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Hi there!
I know it’s a day late, but I had to celebrate my birthday after all. Cakes and parties are over, though. Here are the contest winners!
By the way, just to spread the win evenly, I decided that each contestant could only win once. That way, nobody hogs the prizes :

Winners:
First Prize (2 Books by June Casagrande): CHORVA
Second Prize (1000 EC credits each): KRANJCARZ and TOMGU
Third Prize (500 EC credits each): ALL CONTESTS, ZRIZ, MARS, KAT, SHERRY

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It’s my birthday tomorrow, and you know what that means: the contest is over! We’ve got more than a few contestants now (a lot more than I actually expected, being a new site and all) so I think overall it’s been a success.
Thanks to everyone who joined!
Results will be announced tomorrow

There’s still time to join the contest and win June Casagrande’s books and thousands of EC credits. Joining is easy and there really isn’t a lot of competition, so your odds of winning are seriously up. Prove to the world that a book can be just as enticing as first prize as gadgets (for us nerdy writer folks anyway). Join the contest now!

*Breaking News!!! New Prize added thanks to grammar goddess June Casagrande!*
EDIT: Slight changes in Mechanics, thanks to a comment from Pinay Mommy. Made me realize something crucial to this contest: ease of joining. Thanks Mommy!

If the title strikes you as a bit too enthusiastic, it’s because I am.
I’m seriously stoked now that it’s less than a month before my birthday comes around. Instead of waiting for you people to send me presents, though, I guess this is a very good chance for me to give back to …

I’ve been out of touch this past weekend thanks to a combination of back pain and the installation of the entire Sims 2 collection on my Mac. It took me weeks to finally get the installation done (thanks to a random list of things I’d rather not discuss), and back pain had rendered me completely immobile for days.
Anyway, I’ll leave you with this strip from xkcd.com to think about. I’ve said time and again that writing is not a science. There’s no point forcing it to conform …

I have a bit of an OC complex, as you may have noticed by now, and I keep an eye out for this blog’s statistics.
“Obsessed” is an understatement, really.
This morning, when I noticed that my Technorati authority had gone up a few points, I immediately clicked the widget to see what made it so. I was in for a big surprise.
Apparently, Kat S., a good online friend from my LJ days, found this website useful enough to nominate me one of the Top Ten Emerging Influential Bloggers of 2008.
Surprise!
First …

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I was out sick over the weekend, hence the delay in posts. No worries, though, because here is a list of the past week’s top writing posts, brought to you by Plotdog.Com. Enjoy!
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