mobile_carrot:
Is that cheating or sheer madness??
I don't think it's cheating at all. A writers group is just a helpful bunch of people giving their constructive criticism to authors who are a member of it. That is unless they're involved with the LSF and are submitting a story in the challenge, or joined the LSF to read stories, or helped you edit it with ideas. That would not be fair in a sense that they know who wrote it. At least MC asked the question on an open forum. He didn't have to.