Okay, I gave it an extra week, hoping someone would email me to say "Whoops, I forgot - here's the story", but no joy. In fact, only daimeryan_rei let me know anything - and thank you a million times over for that, Dirj. (Dirj, you can quit reading here; I already said most of this to you in email ( Read more... )

Happy August 1, people.

This is just a reminder that stories are due in by midnight tonight, eastern standard time. You have less than 16 hours to complete your stories and email them to me at ygo.challenge@gmail.com.

Best of luck to those who make it! Great try to those who don't.

Okay, peoples, it's 6 July. Less than a month left till the end of the challenge. I haven't had anything sent in yet, but there's still 25 days left.

How is everyone coming along? Is anyone going to be finished in time?

Just a quick reminder to anyone participating in the 2007 novella challenge:

Writing ends on 01 August. All entries must be received no later than 23:59 on 01 August. No extensions will be issued this year.

All stories will be posted by 04 August, and voting will begin that day. Voting goes till 24 August; last votes to be counted must be in by ( Read more... )

Okay, these are kinda cruddy, but I have our first two buttons/banners for 2007 ready. Again, they're nothing special, but none the less they are available:


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The new layout here on ygo_novella is up, thanks to katsuko.

So far, we have 8 potential entries. (I know the site says 10, but that was before I decided to not compete.)

If you've sent in an entry notification and haven't heard back from me, leave a comment here and let me know, so I can get the count updated.

And that's about it. Best of luck, writers!

Well, ladies and gents (Do we have gents? That would be kind of cool!), it's officially February 1 ( Read more... )

Okay, folks, I have the 2006 slash challenge winners' banners finished. Ladies, please pick them up behind the cut tag (and ftr, the participant banners for 2007 will be somewhat similar to the 2006 banners, but I'm willing to work the images to whatever characters you want time-permitting; remember, I'm a uni student ^^;)

( 2006 Winners' Banners: Slash Challenge )

Thank you to everyone who submitted stories for the 2006 challenge, who voted in the poll, and who commented on the stories. Li and I have finished with the judging, taken the votes and comments into consideration, and are ready to announce the winners!

The winning stories are:
25k - The Past of the Present Future by Daimeryan Rei
15k - Chain by ( Read more... )

Okay, kitties, voting is now over. I'm not accepting any votes over the 47 we've currently received. To aramis-chan, ed, and Kyrie, thank you for leaving comments. Your well thought-out statements have been a huge boost to the judges ( Read more... )