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MuffinMom
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Posted: 04 Apr 2020 at 9:59am |
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Ha! That's a good idea! Won't the judge be surprised, though, when they find out the credit card is maxed out?
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Suave
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You might do better just putting your credit card number at the bottom of the first page.
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Random
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Ya know...I should change my name from "Random Words" to "Random Annotations". That puts me closer to the front in terms of last name/first name, and maybe closer to the front in reading order. No idea if that would matter, but it's the only thing I can control.
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MuffinMom
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I can tell you for sure that order definitely affects your ranking. It shouldn't, but judges are human. I once wrote three essays for college, in class, closed book, and that score made up 75% of my grade in the class. I got a C. I went to the TA who re-read the essays, and his comment was that I was right, my essays were very good, and he changed my grade to an A. He said that sometimes TA's grade these things until midnight and they all run together, and he apologized. I still think that was totally messed up. Hopefully NYC Midnight judges would try to put a little more effort into judging than my TA for that class did, but there's still no guarantee when this contest is SO subjective!
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jennifer.quail
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Make sure you leave that judge one-star feedback. They do that EVERY time and there is no reason for them to be doing it. Log lines are not a prose-market thing. They either need to have their priorities reorganized or only judge Screenplay/SScreenplay.
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wbarr
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You are right! The judge even responded that they didn't understand a sentence referring to a commercial break -- "and I work in film," he/she wrote.'
It's a short story contest, not an elevator pitch contest. Seriously, a whole paragraph about the stupid tagline. Thanks.
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tdeveau
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If I had to guess, they are probably a screenwriter. Screenwriters (and screenwriting judges) put an absurd (IMO) emphasis on the importance of the log line.
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jennifer.quail
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Oh, god, is the guy with a log-line fetish still here? No, they're not, not least because in prose publishing you will never, ever, be asked to write a 'log line' (it's just a holdover from the screenplay competition) but that judge absolutely OBSESSES over them.
Make sure you give judging feedback (the link's in your e-mail with the results) and one-star vote that guy, explaining why. Even if they're not using it for the numeric score it's the most useless thing they could tell you other than saying they liked the font you picked. At least I've never seen one do that. |
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wbarr
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One of my judges wrote a whole paragraph critiquing my one-sentence summary of the story. So ... I guess those really count and are part of the score?
Good attention and advice from one of the three.
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Suave
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I will sure second that. I can remember getting feedback that seemed to be for someone else's story. And i don't think they ever got a nuance if you did not shout it out. The feedback from the judges now is head and shoulders above anything you ever got from them before. NYC Midnight has really stepped up in getting the judging working.
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