Are you a Nazi?

By exweedfarmer · Aug 6, 2019 · 1.2K · 2
  1. I have recently discovered that I am. Not a national socialist, I don't want to reopen Auschwitz, but as far as writing goes I'm a bit of a plot Nazi. I couldn't see past little perceived plot errors in this month short story contests and so I essentially voted for none of them, rather I voted for the one I thought least likely to win. Is that a bad thing? Other people have jumped my stuff about comma splits and the like and I thought that was unreasonable. I think I'm being equally unreasonable if the story just doesn't make sense to me. Perhaps I should have just disregarded the plot shortcomings and voted for the best story otherwise. A point to ponder.
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  1. matwoolf
    You be careful with that strategy.

    Someone I know well, he voted for the worst story in his opinion, or it may have been the last story, and it won the competition. In fact the author later went on to claim a 'Junior New Writer of the Year' bursary based on the single voting error - essentially. It's like life and fate, and a loser-hero getting his comeuppance: always crowds of bad guys stamp on his face repeatedly [metaphor], or taxation.
    matwoolf, Aug 7, 2019
  2. jim onion
    Am I a Nazi? Depends on who you ask.

    If there's nothing worth voting for (however I define worth), I don't vote.
    jim onion, Aug 8, 2019
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