Save the contest!!!!

We just had a warning that the current contest might be cancelled! It's only 10 days to go and we need another 12 entries (at a minimum) for the contest to go ahead.

Please, if you were thinking of entering, FINISH that story and GET IT IN.

(Posting this because the warning was given on page three of a discussion, where people might not see it)

Thanks for posting this. I would hate to see the challenge cancelled. I know how much work Flopsy and Februs do for the library and how much of a disappointment this would be to them (and me). I love these challenges.

I also truly enjoy the challenges, but don't think I shall have time take part in this one. Still I am quite optimistic: people have a tendency to turn in papers - hahm, I mean stories - late.

Currently there are only 8 submitted. We need 20+. Of all the hundreds of authors here we should be able to 12 more.

Now to start working on a plot, and to hope I can come up with one (and the time to write it) within 10 days.

Since the eight people who sent in a story worked hard at it, it's a shame to cancel it. I hope we do get the 20 we need. It's not a hard challenge.

I'm working on a story - the first time I've entered one of these challenges - and hope to have it finished in time.

Would extending the deadline help, or would this be seen to be unfair to those who've already submitted their entries?

I hope prospective authors aren't being intimidated by thinking their stories need to be historically accurate or exhibit some amazing futuristic predictiveness.

The past and future are just settings, after all. In the past - and the future - people will wake up, eat food, have rows, break rules and enjoy sex. Would most stories in this library look radically different if they were preceded by the line, "1900 A.D" - or even "2150 A.D"?

This challenge is not really about the past or the future.
It's about storytelling.
And I encourage you all to reach into your imagination, and just write...

I've got 2, I've finished them, just have to send them in, hope this helps.

I'm hoping to submit at least one, maybe two. But it will only come in near the deadline, as I've had too much stuff going on to work it/them.

Personally I dislike the competition, and think that just writing to a theme is quite sufficient. I don't think that they work as intended as I'm quite sure that most prefer stories that appeal to their own preferences in this genre. I honestly don't enter to compete, but as a challenge to myself to write to a theme I may not have chosen.