Good evening, everyone! Well, morning, actually.
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I must apologize for my relative absence lately, but work has kept me distracted. That being said it is once again time to conclude one monthly prompt and to look with eager anticipation towards the future.
First, I would like to congratulate
@DiddyKF1 for winning the June 2018 prompt challenge!
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As winner of the challenge you may now upgrade your banner to the two-star Seeker badge which I have attached to this post.
@DiddyKF1 Secondly, it is again time for a monthly prompt to conclude. For the July 2018 prompt there were three entries, which all participants in last month's prompt can now vote for in the
voting topic. I will keep the voting open for the next two weeks, or until all three qualified voters cast their votes, whichever occurs first.
Third, please keep in mind that the August 2018 prompt will continue to run until September 30, 2018. So if you have not already submitted an entry you still have plenty of time to work on an entry.
Fourth, I would like to clarify that the forum fanfiction awards (which are totally separate from the prompt challenge) will begin accepting nominations a week from today. On that day I will post the rules topic for those awards and you may begin to PM me with your desired nominations. The actual voting and leaving of reviews for the awards will commence on October 1, 2018 and end on November 30, 2018. As we have had a massive turnout of great stories on the forum this year I would like to encourage you all to participate in those awards this year.
Finally, I want to clarify that the prompt challenge will be going on hiatus from October 1st to November 30th of this year in order to not interfere with the forum fanfiction awards and to allow me to consider how to develop next year's prompt challenges. In this process I would appreciate your feedback. If you have any ideas as to what you would like to see included, or potential prompt ideas, let me know in this discussion topic and they might be included in next year's iteration of the awards.
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I eagerly look forward to your thoughts.
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