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SumFemina
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 14 Apr 2021 Location: New York Status: Offline Points: 2690 |
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Very surprised I placed second in my group, and excited as hell to be writing this weekend. This is my first time making it to an NYC Midnight final!
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ErikaM
NYC Midnight Addict Joined: 23 Nov 2022 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 837 |
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Congrats to everyone who is moving on!
I did not place or get HM so a little disappointed but it's my first challenge ever so onward and upward. Looking forward to seeing the judges comments and can't wait to read the next round of stories for those who went through. I was very surprised that some stories that I thought were shoe-ins didn't make it and in some cases didn't place. For other entries, I thought some stories might be in danger of not qualifying because they didn't seem "on-genre" and they got firsts and seconds. I'm guessing this is par for the course because writing/style/genre is so subjective but curious if people who have been doing this for a while find the same thing for all the competitions i.e. that some of the people's choice front runners don't necessarily make it.
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Sqrlmom
NYC Midnight Regular Joined: 26 Apr 2022 Location: New Haven Status: Offline Points: 389 |
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I’ve definitely found that to be true! There were stories I really liked that didn’t place at all. Can’t predict it at all.
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CoachLisaB
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 08 Oct 2019 Location: Ojai, CA Status: Offline Points: 3864 |
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I was disappointed not even to get an HM. I thought my story was good enough at least for that. However, not having seen the majority of the stories that placed, it's hard to know how mine stacked up!
The judges' feedback was really helpful and echoed a bit what some people said in the forum. So clearly there was a missing piece: the gruesome murder actually needed to happen in the story and not offscreen! Thus, I continue my streak of always making it to the second round, but only third round once. I'm gonna keep trying. Congrats to all who made it through!
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NMiller
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There will never be anyway to predict the choices of three different judges. What they look for in each genre may differ and what they enjoy as well. It is very common for some of my favorites on the forum to not go through and to see surprises. This includes my own work. You never really know and since we don't see the whole list or the rubric, we don't even know how close we were to going forward. Was it some grammar error or prose choice? Either way, I have learned to keep writing what makes me happy and hope the judges agree.
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FireHorse
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 13 Jul 2020 Location: Sydney Status: Offline Points: 4337 |
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I just went back and reread your story and the feedback. Agree you got great feedback. My gut feel is that over the last 3 (?) years that I've been doing this, the overall quality of judge feedback is improving. Really think it's worth rating the judges - at the very least it gives NYCM an idea of what we're looking for. You wrote a fantastic story too, with a fabulous premise. But the question is always about the stories which get through but which we didn't see. Wish they were all there so we could learn from them. I second what one of your judges said: a writing talent worth continuing with!
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FireHorse
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 13 Jul 2020 Location: Sydney Status: Offline Points: 4337 |
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God help my poor sleep-deprived brain, but (this morning at least) I think NYCM is Masterchef for Writers. - We get a challenge: take these random ingredients and whip something up before the deadline - They judge it. Someone always gets knocked out. - There are people's favourites. They may or may not get through. - Favourite chefs / writers may have an off day when inspiration is lacking. Judges may not like a specific treatment. It's not a question of who is best overall, it's a question of who is best on a specific day, for specific ingredients / prompts, as decided by specific judges. BUT there's a wonderful supportive community (at least on TV, the Masterchef participants support each other) with lots of opportunity to learn from judges and each other AND the people's favourites very often succeed in the wider world, even if they're not outright winners here. The whole 'it should have gone through' is even wonkier on NYCM because we don't see all the stories. So we just can't tell. But I'm not in it for the money. I'm in it for the learning, the community and because NYCM. Gives. Me. Deadlines. Which I apparently can't do without!
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CamsynClair
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 20 Jan 2022 Location: Bowie, MD Status: Offline Points: 3367 |
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Despite not getting through, I got some of my best feedback in my NYCM journey!! Judge 1996 is getting a raving review from me. Clearly spent a decent chunk of time with my story and definitely knows how to make a writer feel good about their work. Overall super happy with my first MF250 experience and will be doing it again come November! Well, not like that says much as every NYCM is on my radar this year with what should be the exception of Rhyming, but the dopamine hit at smashing that “registration” button may be too high if that competition rolls around at the right (wrong?) time
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leolegras
NYC Midnight Regular Joined: 26 Jan 2022 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Status: Offline Points: 316 |
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My favorite story I've written for NYCM, and the one that got the most positive feedback on the forums, is also the story that knocked me out of SS in the third round last year. I suspect it was a genre issue, as there wasn't much constructive feedback. But this last round, I felt I bent genre pretty noticeably, and came first in my group. Truly impossible to know - it's all a crapshoot, so I've decided to just keep doing what I'm doing and see what happens!
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