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One suggestion, I think it should be compulsory for the judges to comment on each story. Even if it is just to state the obvious. I'm guessing my story received a mixed reception? Some people liked the general story but couldn't comprehend a Big Bro Slig Bounty Hunter and others thought the action wasn't well written...
Nevertheless, I do appreciate this experience. You can bet your Mudokon Pops that I'll be participating in the next one.
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I just want to point out, I can't speak for any of the other judges of course, but as for me I wasn't complaining that there was a big bro slig as a bounty hunter or even that it was a slig hero. I'm not that prejudiced!
The reason I mentioned about the Big Bro Slig was that it didn't feel believable to me for a Big Bro Slig to be riding a scrab. Maybe he does have lighter pants and all that, but that wasn't apparent to the person reading it with no backstory knowledge at all, so I marked it at face value
It was nothing to do with canonity and everything to do with believability at face value.
As for the way it was written, again I can only speak for myself, but what I found was really just that there wasn't a lot of depth to it. I don't really know how to explain what I'm on about, but Ajiellyn summed it up really. It was a good story, but the writing was kind of... ordinary? Not that it was
badly written mind you, it just didn't really make use of literary techniques - as Ajiellyn said it read kind of like you were just hearing the story from a friend.
As for comments, if comments
were compulsory I would want them to be anonymous. And true, maybe judges should be quite capable of making comments, but there is always the possibility that they don't want to come across as being too negative? Which is what I'm worried I may have done in this post. So yeah.. shutting up now