I just don’t sense the competitive drive that I believe to be vital within the competitive arena.
Unfortunately I disagree.
I'll say no more here.
If I were another competitor looking at this scorecard
I think, generally, most people don't see others as competition, more like a team trying to capture a flag.
“Just send us what you have” and “submit every quarter,”
I remember going to a club atca school, eventually a good old desk was replaced by some ergonomic piece of rubbish with no draws shaped like a Jellybean.
My friends said, if the school didn't spend money on "spite" like that, they wouldn't get the same amount next year.
Perhaps this is why we are encouraged to send whatever.
If there are less stories to judge, it means they need less readers, judges, staff, so on.
Then their funding may be cut or such like.
If you don't use it, you lose it.
I'm guessing judges are paid???
No one's going to pay them to twiddle their thumbs. Or otherwise, they have better things to do than twiddle their thumbs.
Probably.
I recommended a new story.
I think the jist is that LRH, and others, write a lot of stories, and the thought of not finishing them is fighting words.
I think LRH was not one to waste time, from my readings of WOTF material, and others.
Writing a new story has a greater growth potential than revising one that already exists.
I agree with that.
Certainly for beginners, but as you go along, I feel you need weening.
*I'll do another post, as I sometimes have technical issues and lose a post.*
RxLOTS
HMx1 (somewhere in the middle)
This “submit every quarter”
It's only three months.
A pro should be able to do that in a day.
There's no reason every shouldn't be submitting each quarter.
Heck, you should have to pick which story to send.
Says me.
While I always appreciate kind words, they never get me far. More than anything, I’m driven by someone telling me, “I can’t” or “I won’t.” And I know that’s not something unique to me. I’m sure there are a lot of others here with this same drive.
"Anger is more useful than dispare."
I think that's what Arny said.
"Criticism is King."
That's mine.
And all while all of you stand there on the pitcher’s mound.
Like a copy paste nightmare of agent Smiths.
Or like fonzy in the waterboy?
"Your stories suck, they really, really suck."
And I’m asking you what you're going to do about that?
Studying the algorithm, (that thing stereotypical girls in the hood say).
A very long read.
But I read it (skimmed a bit).
Maybe you should just send that post in?
Oh, it's on, (that thing again).
RxLOTS
HMx1 (somewhere in the middle)
"There are three rules to writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
— W. Somerset Maugham
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My problem lay in the participant’s skill progression. Writing a new story has a greater growth potential than revising one that already exists. Rewriting has similarly high potential, so long as the writer attempts to write the story in a new way while using different narrative devices. So, a revised resubmission lowers a writer’s growth curve, which weakens the growth of my competition.
I have to disagree somewhat with this. A rewrite does not have to employ different narrative devices. Certainly, some of my rewrites that have netted me higher results have done this. However, others are about developing better mastery of the narrative devices I did employ. It's realizing - oh, I didn't describe the setting here, or I didn't describe it well enough. I better do that. It's realizing a character is coming across as flat and examining how to better have their motivations and emotions come across. It's digging into the nitty gritty of the dialogue so that it flows.
The time between submission and results has given me time to look at my stories with fresh eyes to see these flaws. While new stories do give you the chance to employ your improved skills from the beginning, giving your story a better foundation, unless you learn how to scrutinize it for flaws and fix it, your stories won't improve from good to excellent.
But yes, resubmitting a story with only a single word changed is highly unlikely to get you better results. (unless that change is remembering to take your name off the submission.)
SHM - 4
HM - 11
R - 11
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