competition,it's given me a taste for more in the future,cheers Meka.

Oooh, good stuff!

Might be able to blag a few free copies of a novel to give away, just 3 or so, but then I can give a prize, perhaps for the match the author to the opening line thing I was thinking of...?

Neat.

Really good story, IB. I look forward to kicking your ass should I ever choose to stump up the fee and enter in the future.

mine was only a paragraph

I like the idea of "Match the author to the paragraph", maybe you could just pull a random sentence from one of the stories as well?

By the way, when is the next one? I should be able to do this.

A clink of glasses for IB's acceptance speech :)

I'll put all the entries up in the near future.

Yes, there were only 7 entries into the contest, maybe next time I'll go for more promotion...

But I had a few problems, first of all, work blocked access to all webmail, so I couldn't monitor entries from work, and print them out there. (An attempt to save on paper).

Secondly, I changed my PC, and it took a while to get all that sorted out, so I couldn't update the website quite as quickly.

I'm currently trying to get hold of some freebie books to give away as prizes, I'm not sure how publishers will react though.

I'm thinking of putting some fun little games on their, things like match the author with the opening paragraph, just to make it a bit different from other sites.

I should've entered. Can't remember why I didn't any more.

In all seriousness, many thanks to Meka for deeming me worthy of this great honour. It pleases me to be given this opportunity to set the benchmark for future competitions. I look forward to these competitions, and hope that my constantly improving writing style will drive others to also push their limits in this field, and indeed help each other to become better at it.

I also look forward to the chance to view some of the other entries of this competition, to see, hopefully, just how much we collectively made it difficult for Meka to make a final judgement.

Can I also thank Meka for taking the time out of his own hectic schedule to run this competition for no gain to himself other than an opportunity to read the entries before anyone else does.

I rock.

IB