Merely an Update
G'day once again, shinobi and kunoichi of TONFA! My exams are over, I'm an official university graduate! This is good and bad news. Good news! Time to start planning TONFA's First inhouse competition. I've already decided it will be a Best in Category with art prizes for the winner and the runner up, but also three art prizes will be given out to TONFA's best reviewers so start practicing guys! It will be based on quality over quantity!
Bad news, with all this extra time on my hands I can spend more time policing the rules-mwahaha! Unfortunately we still can't figure out what's making the html so touchy so please if you're looking for a reference continue to check the Forum's Version if you have any questions.
The main transgressions I continue to see are not sticking to the eight character/pair/team choice maximum. It's getting the point we're I'm going to get so annoyed that if I see more than eight characters I'm going just going to edit it and chose the All option and for god sake please don't make me be a nanny! The rule is in place to fix up our buggered search engine and once I see that it's useful again and authors can use the option responsibly the rule will be lifted, I promise.
The other rule transgression is the new 700 word limit. It's there to encourage you to write a full and detailed chapter expanding it with better imagery and so each chapter can contribute meaningfully to the plot, not to fill it with mindless babble. If you can't do that, I'm wondering.... I don't know what I'm going to do about it just yet but do yourself a favour and try to meet it. If you have old fics abandoned fics that don't meet the rules, could you be a mate and delete it? Ta, thanks!
Otherwise, to those who complied so quickly I was amazed! Thankyou so much for making TONFA a better place! Keep writing and perhaps recommend us to other authors Naruto authors on the web? Teehee, I'm impressed with some of the gorgeous banners coming out (I'm looking at you Baal_of_Yarns, stunning!). If you're looking for one, I have a thread available in the Forums where you can request at least something basic, but there's also other threads where you can request character and fic reviews! If you have time and talent, start your own shop, as well as dropping round and chatting about writing and the latest manga issues!
Now to a new piece Reviewer of the Month, starting July 1st! The winner will get a commissioned art piece from which ever DeviantArt artist I'm admiring at the time! I'm looking for quality over quantity, tact, advice and detail over what you liked and didn't like about the piece and what could have improved it. So, taking a bit of time on a fic review will be rewarding, I promise.
Cheers guys, I hear its exam time in Britain and North America so good luck to all of you!
by Bushtuckapenguin on 15/06/08 - 10:04 pm
3 Comments
This has been a really hard one. I've added a poetry section to the General section, but it'll cover all of them. I'll remove the 700 word limit but it means we'll be harsher punishment if its random fluff. Probably automatic deletion unless its poetry or drabbles. Unfortunetly a lot of Mods are having their exams at the moment so patrolling it is difficult. My goal is to remove the Pit epithet the archives have earned.
BushtuckaPenguin @ 18/06/08 - 07:44 pm
Does that ahve anything to do with Madfics....cuz I don't know if you've noticed but...there all kinda short but I think its quality and not quantity...and in Madfics the goal is to be able to get the readers laughing aven if it's in a short chapter. Now actually to fill those 50 words or so I add in little informative things that have to do with my chapters and people do seem to enjoy them, so all in all that rule improved my stories a bit...so thanks...I guess....
Noleta @ 21/06/08 - 09:57 am
I take it from the 700-word minimum and the lack of a poetry section that the site excludes poetry now.
If I'm right, please answer why.
@ 17/06/08 - 08:37 pm