Thanks! It's my first chapter and I didn't really understand how story mash worked - I thought I was in a race to get the chapter in before someone else did. Now I know I can take my time which takes the pressure off. Kind of.

oops never mind I guess this is the forum for the rules so it makes sense that everyone is discussing them here, sorry... I do think it might be a good idea to have a forum just for the current contest and current rules because all of the other stuff is confusing (and a bit disheartening) for new people like me...

Where did you see the answer to your question? That was my question too and I can't see it and I'm not appreciating that I have to scan through all sorts of comments not actually pertaining to the present contest to see if there is an answer here...

Hey Spazineurope - I just read your chapter which you added to my chapter - yay! I loved the rubik's cube, nice touch!

Your writing is very descriptive and I enjoyed it - I found myself wondering if blood dripping on to hay on a dirt floor would actually make a sound? Your use of verb tenses is not consistent, an easy fix during editing once you're aware of it. Hope that helps, can't wait to see where the story goes...

Welcome and I'm going to go read it now, please feel free to return the favor - I'm pretty new here myself :P

this rang so true, I really believed what the character was saying - nice touch with the whole 'I don't know why I'm telling you this' part, too.

okay Shadinah now i get why my chapter with the two sisters freaked you out a bit, you have a sister and she's even on this site! Well, you know the best way to protect the sisters in the story would be to go ahead and write Chapter 3 and make sure you clear her of the murder!

I just wanted to say thanks for such a great first chapter, I found it very inspiring and I hope you forgive me for impulsively murdering one of your characters... I couldn't help myself...

Wow thanks! I had a different story line in my head when I wrote it but I think I left it open so that there'd be more of a mystery... yikes, just realizing that since I'm not writing the next chapter anything could happen! Whoa, I just joined this thing yesterday and now I'm kind of worried about what's going to happen - if anyone out there is reading this please write the next chapter, the suspense is killing me! I never thought about how the original author might feel if I killed off one of her characters and now I'm in her shoes...