Big Finish 2 Contest!

I'm so excited! I logged in today, hoping to find a round robin or something like that (it is, after all, a Wednesday!! -- call me Pavlov's contest junkie!!) and I found this. 

 I'm going to have to roll this around in my head a bit, but I can already see several possibilities. 

 Wooo Hooo!!!

I am glad that I checked this site again. I am entering the contest, this time with more smarts...I hope.

Good luck to all that enter.

I guess I'd say that if you've written the piece the way you think it should be, then I'd go for it as is and not worry about it!   (This said by the woman who generally writes TWO and then can't decide which to send!!!)

 I have ideas, but I still haven't committed them to paper (er, computer!)  Good job for getting it done so quickly!!

 Hi Austin! Good luck to you, too!! Are you done yet? Or still working on it?

(You know me, queen of questions!) This is PG-13, right? We can't take it, say, Blaze level, right? Thx!

I confess, mine is definitely headed in a Blaze direction, but with only 3,000 words to play with, I was able to rein them in (just barely--had to cut to those dread *** to keep it clean!).  But with an opening like that, they were running pretty hot from the gate

Having just come off finishing my Spice Brief, I'm thinkin' in a totally different way these days!!! :-)  I may have to "Spice" it up!! (Or, at the very least, Blaze it up!)

I never heard anything about underlining for italics instead of using italics!  I type everything the way it would normally appear.  That whole switcharoo bit sounds like craziness to me.  Now we know why I'm still unpublished

Thanks for asking Jodie. I am still working on this but hope to finish in a couple of days. I entered the first contest and hope that I learned enough to place in this one. I enjoy writing enough to want to grow with it. Good luck to all that enters this contest.

Regards,

RAM

Hope,

Wow, that is a lot of font info.  I usually use Times New Roman.  Can't stand Courier (there's never room to say anything).  But just between you and me, when I'm on my own and nobody's looking, I have a secret thing with Garamond!

BTW, isn't Pica also a name for a disorder in which people eat non-food items?  Hmm...maybe that's why I have such an aversion to Courier...

Didn't realize that was what the disorder resulting in a person's becoming a geophage was called!  Ick!   LOL 

There's also a little critter, member of the genus Rodentia, called a Pika....  (Actually, they're kind of cute, like a hamster.) 

And now we all know more than we want to about Pica. 

I had thought TNR 14 was about the same size as C 12, but usually they say to submit in TNR 12, also...  so I don't know.  I like Garamond, too.  Another favorite for older-looking styles is Bookman. 

Okay, there, it's done, it's sent, it's in someone else's hands now (unless it got lost!)

I read over my entry and decided, imperfect though it may be, I don't know how to make it any better (not without exceeding the word limit, LOL).  So I up and sent it in!!!

Has anyone else entered yet? 

3000 words on the nose, LOL! I'm going to try to shrink it the tiniest bit, though.  I was having such a rough time coming up with an angle to this that I thought about skipping it. Then, one morning, I was in the shower and....voila! I started typing as soon as I could. PHEW!!!

Hope...I'm sure you'll get it finished! 

 And Olivia, good for you for sending it in! Your post was one of the the sparks, I think, that set my muse free. So thank you. :-)

Austin, how goes the story?

And Dee....really? TNR 14? I always thought TNR 12. Oops. My bad! Thanks for the info.  BTW...I thought I was *so* going the Blaze/Spice route for this contest...nope. Go figure!!!

Glad you finished & got that in!  I'm still working on mine intermittently...where does time go so quickly, anyway?  These last three days have been filled to the brim with activity, and I haven't had a minute to write anything, not even my NaNo book which I want to finish and get critted before the RWA conference, if I can... 

"I am woman.  I am invincible."  "I am tired."  Cathy Guiswite (how does she spell her name, anyway?)

I finished my entry last night. I should say in the wee hours of the morning. This was more fun this time. I just relaxed and let er rip.

Good luck to all who enters.

How many are "tons"???

  I love these contests...but with the system changes I just noticed it today!  I'm guessing quite a few individuals that normally enter may not even realize it exists. 

Dee - is there any way opportunities like this can be communicated on multiple boards?  Maybe I just totally overlooked it (that happens more often than I would like to admit), but typically there seems to be a lot more post activity when these contests are underway. 

Rita

Thanks Dee!  You have done an awesome job of helping everyone get acclimated to all of the site changes.  For some of us the learning curve is rather steep...

 Rita

...at mine.  Only 5 more days.  I've been unbelievably busy this month!  I'm trying to do FAWM again this year, and so far I've only written about 5 tunes out of the 14 I need to do!  All this plus trying to finish my novel....  I need the old EEK smilie...    Oh, well.  Looking forward to hearing about everyone's entries! 

Good luck in the contest!

I'm thankful I was able to make the time to enter!  Good luck to you, too!    And to everyone! 

I imagine if the writing is good, that will count for more than the idea that there is still more of the story left to be told.  (I don't know for certain, though!)  Also, I don't remember getting an acknowledgement from last year's Big Finish Contest, so you probably won't.  However, if you don't get an "undeliverable" message back in your inbox or junk mail folder, you can probably assume it got there safely and is being read!  They will read everything, bless them!  I imagine they're going to see all kinds of Harlequin-style stories this go-round! 

Hope,

Okay, I decided to bow down and switch all my writing to Courier (wince).  Now I'm having trouble with my dashes.  When you make a dash in Times New Roman, you hit the hyphen button twice with no spaces on either side, and it makes a nice long dash.

But when I switched my manuscript over to Courier, all the dashes look a lot like a hyphen.  Personally, I think it's distracting, because every time I come to one as I'm reading along, I have to stop and think about which it really is.   I saw a submission sample here on Harlequin that looked almost as though there were spaces on either side of the dash.  My trusty old style-guide says this is a no-no, but my instinct tells me to err on the side of clarity.

Any insights?  thanks a bunch!