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Calling All Adults: Where ARE your Contests??

Yes.

I could make a contest, but I'm in no mood to read the entries. LOL.

I'm only seventeen, but I'm not stupid.

the tweenies are the only ones that enter. That or you get the same 4 stories over and over again, if I didn't give you a trophy the first time you entered it what makes you think I'll like it now? Crazy kids...

Hi Gang---Well this certainly touches a sore spot with me, so forgive me if I rant a little. I have responded to several contest, can’t remember the exact number, but I have never even heard who won any of them.

Lately I have sponsored a contest in partnership with another member. To tell you the truth I can’t even find any mention of said contest, so it’s a puzzle to me how I’m going to judge any of them, if in fact someone entered.

I think there needs to be a common place for contests, with some recognizable method of following them until the conclusion. I don’t quite see the point of entering a contest that just seems to fade into the sunset.

The last peeve I have is that contests seem to be calling for comments. When I enter a contest I’m vying for as high a ranking as I can get based on my work. When I want comments, I place my stories in reading lists, not contests.

Talk to you soon---ablelaz.

On the bright side, there is now almost 150 contests open at a time.
When I first joined it was about fifty. They were ALL children-made contests. Just be glad they haven't taken over the forums yet

I've only made two contests (I think, could be 3) on storywrite, but loads more on AP. I did a rounds contest once, and loads of people were criticising me, "you're only fifteen - i'm 16 now - how can you judge the best?"
If you don't like it, don't enter! I leave decent comments, on all entries, and choose my favourite entry (or sometimes the one I appreciate most, even if I don't particularly like it) to win. I'm also good at proof-reading and picking up on grammar/spelling errors. No, I don't know everything there is to know about poetry or stories, but even when I'm a big grown-up, that won't have changed!

But the amount of contests there are by KIDkids, annoys me! I don't see how these children can believe that people will want to enter a contest that says "Yay. Happy squirrel day! Write me a conest abut pupies or anyfink fwuffy!"
I don't care about the age of the person running a contest I enter - I care about the quality of it. A 45-year-old publishing the above contest would annoy me as much as a five-year-old creating it. If the subject matter is sensible, and the judge fair and punctual, that's all that matters to me.

I think it's because teens have more time to create them.

And not all of us "tweenies" are immature... I like to think that I do a pretty good job with my contests. I always make sure that people follow the rules (or they get a DQ), my comments are actually constructive, my ideas are generally sane, and I always judge within a week. And I'm only fifteen.


But there are lots of contests I enter that end up being canceled because the judge doesn't do anything, and it pisses me off.