A Haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.
Well, that said, heres the rules:
1) The Haiku must be original (no plagarizing)! 2) It must fit the weeks theme 3) It must be submitted before the deadline 4) It must be submitted for the contest (no using works previously written) 5) One Submission per user 6) The Same User cannot win twice in a row (but there welcome to submit!)
Hopefully oneday the winner could get a merit...
The Deadline will always be a Wednsday, so the deadline for the first theme will be Wednsday, September 2. The theme is The Pond
Glad the title changed without me saying anything to a mod since I won an all, I was in Europe the past 10 days and just got on. I'm happy to see I won There were some good entries to beat out ;P. and i'll work on the punctuation, it just did not cross my mind at the time! Good luck everyone in this week's theme!
Ok then. Anyways, it wasn't even my week to judge so really, it doesn't make much of a difference. See you for the next judging guys, I'll probably be feeling a little better by then, who knows.
Hey, can't you read the precedent posts? Dudeguy said he'd have it done and he even said when so calm yourself down okay buddy. God, things like these just piss me off seeing what I'm going through; you do know it's a crapload of work and we're doing it benevolently right? Use some patience!
Last round, I wrote a critique for everyone who entered, and had it up two days after the round finished. Not to toot my own horn, but thats pretty good. I don't think you fully appreciate just how hard it is to judge this contest. Sure, its 'only three lines', but when you have 30 some-odd entries and everyone wants a critique, it can get stressful. But its only three lines! It just pisses me off when people totally ignore the amount of time and effort that these judges put into the round each week. I only did it one week, and it was stressful. I can't imagine how much Earnie and Fallen get stressed, so it really pisses me off when people get upset and crap about it.
I think maybe you can work as a team and divide the work? say there are 30 of em, 3 of you want to do it, that would be 10 each. not to shabby.
Just think how complicated it would be; you have to gather the results of everyone else by messaging outside Ag, so whenever you can't reach someone immediately, even though you're finished you're bound to wait. And then, there's the winning issue; is somebody designated to choose, or must all three debate. If so, it's bound to cause even more lateness. If not, the one deciding can choose a Haiku that was not appreciated by the one who judged it; then what do you do!?
We already tried that method, it's all too complicated, really.
Fallen can't do it; Emotional turmoil.
True, however, I said I could to a certain extent, but that extent doesn't satisfies Dudeguy so let him.
