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Literature › Re: Short Story Competition by HumbledbYGrace(f): 6:11pm On Sep 27, 2013

kayemjay: I honestly did not want to say anything all this while. But at this juncture, I think I just should comment.

Edit comments? What for? Whoever has dropped his story has DROPPED his story!

If you don't have what it takes, even if Wole Soyinka himself was to guide you, you would still fall below par.

Now, I personally don't see anything wrong with dropping observations after each submission. Do these writers have the same thoughts? Are they writing the same storyline? Are they under the same genre? Commenting on a writer's submission does not give the other competitors who are yet to submit ANY EDGE over others. It only makes it worse for them because I WILL COME HARD on every new entry henceforth.

Believe me, we will ALWAYS find something to critique in every work submitted because there are 8 different Unique judges.

So, let the competition continue!

Its a no, no

Literature › Re: Short Story Competition by HumbledbYGrace(f): 6:11pm On Sep 27, 2013

This is the first time, no emails, and by the way even if I say they shouldn't modify/edit their stuff they will still modify their posts whenever they feel the need to because the thread is open and every op is entitled to their post.

This competition will be seasonal so every other suggestion or idea will be included in the next edition.

Literature › Re: Short Story Competition by HumbledbYGrace(f): 5:56pm On Sep 27, 2013

[quote author=Mazi_Omenuko]Hi all,

Welcome to the maiden edition of this Short Story competition. Its open for all nairaland members excluding regular writers at the Literature section; this means that if you have a completed work already (either at the Literature section, sexuality section or Diary section) then you cannot participate in this competition (sorry).

So its going to be for fresh writers (or newbies). Here's an opportunity to test out your writing skills.

The stories are to be posted on an entirely new thread that will be created soon; so indicate your interest here and start preparing your story.

There are just few rules;

The rules are simple: Post a titled short story of not more than 2,500 words in any genre of your choice (Romance, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller etc). Stories of sex-plicit contents are not allowed (so one Mazi_omenuko is disqualified already on two grounds).

Submitted work must be an original work from the poster. We, at the Literature section frowns at plagiarism and any work that is discovered not to be original will be disqualified and the poster might get a life-long ban from the Literature section.

The old members of the Literature section are to adjudge the short stories and select five finalist. Each member will nominate three stories he/she feels impressed the more. The nominations will be pooled together and the five stories with the highest nomination gets to the final round.[/quote]The bolded is for Miss fibre, as long as time isn't up you can do whatever to your story, that's why I asked the Judges to hold it until the closing date.

Literature › Re: Short Story Competition by HumbledbYGrace(f): 5:51pm On Sep 27, 2013

[quote author=Miss_Fibre]A saviour just came. I am not a fan of this re-editing rubbish. Sorry for being so vulgar angry

[/quote]In other words I am talking rubbish?

Literature › Re: Short Story Competition by HumbledbYGrace(f): 5:50pm On Sep 27, 2013

Ishilove: You are not being vulgar. The fact is if writers start editing their entries then whole thing will lose crediblity and become a sham. A huge, dry joke. We will be the laughingstock of Nairaland!

No Ishilove, it is not like that.

They have until next week to make their stuff right, we say lights out until the submission thread gets locked, after that nobody will even have any means of modifying or editing.

And by the way, the submission thread will be locked immediately after submission time expires.

Culture › Re: Who Is Interested In Moderating This Section? by HumbledbYGrace(f): 5:44pm On Sep 27, 2013

CAMEROONPRIDE: ^^ unban me in the religion section

send me a pm

Culture › Re: Jewels Of Africa Nairaland Heritage Fair by HumbledbYGrace(op): 5:13pm On Sep 27, 2013

ATMC: mmmmhhhh...NO DULL MOMENT WIF YHU @OP #smilesssss

Thanks ATMC wink

Literature › Re: Short Story Competition by HumbledbYGrace(f): 5:09pm On Sep 27, 2013

[quote author=Foxy_Flow]WOMEN!!! #pulls hair#

Can't you do the honourable thing of stepping down?

Pleaseeeee [/quote]I guess we all know why you want Omolola to step down....

@Omolola don't waste your breath on his bickering, its his thing. A very controversial man.....

Literature › Re: Short Story Competition by HumbledbYGrace(f): 4:54pm On Sep 27, 2013

[quote author=Foxy_Flow]English is never my problem and you no suppose carry English writing enter this matter. We are not fighting.

For the record, I am a writer. Just don't go about puffing my chest up.

If you wan judge me by using my typed English, then you really are on a long thing because all those small small mistakes wey you go see na intentional. If you read any of my works, put this behind your mind when doing so. They were not edited before posting. I just type away on my key board. [/quote]too much yada yada tongue

Literature › Re: Short Story Competition by HumbledbYGrace(f): 4:51pm On Sep 27, 2013

[quote author=Foxy_Flow]Oahray, see, I don't have anything against her but I was frustrated when I read all those many things that she wrote down. And then to think that two judges who are supposed to communicate with each other via PMs wants to start a showdown of who is of greater knowledge when it comes to literature.

I don't care if they both are moderators, this is the literature section.

You were given notification and you did not drop anything to help the writers. You see 2 works and your brain start boothing. You want to show the world that you have ideas. Abegi!!!

Where was Omolola all this while? Why did she have to show up today? Was she not aware that she had put the first two writers on a disadvantageous position?

All these and more questions are burning through my mind.

I answered you because of the way you scolded me. See HBG wan form commando for my head.

HumbledbyGrace, there is freedom of speech, so kapish and shut your moderating mouth up. [/quote] grin

God knows I prayed for this episode more than for my life.

First of all; its my Fault that Omolola came last, I 'forgot' to send her the link to this thread, I realized my mistake when I was going through emails.

Secondly, the judges are just trying to help writers, nobody is forming captain.

Thirdly....kindly help me take my horse to the river for a drink, I can bet on my life that its thirsty.

Literature › Re: Short Story Competition by HumbledbYGrace(f): 4:43pm On Sep 27, 2013

[quote author=Miss_Fibre]Excuse me miss, it was not stated in the rules. I stuck strictly to the rules and all this is making my effort look and feel rubbished. How honest would I be if I start modification?

Listen to yourself and put yourself in my shoes. There is something called ethics and honesty.

Thanks[/quote]those are your words, this thing happens a lot on this section,

Well goodluck anyway.

Literature › Re: Short Story Competition by HumbledbYGrace(f): 4:40pm On Sep 27, 2013

[quote author=Foxy_Flow]Personally do what?

Drop that is jor.

You gimme horse make I hold for you? [/quote]What's your problem?

Your not a writer so stop forming.

Btw, try taking english courses on your free time, that might help you.

Literature › Re: Short Story Competition by HumbledbYGrace(f): 4:35pm On Sep 27, 2013

[quote author=Miss_Fibre]Don't you think this is coming in a little too late? And every other tips other judges have been giving?[/quote]your allowed to edit, modify your submission until the closing date.

Literature › Re: Short Story Competition by HumbledbYGrace(f): 4:30pm On Sep 27, 2013

[quote author=Foxy_Flow]You see one thing about women wey I hate. Una dey wan show professionalism.

Abeg make una waka jor. Competition since before e start, we no see any of these nonsense, na now we come dey see am.

Mtchw.

Omolola or whatever your name is, you should better stop forming capon here o.

Ishilove, you ma respect yourself. Some people don already submit so all una analysis na rubbish.

Leave am for subsequent editions.

Simple.[/quote]I will personally deal with you...hold your horses right there mr angry

Culture › Re: Jewels Of Africa Nairaland Heritage Fair by HumbledbYGrace(op): 4:15pm On Sep 27, 2013

topas100: Supported

thanks

Christianity Etc › Re: Religion Complaints Thread (sticky) by HumbledbYGrace(op): 4:07pm On Sep 27, 2013

Mr Troll: never mind. . .It was on this complaints thread but now it has been hidden so i can't find it again.

On the new chat thread created, i don't see how the reason/rhetoric question you posed to Alfa properly addressed why the new chat thread was locked. Its not like he asked for it to be stickied or so. . .we are free to create chat threads, no?

We have a christian chat box, which caters for all kinds of discussions christians might wanna have. Then there is a non christian chatbox, and the satanic chatbox, don't you think those are enough?

Any kind of discussion can have a thread right? And it can have any name but not 'christian chatbox' tagged to it.

Culture › Re: Jewels Of Africa Nairaland Heritage Fair by HumbledbYGrace(op): 3:59pm On Sep 27, 2013

Ok, that was just an example, real fun should start on the first of October....see you soon. wink

Culture › Re: Jewels Of Africa Nairaland Heritage Fair by HumbledbYGrace(op): 3:57pm On Sep 27, 2013

For week two.... cry

can't find a traditional.

For week 3, the insert picture serves for week 3

Culture › Re: Jewels Of Africa Nairaland Heritage Fair by HumbledbYGrace(op): 3:51pm On Sep 27, 2013

Here is how to roll it....For week one

Culture › Jewels Of Africa Nairaland Heritage Fair by HumbledbYGrace(op): 3:38pm On Sep 27, 2013*

Claim your heritage as we make a month of October, the first Nairaland celebrated African cultures fare.

Here is how we are going to do it;

First week we will be showcasing the traditional dresses, for both maidens and Warriors.

Second week will be for food....showcasing our traditional dishes and elaborating on how they are prepared.

Third week...we look at our ancestors dwellings.

And fourth week grin

Volunteers will tell us what makes their culture different, the cultural dances, how the girls are wooed, how is marriage performed and what is expected of a newly wed daughter in law by her inlaws etc, you can add your own, come let's have fun.

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Christianity Etc › Re: I Need advice. Please Hear This Story... FOR BELIEVERS AND NON BELIEVERS by HumbledbYGrace(f): 3:12pm On Sep 27, 2013

nwuyag: I did not put that I have also tried that before, if i put some other things, this post will be long. Also, I met a pastor sometime a go abt 1 year ago who prayed for me and told me that I will recieve the holy spirit and after everything, nothing happened to me. Other people were moving. I dont understand

you did not receive the Holy Spirit because you do not believe that there is God.

Faith can move mountains, you just have to decide.

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Culture › Re: Who Is Interested In Moderating This Section? by HumbledbYGrace(f): 2:25pm On Sep 27, 2013

M interested too, this is the right place for my love for history.

Abeg no shipping things angry

Literature › Re: Jewels Of Africa by HumbledbYGrace(op): 2:14pm On Sep 27, 2013

[quote author=ngwana.mobu]I didn't expect this. Why Sebabatso a dira so mara huh

[/quote]Ge nka o botsa o kase ntshepe, ge nka o botsisa, o ka se nkarabe.

Thanks for the support my one

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Literature › Re: Short Story Competition by HumbledbYGrace(f): 2:06pm On Sep 27, 2013

Judges, please let's keep it to ourselves.

We can have some notes stored for every submission, and then dish them out after the closing date. Then we can chop their knuckles lol, after that grading will follow by all the judges.

Literature › Re: Short Story Competition by HumbledbYGrace(f): 10:08am On Sep 27, 2013

[quote author=Efemena_xy]For those interested in seeing samples of my earlier works / contributions to stories in this section, you might want to have a look at this thread (preferably from the beginning) to see how I too, as a budding writer, evolved my writing skills with time and practice: https://www.nairaland.com/835469/continue-lola-story/8

One more thing: I know Mazi's already touched on the issue of plagiarism, but this really cannot be over-emphasized. Yes, sometimes, in the process of undertaking research, we might pick up excerpts from already published works. However, the onus is on us writers to make sure our works are absolutely ours and if not, to quote the original author and source. Based on this, before reading any submitted stories, I'll be using my online plagiarism checker tool to check the authenticity of, and ensure that works submitted are original. I'll encourage you as writers to do the same too. A free online copy can be obtained from here: http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/

Best of luck and I look forward to reading your stories here

[/quote]Ma'am you have put professionalism into this whole thing, glad to have you here. cool

Christianity Etc › Re: Religion Complaints Thread (sticky) by HumbledbYGrace(op): 10:00am On Sep 27, 2013

Mr Troll:

Links please

Christianity Etc › Re: Religion Complaints Thread (sticky) by HumbledbYGrace(op): 9:59am On Sep 27, 2013

Alfa Seltzer: Complaints.

My complaints here are hidden without explanations

My threads are locked without any reason given: https://www.nairaland.com/1454555/religion-section-chatbox-general-discussions

How many pages in a day did we have in the former complaints thread just on the case of chatrooms?

Christianity Etc › Re: Religion Complaints Thread (sticky) by HumbledbYGrace(op): 9:57am On Sep 27, 2013

joel lala: HBG, am sorry to say this but your statement is not valid and doesnt hold any water..she is complaining about a thread that goes against her religion(it is evident that christainity doesnt support gays or lesbianism) and like what Ray said the religion section is being dumped with trash so do something about it..if you allow that thread to stand, will you also allow - A PHEDOPHILE CHRISTAIN THREAD or a BESTAILITY CHRISTAIN THREAD to stand as well? I await your answer so that i will knw when this religion section will be turned to crap section by your own sentimental doing..

I understand, I was like her when this kinda thing happened but I grew a thick skin on it.

Btw the thread has been moved to the sexuality section.

Literature › Re: Jewels Of Africa by HumbledbYGrace(op): 11:47pm On Sep 26, 2013

callola: HBG, u r forgiven. Thanks for the updates but pls we need more

Thanks

I will try wink

Literature › Re: Short Story Competition by HumbledbYGrace(f): 11:23pm On Sep 26, 2013

[quote author=Jekyll & Hyde][color=#000033]Thanks, HBG. I do appreciate.[/color]

[/quote]my pleasure wink

Literature › Re: Short Story Competition by HumbledbYGrace(f): 11:22pm On Sep 26, 2013

Abu Mikey: Anytime I wan juss start to dey Pen down my Tori,I go juss dey see sometin wen be like Aunty Ishilove dey laff me

as kslib said, all is well.

By the way if anyone has been through the collaboration thread, ya'll should have known how tough this would be.

M the friendly one, lol....anybody seen Omolola1 huh

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