RHP Prose Contest 2021

@neilarini said
So do we put forward our choice? 'Cause I'm sticking with murder mystery.

As I wrote I will set up a ballot and I will create a new thread for it. I suggest that we use the site's facility, which limits us to one vote. If you would wish that we can set up three ballots with "first choice", "second choice" and "third choice". Votes would be counted with a multiplicator of 5, 3 and 1 respectively.

@ponderable said
So the list as collected by Paul A. Roberts was:

1. Futuristic western
2. Alien invasion
3. Murder mystery
4. Romance
5. Hobnobs (Lemondrops concept)
6. Period drama with a twist
7. Mission to Mars
8. Conspiracy

I add (from my original intention):

9. a happy day

I now will let settle this and set up a poll if nobody makes a serious suggestion in the next few hours.

I am sorry about the amount of edits...

Travel.

@trev33 said
Travel.

Might be nice to take a fictional journey when most of us can't really go anywhere.

@ponderable said
As I wrote I will set up a ballot and I will create a new thread for it. I suggest that we use the site's facility, which limits us to one vote. If you would wish that we can set up three ballots with "first choice", "second choice" and "third choice". Votes would be counted with a multiplicator of 5, 3 and 1 respectively.[poll]8A4E5AC802C5EB2790AAA5B5CE87284F[/poll]

We have 16 votes now.
If we reach 20 I will count the ballots, regardless of the running time. (I intended to make that 24 hours, but messed up 🙁 )

@ponderable said
As I wrote I will set up a ballot and I will create a new thread for it. I suggest that we use the site's facility, which limits us to one vote. If you would wish that we can set up three ballots with "first choice", "second choice" and "third choice". Votes would be counted with a multiplicator of 5, 3 and 1 respectively.[poll]8A4E5AC802C5EB2790AAA5B5CE87284F[/poll]

17 votes...so you can still be a part of the process (ends latest in about a day)

@ponderable said
@WOLFE63

I do hope that you make it this year 😉

I am sincerely, doing my best to try.
Time constraints be damned.
Insecurities be slammed.
A prosaic muse, lest not to satisfy.

While the vote on the topic goes on. Another question would be on timing. We had six weeks in the past. And I think we can keep that.

Any comments?

So I think we managed to circumvent the cliffs.

I announce herewith:

The RHP Prose contest 2021

Rules:
* We do a contest for original prose, written by RHP members. So please contribute only things you have written yourself. All material should be thought of as copyrighted and authors who wish will be attributed to their work. (Those who wish to be anonymous can get that also.
* Language is English.
* Length is no more than 1000 words (excluding the title).
* Topic is "Murder Mystery".
* You can send your entries either via (sometimes multiple) PM to me. Or you can send a file with a reasonable format (txt, rtf, doc, doc, odt, pdf (not secured) ) to Ponderable_Dickens@Yahoo.com. I will try to send receipts. Please contact me if I don't (it has happened that mails were in the SPAM).
* each author can send in up to three contributions. You can always change contributions, send edited versions, or pull back if you want to until I posted the stories.
* The competition ends in six weeks time: 8th of March 17:00 GMT.
* I will create a new thread with the stories, in which can be voted (three votes: 1st, 2nd and 3rd).
* If the story can't be posted on the Forum I will try to identify the reason and streamline accordingly (If you don't want this to happen try posting the story to see if it goes through yourself , don't forget to delete it immediately after the test.)

If something comes up, I will add to this set of rules.

The posting it yourself as a test, no need, just use the post preview.

@trev33 said
The posting it yourself as a test, no need, just use the post preview.

So it won't show the preview.? ..I didn't know that.

@ponderable said
So it won't show the preview.? ..I didn't know that.

No, just above post, if you tick the preview before post box it'll show you what your post will look like without actually posting it. It was handy for the chocolate bar competition.

@trev33 said
No, just above post, if you tick the preview before post box it'll show you what your post will look like without actually posting it. It was handy for the chocolate bar competition.

I can't recall when I last had a chocolate bar, gave them up many years ago!

-VR

@very-rusty said
I can't recall when I last had a chocolate bar, gave them up many years ago!

-VR

I had one at 6:32 pm this evening. (Crunchie).

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I had one at 6:32 pm this evening. (Crunchie).

Enjoy while you can! 😉

-VR

@very-rusty said
Enjoy while you can! 😉

-VR

Why would I ever stop enjoying?