Critique Circle #2 [Europe Chapter] - 2011+2012 posts archive

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Psychomacologist

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Deadline's today -- all of today, all the way to midnight! -- which probably translates as tomorrow morning, for I am most lenient and flexible.

You can send a PM, or email to dpaterson57 at gmail.com

-Derek
Done and done!

So... how does voting work? *is still a huge noob*
 

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Is easy! You read all the entries, mull 'em over, and pick your 1st, 2nd and 3rd favorites.

Ideally your email or PM will have your votes at the top, e.g.

1st - Untitled #3
2nd - Cool For Cats
3rd - Sometimes They Come Back

...'cause some poor sucker has got to add them thar votes up and figger out the results!

Critique comments are very welcome. Tell the authors what worked for you and what didn't work for you. Tell them what grabbed you by the throat and demanded you keep reading, or what turned you off. Point out brilliant prose. Point out clunky prose that doesn't quite do the biz.

Just waiting for a couple of last-moment slowpokes. :) The entries should be with y'all soon...

-Derek
 

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Those slow pokes >.<
Are these the titles of this month's entry, Derek? Lol! They look like actual names to me :tongue
 

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Stiiiiilll waiting but will give up soon and go ahead with what I've got, so sad.

Vote for Cool For Cats, folks, it's the best of them all, clearly!

-Derek
 

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Thanks Ehab!

Entries have been emailed, shout if any problems.

Except you, Jaws. You can just wave your arms around.

-Derek
 

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Yes you can, I think. But I don't think anyone actually has done that before :tongue. You can also crit your own work.
 

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No you are flippin' not allowed to vote for your own entry, and even thinking about the very concept of the merest possibility of doing so busts my brain!

-Derek
 

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You know, everyone seems to think that it's funny that I asked this, but it was a genuine question. I don't usually vote for myself, but I just wondered if it's allowed and if people do it in the BOC or if it's discouraged. You know, out of genuine curiousity. I won't do it either way because that's just not me, but I wanted to know if it's allowed or not.
 

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/me stamps on Debbie and Ehab

Please don't vote for your own entry, people! Thank you!

-Derek
 

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/me looks at Derek and licks his wounds, then looks at Debbie all heart broken.

I'm packing my toys and leaving the playground :'(
 

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/me stamps on Debbie and Ehab

Please don't vote for your own entry, people! Thank you!

-Derek
Thanks Derek. I just wanted to be sure because sometimes contests allow people to vote for themselves. Like general elections :)
 

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Don't worry about it, Psychomacologist. :) Eons ago, when the contest was invented, it used to be that entrants could earn bonus points for critiquing all the entries. The number of bonus points awarded would be the equivalent of a 1st-place vote for their own entry.

The rules of the contest vary with whoever is the Admin; some award bonus points, some don't. The don't-vote-for-yourself rule remained as an unspoken one. I think you're the first person who has asked, and it was a sensible question. :)
 

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Sophia, our very own Sophia, is now a moderator. Well, well, well.

Oh and eons ago, Sophia was running the BOC. ahem.
 

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Guys, it's coming up on the end of the month. Who's up next in the September crit seat?
 

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A little music whilst critterizing the BOC.
Oh yes, be afraid. Be very afraid.

And for the love of all that is Mountain King... do not send shirts to Helsinki. men's pants maybe, but no shirts!
 

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Guys, it's coming up on the end of the month. Who's up next in the September crit seat?
Dunno, could it be Psychomacologist?

A little music whilst critterizing the BOC.
Oh yes, be afraid. Be very afraid.

And for the love of all that is Mountain King... do not send shirts to Helsinki. men's pants maybe, but no shirts!
Yer a sick puppy!

BOC votes and comments by midnight Friday, please!

-Derek
 
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