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Bay July 21st, 2018 10:11 PM

Small Writing Contest 2018
 
Small Writing Competition!
Judged by Bay and gimmepie.

http://i.imgur.com/f5VPKbS.jpg

Welcome everyone to the Small Writing Competition! Ready to write a story based on this year's prompt that will impress the two judges and the rest of PC? Great!

But first, a few rules to keep in mind.

Rules
1.) Follow PC's rules and Fanfiction and Writing's rules.
2.) The stories written for this competition must be completely new. In other words, they must not have been written before and not posted anywhere else until judging is over.
3.) You must PM your entries to all of the judges. (This is so if someone loses their PMs the others still have them and so forth). The judges in question are Bay and gimmepie. You also must post in this thread when you send your PMs so we can confirm you did send us an entry.
4.) One entry per member only, sorry.
5.) You have until 11:59pm EDT, July 27th July 30th to get your entry in.
6.) The story can be based on Pokemon or be original fiction. Note the judges may not all be familiar with any other fandoms.
7.) The entry can only be a completed one-shot as this is a small writing competition - no chaptered entries, please!
8.) Please don't publicly post your stories until the competition is over! Once the scores are posted and the competition is over, you may post your story in Fanfiction and Writing so that others may see it. Make sure to add [SWC] to your title if you do!

If you have any other questions, ask away!

Scoring and Prompt
Each entry can have a maximum score of 30, with the points broken down into three categories equaling 10 points in total like in previous years. The categories are:

Spelling and Grammar
Characterization, Plot, and Description
Relevance to Prompt

After the event, z-crystals and points will be awarded to the winners for their tribe. 1st place gets a Marshadium Z (500 pts), 2nd place gets a Fightinium Z (50 pts), and third places gets a Normalium Z (20 pts)!

The prompt is survival, so good luck with making use of that in your story!

Entrants

1. Venia Silente
2. Chr Draco

Janp July 21st, 2018 10:22 PM

I'm in and this year, I'll finish this for sure.

Venia Silente July 21st, 2018 10:33 PM

Sign me the bleep in.

I waited up until 2:30 AM solely to be able to post this.

Desert Stream~ July 22nd, 2018 5:41 AM

Well, I guess it can't hurt? I just hope I don't forget lol

Midnight Umbreon July 22nd, 2018 7:03 AM

I'm in. can't wait, already came up with a plot that would fit this, but never pursued it.

Meganium July 22nd, 2018 8:20 AM

Ooo, a prompt I can actually work with. I'm in.

Chr. Draco July 23rd, 2018 6:39 AM

This year prompt sounds interesting. I'm in.

Venia Silente July 23rd, 2018 7:46 AM

I have a couple of ideas for the contest's prompt but need to decide which one to use like rite nao :p

Luck to everyone who chimes in!

Ninetales July 23rd, 2018 8:48 AM

I can work with this prompt. It's simple and there's a lot of ways you take it!

I'm in, I'll be fairly busy the next couple of days but I'll try my best to submit something.

BlissyMKW July 23rd, 2018 10:15 AM

I'll see what I can do about putting something together for this one.

Venia Silente July 24th, 2018 6:50 AM

How is everyone doing? Two days into this already!

Reporting on my current progress:


Hyzenthlay July 24th, 2018 7:03 AM

What is the word limit for this competition?

gimmepie July 24th, 2018 8:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hyzenthlay (Post 9904758)
What is the word limit for this competition?

We didn't set one really. I'd say rather than a hard limit if it gets t the point you should be breaking it into chapters, you've gone too far.

Venia Silente July 26th, 2018 12:47 PM

How's people's writing going?

I'm trying to focus enough to glue and connect the scenes I already have. The extreme cold and a winter bug rounding us down at the office are making things harder than they need to be. Hopefully I'm the only one here to deal with my country's silly idea of winter trolling.

Bay July 26th, 2018 8:02 PM

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Okay guys, you have about 24 hours left to turn in your entries to me and gimmepie! So far we haven't gotten any entries yet, so yeah if you guys plan to write for this prompt turn it in before the deadline!

Bay July 27th, 2018 5:00 PM

Bumping this to mention you guys have 3 hours to turn in your entries to me and gimmepie! After doing that, say so here!

Venia Silente July 27th, 2018 7:52 PM

As of this time I have sent my submission as a link via PM for the judges.

Bay July 27th, 2018 8:13 PM

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT


Okay, so the deadline has passed, and we only have Venia's entry. Gimmepie and I have been talking, and we decided with the weekend coming up that we'll have you guys take advantage of that. That means NEW DEADLINE NOW IS JULY 30TH 11:59pm EDT.

Yes, three extra days so use that time wisely folks! To Venia, if you want you can make some changes/adjustments to your entry and re enter it to me and gimmpie.

Good luck, everyone! Hope to see at least a few entries then!

Chr. Draco July 29th, 2018 9:32 AM

submission sent to judges

Bay July 29th, 2018 12:36 PM

Ok, gimmepie and I got your entry, Chr Draco! I'll put yours and Veina as entrants!

Bay July 30th, 2018 5:12 PM

Hey guys, you have less than 3 hours until entries for the Small Writing Contest are due! Remember to PM your entries to me and gimmepie and then say it in the thread here!

Venia Silente July 30th, 2018 7:51 PM

Letting y'all know I have re-submitted the entry via PM to the two judges.

Come on more people! Vote Koko 2018

Bay July 30th, 2018 8:32 PM

Anddddd time! Okay, submissions are closed and we only have two entries. What happens now is gimmepie and I will judge those two stories and also due to the low turnout there will be alternate scoring/prizes by the end of this. Will come back again with the results sometime tomorrow!

countryemo July 30th, 2018 9:52 PM

Woops I forgot to finish today, only just started yesterday and hit a road block. Best of luck to those two! Should make it easier lol

Janp July 30th, 2018 11:01 PM

I think I still have artistic block. I had story and everything, but each time I tried to write it down, I kinda distracted myself with something else or straight up lost my motivation to write it down. Well, maybe next year...


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