Clan-wide announcements:This week's featured fiction is
"Star Wars, Elusive Jedi"! Read, rate, and comment please!
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What Keba Si Rota says about this fiction: MrGBH channels the "Star Wars" universe beautifully in this story. Also, the kid in me is a "Star Wars" fanatic.
How does featured fiction work? The author of this week's featured fiction will pick next week's fiction. For a complete list of the fictions which have already been featured,
click here.
Authors, please send me your pick and a short "plug" for the work by Tuesday, otherwise I will not be able to get it posted in time!Forum-specific announcements:Don't want to read all the announcements every day? You don't have to! Just look for the
symbol for new items and the
symbol for items that have changed status.
Check out
the newest report in the Moderator's Council.
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Got bugs? Report 'em
here or
here!
Clanmates' News:GinKazeRyuu is looking for an editor for
Team MLC chapter 5.
Click here for more information.
Mack is looking for a beta reader for
MLC Takes Over What's the Scoop? Contact her for more information.
GinKazeRyuu is also looking for a beta reader for
"Desert Roses." More information
here.
For more clanmates' news, you can go
here or the blog section.
Contests, Activities, and Other Events:Currently Open ElianaMoran has a challenge for November! More information
here.
Current challenge status: Closed!
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Calamari is starting an editing contest! For more information, click
here.
Current contest status: Open! Accepting submissions until 12/31.
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Can you find the mystery story before the week is up?
Click here to try!
Current activity status: New story up!
[12/15]
GinKazeRyuu is starting a new contest. More information
here!
Current contest status: Submissions are closed! Waiting for results.
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The reviewing workshop is held once a month. Each participant must earn 8 points by reviewing fellow members' pieces. For more information, you can read
this.
Current activity status: Sign-ups closed!
[12/26]
NearlyMello is starting the Worst of the Worst contest! More information
here.
Current contest status: Waiting for results.
[12/1]
Ameaba is starting a new workshop. Click
here for more details or
here for the official rules and details!
Current activity status: Accepting sign-ups now! Workshop starts 1/1.
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Calamari is organizing a midsummer story exchange.
Click here for more information.
Current activity status: One month left!
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The complete list of contests and activities can be viewed
here.
Reader requests: Sakura[12/6]
Machines Option II[12/6]
Letters to Jesus[12/4]
Saint chapter three[12/3]
Dancer[12/3]
Untitled vampire story[12/2]
The Girl[12/2]
Vignettes[12/2]
How do I get my fiction in this category? Post a reply in this thread, post a bulletin in MLC on Tokyopop, or send me a PM and I'll add you to the list! (Note: It helps if you post a link as well.)
Contest submissionsThe Home Piper (submission to Gin's scenario contest)
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Some Love (submission to NM's Worst of the Worst contest)
[12/1]
The Balloon's Journey (submission to Gin's scenario contest)
[12/1]
Sir Calvin the Great (submission to Gin's scenario contest)
[12/1]
Contest Winners!None at this time.
MLC Reviewing CornerFeatured reviews "Untitled vampire story", reviewed by AmeabaOkay, I only read the first half, and I have to run, but I think I have enough comments to make posting them now worth while:
“And in case you're a bit dense, I keep saying "we" because I am a vampire.”
I got it. =_=
“But my hair is black. I guess that's right at least.”—do you need that last sentence?
And this is something for you to consider: do you want to start with such a descriptive dialogue? I think jumping more into action would be more interesting (not that her dialogue isn’t interesting, but still.) I’m not sure this is where you really want to start this story, or if you could find a different starting point...Read the rest of the review and the story
here!
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"Machines Option II", reviewed by CalamariI like it. It's a bit short, but the length works well with this kind of story. It doesn't qualify for the story exchange yet, though, because you didn't use the snippet in its entirety. You could probably integrate it fairly easily though.
A couple of things that could be improved:
At first I thought they were sitting in front of a stopped truck, not in the back of a truck. You could probably add a few words to make that clearer, though, so it's not a big deal...Read the rest of the review and the story
here!
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Saint chapter 2, reviewed by MackI love your turn of phrase:
That was why Bellamy had been breathing down my neck like a dragon trying to cough up a hairball.
The thought of a dragon trying to cough up a hair ball brings up a disturbing picture to my mind.
This chapter was darker than the first and I liked it. You write in the old style of the 20’s and 30’s. Saint is a freaking nut when it comes to the Russians... Read the rest of the review and the story
here!
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Have you written a review recently? Let me know, and I'll feature it!Reviewing resourcesThe reviewing workshop is held once a month. Each participant must earn 8 points by reviewing fellow members' pieces. For more information, you can read
this.
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Ameaba is starting a new workshop. Click
here for more details or
here for the official rules!
To find a complete list of all unreviewed fiction, click
here.
Reviews and "What's the Scoop?":"What's the Scoop?":
December Releases 2008[12/2]
"What's the Scoop?":
November Releases 2008[12/2]
Violinist of Hameln, reviewed by Tollie01
[12/2]
Vandread, reviewed by Tollie01
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Discussions, illustrations, and other generally cool stuff: How to remove a story[12/6]
The Library List[12/5]
Story discussion list[12/5]
How to make a link (tutorial)[12/5]
Want to help with Cal's vampire story?[12/5]
Elly's Library[12/2]
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MXSkai has 14 days from the music contest and 7 days from the MLC awards.
NearlyMello has 7 days from the music contest.
Airichan has 7 days from the MLC awards.
ED has 7 days from the MLC awards.
MrGBH has 7 days from the MLC awards.
Ameaba has 24 days from the reviewing workshop.
ElianaMoran has 6 days from the reviewing workshop.
Zaul has 3 days from the reviewing workshop.
Calamari has 5 days from the reviewing workshop.