First Place
Letters To a Loved One

Written by =methylated-spirit

Second Place
Letters to Ghosts

Written by ~EsotericHeart

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::WARNING...this journal is FILLED with Haterade mixed with a shot of Pa-bitchn'moan::

I'm kind of mad...my ego has been bruised...badly. So badly, I feel the need to actually sit at my laptop and type up a complaint describing my displeasure.

1. Results came back for the Deviant Awards. I didn't get it. I didn't expect too. It's an honor to be nominated anyway. This guy got it instead: . Congrats to him...but then I read one of his journals...HE SPELLED "FOR" WRONG!!!! I don't know why that bugs me so much...but it kind of did. But that's all I have to say about that. Congratulations to him. Check out some of his work. It's actually pretty good.

2. Peruse Our Prompts came in. I got Honorable Mention. WOOT!

3. Dear Pen Pal came in...I gotta feature people and critique some letters, I'll hopefully be getting to that today. I'll do the featuring now, though. I didn't place...which is ok. I didn't think I would. With satire, you get a lot of laughs, a lot of flames, but not usually anything award-winning. That was just for fun.

4. The OCT results came back in today...and I couldn't be more pissed off. I DIDN'T MAKE IT IN!!! I enjoyed everything about creating those characters, and the judges smacked down my dreams, which is dumb. I guess my characters were too down-to-earth for it, I suppose. Neither of my characters had special superpowers that valued up to +18 and didn't have a Kamahameha wave in their arsenal...I just had good writing on my side. I read some of the people's works that made it in and was immensely disappointed. Granted, some of the entries were absolutely FANTASTIC, some weren't so much. What makes it even worse is that one of the auditions I wrote for the Tourney is in consideration for publication (Light's Out). Yep. That's right. I did get word back from the publisher. I'm UBER excited! I still gotta make it through 20 other pieces, but we'll see what happens...I'll keep you posted.
(I'm not really that pissed, I'm just a little disappointed that I didn't make it...I always forget that judges are looking for specific things when they pick out pieces, and I don't usually follow those standards...so it's probably my fault I didn't get chosen, not their lack of reading skills)

5. I'm still not happy with One More Story...I don't know if I'll ever be happy with that piece. Luckily, though, I still got another 25 days to polish it before I turn it in. Good luck to me on that, I guess.

6. I just finished judging on the Spring Has Sprung mini-contest, and Wes should have the results either today or tomorrow out for everyone.

7. Hmmmm...anything else? Oh! I'm thinking about posting up a segment of my first chapter of my Tim/Gina Project so you guys get an idea of what I'm working on outside of dA.



Other than that...that ends this episode of "Ty's ego is bruised."