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Per the rules:
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The deadline to submit material for Round I is March 31, 2014. The names of the six finalist in the Competition will be posted on TheNextBigWriter.com approximately four weeks later.

Round II: The manuscripts of the six finalists will be reviewed by the panel of final round judges. The judges will  be asked to evaluate how interested they would be in continuing onto Chapter 4, if it existed. This is the main criteria for judging the submission although grammar and punctuation will also be judging factors.

The winners will be announced on or arouond June 1, 2015.
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Take care. Vern

IT'S NOT TOO LATE. The deadline is midnight, so do what you wish until that time. We all must learn from our mistakes; not to do so, now that is what I would consider unprofessional. Take care. Vern

If life were balanced, we'd all be sitting on a teeter-totter with no ups or downs and hence nothing to write about. A wise person once said, "If you want something done, ask the busiest person you know." Counterintuitive perhaps at first glance, but once you think about it, you realize that a busy person has found the determination and a way to get many things done without stopping to worry about not having enough time. If it's important, the time will come, if not, all the time in the world will make no difference. Hence, for me, my teeter-totter doesn't stay in one balanced position; it moves up and down with the momentum of my priorities at the moment. Take care. Vern

There's science and there's fiction and there is a continuum along which they run and the twain shall meet at some point called science fiction. Exactly where that point along the continuum is keeps moving according scientific advancement and an author's imagination. Pick your spot, it belongs to you and whoever you can convince to ride along with you in your endeavor to create the next best seller. To argue that one's own point is any more valid than the next person's is an argument in futility and egotism. That's my point along the continuum and like trying to argue against a religion with a true believer, any argument to the contrary to my position is futile. Take care. Vern

Yes, if I'm not too old, decrepit, and senile by then, lol. Take care. Vern

Congrats on the rave review. Let us know when the movie comes out; books are generally better for most genres, but  I prefer watching Sci-Fi to reading it - go figure. Take care. Vern

I have it on good authority that it is a combination of: He found out Wanda's sister is an alien who forced him to marry her thereby getting arrested for indecent exposure at the wedding ceremony which no one was sober enough to post bail and besides they were having too much fun with the sex operation performed by a group of rodeo clowns filming the new Fifty Shades of Porn movie using John as drummer for U-2 on the sound track which did indeed attract GP's agent who is currently working on a duel contract for John and GP to do a world tour promoting the Genesis of Client Relations starring John as the Dickhead Teacher getting divorced. That's the way I heard it. Take care. Vern

I doubt there is a way to "unread" the message and can't imagine such a thing being added. However, you don't need such a thing to jar your memory in this instance because you just created your own version of unreading with this thread and added a new word to our vocabulary at the same time. I mean, that's a lifetime achievement right there. Take care. Vern

I want to see the movie. Take care. Vern

I have no problem with what has transpired, but I certainly understand the opposition's point of view since as the request for funds is presented, it does seem to conflict with at least the spirit of the membership agreement which states:

"You further agree not to utilize the Site for the purpose of advertising or solicitation without the express prior written consent of theNextBigWriter,..."

Just a thought. Take care. Vern

It seems to me a simple request for someone not to comment on your work is a far better method than resorting to impersonal technology, kind of like driving a nail with sledgehammer. Take care. Vern

From my perspective, any author can start a forum on any piece of work they wish; you don't need anything special to do so. Now if said author can get reviewers to congregate at this forum, then said author could if they wish to do so get reviewers to leave comments on the inline review. They could even appoint their most prolific reviewer as the central review for others to comment on thus creating an inline forum. As far as thirty chapters go, I for one do edits one chapter at a time, so why would  want all those comments in a regular forum mixed up and spread over thirty chapters with no way to know which chapter a given comment was relating to. For instance a reviewer could enter comments on chapter 5 while others are entering comments on chapter 29, etc. I don't really want to wade through god knows how many pages of a forum to find who made what comment on each chapter so would most llikely do it as each chapter was being reviewed anyway if that were my only choice. However, with the inline, it is already divided into chapters so I can edit at my leisure without the ever repeating necessity to fish out those comments from a regular forum.

Now Sol has said he is working on improvements for the inline review process and if one such improvement already mentioned was to be able to scroll through the comments, then that would be wonderful and would diminish even further any need for any additional forum changes. I mean I don't care if forum upgrades are made, I just don't see any need as far as making a special effort for each author's work when they can do that already - I've even suggested that some authors do so for a particular work; still hasn't come about so I'm not sure what the broad appeal would be.

As is, you have a choice to do your own forum or to use the built in forum capability of the inline review (especially with potential upgrades) so I really don't understand the clamor for having a forum for every work posted. Doesn't make sense; the majority appear, get little attention and then are never heard of again, so what would be the purpose in creating all these thousands of feedback forums above what is already available.

But to each their own.  Take care. Vern