The 30th is just the deadline. You can publish it sooner, but none of the reads you get before the deadline will affect how your story does in the contest.
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Thank you 
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i am not gonna be finish with my story. so i am just gonna save it for another time
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OMG these stories sound so good! Iām scared now
Me too
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Iām halfway done with the 1st episode, though. That should be good.
Im not quite half way through yet 
whats yours about? This is my description.
20 years ago a psychopathic teenager brutely tourchered and murdered 3 of his friends before burning himself to death in your school. Now on the anniversary of his death you and your friends decide to spend the night at school to see if his ghost really does walk the halls at night. But what seems like harmless fun turns into a hellish nightmare. Will you and your friends survive?
Please ignore any spelling and grammar issues I will be checking this before publishing!!
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Mine. Itās a psychological thrillerā¦
She was hurt. Rejected. Abused. They all hurt her. She was sickā¦ Then she disappeared. But she came back, and had a gift: and it was best served cold.
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Thatās a very wise and motivated words to give out.
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well so much for me doing a story for this lol 
idk how I totally didnāt get notified for this 
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Iām not making the deadline either lol. It should probably be out near mid-October at this rateā¦ but Iām really happy with how itās coming out.
It is 1931, almost 50 years after Jack the Ripper terrorized Londonās Whitechapel district. As the country sinks into the Great Depression, bodies begin to pile up once more. While Detective Robert Williams tries to crack the cold case, his wife Emily must battle her own demons to unmask historyās most elusive serial killer.
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That sounds interesting 
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ooh! whatās the name?
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That sounds really good canāt wait to read it!!
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UGH, not gonna make the deadline. Iāve got 3 episodes so far and I was planning 5ā¦ (completed) They had to create this contest as soon as school started back 
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āThriller: Best Served Coldā. I might not make it by the deadlineā¦
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Thank you.
Really? 
But why? 
I thought they look at the all the reads, plus the rubric score and reader engagement.
No one said anything about this kind of thing before. 
Are you sure about it?
*It just doesnāt seen fair if itās true. 
@Liz , @Jesse , @Jeremy can you please confirm or deny this. 
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They also look at rubric score and reader engagement, but the purpose behind not counting reads before the deadline is actually to make it more fair. Otherwise, people who publish sooner will have an advantage over the authors who take more time to write their story and therefore have less time to promote it.
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Liz has said it plenty of times. Thereās a quote floating around somewhere on an old contest post. They donāt look at your total reads but at your reader retention.
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