Yeah, the swing upward is crazy. Mine is just barely above the H mark for most of the contests, but at the end it got cleaned all the way to 4.72. Not bad at all, considering that was my first attempt writing in Mature.
That's a great ending score if it's your first story. Congrats. But as someone said, the end of the contest is like trying to make a decision in the middle of a horse race. How they end it, nobody knows, but I would assume they take a snapshot at a specific planned time.
First competition entry, not first storyThat's a great ending score if it's your first story. Congrats. But as someone said, the end of the contest is like trying to make a decision in the middle of a horse race. How they end it, nobody knows, but I would assume they take a snapshot at a specific planned time.
For instance my story read 4.85 when the announcement came it was reading 4.92. I'm not even sure it that was the final because I wasn't on top of it instantly. As far as I know, voting, favs and comments are not shut off during the decision. I could be wrong.
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4.92 13239 676 42 53 107
. I've no doubt all is above board, apologies if I sounded a little whiney yesterday. The whole thing was a bit of a rollercoaster for my poor ego - the week prior I'd watched my score dive from 4.85 down to 4.5 within five refreshes as I was one-bombed. So when I was suddenly 'back' after a sweep I was dreaming of glory.we must have been level pegging (no pun intended) as I floated 4.84 / 4.85 getting then 4 votes took me down to 4.82...
Freakn awesome stats!
Readership is the name of the game and you got that in spades! Congrats.
I was fortunate to get 69 new followers (up from 1!) 285 votes and a 4.75 score. Far above what I expected
I enjoyed your story @nicksouth and many of the others - I'm still working through them. I was more than happy with my first author experience and with using a competition to do that, even though it was terrifying. My first two stories and I expected to be torn to shreds, but got 600+ votes, lots of helpful comments and scores of 4.73/4.8. From which I concluded that the Literotica readership are generally really nice and encouraging people despite some obvious 1 bombs (why do people do that?). I also have hopefully learned to punctuate dialogue better, and was grateful to the editors for picking up on that as I've spent years doing technical writing but that doesn't include much dialogue!! Entries here and here.
That is fantastic! On to the next one
I hope everything is OK. This site is my favourite place on the internet and has been for years. I'd hate for anything to happen to it.
Serious comment/question... I'm a newbie in terms of authorship and in knowing any back history. But am I right that it's Laurel and Manu running it without any structured governance support other than volunteers taking up various roles (like @Rustyoznail here for the Halloween comp)? If so, it's a really vulnerable situation from a governance perspective, and it would be important to have an organised committee of volunteers to feed questions through and offer real support if things are bad. You wouldn't want the first formal notification of a crisis to be a notice of site closure.
I wouldn't worry. It's been run in this fashion for 25 years now and survived. Laurel and Manu used to respond on threads many, many years ago, but beyond the support thread, I haven't seen a post by them for years.
@Morevinila , are you posting in the right thread? The summer comp finished a month ago. Halloween is on now.
Story is about Halloween - a masked Halloween party where unexpected things happen. Thank you for querying. What made you think my story was about Summer?
