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Monthly Fic Contest: Going Once, Going Twice...
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 3:11 am
by WearsHats
We're going to make fic prompt contests a regular thing. (In addition to whatever other contests we have running.)
I'll post the new prompt around the end of the month. You have until the 17th to PM me your entries. (That is, until midnight US Eastern time, the night of the 16th.)
New rule: We're going to bimonthly. I'll post the next prompt sometime in the next few days. You'll have approximately 6 weeks to write. So until the Ides of March (the 15th).
Enter as many times as you'd like. People will have until the end of the month to vote. Winner gets bragging rights. And maybe a prize.
If you have any suggestions for prompts, please PM me. I could always use more ideas.
Voting has closed, and the winner is... LIESMITH! Congratulations on another win!
Participation has been low, both from authors and readers. I'm wondering whether people want to keep going. Is there interest in having another contest? If not, I'll close up shop. Fun while it lasted.
Stories and voting thread will be posted to
The Writers Corner. (You can also find past stories there.)
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Here's a list of suggested prompts. We'll vote each cycle for which one to use next. Please do add to it if you have any ideas.
Superheroes.
Under The Sea.
Pulp
Steampunk
Modern-Day Urban Fantasy
A "Friends" style spin-off
Winter Holiday
TV show adaptation
History Book: Write what future historians of Thuntworld would write in the history books about some or all of the events in Goblins.
How We Got Here: Write a backstory of one of the characters, of some event that we know happened, but hasn't been shown "on screen" (For example, "How Klik got in the cage" or "Biscuit's run through the dungeon crawl we found him in") - Try to stick to one that's unlikely to be a major plot point, like "How Kore got cursed" for example.
Entries and voting threads will be posted
in the Fanfic subforum.
Latest winner is:
LIESMITH
Past prompts:
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SCIENCE FICTION
Goblins in the future! Goblins in space! Goblins with ray guns!
No more of this magic and fantasy stuff. Now goblins are aliens and the Axe of Prissan is a nanite-filled tesseract and Kore is a
Manhunter robot!
Or something like that. Or maybe something completely different. You decide! And tell us the story!
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Your prompt for January is Noir style. If you're not familiar with that, here are the
Wikipediea and
TV Tropes articles on the style.
The central character is typically (though not always) a perpetually financially broke detective who wears a trench coat and fedora. The detective usually narrates the story in the first person and uses a lot of colorful similes to describe things. ("The city at night was as dark and dirty as ____, and twice as dangerous..." "She had legs like ____..." "I was drunk as a___..." - Sorry, too tired to fill in the blanks just now, but hopefully you get the idea.)
You may play around with the style. Add in twists as you see fit. You can make it a steampunk noir. Or sci-fi noir (think Blade Runner). Or comic noir (Dick Tracey). Or whatever else tickles your muse.
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The prompt for September is unlikely romances. Write a story featuring an unlikely pairing. You can be silly and crazy or entirely serious. Throw together an odd couple and let hijinks ensue, write the tragic story that brought two very different characters together, or anything in between. MinMax and Kin? That was pretty unlikely when the two first met, but Thunt made it work. What pairing will you give us?
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The prompt for August is point of divergence. The story as we know it has happened as we've seen it... up to a point. But then one thing changes. Instead of standing up to Kore, Chief runs. One Eye survives the raid. The elves come around the bend in time to witness a goblin healing their child. The Shield of Wonder turns someone else into the talking wall. Duv never loses her wing. Something happens differently, and the story changes.
Tell us about it. Write the new story. It can be as long or as short as it needs to be. It can start at the point of divergence and follow the timeline from there, or it can start in the future and fill in the backstory later (perhaps even keeping us guessing as to what changed until the very end). Whatever works.
Re: Monthly Fic Prompt Contest: August (Open for Entries)
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 4:33 pm
by Liesmith
Do we just post the story here, or do we submit it to you via emial/PM?
Re: Monthly Fic Prompt Contest: August (Open for Entries)
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 6:44 pm
by WearsHats
Via PM, if you please. That way, voting can be more impartial.
Re: Monthly Fic Prompt Contest: August (Open for Entries)
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 7:16 pm
by WearsHats
One week left to submit your entries! I've heard from a few people who are interested, but no one has actually submitted anything yet.
(And, of course, don't forget the rearrange the panels contest, too!)
Re: Monthly Fic Prompt Contest: August (Open for Entries)
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 6:45 pm
by WearsHats
Okay, I have one entry so far. I'll be traveling this weekend. There are two days left until the deadline. I've heard from a few people who said they were thinking of writing something. Are people still interested? Should I extend the deadline?
Re: Monthly Fic Prompt Contest: August (Open for Entries)
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 2:04 am
by Liesmith
Sorry, I've got an idea for it, but I think it may have been too ambitious. I'll try to have it done within the next 24 hours.
Re: Monthly Fic Prompt Contest: August (Open for Entries)
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 3:25 am
by Krulle
I've got an idea, but no time to make a full story out of it. :(
Re: Monthly Fic Prompt Contest: August (Open for Entries)
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 6:57 pm
by BeanDip
I don't know if you should extend the deadline. I'd like to say 'yes, do it' but there'd be no point if you'd get no more entries. Maybe we should take an interest/ability check of some kind? Like how many people have the interest and could do it if you extended the deadline. Up to you, Wears
Re: Monthly Fic Prompt Contest: August (Open for Entries)
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 7:24 pm
by WearsHats
My posting the previous message was intended to be an interest check. And a couple of people have indeed posted here to say they'd like more time. And I'm going to be traveling this weekend anyway.
Right now I have four entries. But at least one notes that the author didn't have sufficient time to flesh things out.
So I'll extend the deadline to Wednesday the 21st, which still gives people 10 days to read and vote.
Re: August Fic Prompt Contest: Deadline extended to the 21st
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 11:05 pm
by Liesmith
Thanks, my brain will hopefully have an easier time after a day to rest away from work.
EDIT: Oh my, this is turning into a complete monstrosity of TL;DR. If I ever finish this thing, all I have to say is I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
Re: Monthly Fic Prompt Contest: Aug voting open! Sept prompt
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 10:49 am
by ThroughTheWell
Posting so watchers will see that the 1st post in this thread has been editited. The August story contest is in community/fan fic. Voting is open.
Re: Monthly Fic Prompt Contest: Aug voting open! Sept prompt
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 12:04 pm
by Krulle
ThroughTheWell wrote:Posting so watchers will see that the 1st post in this thread has been editited. The August story contest is in community/fan fic. Voting is open.
Thanks TTW. :)
Re: Monthly Fic Prompt Contest: Aug voting open! Sept prompt
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:53 pm
by WearsHats
Story 5 now posted. It was misfiled in the wrong folder and I forgot about it. I am very sorry.
Re: Monthly Fic Prompt Contest: Aug voting open! Sept prompt
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 1:47 am
by Krulle
Thanks....
And could you please not use your mod powers to hide the last update time of your OP?
That way I can more easily see if you changed it.
Thanks.
Re: Monthly Fic Prompt Contest: Aug voting open! Sept prompt
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 1:54 am
by RidcullyJack
The September prompt looks hard. I don't think I can write romance.
Re: Monthly Fic Prompt Contest: Aug voting open! Sept prompt
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 4:52 am
by WearsHats
Krulle wrote:Thanks....
And could you please not use your mod powers to hide the last update time of your OP?
That way I can more easily see if you changed it.
Thanks.
That is not under my control.
If I can remember to use the "reason for editing" box,
maybe it would get the timestamp to reappear. But it's small and out of the way and very easy to forget. I'll try to keep it in mind.
Re: Monthly Fic Prompt Contest: Aug voting open! Sept prompt
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 6:47 am
by Krulle
Thanks.
'cause we mortals don't have that checkbox at all....
BTW: you 're still writing "Read all four"
Re: Monthly Fic Prompt Contest: Aug voting open! Sept prompt
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 8:38 am
by WearsHats
Thanks. Updated. And the reason for editing box did bring back the timestamp. Like I said, I'll try to remember it.
Re: Monthly Fic Contest: Aug winner! Sept open!
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 10:22 am
by WearsHats
August contest is closed. Liesmith wins!
If you haven't already, please leave comments and feedback for the authors in their individual story threads.
September contest is now open for entries.
Re: Monthly Fic Contest: Aug winner! Sept open!
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:21 pm
by Liesmith
Whooo! Thanks everyone who read the entries, and especially those who voted (for me or otherwise)!
I liked all the other entries, especially 5, but I didn't know if it was ok for me to vote in a contest in which I was also a participant.
Re: Monthly Fic Contest: Aug winner! Sept open!
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 5:25 pm
by ThroughTheWell
Liesmith wrote: but I didn't know if it was ok for me to vote in a contest in which I was also a participant.
We did in the previous contest. For me personaly, I figured I'd either vote for someone else or not vote at all.
Re: Monthly Fic Contest: Aug winner! Sept open!
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:28 pm
by RidcullyJack
I figured it was okay to vote for someone else (and liked their's more than mine anyway
)
Re: Monthly Fic Contest: Aug winner! Sept open!
Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 10:28 am
by Sasayaki
I can't see the fanfic forum (insufficient posts), what's the topic for September so I can think about what I'll write?
Re: Monthly Fic Contest: Aug winner! Sept open!
Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 11:40 am
by RidcullyJack
WearsHats wrote:
September Prompt wrote:The prompt for September is unlikely romances. Write a story featuring an unlikely pairing. You can be silly and crazy or entirely serious. Throw together an odd couple and let hijinks ensue, write the tragic story that brought two very different characters together, or anything in between. MinMax and Kin? That was pretty unlikely when the two first met, but Thunt made it work. What pairing will you give us? Start thinking. Entries will be accepted from Sept 1 - 17.
It's in the first post of this thread.
Re: Monthly Fic Contest: Aug winner! Sept open!
Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:40 pm
by Sasayaki
But I can't read. I'm illegitimate.
Thanks WearsHats. I'll get started right away!