Cavemonkynick Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 So I'll be honest. This idea came to me after reading about Myu's art conest on her DA. Where she excells at drawing, writing is more my forte so I technically only half stole the idea The baisics are as such: 1. Entries should be emailed to me at nickjwilliams55@yahoo.com . I would prefer if you send the orginal file as an attatchment because sometimes when you copy and paste some of the formating can be lost in translation making the piece hard to read. 2. The word limit is a min of 2000 words and a max of 5000 (this won't be strictly enforced i.e. your piece wont be rejected but if you write too little it may not be competitive and too much puts you piece in a diffrent class making it hard to fairly judge. 3. There is no specific theme or prompt so make full use of your creative freedom. 4. Since the contest will take place through this forum all of the forum rules on stories apply. A copy of these rules are below as they were set down by DZ in the fan ficton board. These WILL be enforced. The bits in parentheses I added. 1. No sex scenes. You can say that characters engaged in intercourse, but don't go beyond that. 2. Graphic descriptions of death are prohibited. 3. Post a warning if there is significant cussing/swearing. (Make a note at the top of the piece. Avoid the GD, S, and F bombs altogether.) 4. Please post a warning if a story contains significant violence. (Make a note at the top of the piece.) 5. Do not post anything that promotes illegal substance use. 5. The cut off date will be determined later depending on intrest. The date will be given 2 weeks in advance so everyone will have time to finish. After the cut off date feel free to post your entries in this thread for all to see. 6. Pieces will be judged on how well their written. Baiscly I will judge charecter devlopment, over all story, and flow each on a scale from 0 to 20 meaning the possible scores can range from 0 (which you'd practicaly have to send me a blank page to recive) and 60 which is a perfect score. Total score will decide the winner. 7. Over all score will be posted in the results but I will PM everyone their Individual scores allong with personal input. 8. Pieces will be judged as they arive. This way hopefully there will be enough space between the piece that I won't be comparing it to another piece. Probably what will happen is if I get more than one a day I will judge one then wait a day before judging the other. As far as prizes go, I can't really offer much so the biggest thing will be bragging rights, however I do shoot some random movies that end up on youtube so top prize could be a cameo in one of my vids, or mabye even writing a short scene for us to do. The way I figure first prize will get to chose one of those two and second prize can take the other if they want. Of couse you won't be forced to do anything so you can chose to defer the prize to the next runner up. Let me know what you guys think and if your intrested, start writing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaos_Leader Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 I am most definetly in on this, and I highly encourage anyone else reading this to give it a shot and go for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salem Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 all right I'll give it a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavemonkynick Posted February 6, 2012 Author Share Posted February 6, 2012 I knew you would be all over this one chaos, lol. Glad I've got some intrest. As long as I have two people I'm doing this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Showtime 1-1 Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I'm in too. But mainly because I'd like someone to give me some proper progressive criticism. Any idea on our timeframe here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xortberg Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I suppose I'm in. It's been a while since I wrote anything, so it might be fun to flex those creative muscles again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavemonkynick Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share Posted February 7, 2012 Awesome, its getting intresting now. Im looking forward to yall's stories:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psygonis Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I guess I got time for this... ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavemonkynick Posted February 12, 2012 Author Share Posted February 12, 2012 Ok, I have officaly decided that Febuary 29th midnight (estern time US & Canada) will be the last day to submit your stories. That gives you roughly 17 days to finish, so if you havent already get writing! Looking forward to your stories! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myu Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Ooh. I'm glad I could help xD I really want to write something for this, but there's a reason I haven't posted most of my short stories here - many of the things I write about are against the rules, lol, but I'll see if I can come up with something :> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavemonkynick Posted February 19, 2012 Author Share Posted February 19, 2012 Lol. Well to be honest the only thing that gets to me is exessive cussing. Realistic is one thing, that forced f word every other breath like in most of todays war games is another entirly. I know soldiers. The only people who cuss like that are pre-teens who think they have somthing to prove. Anything else I'm personly ok with and would judge evenly, we just wouldnt be able to post it afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavemonkynick Posted February 22, 2012 Author Share Posted February 22, 2012 Just one more week to turn in your submissions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icy Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Aw, I forgot about this. I meant to say I was in but oh well. Wonder if I can get something together in a week…… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavemonkynick Posted February 26, 2012 Author Share Posted February 26, 2012 So, with only three days left i haven't received any submissions. So what I'm gonna do is extend the date one week to march the 7th. Hopefully this will give everyone enough time to get their stuff in because it's not much of a contest if there's no entries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrypticQuery Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 So, with only three days left i haven't received any submissions. So what I'm gonna do is extend the date one week to march the 7th. Hopefully this will give everyone enough time to get their stuff in because it's not much of a contest if there's no entries. That's just about what it comes down to, :lol: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psygonis Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 I'm afraid my current state concures with crazy's... ^^' 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Showtime 1-1 Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Mine's in the works. Life gets in the way. It'll be done by the 7th though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavemonkynick Posted February 28, 2012 Author Share Posted February 28, 2012 Awesome, can't wait to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Showtime 1-1 Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Aha! Submitted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavemonkynick Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 Excellent, i shall read it tomorrow when I'm mentally sober so to speak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavemonkynick Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 Ok, I've only got one submission so far, so I'm gonna set the date back one more time to March 21st. Get to it people! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaos_Leader Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Whoops, totally spaced on this. Someone smack me with a heavy blunt object. But I did send you the submission, from my Gmail account, so it should be there and everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavemonkynick Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 Just got it:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavemonkynick Posted May 10, 2012 Author Share Posted May 10, 2012 Hey peeps. I owe you all an apology. The past few weeks have been a little rough. I'll spare you all the details but after a series of increasingly long and aggressive arguments me and my girlfriend came to the conclusion that we need a break and probably wont be able to really clear the air between us until we can sit down face to face whenever the hell she gets to to come home next. Because of that this whole competition was completely forgotten. For those of you who entered I intend to follow through on the feedback because, as a writer myself, I know how important it is. Again, I'm really sorry about forgetting about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabariboykin Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 I really wish i had been on this site in time for this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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