POSSIBLE July Writers' Camp Winners? Discussion~

[jiemae]

i made a spreadsheet at around 3 am EST (im a night owl lmfao), so well after midnight PST, and these were the numbers at that time.

[375]

Im honestly hoping its Peni <3 She deserves it

[jiemae]

agreed

[kaiwang868]

@jiemae nice spreadsheet, I've read some of the entries on your list, I'll need to have a read of the others on the list. Curious what the community has subbed to - but BL seems to be the big one

[OneHappyChap]

No clue about who the winners might be asides from top 2 subs winners, as this month was writing > reading for me, but I can't wait to see the outcome! There were so many fantasy novels according the the spreadsheet this camp, that's pretty neat!

[Alex9Wolf9]

Last time they picked as the second winner (there were only 2 winners then) someone we didn't expect at all. So we should just wait patiently for the 17th when they will announce the lucky people

[Harmony-S-S]

Which is very nerve racking

[raekitano]

@jiemae
I love spreadsheets.
I thought I'd take a look today to see who finished with the most subs and Lucille now has 272 subs. Not sure if that will impact the winning entry.

I'm happy Fox Trap got there. A great story.

The one that stood out for me was

in which the hitman struggles to survive. | Tapas

As I mentioned to the writer. The lower case title through me. I made the assumption the story was written by a young, inexperienced writer. I was very very wrong.

[kaiwang868]

@raekitano I checked half a day ago and Lucille was at 192 subs and now in less than 12 hours its at 272 subs - crazy growth. wonder what how happened and if I can somehow replicate this miracle

[kaiwang868]

@Alex9Wolf9 the last time they picked Badlands, right? I've read the first chapter, but haven't had the time to read more yet, was too busy writing

[jiemae]

holi did such a great job with the story, I agree I feel glad to have been supporting the story since day one. I think it's almost absurd how little traction it got so maybe it was the title, but personally, it always came across as a stylistic choice that i thought was cool and pretty fitting (especially with the period at the end, it's a bold statement rather than a title, and i like that distinction.)

[jiemae]

supposedly it's because of her facebook page

[Zaboem]

Like making an Oscar prediction, I don't feel comfortable picking which project should win if I haven't seen most of the entries. I guess that I will name drop the favorite that I am currently reading, Wentiko by Sada. The author did a fantastic job of establishing a tone and these characters. I do not think it will be picked, however, based on the ten chapters which are there. Honestly, this is a horror book, and none of the horror elements appear until Chapter 10.

I might revise after I have read a few entries.

[Penni]

I have zero idea who will win I read some great entries so who knows? But I will continue to give my support to everyone as we all die waiting to find out the winners lol

[violin]

I was inspired by @jiemae's spreadsheet and wrote a python script to scrape the info off Tapas, instead of having to do it manually

The resulting scraped information is here. I can run the script periodically and update the sheet if y'all like (or maybe update different pages, so we can keep track of the history?) If anyone wants the actual code for the script feel free to PM me

July Writer's Camp

[violin]

Just realized that I didn't include genre, can update the script after lunch maybe. Also the column after views is the # of subs...

[violin]

If you have any feature requests feel free to PM me or comment here If the info is easily visible to you the end user by clicking around on the Tapas site, it's probably scrape-able. This is a fun little side project for me haha

[jiemae]

spreadsheet is life, spreadsheet is love

[SilverLugia456]

I'm not sure who the winner would be even after looking at all of the entries. There were so many good stories (I know that mine needs a lot of improvement) xD However its a great learning experience for me because it motivates me to keep on writing to improve myself. As I writer there is always ways to improve yourself and keep on making those goals to get better and better.

[kaiwang868]

love how in this thread somebody just pulls out a python script, that made my day

Yes, please! update it every now and then, it will be interesting to see how the entries develop post-contest