TTAC Future Writers Week: Help! Help! I'm Drowning!
This is day five of TTAC’s Future Writers Week. We have three new winners. We have seven new contestants. And I have a huge problem.
Let’s get to Thursday’s winners first. It looks like you had no problem picking them. Sex, crime, Autobahn and Nürburgring carried the day yesterday. Not quite in that order, but that’s what keeps it interesting. Keeping with the budding writer theme, it was mostly PG13: We did read stories about front bench seats that were used for nothing else than a dumping ground for fast food residue, we learned about a pervert who did not want to party with people half his age, and who preferred an affair with a Peugeot instead. It was a winning combination. Yesterday’s winners are:
- Andrew Lok, a.k.a. Contestant #28
- Matt Oppen, a.k.a. Contestant #22
- Sean Scoggins, a.k.a. Contestant #24
We congratulate thee! With the votes and confidence of your peers, you have advanced into the ranks of TTAC’s Future Writers. Hold your horses, bask in your glory, and wait until you hear from us for your first writing assignment.
I also must admit that I am having a huge problem. With today’s new batch of seven, we will have juried 35 contestants. Looking at my email-inbox, I have contestants for at least another week, if not more. I think, the prudent thing to do is to immediately say:
No more applications, please! The inbox is closed.
As for what to do with the huge backlog, I need your advice. Voting once every four years seems to be big enough a bother, but voting each day for weeks? I could blow them all out over the week-end. Want to jury a huge collection of one-liners over two days and get it over with? I could do personal triage and simply take the ones I think are good. I bet the commentariat has better ideas. Let’s hear them. And don’t send more applications, please! There will be another contest, trust me.
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29 and 33. good luck. Not voted before cause I was on vacation. Good luck to all. God knows that if I had had to submit to such a process, I'd not be picked. Who wants to read about BRazil on a (mostly) American site? 1.0s against v8s? Sheeehshshhshs
My two cents on one-liners... It's hard enough to judge writing ability from a paragraph. From just one line? ... Maybe one big poll with a thumbs up/ down per one-liner, and a "none of the above" option, for all the short ones? Or just zap them as not following directions... You did ask for a paragraph or two as I recall...