RHP fiction contest 2023 announcement thread

RHP fiction contest 2023 announcement thread

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@Kevin-Eleven

Awesome. Thank you.
I like comedy but your comment about the world being so crazy is the topic it's open is brilliant.

I almost like you now.

Don't post the stories until all are submitted. JMO

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Gonna crush you Ghost!!

Private club my ass!!

My story has been brewing for years!

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@booger said
@Kevin-Eleven

Awesome. Thank you.
I like comedy but your comment about the world being so crazy the topic is open is brilliant.

I almost like you now...
I had in mind something that Pearl S. Buck wrote, something like "A time of lively conversation is a great time to write novels."

Plus, no need to like me (or your conception of me) -- it has emerged that according to one of Putin's closest advisers I might be a gay gene-modded military combat mosquito. 😉

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@kevin-eleven said
I had in mind something that Pearl S. Buck wrote, something like "A time of lively conversation is a great time to write novels."

Plus, no need to like me (or your conception of me) -- it has emerged that according to one of Putin's closest advisers I might be a gay gene-modded military combat mosquito. 😉
Maybe true...

Over here we vote on stories.
Democracy baby 🕺

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I'm so drunk I had an idea that I knew would win but I forgot 🤣

True story.

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@booger said
@Kevin-Eleven

Don't post the stories until all are submitted. JMO
I'm also trying to be considerate of the dozen or so readers who might be voting. 😉

I was about to ask how many choices the poll function would allow, but then I remembered previous contests used ranked voting, where people voted for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.

I think that this time around I'll just ask the voters to mention their top three (one point each: which will make it easier for the voters as well as the score compiler), but of course people would also be free to say what was their most favorite, and also to list honorable mentions, and to scribble whatever additional blandishments they might be moved to make.

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@kevin-eleven said
I'm also trying to be considerate of the dozen or so readers who will be voting. 😉
Cut off date.

Submit before then or face the Kevin 7 Eleven wrath!!

It's not rocket science. 🙄

(Ponderable will help you)

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@booger said
Cut off date.

Submit before then or face the Kevin 7 Eleven wrath!!

It's not rocket science. 🙄

(Ponderable will help you)
I'm running this, not you. Period.

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@booger said
Maybe true...

Over here we vote on stories.
Democracy baby 🕺
"My parents made a good life for us kids out of little means. We grew up on hot dogs and beans, and one time at Christmas Mom heated our temporary single-wide mobile home with the gas oven because the electric was off. Pretty cool and funny to see that chunk of ice in the toilet in the morning."

(true-ish story)

"But don't you dare vote for me -- because if our democracy is built on representing sociopathic connivers with loose morals, I want nothing to do with y'all!"

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@kevin-eleven removed their quoted post
I’m not sure the PM system carries individual messages that long.

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@divegeester said
I’m not sure the PM system carries individual messages that long.
Would you mind checking with your uncle/brother-in-law about that limit?

Thanks in advance,
Kevin

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@kevin-eleven said
Would you mind checking with your uncle/brother-in-law about that limit?

Thanks in advance,
Kevin
Sure, happy to be of any help you need.

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@divegeester said
Sure, happy to be of any help you need.
So, what's the upper character limit for a PM?

Hoping you won't manage to disappoint us all.

Or are you and @Russ not on speaking terms at the moment?

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@kevin-eleven said
So, what's the upper character limit for a PM?
I’ve no idea, but I know there is one, as Ponderable used email for the submissions.