Ceramic DM Winter 07 (Final Judgment Posted)

[yangnome]

indeed, we did appreciate your effort mythago. Thanks for taking the time to submit what you did write.

I'm waiting on decisions from both judges, then we can move into the next round.

 

[maxfieldjadenfox]

Yup, I'm always impressed when a competitor who is in a fix manages to post something, anything, rather than copping out and not bothering. And, I would really like to see more of that one, Mythago.

 

[Piratecat]

Looking forward to the judgments!*



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[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Looking forward to the judgments!*



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I don't know why. You must have something you want to do next week besides write.

 

[Sialia]

For those of you who just can't get enough of this sort of agony, I've been having a thought.

Over the years, I've drawn a lot of pictures for my "Ceramic portfolio," and only some of them have been selected for use. Now, we've had so many different judges over the years--and typically they are also people who are contestants in other seasons-- I can't recall who has already seen which ones. At this point, it wouldn't be fair to use most of them because of the risk that someone will have had a previous look. And let's face it, most of the better ones did get used.

Which means I need to clear out the whole cache and start a bunch of new things no one has seen yet.

So after this competition is done, I'm going to go over to my old "Miscellaneous doodles" thread in the art forum and start posting stuff. Since I can't even remember which ones got used and which ones didn't, I'm just going to post the whole caboodle, a few at a time.

What I'd love is if folks would give me feedback about which ones work and which ones don't--what kinds of stories they might have gotten used for if they'd been used. If you actually want to choose a few and assemble a story about them, that would make my day.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to getting to show off one or two new pictures in the final set. Drawing for Ceramic always takes my mind interesting places, and it's been a great distraction these last several weeks.

And yes, everything I gave Yangnome for this round is brand spanking new, and no one will have seen it before.

Enjoy, you sadistic babykillers.

 

[orchid blossom]

Sorry for the delay guys. I hope to finish up judgements today during work and get them sent off to yangnome.

 

[Piratecat]

I don't know why. You must have something you want to do next week besides write.

I do! Most of my plans involve being a good friend, sitting by your bedside and patting your hand comfortingly as you cry your little heart out into a pillow. But I also have time partitioned off for a traditional folk dance of my people, the 'Triumphant Dance of Neener Neener.'

Please, I beg you, don't insult my rich ethnic heritage of smug superiority and make it impossible for me to perform the dance. It's best for everyone.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Enjoy, you sadistic babykillers.

Hey, yangnome picked the pictures. I just write what the little voices in my head tell me to write.

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[Rodrigo Istalindir]

What I'd love is if folks would give me feedback about which ones work and which ones don't--what kinds of stories they might have gotten used for if they'd been used. If you actually want to choose a few and assemble a story about them, that would make my day.

When I was sorting through them for last fall's Ceramic DM, I was trying to pick ones that hit the sweet spot of ambiguous enough that the different writers wouldn't use it the same way, yet not so abstract that it was infinitely malleable. You have to make 'em work for it But I have my own biases in terms of what I like in Ceramic DM pictures, and that undoubtedly influenced my selections. I like to give the writers a mix of people, locations, things, and a single picture has all three, so much the better. My favorite from that competition was the one I used for yangnome vs GuardianLurker -- as soon as I saw it, all I could think of was a bard singing an elegy in a graveyard.

 

[Berandor]

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You know, that is fine with copy&paste, but when you consider that for SHINING, all those pages were actually typed up... the woman who did it probably wakes up screaming from dreaming about it to this day.