How to vote for the purplest prose

reph · Sep 18, 2005

The Purple Prose Contest has a sticky thread for entries and another sticky thread, the Peanut Gallery, for comments. This post in the middle of the Peanut Gallery thread tells how to vote:

http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showpost.php?p=328088&postcount=52

MacAllister · Sep 18, 2005

Oh damn! I thought you were going to give us little scorecards where we could givea predetermined number of points for things like extra adverbs and adjectives, unnecessary obfuscation, and other verbal curly-cues.

It would have been such a tidy approach...

maestrowork · Sep 19, 2005

It's an art form, Mac. You can't judge art that way.

robeiae · Sep 19, 2005

Wait...isn't there some kind of diagram to judge the greatness of poetry? (think Dead Poets Society) Could we use something like that?

Rob

reph · Sep 19, 2005

Alphabet · Sep 19, 2005

bump

(how old is it by the way? - giving bumps is sooo much more fun than getting them!)

robeiae · Sep 23, 2005

thump

How to vote for the purplest prose

reph

Fig of authority

MacAllister

'Twas but a dream of thee

maestrowork

Fear the Death Ray

robeiae

Touch and go

reph

Fig of authority

Alphabet

Aspiring Inspirer

robeiae

Touch and go