Would it be within the rules to submit a mid-story chapter for an entry, provided it fit into the time-travel genre?

 

I'd like to know that as well, but in regards to the first chapter of a story. Can we submit that?

 

You don't plan to submit The Unforgiving Minute chapter, do you? Because we may as well announce its winning already and move to the next month contest.

EDIT: Unless of course others will do something similar (like Joe who is just reading this thread).

 

Yeah, I think that's cool. Voice did it with Ouroboros - which was in Feb's contest and now sits in WBA awaiting further updates.

Submitting a chapter in the middle of a story well underway, however, seems a bit iffy to me. It'll require knowledge of the rest of the story, or would have to be edited as stand-alone just for the contest. It might get passed over by a few judges because they've never read the rest of the story and don't want to go through another 50,000 words or so... Just a thought.

 

For the Feburary contest, I submitted the first chapter of a story. There were other "issues" with it, but the fact that it was the first chapter was not one of them.

Ha, thanks. I was going to move on to other stories with 'The Tenth Hour' complete, but if the category is 'Time Travel', then I have motivation to do otherwise.

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This is a valid point. I think in general, the idea of the story is simple enough, especially the 11th hour, that picking it up at that point wouldn't be that disorienting, but I'd be curious to see Xiph's thoughts on the matter, since they probably are the only ones that matter.

 

Awesome, because I have a really... interesting idea for a time travel fic, but it'd be impossible for it to be encompassed in a single chapter (it would possibly be over 100,000 words long otherwise).

 

No. No in progress. It was agreed at the start. Only "new" works. (Or storys that haven't been posted before.)

 

I can't recall reading that. At least there's no question now.

 

I swear it was in one thread or another. Probably thinking of a staff thread when someone asked in private...

 

I'm sure that I read that somewhere, because I thought of several stories that would otherwise have been submitted and realized, nah, can't do that.

We can sign up to judge soon? I've got nothing in the pipes for time-travel, though I'll probably be working on Romance and Independent entries.

 

Volunteering can start now, I suppose, but judges probably won't be selected for a while probably. Also keep in mind, anyone selected for April judging is auto-DQed for judging May.

 

I haven't been selected for any of the months, so yeah I guess I'm putting my name in again.

 

I'll put in for judging

 

I'd like to judge as well.

 

I'll try judging again.

 

Can I judge now? Pretty please.

 

I'll give it a go.

 

Time-travel, is it?

I can write time travel with my cock tied behind my back.

Was there a word limit on these things?

 

Xiph0 wrote it when he put down the rules in the DLP January Awards Judges Application Thread here.

'Cuz I seriously need to find myself something to do.