WRiTE CLUB 2013 - Save Week

The winners of bout #15 & #16 are Dinah Annella and Sing Sing respectively. Congrats to both of you! :)

After eight grueling weeks watching 32 talented writers go at one another, the preliminary rounds have come to an end and all of the play-off spots have been claimed – or have they?

One of the drawbacks of randomly pitting opponents against one another is that occasionally two writers end up facing off against one another who many believe are the top two contestants. In previous versions of WRiTE CLUB we addressed this by having the losers go back into the pool for possible selection in a later round against a different opponent. But with that option no longer available I wanted to come up with another way to reconcile this perceived inadequacy…thus the SAVE WEEK.

Listed below are the fighters who came out on the short side of the stick in their previous bouts, along with a link to that bout. Here’s your chance to pick one of those writers to fill a vacant slot in the playoffs. You do that by leaving a comment below with the pen name you feel should be allowed to continue on and the writer who garners the most votes will be granted that chance. As always, you must be registered on the WRiTE CLUB linky list located HERE to vote.

There will actually be two writers granted a reprieve this week. Recently I discovered that a mistake was made when MultaPaucis sample was posted in bout #13, one that involved a missing bit of formatting (italics indicating internal thought). Although it’s debatable whether or not the mistake negatively influenced the votes, the bout was so tight (tie-breaker) that I decided to move MultaPaucis into the play-offs anyway. I had always intended to bring back two writers during Save Week, this serves that purpose and rights a wrong at the same time.

Voting will remain open until noon Sunday, September 8th.

Play-off Round 1 will kick off on September 9th with daily bouts for two weeks. Here is a forewarning for all contestants – Round 2, that starts on September 23rd, will require a new 500 word writing sample!


Round 1 - American Banshee
Round 2 - Matilijas
Round 3 - billypayne
Round 4 - Word Huntress
Round 5 - Vampyr14
Round 6 - Liva Humoir
Round 7 - FMWriter
Round 8 - January Jones
Round 9 - Wideawakegirl
Round 10 - BruinGirl
Round 11 - Hollyhock
Round 12 - Mary Ann March
Round 13 - MultaPaucis
Round 14 - Ruby Red
Round 15 - DragonWriter
Round 16 - Lauretta Stiles