FANFIXERS: how many of you are fellow SNW Contest(s) veterans?

[Aquehonga]

Just wondering

I went 0-2 for a total of 5 story submissions

My stats are>
Strange New Worlds 9: 0-1 for 1 story submission

Strange New Worlds 10: 0-4 for 4 story submissions.

Before I post aficionadofix in here I wanted to know how many fellow vets are in this here TrekBBS Fan Fiction forum from Pocket Books' now extinct SNW Contest(s).

I had intended on submitting a minimum of at least 5 stories to each contest but didn't get around to satisfying my own quota

The SNW Contests have gone the way of “Drexel`s Class”, for any latecomer's who aren't up to date about it

Damn shame too, considering all the varied great, interesting, intriguing & fascinating aficionadofix in this here forum.

So, who are my fellow vets?

 

[trampledamage]

I wish I could say I was - I finally move to a country that is included in the competition and the damn thing finishes!

 

[Aquehonga]

I wish I could say I was - I finally move to a country that is included in the competition and the damn thing finishes!

How's that for an ironic kick in the teeth?

Poetic injustice

Well, even if PB still had SNW going on, the sheer number of submissions they must have received make the odds of winning so improbable I'd probably be 0-4 in it now anyway

I hope TPTB dig up SNW's cadaver from the cemetary & resurrect it from the dead, & soon

That's unrealistic, fanciful wishful thinking

Oh well, time to eat a McDonald's burger

 

[Kaziarl]

I wanted to send one of my stories in, but never could get one quite right. When I was under age, I even considered sending it in under my mothers name, who was the one that got me started on trek in the first place.

 

[Starkers]

Not living in the US unfortunately I was never able to enter, again though given the sheer volume of entries one has to be extremely good or extremely lucky to get picked I imagine.

 

[Mistral]

I hope TPTB dig up SNW's cadaver from the cemetary & resurrect it from the dead, & soon

That's unrealistic, fanciful wishful thinking

Oh well, time to eat a McDonald's burger

Unrealistic, fanciful food to go with the thinking?

 

[DarKush]

I only submitted one story, a DS9 tale called "Closure", which I later posted on this board.

 

[Aquehonga]

Even if I had won a story entry into SNW 9 or 10, which I did nt , you`d never know it anyway.

Had I won, nothing about my TrekBBS username, location ID, signature, etc,etc would change or be any different.

Had I won, I'd address my SNW story, or stories, up in TrekLit IF & ONLY IF it/they were brought up or if folks had or wanted to ask me about it/them.

I sure as hell wouldn't be signing autographs if I'd won.

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If I'd had an eency role in a ST episode or film, or a recurring itsy bitsy miniscule background role on a Trek show, I'd think ANYONE asking me for my John Hancock was daffier than that duck.

But, the point of an SNW entry or a “role” like that in a Trek production is that you'd be a PART of Star Trekdom

That's priceless

But, like a gazillion other Trekanados, I lost SNW 9 & 10

And I ain't no actor bub! See! Thank God

The folks at Pocket Books Star Trek Dept. probably turned my SNW 9 & 10 submissions into paper aeroplanes

Or they rolled my SNW 9/10 entries up to use for joints
Or saved them for kindling in the office fireplace at PB's ST Dept

Oh well, that's how cookies crumble