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Originally Posted by Roger Slater
I wrote the few I posted almost immediately after this thread announced the contest, and I promptly sent them in. I hadn't even noticed your "One With The Wind" entry because I purposely avoided reading this thread carefully. It's probably not a good idea for us to have posted our entries before the deadline in this particular contest, where influence or territory-staking can come into play.
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I agree, Roger. One of the great problems of posting here
before the closing date is the possibility that someone will inadvertently pick up an idea. The other problem is that you may find that someone else has had a similar idea, in which case you may feel unable to use it even if you had the idea independently. I virtually
never read what other people have written until I've sorted out my own entry or entries, and in general (this competition is an exception) I don't post them either.
It's a pity, because it means that a lot of good but non-winning entries (not just mine) never get seen here, and I still think (
pace Jayne) that we ought to be allowed to post them after the closing date and up to the publication date.