I have not got an entire completed unpublished novel to submit.  I submit that if I had one, it would be published.  Or at least, UNpublished.  Geeze.  I have PARTS of unfinished novels to submit, and it’s fairly clear why they are unpublished.  Who are all these people with all these attention spans, with these complete but unpublished novels lying around? It’s all I can do to write a short story and not get it published, never mind write an entire book and not get it published. 

It has occurred to me upon occasion, however, anyway, that, um.... well, what’s wrong with an unpublished compendium of short stuff?  Could I enter THAT?  Could I enter a compendium of some of the stuff that’s already been published here, and some other stuff?  If not, can we have another contest in which I could?  Kind of “The Best of… ME”? 

Second question:  I have a couple of things that could BE unpublished novels, but I can’t be bothered to finish them because it seems like a lot of work for people to read and for me to write, all in one go.  A novel is LONG.  Should I just go to the Writer’s Circle and shut up?  Will anyone come along with me? 

Third question:  It would be fun, also, to write a Group Novel.  We used to do this kind of thing in university and I know there are other things like this around.  Everyone write a sentence, or paragraph, or whatever, and let the chips fall where they may.  Could go week by week and have voting on the submissions for each new (say) paragraph.  (Should be relatively short for people with short attention spans and heavy workloads to be able to contribute without losing jobs and marriages.) It would be fun and perhaps quite hilarious if Litmocracy wrote its own short story or novel.  Brain points for submitting at all, and more brain points for winning submission?  I dunno. 

Thanks all.

Dave, I still liked the voting setup and organization better the way it was before.  I am trying to vote “Mary” into first place and I can’t figure out how. 

Julie

If the site let you choose which pieces you voted on, then you wouldn’t vote on anything bad, would you?  Or would you?

When I logged in as you, I found that the next thing you’re supposed to vote on was not Mary.  It certainly wasn’t as good as Mary - even I can see that.  Now I suppose that you think you have voted on that piece the site is telling you to vote on right now, because it’s in your list, isn’t it?

In fact, everything the site lets you vote on is going to be in your list before you vote on it.  It gets put there (at the bottom, under the pink bar) so that you can vote on it.  Just put it somewhere above the pink bar and submit your votes.

Here’s what I think: You used Quickvote, and chose the last place for the piece that is there at the bottom of your list.  This would work fine, except that “last place” is now below the pink bar because you’ve got two items tied together at one spot.  So voting the new piece in to “last place” just means putting back in the slot the means you haven’t voted on it yet.  Try second-to-last place and it should work great.

Good luck, and be sure to ask again if it still doesn’t work.  Meanwhile, I’ll be figuring out how to fix this so it doesn’t frustrate others.