I might as well co-opt this thread to put out a little introduction of sorts for those who don't know me. 8D
Some of you might be wondering "who the hell is this guy and why is he suddenly a contest mod?" It's a fair question, seeing as I'd been basically inactive on the Guild up until about a month ago. I'll throw out a resume of sorts to explain why I was chosen for this job.
After being an avid participant and multiple winner of the old Writer of the Month contest, I helped to run it for around two years back before Roleplayer Guild lost all its information and had to be rebuilt from scratch. Afterward, I helped in trying to revive the contest. That effort was unfortunately unsuccessful, due in part to the lack of a lovely writing contest subforum as we have now. That project was laid to rest after a couple months of low activity contests run in the Off-Topic Discussion subforum.
I was then a part of the planning team for the first iteration of RPGC, which was conceived of mainly as a contest to replace WOTM after it was put to rest. RPGC was quite a bit different back then, but the modern version looks great too. I ended up not taking part in the active running of RPGC because I was at that point already moving away to another roleplaying forum.
On that other forum, I became a staff member (and an admin later on) and spearheaded the creation of a writing contest. I did basically all the groundwork for it, then recruited a couple people to help me, and I remained the lead contest manager for the entirety of its run. It was a fairly popular contest that ran smoothly for over two years, until I quit that forum's staff, and since then the contest has languished in my absence. Not to throw shade or anything, but I was definitely the glue holding that project together.
So, in summary, I've got a ridiculously high amount of experience with creating, organizing, and running writing contests. I look forward to getting a new contest up and running in the near future (keep an eye out for new threads going up in the next couple days with information on how it'll work) and seeing what kind of great stories the people of this forum can come up with nowadays.
If you've got any questions, please feel free to ask them here or throw a PM my way.
