Yeah, so, wow.
We’ve already blown well past 1,000 entries, and… I am unfazed! Bring it! Bravado!
Please do continue to spread the word about the contest, because after all: the only thing more fun than winning a contest is winning a contest that has very strong competition. And then bragging about it.
A few updates and requests from your contest organizer:
– E-mail subscribers: you must must must must must enter in the official contest thread. Please do not e-mail me your entries! If you need help leaving a comment, please consult this post.
– Please please check and double-check your paragraph before posting. If you spot an error after posting: please do not re-post. I go through the entries sequentially and the repeated deja vu repeated deja vu from reading the same entry only slightly different makes my head spin. But fortunately:
– I’m not worrying about typos. A certain winning entry had a typo last year and that turned out just fine.
– Several people have noted that quite a few of the entries are not actually paragraphs and are instead strings of dialogue, poetry, multiple paragraphs, and other non-paragraph concoctions. All I can say is: welcome to my world.
– I’m on Twitter! You can find me at @nathanbransford. I will be posting assorted updates as I’m reading the entries. Also probably complaining about the crazy rain we’re having in SF. Because that’s what Twitter is for.
Thanks again to everyone who entered! I can’t wait to read the paragraphs. And read and read and read and read……
I think I just heard Miss Snark laughing.
Best success, contenders! Some fantastic paragraphs are coming in.
Hope the power stays on in your bunker, Nathan.
I think you must be just a little bit insane.And perhaps masochistic. But awfully nice.
The rain is pretty fierce. But welcome. We sure do need it.
Thank you. WOW. What an undertaking (and what a nice guy to do it!)
Hi Nathan,
Fantastic contest – as always, and some of the entries are amazingly good.
Just wondering, are you drinking yet or saving it all up for the last night?
Good luck.
You're not reading these comments, are you? I can't imagine how you'd have the time.
But, just in case, thank you for being so generous to us. This was fun to enter.
Good luck reading! And remembering what you like!
I'll certainly enter, one entry among hundreds andhundreds night have a chance. 🙂
Oh, the typo. I'm still cringing over that, even if it didn't matter in the end.
I can't wait to see the finalists this year! Serious bragging rights indeed.
I'm glad you're having so much fun. I was wondering how you would react to the overwhelming response to your contest 🙂
Ganbatte!
This is literally incredible! So fun that so many peeps are entering and you are brave enough to keep it open. hilarious!
I'm curious. Is this normal for you? How many entries were in your other two contests?
Is this the biggest one ever??
katie-
The last contest had 1300+ entries, but it looks like this one is going to top that.
You, my good sir, are a reading fiend. Not sure how you do it…but then again, I'm a mom of two youngun's and go to school, so maybe I AM sure how you do it but am still put to shame.
Once again, o sage Nathan, you send me on a spiritual journey of the parts of speech. This lesson (a deep one):the paragraph.
I think you're going to break some sort of comment record in the blogging world from the contest! I've never seen so many entries on a blog before. . .blows my mind!
Although I think you're a raving lunatic for doing this, I so heart you! 🙂 Oh, yeah, I did enter, by the way! lol
Maybe blogger will break due to comment overload. *giggles
Bet you didn't know you had to define paragraph.