Ultimate Showdown!

Hey everybody!

So I've been spending a lot of time hanging out on the StoriesOnline.net Google Group. It's a pretty active discussion group full of a healthy mix of both erotica readers and authors. I suggest you check it out if complaining about SOL.net scores, listening to authors comment on their best and worst stories, and other erotica-related discussions are your thing...!

But anyway, I especially suggest that you check it out Thursday night! The legendary author (one of my favorites), Rachael Ross, is dusting off* her Rache pen-name one last time to challenge yours truly to an author's showdown!

If everything goes according to plan the competition will go down like this. Thursday night at 9pm EST the competition's moderator, MassiveReader, will post a new thread to start the showdown. That thread will include the title of the story both Rache and I will have three hours to write. We won't know the title in advance and will have just three hours (!) to conceive, write, and proof a story that's at least 1,000 words long. After we're finished each of us will e-mail our submissions to MassiveReader who will then remove our names and forward them on to three pre-selected (and secret!) judges. It's unclear to me at this time whether or not he'll also be posting the stories to the thread at this time... shrugs.

Anyway! The mysterious judges will each decide which story they feel is best (or, as Rache put it, "least bad"). When they're done judging, MassiveReader will announce the winner of the "writer's showdown" to the thread. If he hasn't already done so I'm assuming he'll also be posting Rache and my submissions to the thread, too.

I'm really looking forward to this. I think Rache is a much better author than me and her prolific nature definitely gives her an advantage when it comes to "speed writing" or whatever, but I won't be intimidated! :)

Hope to see you all there!

-shannon-

~practicing her quick draw~

P.S. Yes, I know I still haven't posted the SG and S&L updates to this site. Give a girl a break, I'll do it the next time I have time! :)

*Regarding Rache: For some very complicated reasons I'm not sure I fully understand myself, Rache recently "retired" that particular pen-name and pulled all 200+ stories of hers from SOL.net. She's been reposting them but not under the Rache name; instead she posts each story under the name of its main character (e.g. her story "Girl Fag" is being posted under the author name "Ann Russett", the main character of that story). Oh, and FYI? On the SOL.net group she's been posting under the alias "Avid Reader".