Inside the Race Against Time: Secrets Unveiled from WritersWeekly’s 24-Hour Short Story Showdown!
After a few hours, the early birds will start submitting their stories. Some people write about the assigned topic, and submit their story in just a few hours. Others write, rewrite, revamp, edit, start all over, rewrite, edit some more, etc., and submit their stories at the last minute. Honestly, those stories tend to be better than the ones submitted after just a couple or few hours. But, we still judge all of them the same. The judges don’t know what time a story was submitted.
Each time someone submits their story, I send them a confirmation email, saying we received it. Needless to say, that means I’m online most of the weekend (except I do sleep on those Saturday nights). I then wake up with a TON of emails in my inbox. I admit that I do start reading stories right away, because I love to see in which direction each writer takes the assigned topic.
