Short story info...

LaurieAK · Post by **LaurieAK** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:00 am

I want to thank everyone who entered stories. They are all great!

In a few days the winners will be announced and all the stories published here on the forum.

I don't want any problems to arise because *I* am involved in the process so I will ask someone else to do the reveal. I will stay completely (publicly) out of this process from now on.

No worries.

Thanks again.

regards,
Laurie

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:33 am

Whatever ......... Self-sacrificially noble

of you. The dangers were clearly lurking

. "Laurie of Wuthering Heights" is beginning to sound like a very good title for a very short story.

Meanwhile ~ back at the Short Story Corral:

May the short story that wins, Win

! Best of luck to all the entrants! I can't wait to read them all

.

~ Lizzy

John K. · Post by **John K.** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:47 am

Laurie, it would certainly make sense for me to identify the writers if that is what we're going to do. I (I guess Jarkko too if he looked at my PM's) am the only one who knows every entrant. The other option is for people to identify themselves if they see fit.

Just let me know.

John K.

LaurieAK · Post by **LaurieAK** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:55 am

HI John~

I'll address this with you in private.

thx,
L

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:16 pm

Well, I hope this gets settled soon, and there's a PSA on it. I know I need to know, in advance, the name of the person who will be announcing the winners. I know that, to date, I wouldn't have believed the results were really the results, or the winners were really the winners, unless that information had come straight from Laurie herself.

Nope. Not me. It would have been veeeerrrrrrrryyyy suspect if John, lovely Andrea, or any of the Berlin committee, had posted the results. Well, truly, I think I'd have, out-of-hand, rejected any [supposedly

], final info coming from any of them ~ unless I'd been given plenty of advance notice.

So, I hope this closed-door session is productive, and its results are very soon announced. There are some of us who will still need lead time to work through our denial of who it won't be, and to see if who it will be really can be reconciled with our previous [now dashed], high expectations.

Feel free to PM me with the results of this latest development of Announcer Decision, if you like; though, I really do prefer that you announce it publicly, as there remain others who need to know. Entry is only one. Whichever you prefer is fine with me, though. We can triage the rest, when the time comes.

~ Lizzy

< * holds breath in anticipation of turning blue * >

* hope the decision arrives soon *
< * she really wanted it to be Laurie * >

margaret · Post by **margaret** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:42 pm

If I recall previous poetry competitions, when the winning entries were announced it was only the poems themselves that were identified as winners or runner-ups. People then commented on them in their anonymous state and it was some time later that the writers "claimed" a poem as their creation.

It really doesn't matter who makes an anouncement, but I think the authors should be allowed to keep their identity secret if they wish until afterwards, so comments will not be swayed by knowing the author.

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:50 pm

Yes, Margaret, that's exactly how it was, and for the reasons you've stated. I know I was [still am] looking forward to the winning stories, regardless of who the writers were [and still are].

However, your comments probably ought to be restricted to the private meeting already in progress. It's down the hall, third door on the left. You can't miss it. Just knock lightly. No need to say who you are. Just announce, from outside the closed door, "It's not Lizzy."

Vince · Post by **Vince** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:34 pm

John K. · Post by **John K.** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 5:00 pm

lizzytysh wrote:
Nope. Not me. It would have been veeeerrrrrrrryyyy suspect if John, lovely Andrea, or any of the Berlin committee, had posted the results. Well, truly, I think I'd have, out-of-hand, rejected any [supposedly ], final info coming from any of them ~ unless I'd been given plenty of advance notice.

How am I getting dragged into this? Lizzy, what the hell are you talking about?

LaurieAK · Post by **LaurieAK** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 6:51 pm

Anyone:
Please don't be starting false rumours as to who is or isn't part of the 5 person judging committee.

As of this morning, by popular demand, I am STILL going to be the poster of the results when it happens.

If the contest gets spoiled by someone behaving badly (because it is *me*), all I can do is apologize in advance. What is going on here speaks for itself.

regards,
Laurie

Fljotsdale · Post by **Fljotsdale** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:31 pm

Heck, Laurie, I don't give a darn who announces it so long as it's MY story that wins, LOLOL!

By rights, of course, it ought to be LC himself doing the judging and announcing.

But I'll shut the door on fantasyland before I get even more silly!

LaurieAK · Post by **LaurieAK** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:36 pm

Heck Fljotsdale, I don't give a darn either!

Making sure the results get a 'friendly' reception is/was my only concern.

toodles,
Laurie

Byron · Post by **Byron** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:55 pm

Will you please stop toodling. I have young ferrets reading this thread, and the constant reference to toodles is making them very difficult to control.
Multiple buckets of cold water are driving them mad.

Tiddles

byron.

LaurieAK · Post by **LaurieAK** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:01 pm

AHahHahaha~

After I wrote and posted that, I remember about the "bundling" thing and considered altering my sign off. But I didn't

Maybe you should hide the 'mouse' from your ferrets if you don't want them reading inappropriate material. Aren't there parental controls for such things?
Don't go Blaming ME, Mr. B (hehe).

tood....um, I mean, ciao,
L

Byron · Post by **Byron** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:34 pm

Parental control of me mouse and me ferrets and Albert is too much for me to cope wiv in any one day.
Have you any idea of how heavy a bucket of water is?
There are days when the next best option would be to drown me mouse and let Albert lose in the ferret house.