As some of you may know, I did try my hand at writing a short story this summer. I took the opportunity to enter the Blizzard Writing Contest, and submitted my work there.

This was an interesting writing experience (see there for my comments at the time).

Results were supposed to be announced on october 8th, but due to the amount of reading to be done, the results were pushed back to the 18th.

Well, results are out now, and my short story didn’t make the cut, as my name didn’t appear in the list of 14 names that were put on the results announcement (you can find those names there).

I’d like to extend some congratulations to the winners (as I never thought to win anything, I can be gracious at least). I look forward to reading their work once it’s posted.

What’s a little sad is that there is no way to know if my story was close to the top, or at the bottom of the slush pile and no one even read it completely. There will be no formal rejection notices, as there were 2400 stories submitted, and Blizzard’s people do not have the time to send individual responses.

That’s a little sad, I would have liked to see my first form rejection letter for real, and not only “not see my name on the list”. Some authors did collect those form rejection letters as badges of honor : at least they had submitted something, and someone had taken the time to read what they had written. I suppose that my automated submission confirmation will have to do instead.

Anyway, now that I’m in the clear about the results, I can post this story officially, and maybe get some feedback I didn’t get to have. We writers do crave for this sort of things.