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Finished reading them all now. Gonna sleep on them and vote tomorrow but I already have at least one excellent and several greats in mind. This is been a high quality turnout and a joy to read.
As for the shenanigans, I normally avoid mentioning such silly things as they happen pretty much in every OWC, but they happen in pretty much every OWC.
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Surprised there wasn't a Sci-Fi or an old-timey Christmas Western in the bunch. Sci-fi especially - thought for sure there would have been someone with an ornament with an alien portal into this strange holiday tradition.
I did expect elves on shelves.
I did not expect dildos. Nothing wrong with that - it just wasn't something I imagined coming (no pun intended).
I need to be a bit more careful. Thankfully Jeff pointed out a couple that I must have rushed through the first time around that I totally got on the second read. That resulted in score changes for me. I think sometimes I need to adopt a - if I didn't get it, it might have been the reader rather than the writer - approach to these.
If there were newbies in this challenge - well done. Typically, the newbies are obvious in these OWCs - I saw no instances where I thought - ah.... this is a new writer for sure. So kudos if you are out there.
Finished up this morning, read back through reviews to refresh, and voted.
There certainly was a full spectrum of entries, I'll give you that. I expected multiple elves on shelves (creepy little buggers that they are), some heartfelt entries, and some slashers (maybe not to that extreme, though). I, however, did not expect the rear entry. Rim shot.
Great job, everyone. Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year to all!
Oh man, it dropped to -35 Celsius overnight here, lock-down… pffft, bring it on. Nowhere to go, nothing to do now till after Christmas, so all good.
Kind of caught up on the threads a bit, bummer people disappeared, been there done that. Emotional roller coaster these things sure are; that which doesn’t kill us… makes us insane.
Anyway, thought I better check my previous comments to be sure I wasn’t an instigator as well, considering I drank and posted, err… think I’m good. I read all the scripts of this OWC, found a bit of time to post on three. Lots of scripts to like this time around; the one script I really like is gone, another (one of my posts) is long winded and pretty much out of scope with everything, but I did mention it’ll probably get made, so, hopefully the author understands it’s nothing more than (bad) dry humour from my end, and is to be taken with a big gnarly grain of salt.
Curious to see who wrote what, I’m actually curious about a lot of things, like… where the heck did this year go? With all that was going on you’d think I’d be memorable, but no, I simply cannot remember anything memorable… it’s all been one big blur. But now I’m wandering, so truly… Merry Christmas all!
Phew! Okay then. I wanted to share our praise here since everybody's handing them out. Some mighty fine entries, not a bad one in the bunch. Had a blast reading them all. No losers. Writing is a lonely, frustrating, insular process that breeds discontent and self-doubt. Trust your talent. Progress; grow. Seek help from people near you. Keep writing. Keep reading.
Hope you had a fine Chrissy Day's festivities. I'm dying to know what you got btw, but Don hasn't put it up yet, so...
I'm guessing Ant for two entries (which doesn't take a genius) but I'll stay Mum/Mom for now... Oh, and I think I have yours pegged, but could be wrong.
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