Writing Competition - Win 5,000 Baht

[Guest IT Manager]

If you are a budding writer, we are runnning a competition for you. Thaivisa will provide an accommodation prize, to the value of 5,000 baht to the winner.

Competition Format:

Open form prose, about, and only about, life in Thailand.

Rules:

• Must be about Thailand
  
• Maximum 2,000 words, in English
  
• Submit to [email protected] in plain text or MS Word Format
  
• Last submission Midnight (Thailand) April 13 2004
  
• All entries will be accessible for members to read.
  
• Admins of Thaivisa.com will not be judges.
  
• Avertisers and staff of advertisers on Thaivisa.com will not be judges.
  
• Judges may not make submissions.
  
• Names of entrants will be withheld until after the Judging.
  

The names of the Judges will be released by the end of March 2004.

The entries will be available for all members to view as soon as they are submitted.

A link to new entries will be placed here.

The judges decision will be final.

There will only be one prize. First.

Lets see what you guys and girls can do...

[Guest The Judge]

What a good idea. Mrentoul I think would be a good person to put something in that.

Maybe I will as well.

[Guest IT Manager]

Submissions may be found here..

Comments may be added here as well.

[Guest chingy]

i love to write but it seem that my grammer is not to great.

[stevehaigh]

you can do a gramma chack in MS Word. Get it for 300 bhat on Kao San Road.

[Lifelover]

Good idea. I'll certainly write something. Two questions:

1. Will published names be pseudonyms or real?

2. Can we submit multiple entries?

[Guest IT Manager]

I am happier with pseudonyms but it isn't a rule. We may elect to remove names from the submissions until after posting, then add them after judging. Essentially, if you are a member, don't use your forum name. We reserve the right to delete them to make it as fair as possible, that way anyone can have a go, and the judges cannot be accused of bias. The issue of emailing submissions is part of that. We can edit out the name of the author before posting it but maintain the name in the management system.

IT

[george]

Two articles so far:

http://www.thaivisa.com/articles.0.html

Keep em coming!

[The Gentleman Scamp]

So it could be a story, a poem, an article or even a limerick? (a 2000 word one).

[Guest IT Manager]

Would be quite a limerick at 2000 words.

All entries accepted.

[Guest IT Manager]

4 entries to date. Makes winning easy enough.

Let's have a few submissions guys and ladies.

IT

[mouse]

IT, I sent my story twice now to the email address shown and cannot get it to show on the board. Could you check or can I send it to another email address? Pls let me know

[mouse]

Hi ######, I sent it again to the email you provided (sales) but still have not seen it posted. Can you let me know please.

[Guest IT Manager]

Mouse what format have you sent it in? Can you send it as a text attachment to an email or in the actual body of an email. I have discussed it with our Sales manager, who is running it, and he tells me it certainly hasn't come through.

The board email servers have stringent filtering, but word docs come through daily.

IT

[et33.com]

i want to write

but i can't

i aren't got the writing juice

inside me blood...

good luck to those who join...

[Guest IT Manager]

Apologies members. We changed servers on the weekend ad I forgot to move my server.

Going through 327 emails from you now.

IT

[tuky]

Manage IT ######?

hmm, think I mite write something, wot i wrote above seems pritty cleva to me.

wot do you fink, shood i write somefing?

[johnjesse1]

Mouse what format have you sent it in? Can you send it as a text attachment to an email or in the actual body of an email. I have discussed it with our Sales manager, who is running it, and he tells me it certainly hasn't come through.

The board email servers have stringent filtering, but word docs come through daily.

IT

I sent a story, The day I lost my wife, word attachment to an email, a few days back but nothing, zilch, has appeared so far.

[george]

John,

Will be uploaded tomorrow. I have been travelling and only had access to this forum at internet cafes.

Cheers!

[mouse]

Hey George pls do not forget about our entries.

[mouse]

Hey George I sent it again this morning to you and sales.

[george]

To all of you who have sent in articles:

I am having a backlog of unpublished articles, due to a heavy work burden, and some problems with the article database. All articles will be posted next week. We are also considering to extend the deadline for articles to end of April instead of end of March.

Sorry for any inconvenience!

/George

[dekestone]

I've got a story nearly ready to go but haven't seen any updates on this topic for a couple of weeks. Are stories being posted? Has the deadline been changed?

[mouse]

Posted: Sun 2004-03-14, 10:19:13

Super Member

To all of you who have sent in articles:

I am having a backlog of unpublished articles, due to a heavy work burden, and some problems with the article database. All articles will be posted next week. We are also considering to extend the deadline for articles to end of April instead of end of March.

Maybe we should vote to have your super from supermember removed. I would recommend a course located at http://www.achievement.com/evelynread.htm

[george]

###### will have the system with add_articles up and running asap, I am told today.

Sorry for the long delay, I am working with this site at least 14 hrs a day, and can't just keep up with the work load. We will very soon have more people trained for working with the backend system.

[Sick Boy]

Still only 2 submissions?

[george]

We have plenty of them, ###### is looking into this now. Please be patient, we are overloaded with work....

[Lambastard]

I've read each twice...

The PIG wins, hoofs down.

[Guest IT Manager]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

After struggling with a new software (excuse) for the past week, I have it.

PLEASE resubmit your articles via PM (in the body) with a title, and they will go up as they arrive.

Sorry for the delay, it was me being a school kid again, with a book, not a techer.

Mea Culpa.

IT/Software Idiot

[MinutePigglet]

You coulda' asked.