Whats YOUR choice for the story contest?

Well?

The stories can be found here: http://www.wc3campaigns.net/showthread.php?t=79457


EDIT: I cant post a poll because theres over 10 options...

ALSO: This thread is for open discussion, this does NOT have impact on who actually wins.

I vote for my own!!! :P
However, if not....Ghoul's Diary is good...Expulsion's pretty good...those are the only ones I've read :P
Heh, I'm being sports-manlike

Yes you are! Im QUITE proud of you.

Well personaly i think all of em are preaty nice.
Though i read mine a few days ago (to remember the charecters) and I just thought: "WtF? did i write that?!"
But anyway, good luck to yE all!

Here's my ratings so far, it might take me a bit to totally finish 'em up.


I base my ratings on :

Writing Skill /20 Includes how the story was written, the quality of the story, grammar and punctuation, the clearity and anything else that helps/detracts from the story telling ability.
Character Development /15 Physical as well as emotional descriptions.
Creativity /10 Mainly about the story.
Descriptions /15 How well did your story appear in my mind? Includes things such as imagery , similie and metaphor.
Grammar /10 Pretty self explanitory.
Flow /10 Was the story clear at all times?
Tilt /20 My thoughts.


The Little Troll

Writing Skill 14/20
Character Development 6/15
Creativity 5/10
Descriptions 5/15
Grammar 7/10
Flow 7/10
Tilt 10/20 Sorry, it just seemed like a joke story. I got a few chuckles out of it but it didn't seem like anything serious. I was also bothered because the whole thing was in one paragraph, please don't do that again :P By the way, if we ever have a humorous story contest, you could totally enter this one
Overall: 54/100



The Creep King

Writing Skill 16/20
Character Development 0/15 (Sorry..)
Creativity 3/10 (It's just basic WC3 story rewritten, what wasn't rewritten was a little too short for me to accurately gauge how creative it was :/)
Descriptions 6/15
Grammar 9/10 (Whole paragraph thing bothers me again, although this is short so its not a big deal)
Flow 10/10
Tilt 9/20 Yeah its not bad, the main thing is its way too short for me to tell how good you are at writing. I'm thinking if you extended it and kept it interesting you could do great
Overall 53/100



Codex of Histories
-Halicus of Taboth-


Writing Skill 18/20 (Professional sounding! Reminds me of the starcraft manual :D)
Character Development 5/15
Creativity 8/10
Descriptions 9/15
Grammar 10/10
Flow 7/10 Certain things like the professional tone and not knowing all about the worlds your describing impair flow and knock it down a few points, but nothing serious.
Tilt 17/20 Nothing's obviously wrong with this, it's pretty good. Sounds like an intriguing campaign ^^
Overall 79/100



RED HORIZONS



Writing Skill 18/20
Character Development 13/15
Descriptions 12/15
Grammar 9/10 Only thing that bothered me was the elipses (...), mainly your overuse of them - sometimes you can use commas instead, sometimes periods, yes every now and then they can be used but it isn't very often.
Flow 10/10
Tilt 18/20 I liked it! I don't know why exactly, it just sort of grew on me. You did a really great description of him with very limited space. I think you should try writing longer stories, you could do some great stuff
Overall: 90/100



Azaels Tale


Writing Skill 14/20
Character Development 13/15
Descriptions 13/15
Grammar 5/10 It wasn't bad but it could use some work, and at the end, you started using "u" instead of "you"! How awful! *collective gasp*
Flow 8/10
Tilt 16/20
It wasn't that bad. It really felt like a WC3 cinematic, I'm figuring the cinematic itself does the story more justice then the story :D I liked how you almost had him kill the sorceress at their first confrontation, thats totally different (in most stories, the bad guy schools the first guy in the first confrontation) so props for that.

+3 bonus points for the cool puzzle at the end:
Overall 82/100



Orcs are comming


Writing Skill 14/20
Character Development 12/15
Descriptions 12/15
Grammar 6/10
Flow 7/10
Tilt 15/20
It's not so bad. I gave you more detailed comments on your main thread.
Overall 76/100


The Tavern


Writing Skill 17/20
Character Development 14/15
Descriptions 14/15
Grammar 7/10
Flow 9/10
Tilt 17/20
This was a tough decision to make between Red Horizons and this since whichever short story I chose here would win and whichever I didn't would come second. They are both really good stories, so I kinda wanted them to tie (even though I couldn't). Anyways, like I said, this story is really good too. I think one thing you should definitely try if a contest comes around again (and one definitely will) is submitting something more concise and to the point. It may be just me, but when you do something short you can get your grammar and other errors down and out and then just work on the story. Grammar was a small annoyance in this story; always make copious use of double spacing between paragraphs otherwise it's tough on the eyes. Other than that, it's pretty good, albiet a little cliched, which is probably what made me favor Red Horizons over this.
Overall 88/100


I'll continue reviewing the other stories later on...

I guess if I had known a bit more about writing I've done myself better. Besides my are too short, I think (compared to other stories)

I guess the next time I'll work far harder. Anyway, good luck to anyone!!

BTW, Johnnf, you should take that link from your sig. After all, the contest is bout to finish (if it yet hasn't).

btw: winner will be announced once johnfn makes his decision.

so John u gonna announce it sometime b4 I go to sleep? ;)

Sorry, I had to leave for a bit, and I'm going to have to go to sleep in a little bit so I guess we'll see where I get on the ratings before then. :S

i forgot to mention: yes johnfn the little troll IS a big joke, i laughed quite hard when me and olofmoleman came up with ideas for it.

It figures ^^.

By the way, the decision has been made. As for all the other stories, I will get around to yours. Its just that right now I'm really pressed for time.

i look forward to your PM...

Heh, nice ratings so far

But the "Writing Skill" line bothers me a lot... becouse DAMN there is almost no writing skill in my Ghoul's Diary
but eh, i won't be upset if i'll take the last place, i'll even be pround of all my story writing "brothers"

john, you didn't post a comment in my thread like you said....
And too bad I scored so low....and you didn't give me any comments to explain why...