Jordan aka FltAdmlWolf

Coming this weekend. Just got the next round's challenge from Danzia on Tuesday or Wednesday. And anyway, no one ever submits anything until the last two weeks

There seemed to be no great hatred for the themes, so we're going to keep them for now. The 1st and 3rd challenges of each year are non-themed, so people have that to look forward to...

Reviews from VAdml. Hollis:

Congratulations again, Danzia

These are other reviews from Lily Ventu, our guest judge who was winner of the last round. Reviews from other judges are also coming soon.

Congratulations to Danzia, winner of this round, with her story "The Missing Statue"! More reviews will be posted in the coming days, as will the winner's banner and updates to the area of the website where the challenge info is posted. Thanks to everyone who participated in this round -- our next round will be announced soon!

Sorry for the delay. One of our judges has some personal commitments come up. We'll get the results out ASAP.

This thread is ONLY for moderators to post their feedback as they write it. All other posts will be DELETED. Remember: you are under no obligation to accept or follow the feedback provided. It is only provided as a courtesy to challenge participants, and only reflects the personal opinion of the person writing it. If you don't like the feedback, we don't want to hear about it -- just close the thread and move on.

No, but people are still welcome to solicit comments in that forum...

The writer's would choose any topic they wanted to write about. No particular theme to the challenge once a year, but I suppose the stories should be based on Star Trek.Isn't that what we already have in the "Character Cafe," though?

How would a "writer's choice" work?

There seems to be some confusion about this month's subject, so here's a "hint" so-to-speak: you don't have to understand the Jungian psychology behind the theme to write in the challenge. As with ALL the challenges, you are not required to write a literal "translation," in a manner of speaking, of what the challenge topic is. Just take the topic and write about it. For this specific challenge, one simply needs to write an entry about a trickster of any type.

Well, in fairness, that IS why it's called a "Challenge." It's supposed to help you step outside of your normal writing patterns and figure out new ways to write, using new characters and ideas

I don't see a registration for him in the queue. Tell him to re-register.

Please answer the poll question, and post any comments!

Remember, the contest closes on the 24th

Keeping us in suspense, eh?

Guidelines: To participate, create a new thread. The subject of the thread must be the title of your story. If it is a Work In Progress, denote that with the heart post icon. If your work is complete, use the horizontal arrow post icon. Items not marked with an icon or marked with the WiP icon will not be considered for judging and will be moved to the "Character Cafe" forum at the end of the contest. Your work must be entirely your own. No co-authoring. You are welcome to create any character you so desire, but they must be from the Star Trek universe. No "canon" characters allowed. (i.e.- No one who has been on a show.) Want to participate, but can't start a new topic? Why didn't you view the "Read Me First!" forum? You'll need to ask a moderator Senior Member to create a thread for you! Length: No more than 3000 words accepted. Beginning Date: Sat. July 6th Ending Date: Fri., Aug. 24th See Also: the Writing Challenge Website Challenge: "The Trickster or Ape" We've recently been establishing some themes for certain rounds. For Mar./Apr. we have themes from Disney films. For Sept./Oct. we have TOS episode titles. For Nov./Dec. we do "What if...?" Last year for July/Aug. we did "the pretender," which got me thinking that perhaps we could do character archetypes for this round each year. In that vein, I presented our last round's winner, Lily Ventu, with a list of Jungian archetypes and asked her to choose one. From that list, she chose "The Trickster" which is also sometimes called "The Ape." We don't care how you interpret the challenge, just as long as you make it interesting. We also recommend that you look up Jungian archetypes for an idea of what all this means. Good Luck!

Please use this thread for any discussion or questions about this writing challenge.

I'm going to do all that either tonight or tomorrow. I have a few irons in the fire

There were some special circumstances here. I just use my discretion

Because of the small group size for this round, we're not going to announce a runner-up

Isn't anyone else going to congratulate the winner? Jeez, tough crowd.

Congratulations to Lily Ventu, now a 3x winner of the Writing Challenge, for her story "Kelly's Wish"! The final review should be coming from our last judge within the next day or two. Thanks to everyone who participated in this round -- our next round is coming up in just a few days! Edit: Banners are up.

Alright folks, look like we're going to try our new method for preparing feedback! This thread is ONLY for moderators to post their feedback as they write it. All other posts will be DELETED. Remember: you are under no obligation to accept or follow the feedback provided. It is only provided as a courtesy to challenge participants, and only reflects the personal opinion of the person writing it. If you don't like the feedback, we don't want to hear about it -- just close the thread and move on.