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@_marmoris_  
            For the longlist, yes, I'm not sure for the shortlist, but for the winners they read everything. ^^

@edmundkeanlightning that truly means much to me! i'm so glad you liked it that much. yes... it's kinda sad that i had to drop out of the onc, but this story means too much to me to leave it unfinished. i even updated again today. 
            
            thank you for those words of encouragement! ♥

@C_the_Dreamer what they only read the first 20k? i didn't even know that

@LeNaAdine Hi! Thank you so much. I'm glad I could voice some thoughts and grievances of others regarding the Wattys this year! 
            
            I fear the truth behind their reasoning might be that they want to reduce workload, and it's easier to program Wattpad to register eligibility in terms of possible translations, too, instead of having people look into the matters themselves. So, if the system notices something like that, people don't get the chance to enter in the first place, as those who don't fulfill the word count wouldn't. Ofc I could be totally wrong. 
            
            At least their responses showed a shocking bias against translation and second-language speakers, and that's a shame. Either way, this seems deeply unfair and not useful to prevent cheating at all, but only targets those transparent and honest about their work.
            
            In any case, don't worry! As far as I can judge, your English is completely fine (I learned it from quite a young age, but I am not as qualified as a native). And even using some kind of help here and there wouldn't take away from it. Who doesn't use programs that help detect mistakes, like Word? Or even in their mother tongue, look up synonyms/exact definitions of words/whatever to polish writing? I am a first-language German speaker (like you, as it seems), and currently am working on my master's degree in German - still, I make typos I miss, sometimes learn a new word, or have to verify something using the "Regelwerk der deutschen Rechtschreibung", and I dare say... most of my fellow master students do. That's a part of learning and improving, and we can do that even in our mother tongue :)

@_marmoris_ girl go check that chapter.

@moon_fabler i hope it so much! and it'll be fun to see all the discussion ♥

@_marmoris_ oh they are going to love it. And now i have more people to talk on it.

@_marmoris_  
            But I do have (or should have) a little over 9K words now. ;D
            Though I still have to edit everything until then. x'D

@_marmoris_  
            yes, that is true x'D
            
            A princess who lost everything at a young age (her family, her home, her kingdom and even more, almost her life >~<). You can read the beginning in "Kingdom of Ash". ;D
            I'll continue writing it, just not during the challenge. ^^
            
            Oh, I get that, it's the same for me with farm work. xD
            
            Same x'D

@Multilingually thank you! wow, that's impressive!

@_marmoris_  
            I'm excited for both! ;D

@_marmoris_  
            As you know I'd love to read 4 from you and I can only encourage you to write two stories. ;D

@C_the_Dreamer  It's really hard. As for now I feel 3 might not be developed enough for a novella that length. I'm most motivated for 1 and 4...and honestly wondet if I should try two entries after all :'D

@_marmoris_  
            So my pick would be 4 (of course), I really like your idea, it's not just the Prompt. ;D
            The second one would be 3. ^-^
            Then 2 and 1 xD

@_marmoris_ 
            I totally get that! That why specifically for the ONC I won't pick anything I have to research, that's my number one rule. I'll still research some things, but nothing grand like history things or I'll end up stuck in a rabbit hole. x'D

@C_the_Dreamer  Technically, perhaps I could've finished more than one, too. But "Those Who Hunger" takes extensive research and that was just not possible. Plus, I feel like at some point quality might be suffer from the attempt, and I have so much other things to do as well ^^"

@_marmoris_  
            Yes, they do, but I'm rapidly going through my ideas and cutting some away. xD
            I get that. I know that I can finish 3 stories if I want to (last year it only didn't work with the third because it got too long because I focused on other characters too much and it was a slow slow romance x'D)
            But that doesn't mean everyone can or should.
            If I didn't like writing different stories so much and if there weren't so many challenges at the same time, I would focus on one story too. ^^"

@SaintessCelina  thank you so much ❤️

@_marmoris_  
            Huge congrats! <3