Sorry. The scores are classified until revealed to the general public.
Finished with scoring another one. Is it okay if I put different amount of effort into each explanation? I'll probably talk more about the ones I feel more passionate to (the ones that have more extreme scores).
Okay, so far, I have two 3-stars, two 4-stars, and one 1-star. Yes, we have a 1-star. Thicken your skins.
I smile gleefully at your pain. -adds another needle-
edited 15th Oct '11 6:29:37 PM by chihuahua0
Out of five.
- Five 15/15: Fantastic
- Four 12/15: Great
- Three 9/15: Good
- Two 6/15 : Flawed
- One 3/15: Boring
If you really want to know, PM me and I'll tell you which entry got it.
Or is it save to throw it out here?
EDIT: Wait, did I shift my scale this time around? If I did, then I'll have to lower the scores a little for balance, but...
EDIT 2: Oh, this was what I used last time:
12: Great and interesting. Would read it again.
9: Good but average. Could read it again.
6: Passable but with flawed. Could live without reading it again, but probably won't read it again.
3: Boring/Horrible. Not going to read it again.
edited 15th Oct '11 6:39:09 PM by chihuahua0
I'll just tide myself over by waiting for the rest of Chihuahua's little mini-assessments. I don't know why I'm so excited, as I already admitted to myself I feel I did sub-par this contest. Seeing the results is interesting, though. Jewelled seems to have had a relatively high opinion of this contest's entries in general, while Chihuahua's more over the board.
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada![]()
we would be lying to ourselves if we though they are completely objetive in the first place. Concepts like "boring", "flawed" or"I would read it again" are very subjetive.
For instance I woulndn't readd Philospher's stone again and yet it is considered a great book by many.
I am more interested on the obetive coments of the judges about the stories.In other words, whete or not they can recognise a good story wheter they like it or not.
edited 15th Oct '11 7:00:55 PM by FallenLegend
Make your hearth shine through the darkest night; let it transform hate into kindness, evil into justice, and loneliness into love.But I think I ditched the whole "would/wouldn't read" stuff, since that had been hard to determine. I judge more from the feeling I get from the piece, and how intriguing the plot is:
- 5: Makes me giggly/You finally manage to make me cry.
- 4: You're creating a thrill in my stomach.
- 3: Little feeling in stomach/filling.
- 2: A little jerky, but still filling.
- 1: Meh.
You are the judge. I only ask you not to get a bit biased by "balancing scores". It wouldn't be bad IMO if several entries had similar scores. Thye need to be judged by their own merits and not in relation to the others... don't they?
edited 15th Oct '11 7:34:32 PM by FallenLegend
Make your hearth shine through the darkest night; let it transform hate into kindness, evil into justice, and loneliness into love.All right...I'll grade as normal, and then look at the scores.
The problem I'm having is that I think the thrill I feel from each entry is bubbling over to the next one. Either that or a sensitive stomach, as I have now. I might have to take it slowly to not.."taint" the scores.
By the way, I decided to scramble the order I judge the entries, just in case. The next one looks...different, but I'll sustain from reading it until I deal with a few things.
edited 15th Oct '11 7:37:54 PM by chihuahua0
I've gone from worrying about my story to being genuinely curious how it will be judged. Spoilered for the judges' sake (no peeking if you're a judge!): I'm fairly certain it's the one that was described as having Beige Prose, since this was a complaint that Mild Guy made when he edited it. The thing is, I normally write in this style, and while I've been told I'm a little on the beige side, it's never been a serious problem before. The issues might be that a): I used no contractions in the narration, and b): I had the narrator avoid using pronouns to refer to two of the three major characters, leading to repetition of phrases like "the wisest of us said."
Also, I'm betting Mild Guy's story was the one that was "Noir and Witty."
edited 16th Oct '11 12:26:28 AM by feotakahari
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful

awww.
In that case, for us hyperactive squirrels, could jewelled PM me (and anybody else who wants them, snowy prolly included) the scores, then?
edited 15th Oct '11 6:29:00 PM by Chubert
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