I'd assumed it was Midnight Saturday, ie 39 hours from when I'm posting this...

EDIT Saturday morning

Not that it matters now, as I think everyone who was going to enter one, actually has now...

Good luck everyone

The deadline is Midnight GMT on Saturday 30th March. That's 14 hours from now.

Also, for the love of god people, please pay attention to the bit in the rules where it says the minimum wordcount is 3000 words.* I've had to discard 3 entries so far because they're below it. And considering that I've receved a grand total 7, that means that almost half of them have had to be thrown on the scrap heap.



*This means your entry must be more than 3000 words, as apparently this concept is difficult for a good number of people to grasp.

You didn't see the panic in the everything thread last night mate... people thought it meant Midnight LAST night. And to be honest, seeing as everyone was desperately trying to get entries in, and it's supposed to be for fun...

If it's under the wordcount, can't we just let that slide? Otherwise as you say, 3 people who've worked like crazy yesterday trying to do this, will not have their's accepted, and that sucks. Community contest, friendly, love everyone etc etc.

I'd let them in, but that's my personal opinion. If anyone who's entered feels strongly against that, well, fair enough, but if everyone's ok with it what's the harm? The aim of this was to get everyone writing around a common theme wasn't it?

It was stated in the rules, clearly and unambiguosly that the minimum wordcount is 3000 words. Seriously, that's easy to see. That's super-duper easy to see unless you are visually impaired or struggle to read English. Were there members of the forum who were visually impaired or struggling to read English, I would have been happy to accomodate them, but as there appear to be none, then it's just people not paying attention. After having not paid attention to the 4-week deadline I gave them, I then extended the deadline by another two weeks. That is two weeks to write 3000 words. That is not difficult.

The fact that, after having a total of six weeks to write 3000 words, they have not written 3000 words, just means I am annoyed. This is supposed to be a challenge, and it's not challenging if I simply keep moving the goalposts to accomodate all of the contestants.

Well apparently I read something wrong when checking the post-length before I sent my entry to you, so unless something went wrong when you were counting, go ahead, disqualify me.

You have till Midnight tonight mate, so if it is under, you have time to fix it.

I’m sure the time confusion is all my fault. I took midnight March 30 to mean 12:00 a.m. March 30, and I was asking if that was the deadline.

But that’s good news I think, the deadline is tonight! That means another day for folks to work if they want rather than being disqualified, no extension necessary.

Wait, why were so many scrambling like crazy on the last day to write it? Kobby was out of the country for ten days and then very ill, but I thought he was the only one who wasn't here.

Come on, Kobby you can do it! Anyone that can post hundreds of comments all over the boards daily can easily plop a few more words on their story!

Yeah.....I don't have the story anymore. Unless mustard sends it back to me, I can't work on it anymore.

You not have a copy in your sent pm's?

Nope. Nothing

Didn't you write it on a word doc? Come on Kobby, I know you can do it! You are an Awesome writer, I've been looking forward to trying to figure out which one is yours by the humorous dialogue!

I didn't write it in a word doc, lol. I wrote it in the PM to mustard, and sent it to him when I was done.

Oh, balls. Send him a pm asking him to forward it back to you, and let's hope he logs back in!!!

I just hope he logs back on...

If you do it in a word doc it counts the words for you, Kobby. And something like that you should always click that "Send copy to my sent folder" before sending it to Mustard. Did you PM Mustard and ask him to send it back to you? Copy/paste it on a word doc and look under "Tools/Word Count" to see how much you need to add/how short it is of the 3,000 words. You can do this Kobby, I've got faith in you!

I've got my story back.(thanks mustard), but how much longer in U.S time until I've gotta turn it in?

12 hours from now

Pretty much exactly 12 hours.