Last month the second installment of this monthly contest/lottery, once more gave me some great and very usable feedback on part two of Ragnarok Conspiracy. Again, just like the first round, there were only two contestants, @bashadow and @doughtaker.
Against the odds, at a probability of just 3.3%, @doughtaker had a true lucky streak and won each of the seven draws.
This month we move to part three of Ragnarok Conspiracy. In this part of the novel, four years after the events in part two, the copyright wars are over and the post-war world is enjoying a relatively low-tech peace. Robert, Pete's little brother sets off on a bold adventure and in doing so sets of a series of events that ends up tightening the connections between the lives of the people we met in part one.
Like in the previous installments of this lottery, I am looking for beta reading style feedback on my draft chapters.
This month there are ten prizes to be won:
- A $ 1.5 SBD prize for each of the chapters.
- A $10.0 SBD prize for part two of Ragnarok Conspiracy as a whole.
In February, after the last of the five parts, there shall be an extra lottery with an extra prize that your entries will automatically compete in:
- A prize consisting of 500 SP, delegated for six weeks, for the book as a whole. This one won't be a @croupierbot lottery. This prize will go to the suggestion that I would consider hardest to find.
So how does it work? Below are links to each of the six chapters of part three. I need you to beta read them. If you see anything that needs improvement, check the comments first to see if you are the first to notice. If you are, create a comment.
If it is a useful and constructive comment and not a duplicate, I will upvote your comment and my upvote will equal you receiving one lottery ticket. I now know about the quotations issues, so you don't have to point these out again, but all other improvement suggestions are still welcome.
You may enter up to six non-duplicate comments per chapter. More upvoted comments mean a bigger chance of winning. You may also comment on this post. Once for each chapter, you commented on. If I upvoted any of your comments on the chapter I will also do so here.
On the 1st of December, I shall call in @croupierbot on each of the chapters, AND, on this post. The bot will draw the winner.
If a chapter or this post receives comments with less than the minimum of two upvoted contestants, there will be no lottery draw. In that case half the prize money will go to the one and only contender and the half that wasn't paid out will be added to next months draw.
I hope to run a beta reading contest each month for five months in a row. One contest for each of the five main parts of Ragnarok Conspiracy.
Oh, and remember, I am looking for constructive criticism. Not for praise. I want to learn what needs work so I can improve my story and make my first Novell, as high quality as I possibly can.
Have fun reading and good luck in the lottery.
Part Three: Robert
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Cover art by Keith Draws.