nemmerle said:
Shall we say Wednesday at noon?
Sounds fine.
Oh, and it has never taken me more than 3 hours to write an entry (maybe not in a row - but if you add it together). The reason we went from 1 hour to 4 hours to 24 hours was simply because it was hard to arrange the time itself - not to give people more time to write the entry - though obviously that was one of the side-effects.
If you aren't counting time in a row, then my first entry in this contest only took 2 hours, and that while I was handling spreadsheet data requests for my "real" job. But the 21 1/2 hours of doing other stuff and letting my subconscious at the problem prior to buckling down and starting to write were undeniably a part of the quality of the post (my second entry was a fluke of the highest order, so I can't properly include it in the taxonomy of how Iron DM works).
Heck, I'm the fastest typist I know. Once I sit down to write, it takes me hardly any time at all.
And please don't take me wrong - I'm not kvetching that I'm going to lose, or that this is unfair. This is
IRON DM, not Vaguely Difficult DM, and I plan to beat you into the mud
. These were my original words: "If we can wait until next week, I'll be in much better shape."
But I should have two hours to rub together tomorrow night, and I can buy a pretty decent entry for that. And ingredients at noon = 8-10 hours that my Muse will have the ingredients in her pretty talons before I have to start writing. I have faith in Her
.