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But if that doesn't work, a sincere plea for you to put something out there...ws or not....will have to do
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But hey, at least I share my DAZ results here.
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ace191 wrote: As Simon and Garfunkle used to say, "I can gather all the news I need on the weather report." Change "weather report" to "hit meter" and I am completely content. If 2000 plus folks are reading my stories here I know that at least some of them must be enjoying them or they would not waste their time reading them.
One of your stories "They're All Mine Now" has over thirteen THOUSAND hits.
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ace191 wrote: As Simon and Garfunkle used to say, "I can gather all the news I need on the weather report." Change "weather report" to "hit meter" and I am completely content. If 2000 plus folks are reading my stories here I know that at least some of them must be enjoying them or they would not waste their time reading them.
Not sure this was directed at me, but I paid a lot of attention to this back in the day. It was very much dependent on the time a story spent in the ticker for example. 2000 is a rather low number, and I did have several stories below that back in the day.
The hit counter is still visible? I remember it being removed from public visiblity together with the list type "classic" view on the stories that I had re-introduced back in 2012.
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And yes I know the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over
(Like trying to beat DKC) and expecting a different outcome. It was a blast. In retrospect, I think if I had written 5k less words and polished the story up better I might have been able to win.
I had about 2600 hits after around 2 months. Let's look at the hit meter now.
5227 Crimson High
5179 Supergirl and Superwoman
4948. 15 minutes of Fame
Just the fact that over 5000 folks have read my story and that I am hanging in
With DKC's story makes me very happy and even though I lose every time, I get a little better. Maybe someday.
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And if memory serves right these three stories you mention all outrank my best workshop entry in terms of hits. Given that this was also my first workshop entry this means it grew for four years and still be overtaken by that. Funny considering that story also won it's contest ... against d_k_c. Trying to repeat that was rather soul-crushing.
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I almost won by default once, but I think it was DKC who put in an entry just under the deadline.
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ace191 wrote: Let me tell you about soul crushing. Years ago Argo and I poured our hearts and souls along with our wallets into a major work, TSOS. I was sure that that we were going to win, right up to the moment that I read "Birthright" by LFAN and CF. I knew it would be close (which I think it was) but I also knew that they were going to win which they did.
I almost won by default once, but I think it was DKC who put in an entry just under the deadline.
I'll have to check, but I don't think DKC partipated to the team assignment workshop.
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Seriously though, I will read them all first.
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ace191 wrote: Let me tell you about soul crushing. Years ago Argo and I poured our hearts and souls along with our wallets into a major work, TSOS. I was sure that that we were going to win, right up to the moment that I read "Birthright" by LFAN and CF. I knew it would be close (which I think it was) but I also knew that they were going to win which they did.
I almost won by default once, but I think it was DKC who put in an entry just under the deadline.
We seem to have different definitions of soul crushing. Reading a rival story and finding it on par or better than your own story, which is then mirrored in the poll results sounds rather fair and motivating to me. For what it's worth, TSOS is the better known story in hindsight.
My experience was quite different and I came to believe that the poll was more like a popularity vote for the authors involved rather than a vote on the stories. When authors can win with stories that are among the worst they produced (not going into detail here, I had more than enough trouble through that already) then it's hard to believe that the quality of the story they entered for the workshop actually mattered. In the end, with neither polls or hit counter being a good benchmark, the written feedback on a story was the most usefull way of determining whether a story was good or not. Unfortunately it's not always provided in helpful quantities.
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In my book, anyone who wins should not be eligible to participate for perhaps three or so subsequent contest cycles. Otherwise, we tend to see the same authors over and over.
After all, those winning authors can write a story for the members any time they want and get positive feedback. And they should, but not during subsequent contests.
Anyway, it's a matter of goals. To develop new writers or to encourage popular contributors to put something more out. Kind of hard to do both as potential new writers are likely to be intimidated when they know a stable of accomplished writers are going to get the votes based on their popularity and talent.
My 2 cents.
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To me, the purpose of the workshops is to inspire authors to produce content for this site that everyone can enjoy. There is no other English site like it in the world that I know of. Fats handles the technical aspects ( which seem to get more difficult every day), the moderators run the boards and the Librarian posts the stories and tags them for future searches. And you cannot beat the price and I would challange you to find a better run site or one with better content for our Genere anywhere in the world.
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I agree with Shadar though...but it gave me an idea...
What if we had 3 WS in a year. If you win you can not participate in any more WS for that year....BUT you are entered into the final WS where the top 3 authors battle it out?
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d_k_c wrote: Ive been really busy....just so I don't let it slip....what is the official dead line
Sorry, my mistake Saturday the 10th.
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Saturday the 10th
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fats wrote: WC is wrong there it's in fact
Saturday the 10th
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One very important not efor all the writers who are not participating the workshop: as usual any story submitted during the 7 days after the deadline would be uploaded a week later to give time to read all the workshop entries and and to give non-workshop stories proper visibility.
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fats wrote: WC is wrong there it's in fact
Saturday the 10th
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Yay!
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