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Just wondering what we get for this competition? EP’s? RRs? All prize details seem to have disappeared

I am kind of wondering, too. I think for the Summer Word Bank it was an EP for the winner and RRs for the runners-up. At least, The Berry Girl got an RR and I was third.

EDIT: Nope, it was EP for first and second, RR for third and below.

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Forgive me for not posting congrats yesterday. I preach to everyone to not tie self-esteem to comp results and then I let it happen for the first time. My heart was tied to "Convergence" and thus broken, but I realize my heart in it didn't automatically make it great writing. I appreciate it being published.

I congratulate the podium ... Tams, Welshdreamer42, Mendalla, Paperboy, AnnaMayZing, and RedWriter ... many whom occupied the podium on multiple comps! Well done! Congrats to the remarkable rest of Top Tens!

I was also happy for first-timers, TheShyThespian and Fluttered, making Top Ten in the 2 crowded comps.

Thanks for putting on this comp and to the mods who published my entries.

Don't be downhearted, Kimmi. We all have our hearts tied strongly to what we do. Judging competitions involves many aspects, not least of which has got to be personal taste. Suppose a horror author entered a competition alongside a romance author and the judge was someone who was a great fan of Stephen King. If the Horror story won, that doesn't mean that the Romance story wasn't great.
Take a step back, feel a little sorry for yourself if you like, and then get down to more writing. I've been there, done that and got a hell of a lot of T-Shirts!

The trick is... DON'T GIVE UP!

Thanks! I changed my post. I wish to congratulate all the brilliant writers on this site!

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Forgive me for not posting congrats yesterday. I preach to everyone to not tie self-esteem to comp results and then I let it happen for the first time. My heart was tied to "Convergence" and thus broken, but I realize my heart in it didn't automatically make it great writing. I appreciate it being published.

I congratulate the podium ... Tams, Welshdreamer42, Mendalla, Paperboy, AnnaMayZing, and RedWriter ... many whom occupied the podium on multiple comps! Well done! Congrats to the remarkable rest of Top Tens!

I was also happy for first-timers, TheShyThespian and Fluttered, making Top Ten in the 2 crowded comps.

Thanks for putting on this comp and to the mods who published my entries.

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My first podium finish!

Congratulations! This was my second podium finish but my first win.

And you humbly failed to mention that you came 2nd in the cumulative score list as well as having a story in the top three of Full Length so well done, Anna!

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And others don't. I am thinking of The Hobbit. I feel that Peter Jackson ruined it with over-the-top action CGI and additional scenes. The Hobbit really didn't warrant another 10 hour rendition.

The Rankin-Bass animated Hobbit was, on the other hand, very good even if it lost some bits (like Beorn). The Hobbit can be effectively done with a 2 or 3 hour movie. I have no idea what Jackson was thinking other than milking Middle Earth for all it's worth.

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I hope everyone is doing well. I've been absent for a while. I spent time in the hospital and have been recovering at home for a few weeks. I had an asthma attack and tested positive for Covid. It went downhill from there.

My recovery has been a very slow process but I am grateful for the care I got and am getting. Other family members had only mild symptoms thankfully. Getting out of bed and showering without help had been my biggest accomplishment so far, but today I changed the sheets. Progress.

Stay healthy everyone and be very careful.

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I still have not seen it, but I heard from others that the Scouring of the Shire got axed as well. Too bad on both but movies are movies and books are books. Some things that work in one don't in the other and fully adapting some books, like LOTR, really requires a TV series in some cases.

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And some rather different material from Nightwish's Floor Jansen. Can you tell that she has a young daughter?

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I thought the same about LOTR but was pleasantly surprised that it generally matched my own impressions. What disappointed me greatly was the huge lump cut out between leaving the shire and arriving at Bree.

Interesting, do you think it was cut because the film was going to be quite long as it was? Disclaimer, I've neither read LOTR or seen the films. (I fall squarely into the "could not get into the books no matter how many times I tried".)

While I enjoyed reading The Girl With the Pearl Earring, I thought the film was better.

Daphne du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel is a really great read, and the most recent film adaption with Rachel Weisz is wonderful and does well by the book, I think.

Hmmm, some things might be going on the re-read and re-watch list, for this new period of lockdown confinement...