ENTER THE CONTEST HERE (now closed)

[[deleted user]]

Jessica: Look up a few posts, Nikki is posting her story here. There has been a LOT of confusion about how to navigate into the contest. Clarification would be a most appreciated addition to our home pages.

[Mary]

My story will begin on February 22 at 6:50 PM and is dedicated to Ralphy Smalphy Fatbelly.

[Andrea]

I was watching the Oscars, and forgot about to do my last post at 10:50. I may try again this week, now that I understand how to do this better.

[Mary]

This is so confusing. I would really love to finish the first story I started and can't even find it. I started another, didn't like it so didn't add anymore to it, my fault. If we just have that little box to write in,...guess we are to copy/paste from a different document, right? Hope I can get the hang of this.

[Tobi]

February 25th, 12pm GMT

[Sarah]

My post will begin February 24 2009

[[deleted user]]

My story will start Monday Feb 23 at 6:20pm.

[Ja-Ja-Jaded]

my story will begin February 27th @ 9pm

[Jen]

My story will begin 2/24 at 10pm est, or close to that depending on when the baby goes to bed :-D

[Jennifer]

ok, change of time, feb 26 at 4:30pm est

[Sketching]

Changes in starting story (grad student excuse) at @sketchingsesawi on twitter on Feb 27 at 1pm.

[Jessica]

Thanks for entering, everybody! Keep it up!

For those asking where to post the story and/or how to post the story, PLEASE READ the Contest Rules AND Instructions!

[Meredith]

Sorry...i have to change my start date!

I will start Feb. 26 at 5pm.

[Betty]

Editing my start time:

My story/update will begin 4:00 pm Feb. 26

[Matt]

Hoping for liftoff at 11:00pm, 02.26.09...if I can get the old Act together....

Cheers,
Matt.

[Jade]

I will start on February 26th at 6pm.

[brendan]

my story will begin at 1200 on the twenty-seventh

[Sheridan]

My story begins today, 2/27/09 at 10:40 AM eastern time.

[Melia]

My story will begin today, Friday, February 27, at at 12 pm Central.

[Maryse]

My story starts today, Friday the 27th of February, at 6:30 PM Eastern time (GMT - 5:00).

[Betty]

Well, my story ended last night, didn't need the 24 hours, but had a lot of trouble with it. Some of my entries were only 1/2 sentences, trying to get one of the entries to fit I accidentally repeated one sentence (one at the end of one entry and again at the beginning of the next entry), tried to put spaces in between paragraphs but it all ran in together. I couldn't change anything because I couldn't figure out how to get into viewing it until someone sent me a link to where I could see what I'd written (hence the double sentence, it was too far back to change.) I'm pretty well happy with what I did in the end though, distracting as it was to do only 1 or 2 sentences with each update. Good luck everyone, it was fun doing it anyhow! ;-)

[Melia]

Just ended my story at 6:35 pm, Friday, 2/27. I had fun with it; it's a great idea. I often say that if only someone would pay me to write Facebook status updates, I'd be a rich and happy woman. :)

One heads up: I posted the "Start story" twice because I didn't see it on my feed. Now I see that it shows just two updates. So I hope it all posted correctly. Thanks for the opportunity!

[Amanda]

I'll post mine tomorrow Feb 28 at noon pacific.
Thanks in advance!

[Matt]

Wow. I don't think I've ever finished a story that quickly before, ever!

Truthfully, I usually don't finish them at all.

Thanks for the opportunity to operate in a very groovy format.

Cheers,
Matt.

[Elizabeth]

My story begins at 11:55pm on 2/27/09

[Betty]

Betty wrote: "Well, my story ended last night, didn't need the 24 hours, but had a lot of trouble with it. Some of my entries were only 1/2 sentences, trying to get one of the entries to fit I accidentally repea..."
I guess I forgot to say an important phrase was missed which makes it sound like I left my child home alone. To clarify if anyone reads it, the phrase is "The cat!! The house is full of smoke!" and that sentence belongs between these two: "What was that flying out of the house?" and "Oh my god! how did she get any air, ..."

Tantalized? I really never have left my children home alone! Honest!!
Hope I didn't break any rules mentioning this.

[Eliza]

My story will begin February 28th at noon!

[Vicki]

My story will begin on February 28th at 4:45 p.m.

[David]

My story begins a little nlater on this evening, Saturday, February 28th, shortly after I feed my family some dinner. See you then. It'll be an extremely short story - short, bittersweet and true -in two brief segments.

[Betty]

Mine's true too, David, whether anyone believes it or not.

[[deleted user]]

WHEN is the next Contest? Can we have a contest on A Poem a Week? under Poetry?

[Jessica]

Annette wrote: "WHEN is the next Contest? Can we have a contest on A Poem a Week? under Poetry?"

We do have a monthly Poetry contest, hosted in this group:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/2...