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Final draft of my submission now nearing completion! It is pushing it a little in the word count at just shy of 7000 words but I should be ready to submit after a little more polish. Hope we get a good number of entries guys, there's still loads of time!
2nd Grand Malazan Short Story Contest! Fabulous cash prizes!
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Posted 14 May 2009 - 09:45 PM
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Posted 22 May 2009 - 12:49 PM
I have 892 words....wooohooo!
Things and stuffs...and other important objects.
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Posted 24 May 2009 - 01:38 PM
Lol Writers block at 1171 words.
Wow the irony. to think people are already done! this is Madness!
(yes, thats Madness with a capital M)
Wow the irony. to think people are already done! this is Madness!
(yes, thats Madness with a capital M)
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Posted 24 May 2009 - 05:21 PM
Dolmen, on May 24 2009, 09:38 AM, said:
Lol Writers block at 1171 words.
Wow the irony. to think people are already done! this is Madness!
(yes, thats Madness with a capital M)
Wow the irony. to think people are already done! this is Madness!
(yes, thats Madness with a capital M)
=P
I think I lucked out. Inspiration pretty much pummeled me in the face, so I was all set.
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Posted 25 May 2009 - 07:39 PM
Anyone know how many entries we are looking at for this?
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Posted 25 May 2009 - 09:24 PM
At least five, I'd hope. Me and Bauchelain already have our submissions in, and from this thread (just skimming through this page) I see Yellow, Dolmen, Grimhilde, Mappo, and I know Shinrei was going to have an entry...
Should be plenty.
Should be plenty.
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Posted 01 June 2009 - 03:15 PM
My entry has now been sent to malazanwriting@live.comYeah!!
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Posted 01 June 2009 - 03:16 PM
Sixty, on May 26 2009, 07:24 AM, said:
At least five, I'd hope. Me and Bauchelain already have our submissions in, and from this thread (just skimming through this page) I see Yellow, Dolmen, Grimhilde, Mappo, and I know Shinrei was going to have an entry...
Should be plenty.
Should be plenty.
Crap, I forgot about this. Better get on it then.
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Si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades.
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Posted 02 June 2009 - 03:36 AM
I've scrapped my original idea.
Trying a new angle.
Trying a new angle.
The Pub is Always Open
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Proud supporter of the Wolves of Winter. Glory be to her Majesty, The Lady Snow.
Cursed Summer returns. The Lady Now Sleeps.
The Sexy Thatch Burning Physicist
Τον Πρωτος Αληθη Δεσποτην της Οικιας Αυτος
RodeoRanch said:
You're a rock.
A non-touching itself rock.
A non-touching itself rock.
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Posted 02 June 2009 - 02:12 PM
Submission thread updated with Gamet's work.
I too have another inspiration niggling at the back of my brain.
Must...concentrate...on one....at...... a time...!
I too have another inspiration niggling at the back of my brain.
Must...concentrate...on one....at...... a time...!
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Posted 02 June 2009 - 02:17 PM
I'm struggling with sticking with an idea too...I've got about three ideas bouncing around in my head and whenever I start the intro I think of something cool I can attach to my other idea.
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Posted 02 June 2009 - 02:21 PM
I'm in the world-building stage atm, yay...
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Posted 02 June 2009 - 05:19 PM
I'm starting to panic a little! I'm only about half way through so far, have been busy on other projects.
@Anyone who thinks there is still loads of time and they'll get to it later... start soon! It would be good if everyone who planned to enter gets something finished in time
@Anyone who thinks there is still loads of time and they'll get to it later... start soon! It would be good if everyone who planned to enter gets something finished in time
Don't fuck with the Culture.
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Posted 03 June 2009 - 08:25 AM
Come on, come on, pick one already...
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Posted 03 June 2009 - 09:29 AM
Hey, is it alright if we do this for a competition, and hand it in before? Because there is a short story comp at my uni around october/november and I was wondering if submissions intended for competitions are allowed. It says you can't submit works intended for publication in the OP, but I am unsure as to whether submitting it into a short story comp counts as publication.
This post has been edited by Mappo's Travelling Sack: 03 June 2009 - 09:31 AM
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Posted 03 June 2009 - 09:47 AM
Hey sack, (mind if I call you sack?), that's fine. Basically the whole idea is to make any story that is undergoing a 3rd party editing process ineligible. That doesn't apply to any other contests to which you might submit the work.
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Posted 03 June 2009 - 09:55 AM
Yeah, it isn't being edited by a 3rd-party. Awesome, thanks Shin!
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Posted 04 June 2009 - 09:43 AM
i am 6000 words in on my entry. stuck in the finale.
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Posted 04 June 2009 - 10:45 AM
drinksinbars, on Jun 4 2009, 11:43 AM, said:
i am 6000 words in on my entry. stuck in the finale.
Holy shit. 1172 here and I'm already nearing the grand finale... I'll have to go Murakami style in description of sounds and movements to do get close to the mark or make up a few scenes in between. Then again, the whole thing this is a part of was more or less intended to be once, when I have the time and mad skillz, drawn into a graphic novel...
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