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Pundit
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Posted: 15 Aug 2022 at 1:26pm |
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I'm a newbie. Before round 2, I found it very helpful to read highly-ranked stories from the first round. When someone posted, "I can't believe I got first place in my group!" I would click on the link to see if I could figure out what the judges liked and to see what the top writers had done better than I had done. But my method was hit-and-miss. Once the new assignments were announced, I would have loved a faster way to locate and read a few of the top stories in my genre. Of course, the top 5 finishers in each group are of greatest interest. It occurs to me that we might be able to use the list of "Top 15 Stories by Group" to compile a guide to the master list of Round 1 FF stories ranked in the top five. Here are the two links: Only a handful of people seem to use the Master List (it is a little complicated to figure out) so the goal of this post is to identify which Top-5 finishers in each group are available. I am hopeful that more top finishers will post links, too, if they realize that their stories could be helpful to others. I have created a list with titles of any Top-5 finishers posted in the Master List. Some groups did not make this list: the writers of the Top-5 stories did not post their links in the Master List. (Also - Group 94 was apparently inadvertently omitted from the Master List.) For most groups, between 1 and 4 people posted their stories. If a writer were searching this list for "good" stories, I think they would be focused on stories in their assigned genre, so I have organized the list under those categories first, then by group number. Links, again. Master List Top 15 Stories by Group Action Adventure 23 2nd Countdown to Launch 57 1st Current 5th Field Trip 63 2nd The Birdcage 115 3rd Holes Deep Enough For Our Sins Comedy 2 2nd Match Made in Heaven 5th Firefly 7 1st Diary of a Wimpy Kite 9 2nd A Chat Log with a Lucid Character 3rd Saturn-Spectacular 4th Scoops in Space 5th The Joker 40 2nd The Young'uns 4th All's Fair in Love and Darts 42 1st Paper Mouths and Fiery Tongues 3rd Paws to read 5th Liquid Literature 79 1st Planet Zoo 89 3rd Mother of the Year 5th Day of Fur Babies Crime Caper 20 3rd Get a Cue 33 1st The Freeman Job 3rd The Cat Burglaries 55 1st Selling It 3rd Things That Went Missing 102 3rd Ratted Out Drama 3 2nd Bird Strike 34 1st Don't Go Empty Handed 37 1st The Changeling 3rd Grizzly 5th The Battle of Queen's Park 44 3rd As Sure As Your Sorrows are Joys 4th The Decision Fairy Tale 4 3rd Devil's Woman 10 1st The Acorn and the Mighty Oak 4th Perpetual Motion Machine 5th The Heart of the Beholder 22 4th Hush Fantasy 27 5th The Story Eater 29 3rd A Long Way from Home 5th Igna 38 1st Nix and Alba 84 2nd Witch 3rd Weird Fishes 4th Sweet Melody 93 4th Kind Regards of a Cruel Eye 96 2nd The Light Will Leave You Warmer Ghost Story 54 1st Double Dare 74 2nd The Last Tattoo 81 1st 2 AM Visitors 108 3rd Marcie In A Blue Dress 5th Jukebox elegy 117 3rd The Custodian Historical Fiction 31 5th Innocence 32 4th A Stray Spark 53 2nd The (Once) Great Republic of Rough and Ready 5th Minutes 109 2nd Ginmomo 111 2nd Corpus 4th Judgment Day 119 4th Chappy and the Accidental President Horror 11 3rd Bridezilla 4th Ted 65 4th Emily's Ascent 66 2nd The Obsidian Keep 72 5th Like Mother 106 2nd What's In the Wood 4th The Dragon of Ogacaim Mystery 5 3rd Keeping Score 12 2nd The Dish Keeper 3rd The Classic Adventures of Ferigazio 15 1st What Would Sherlock Do? 48 1st A requiem for Mrs. Dover 2nd Detective Toby Tattler 97 3rd At the Heart of it All 5th The Mysteries of Attraction 114 4th RUTH 5th Wanted 116 1st Interstitial Spaces 2nd Swing Political Satire 71 3rd Dan The Man For Mayor 4th You Never Know 87 4th Real 99 2nd Accept All Cookies 120 5th Rat Race Romance 19 4th Blood Moon Magic 21 1st Not With a Bang 41 4th Auto Motive 5th Love's Sting 49 5th Deli Dallies 88 1st Cable Ties 2nd Aperture 3rd The Things We Throw Away Romantic Comedy 6 4th The Heist 13 1st Fuchsia 26 1st Stalled Momentum 3rd A Dream Came Untrue 4th Just the Lift I Needed 5th The Life Line 45 2nd This is Peak Romance 4th I Remember My First Beer 5th Wanna Go For A Beer? 58 2nd Leather 4th One More Waltz 67 2nd In Cervisia Veritas 75 2nd Candy Crush 3rd Hanging Around Sci-Fi 28 4th That's Amore 35 3rd Wanna Bet? 56 1st My Only Sunshine 4th Ethereal Zoo Breach 59 1st Under the Belt 78 2nd Casserole Dinners 118 1st Vagrant Adacra 5th The Enemy Sleeps Spy 16 1st Nikka Drake an the Dragonfly's Blindspot 107 3rd Clear Skies Over Nantong 110 1st The Records Room 3rd The Art of change 4th Follow the Leader Suspense 14 1st Don't Breathe 2nd Under Pressure 4th First, Do No Harm 17 1st Preying in the Light 2nd Eight Minutes to Eagle Tail 73 2nd Bricks Thriller 68 2nd Unencumbered by Darkness 5th The Feed 69 3rd Where the Desert Meets the Sea 4th Kicking and Screaming 83 3rd One More Human Smile 5th Questions and Answers Edited by Pundit - 15 Aug 2022 at 8:29pm |
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Log_Lady
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I love that you're collating this info, thank you! I too like to read stories that posted and placed, to get a better sense of what NYCM judges are looking out for + hopefully absorb some wisdom from the amazing writers in the forum.
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CamsynClair
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This is INCREDIBLE!! If you want, maybe we can all collaborate on a Google Sheet I setup while waiting for results Thursday night? That way, we'll have the makings of an awesome top-scoring FFC '22 archive for all of eternity that people can save to their own personal Google Drives if they want :)
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Pundit
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My turn to say, "Wow!" Your document looks great. My effort relies on what is already published, for the most part. Your document looks as if it will take a lot more work to compile. Both efforts would benefit from more people publishing their stories, or making links available. I suspect that some people posted in the forum who did not know how to create a link in the Master List. How can we get more people to participate in the centralized system?
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RustyFox
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I really love this idea as it can be hard to search out who's stories placed in the top five. I find that I'm often interested in looking at stories that have done well but am unable to find them in one cohesive place.
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Marconimist
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In group 26 there are also forum threads for 2nd—“Is That an Emotional Support Robot?”, 6th—“Below the Hoffmans”, and 14th—“A Near Life Experience”. There may be others I don’t recall, but I do know that there was a high correlation in our group between those who shared and those who placed.
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Pundit
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I am focusing on the top 5 in each group. If you can show me where to find it, I would love to have a link to the 2nd place finisher, "Is That an Emotional Support Robot?" I didn't see it in the master list. If I could add that to the 26 group, this would make all five top-finishers available for that group. I expect this could be really helpful for people trying to understand the fine distinctions that separate a first-place finish from a second-, third-, fourth or fifth-place finish. (As well as exposing, perhaps, the things that don't prevent a story from securing a good rank.)
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Searching tip: you can go to the search page and search for a particular word or phrase from a group. I like to select show as threads, as it's easier to sort at a glance. It won't catch absolutely everyone, but it does catch anyone who lists their prompt in their thread :) Here's the page: https://forums.nycmidnight.com/search_form.asp
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Marconimist
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I don’t think you’ll find any fine distinctions between the top-ranking stories besides what the judges happened to fancy at a given moment, but you should be able to glean what elevates a top-ranking story from one that didn’t do as well.
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Vernacula
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In the past when people have struggled to set up their story thread, what I've done is ask them to set a temporary password, give it to me, and then I go in and create their page and sig line links for them. Then they can change their password back after. I don't have access to any personal info that way, and since I am really familiar with forums I really don't mind helping out. Perhaps a small group of other volunteers could assist people this way? And if not, if anyone sees this and needs help, please feel free to shoot me a message!
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