Jordan aka FltAdmlWolf

Hmm. Well, I suppose everyone is welcome to add a "Rate this story" poll to their thread if they want, and then the judges can give their feedback in a separate thread?

Would it provide enough of an in-depth response, though?

Not much time left now

The Challenge area website has been updated with the last challenge's winner, etc. Banners are posted.

The reviews that I have for the last two challenges have been posted. Please don't hold your breath that any others are going to get done. My hope is that with the new system of posting directly, we'll be able to get more reviews more often from our judges for future challenges. - Mar.-Apr. '07 - Jan.-Feb. '07

Here are the challenge critiques we have from the last round. The rest will be posted if/when we get them:

Deadline extended until Saturday, June 23rd. Also, this round's critiques will be posted directly into this forum to help speed-up the process. I can't guarantee it's going to work well, or that all the comments will get out there, but we're going to give it a try.

The only caveat to submitting opinions directly is that there may be times when reviews are too pointed. There have been a few incidences where judges have forgotten to include the "constructive" part of the criticism, and the other judges have asked them to refactor the opinion so that it's of use to the participant. If the reviews were posted directly, we'd lose that opportunity to edit the critiques before they go out. But, on the other hand, it may be worth it just to get those critiques out there in a timely fashion. As far as this last round goes, I will be posting the winner on the website, and sending out banners and such hopefully this weekend. It's, unfortunately, a very time-consuming process to update everything that needs to be updated for the challenges, and sometimes when I have a lot on my plate it's hard to get the motivation to do specific things :-\

That might work.

To be honest, I'm not sure if it's going to get done. It seems to me that this one issue keeps holding us up every month, and it's beginning to become a strain on the judges. Moreover, while some people find it helpful, we've had a great deal of drama with the comments, in the past, as people disagree with the opinions posted. Does anyone have any suggestions about how we can work around the lag time? What about if we were to stop issuing the commentaries altogether?

This is an area for members of this training class to keep in touch with each other. DATES: The class began on May 6, 2007, and ended on May 15, 2007. LIST: sb118-academy1 COMMANDING OFFICER: LtCmdr. Julia Harden FIRST OFFICER: LtCmdr. Toni Turner CLASS MEMBERS: - Ashton Bendix - Daniel Wood - Sovel Congratulations to you all, and welcome to our fleet!

Yes, it was counted as part of the contest. I just reviewed the judges scores, and yours was among them.

I'll get out the banners in a day or so. A bit worn out after sorting through 1500 e-mails in the last 24 hours

There's no way to edit it after a few hours. Just reply to your original post with your new version.

Wow... this has to be the fastest we've ever had this many stories. Keep 'em coming

The judges who are assessing the entries just give a number-based qualification to each entry. We then calculate the winner off that. Every judge gives a number to every story. In contrast, the reviews are done optionally by judges, and only one judge per story most times.

The word is, you'll get them when they're done

I don't think it'll be a problem.

I have some, but not all. I'm trying to collect the final ones to post them together.

np!

This is an area for members of this training class to keep in touch with each other. DATES: The class began on March 8, 2007, and ended on March 14, 2007. LIST: sb118-academy1 COMMANDING OFFICER: LtCmdr. Toni Turner FIRST OFFICER: LtCmdr. Julia Harden CLASS MEMBERS: -Galvin Prox Congratulations to you all, and welcome to our fleet!

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.) Challenge: "Lies" Last year for this round of the contest, our challenge was "A Poison Apple," a theme right out of "Snow White" by Walt Disney. This year, I asked William Carrington, the last round's winner, to choose a theme from "Pinocchio," Disney's second animated film. So what is it about "lies" that is essential to the human experience? Your challenge is to show us what "lies" can do to people. (Topic chosen by last winner, William Carrington.) Length: No more than 3000 words accepted. Beginning Date: Fri., Mar. 9th Ending Date: Sun., Apr. 22nd See Also: the Writing Challenge Website. Good Luck!

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

Congratulations to our winner for this round, William Carrington! Heath West claims the "runner-up" position. Great work, all! Look for the next challenge information within a week!