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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Actually I have made two errors, and it took a participant in what I called a story *contest* to show me. And I offer them and you all my profound apologies. This was my fault, and I have made an author feel badly enough about this for them to let me know. I'm pleased they did, and I'm sorry they needed to, as Error 2 will show you.
Error 1: I failed to announce the winners.
My job was to blow a trumpet fanfare and to say, clearly, "Look at the results and see, at the foot of the page, how the results turned out!"
Here, LATE, is the trumpet fanfare:
First, interpretation of the picture:
Overall best: The Dare
Second: Avery and Me
Third: Of Which Nightmares Are Made
Fourth: Revenge
Fifth: From the Stream to the Sea
Sixth: Jonah
Now, favourite stories:
Overall best: The Dare
Second equal: Jonah, and also Avery and Me
Fourth: From the Stream to the Sea
Fifth: Revenge
Sixth: Of Which Nightmares Are Made
That is quite a difference, and The Dare at the top of each s something to be proud of. If you have not read them all, read them all, please, and email the authors to let them know your reaction.
Error 2 was my concept of a "contest".
I should have said *challenge*, not contest. I think it may have been silly of me to suggest overall winners.
I don't think writers win or lose, I think they entertain, challenge, shock, horrify, please, titillate and much more. So I am re-titling the events, which will be regular events, as "Challenges" and I think I will keep the overall voting, but not classify the outcomes as winning. Instead they are subjective opinions of the folk who read and are kind enough to offer their opinions.
It will take me a short while to sort out the names of the pages on the site. I have a family weekend this weekend, and I have just grabbed this online time to offer authors and readers alike my apologies for cocking it up. When we make mistakes it's important to say so clearly, to apologise clearly, and to acknowledge it clearly. And to learn from the mistake.
[Updated on: Fri, 25 March 2016 20:01]
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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