Inside the Race Against Time: Secrets Unveiled from WritersWeekly’s 24-Hour Short Story Showdown!
After the contest ends at 12:00 p.m. noon central time on Sunday, I will open all of the emails, and copy/paste all stories into one gigantic MSWord file for the judges. Those do NOT include the email headers so the judges don’t know in which order they were sent to us. I sort them by name, not by the date/time of submission. I then create a spreadsheet for the judges that is shared online (privately!) between us. Each row has the page number of the MSWord file where the story begins, and the story’s title. There is a box for us to put the score for each story.
