Yup.........I lied.  When I posted last Monday morning, I truly thought that was about the end of the entries.  Wrong!

What you see here is what Ray lugged home from the PO Monday afternoon.  19 MORE entries......all but one had the August 1 postmark.  I honest-to-God could NOT believe it! 

I actually got the final entry on Tuesday..........with the August 1 deadline postmark.  So I got a total of 201 entries.....actually, 204, but I disqualified 3 people for either late entry or not following the formatting Guidelines.

So it's been quite a week here.  I've been spending 6 to 8 hours a day working on this stuff.  And yup, I'm getting mighty tired of it.  My judges have been fantastic!  Each time I have to do up another packet to send them, I cringe.  Each packet they're getting has at least 3 to 5 entries in it!

As of right now.......of course the entries have stopped.  However, I still have 7 to get out from the ones on Monday and I'm now in the process of sending out to judge #3 from whatever is being returned from judge 1 and 2.

Somebody asked if the entrants are sending multiple entries.  Yup!  Some have entered 3 to 4 entries in different genres.  I'm not sure this is right, to be honest with you.  Normally, with a writing contest it's one entry per entrant.  So that might get changed (with a million other things!) for next years contest.

But this is where I'm at...........still working hard and longing for all of this to be over with.  At least now, I really CAN see that light.

Maybe I'll even get a chance to resume blogging and visit your blog in the near future.  Till then..........I'm plowing away here.  So see you soon............I hope.