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The Second Annual readers challenge! :)

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mare:
Last summer we did a reading challenge that was pretty successful for the most part. Minus one and a half epic fails!

It's time to try it again!

The challenge is very simple. Read something that you would normally find out of your comfort zone and leave feedback as you read.

We're going to do things just a little differently this time. Authors may submit three different stories that they'd like other people to read. If you are picked to read that author's stuff, you can then choose which of the three stories you'd prefer.

Obviously if you do not have three stories written, list the one or two you have.

You may not submit a story from last year's challenge.

You may not read a story from the same author you read last year.

You MUST leave steady feedback as you go along and by feedback I don't mean "Yay good job!" It should be detailed and designed to help the writer know what it is that you did or did not like. It's perfectly okay to not enjoy what you're reading but be sure to explain why without being rude. I know sometimes there's nothing to say on a given chapter and that's okay but be sure to review at least every other chapter. Don't just wait to the end and leave a huge one.

DO NOT COMMIT to doing this unless you're serious about it. It took me about three months to get over the fact that someone didn't finish this challenge. I kid you not, it boiled my blood for about three months! lmao

If you do sign up for this, you have to be willing to accept what other people have to say about your story, whether it be good or bad. If your feelings get easily hurt, you might want to avoid this. Remember people are reading something out of their comfort zone to begin with.

You do not have to be a writer to participate in the challenge. If you are strictly a reader only, you will be assigned two authors to read instead of one.

Stories you submit must be at least ten chapters long with at least 1,000 words per chapter. Anything less than that wouldn't be much of a challenge for your selected reader.

Please make sure your stories are edited. Your readers job isn't supposed to be to act as proofreader for you.

If this is something you think you'd be interested in, fill out the survey below and post it in this thread no later than May 20th.

The challenge will start in June and go through to the end of August. That will give you plenty of time to read the story.

Have fun and hope to see most of you participating!

~ Mare

Survey to follow in a little bit!

Feel free to post comments and suggestions in here :)


Participants

1) Purpura Lipstick
2) Carter-Orange
3) DelphinaCarter
4) Julilly
5) Mare
6) Rose
7) carterkid
8) Ritz
9) Julie
10) kevmylove
11) simple sue
12) tigger128

Purpura Lipstick:
yay!! I can't wait to do this again!  I will be joining... *waits for survey*

Carter-Orange:
Count me in, I enjoyed it last year! *awaits the survey eagerly*

mare:
It'll be in here as soon as I write it up lol eating lunch first

Purpura Lipstick:
unnacceptable Mare!  AC comes before such trivial things as nourishmet.  ;)

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