In this week's contest:
Enter any* of the 43 Style Invitational contests from 1993; see all the contests and previous results on the Losers’ Master Contest List at NRARS.org. *See further instructions, including excluded contests, in this week's Invitational at bit.ly/inv-week-10. (See the whole Gene Pool at GeneWeingarten.substack.com.)
How to format your entries:
1. Begin each entry with "Week [week number], followed by your entry on the same line e.g., Week 19: XXXXXX. Please don't follow the list's own geeky format; say "Week 19" rather than "Week 0019."
2. Write each one of your entries as one continuous line. In other words, don't press Enter in the middle of an entry. Because when the Empress sorts them all, so that all the Week 27s end up together on her list, you want her to see more than the first line of what you wrote. So for limericks, please just write them as one line, with slashes between the lines; for the "Jeopardy" contest, don't put the questions and answers on separate lines.
Include as many as 25 entries in the area below where it says "Your answer." It's best to copy them in from another document so you'll have them if your computer suddenly dies or something, or if you click to submit the form and something goes wonky.
Note: Your auto-reply confirmation might be missing formatting, with everything squished into one big blob of text, but it seems that it's nothing to worry about; the entries have been coming out fine on this end.
If you don't get a confirmation within a few minutes that you've sent your entry -- you've searched your email filters (e.g., Updates or Promotions in Gmail; and good ol' Spam) and there's nothing -- don't just send it over and over! Feel free to contact the Empress at myerspat (at) gmail (dot) com and she can check if it got through. She might not get back to you immediately but promises that you won't miss the deadline.