It’s been awhile, huh? I bet you are really excited to find out how you did.

Sit down, stay awhile.

Let me read you a story.

1801.—

I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist’s heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still further in his waistcoat, as I announced my name.

No?

You are tired of this bit?

You just want me to announce who is moving on?

But where’s the fun in that?

Where’s the…

Anticipation?

Well fine. If you don’t want to play my game I’ll give you what you want. However, let me take care of something first.

1. The ban on posting is lifted! You can share it freely on your own subs, blogs, with community members, etc!

2. If you want to share it with rWP look out for the [SP] postings that will be going up at midnight. They all follow the same syntax:

[SP] S15M Round 1 Heat X

Post your story to the appropriate prompt. [PI]s will be removed. We are trying to not have a flood of PIs to the sub this week.

3. If you had notes of feedback for the stories you judged, please feel free to give it out if the author posts their story. Please don't try to hunt down authors. You can also just offer feedback wherever because crit is cool.

Please remember Rule 3 of the sub: Be civil. Make sure your crit is constructive and helpful. We aren’t rDR and we don’t tolerate rude temperaments. Please report anything you feel is breaking that.

Regardless of how you did, know that just getting a story done and submitted is an achievement in and of itself!

Judging in this contest is a subjective opinion; there is no strict rubric for people to follow. Not winning doesn't mean you wrote a bad story. It was just a story that didn't jive with 5 or so random people.

Your contributions to the contest are not over yet either! Even if you aren't submitting stories, you still hold voting power over the next two rounds. Come each voting round you will still get a document to review and judge. I hope you'll still take part in that to make this as interesting as possible!

Below you’ll find each heat’s participants, and their standings. Remember, the top two are moving on to Round 2.

If that is you, please continue down below the results table for your new prompt!.

Please note that authors listed after the top 2 are simply in alphabetical order and no other particular ranking.

Congrats!

You are now in the next round. This one will be harder. You are in a group of 8 or 10. There will be more judges per heat. Most importantly, only the top author (top two in the heat of 10) moves into the final winner-take-all cage match! So here is how it will go down:

1. Winners are being reshuffled into new heats. So you may or may not compete with the same person you just did in Round 1. There are seven heats of eight, and one heat of ten.

2. You will have until 11:59:59 EDT 04 Feb 2021 to submit a story. The same guidelines as Round 1 apply:

A. 500-2100 words

B. No content that violates the sub's rules. Violation ends in DQ and blacklisting.

C. No sharing your story ideas. Please keep editing to yourself.

D. No posting your story to a sub or blog before winners are announced. If you are found to have posted your story somewhere before the moratorium is lifted, you will be disqualified.

E. Please either submit plain text or a gDoc link (please no .docx, .doc, .pdfs this time).

3. Wait anxiously for the voting week to end.

• Jan 4: Announcement and hype train leaves the station

• Jan 11: First Round Write begins

• Jan 18: First Round Write ends

• Jan 20: First Round Vote begins

• Jan 27: First Round Vote ends

• Jan 28: Results Announced / First round entries cleared to post / Second Round Write begins

• Feb 4: Second Round Write Ends

• Feb 6: Second Round Vote Begins

• Feb 13: Second Round Vote ends

• Feb 14: Results Announced/ Second round entries cleared to post / Final Round Write begins

• Feb 21: Final Round Write ends

• Feb 23: Final Round Vote begins

• Mar 2: Final Round Vote ends

• Mar 3: Winner Announced/ Final round entries cleared to post

• Announcement

• Round 1 Write

• Round 1 Vote

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