I know nothing about mammatus clouds and how they form - I just didn’t think that photo made them look at all benign!
Just around 34 hours left to vote - if you’re sitting on the fence, now’s the time to get off it!!
The poll is closed and the December 2013 SDMB Short Fiction Contest has come to an end (though there is still time and lots of space for comments on the stories). First, a big hand for our writers -
chrisk
araminty
Savannah
DMark
Le Ministre de l’au-delà
GIGObuster and
Octarine. Take a bow, everyone!
And a special hand for DMark, whose story Happy Birthday was voted the readers’ favourite, making him the winner of the PoeSakiParkerHenry award. **DMark **is now our first three-time winner - hooray!
I’d like to say a special thanks to The Mods for their assistance in the running of these ongoing contests - the writers and I greatly appreciate the opportunity, and the extra work these contests always seem to cause.
Please, stick around a while longer and discuss the stories. I’m hoping to run another Short Fiction Contest ‘in a couple of months’, define so loosely as to be almost meaningless. Meantime, I’ll see if I can do another poetry contest before the month is out.
I might give the next one a try. Sadly, I’m horrible at taking criticism. That’s something I need to get better at.
Thank you all, and a special thanks to Le Ministre de l’au-dela for organizing this once again. It is always fun and interesting to see what everyone comes up with using the constraints of time, the photo, words and word count. If anyone reading this hasn’t entered one of these contests, give it a go. It gets the creative juices flowing.
If I may be so bold as to mention I have just recently finished a comedy novel and have the link posted on the Marketplace. There will be an update with grammar and spelling corrections in the next week or so. Just like in these short stories, it is amazing how many stupid errors you can make and not even notice until it is out there, warts and all.
BTW, I was duly impressed that a couple of you looked up the name of those clouds in the photo! That idea never dawned on me. And if I ever did see a sky like that - well - I think I really would run into the house and sit in the bathtub and pull a mattress over my head!
Congratulations DMark!
I had a lot of fun this round, and I really like my first draft, even if a major character’s name did switch halfway through. :smack: I’ve already gotten two full critiques on it from my Odyssey group, and I’ve got plenty of ideas for expanding and tweaking the plot, but the basic premise is going to stay the same.
Congratulations, DMark! As always, highly entertaining, and you have the talent to make a reader keep reading.
Thank you to jackdavinci, not what you’d expect, Le Ministre de l’au-delà, DMark for taking the time to do critiques. Feedback like that is so valuable, and is truly appreciated. I meant to post some of my own, but fell short of time after post-Christmas busy-ness.
Thanks, as always, to everyone who read and voted, and to Le Ministre for organising.
See you next Prompt/Picture!