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bobandbill July 23rd, 2020 1:57 PM

Small Writing Competition
 
Small Writing Competition!
Judged by Bay, bobandbill, and gimmepie.

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

Welcome everyone to the Small Writing Competition! The gist is simple - write a story based on the prompt, and submit it to the judges before the deadline.

Rules
1.) Follow PC's rules and Fanfiction and Writing's rules.
2.) Stories written for this competition must be completely new. In other words, they must not have been written before. You also are not allowed to post it anywhere else until judging is over. Having someone beta read your entry prior to submission in private is allowed.
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, bobandbill, 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, 3rd 4th August to get your entry in.
6.) The story can be based on Pokemon, another fandom, 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! There is no word limit.

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

Each participant will receive 50 points when their entry is sent in. Furthermore, 1st place can net a whopping 200 points!

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

Entrants

Aquacorde
Tigearthzap
5qwerty
Eleanor
Venia Silente

Hyzenthlay July 24th, 2020 3:49 AM

Tentatively joining this one—I have uni starting on Monday but I've always wanted to try this event so we'll see how it goes!

Janp July 24th, 2020 3:53 AM

Home... Hmmm... I think I have a small idea for this one. I'm in.

Chr. Draco July 24th, 2020 4:01 AM

I think I have an idea as well for this one, I will give it a shot

Flowerchild July 24th, 2020 4:53 AM

i'll do it!! need to write more often

Kitty July 24th, 2020 11:34 AM

tentative but i think i have a good idea in mind

Eleanor July 24th, 2020 11:37 AM

I could try, hopefully i have enough time and ideas :)

Venia Silente July 24th, 2020 3:38 PM

Tentative joining... technically it depends on if it looks like I can skip most of work on Wed and Thu next week.

DJTiki July 25th, 2020 3:01 PM

I'm definitely going to have to join in on the festivities this time around. Need more excuses to keep myself writing.

Venia Silente July 25th, 2020 7:19 PM

Okay yeah so I am joining.

ATM I'm juggling which of my three ideas I am going to use with the prompt, and will have to actually ask for advice about that one (privately) because I suck at emotionally detaching myself from my ideas. But if I can get remote work this week some out of the way, then we'll be doin' words, baby!

(I had doubts about one of the ideas, but the contest mods say it's OK. Joke's on them, because now I have to organize that potential plot!)

Also Chr.Draco & Eleanor good to hear you can possibly make it in!

WizardOfOdd July 25th, 2020 11:27 PM

I'm in, I have a rough idea of what I want to write. So I think I'll try to write this year

Aquacorde July 26th, 2020 11:39 AM

guess im joining ✌️

5qwerty July 26th, 2020 5:50 PM

Gonna join tentatively? Is that okay? I want to write something but I might not have enough time to finish given all of the other events.

gimmepie July 27th, 2020 3:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 5qwerty (Post 10186425)
Gonna join tentatively? Is that okay? I want to write something but I might not have enough time to finish given all of the other events.

Go for it!

Bay July 30th, 2020 4:29 PM

Hey, guys! Glad to see some interest here. With the deadline coming up soon, how are you all doing with your entries so far?

Venia Silente July 30th, 2020 5:07 PM

I could be doing better if work was less of a hassle, as usual. But unlike previous years I already have a very clear idea of what it's going to be about and I already managed to write the ending... so now I have to write everything that leads to it.

I might be asking around #tundra_town for a few OCs to give the team some (admittedly token due to constraints) participation, if that's allowed.

Aquacorde July 30th, 2020 5:52 PM

havent started lmao its okay i'll still have time to do it after fortune cup is done

WizardOfOdd July 30th, 2020 6:21 PM

I have started to write, the ideas is solid in my opinion. But the execution? Now that's going to be an issue. I'm participating in a lot of events in this year's GT so hopefully this one will be good and be able to be submitted before deadline :D

Caite-chan July 30th, 2020 6:56 PM

The more I think about it the more I wanna try. I have a very basic idea but that's about it.

Aquacorde July 31st, 2020 8:29 PM

ok i did end up writing it all out properly now it just needs a day or so to incubate before an editing pass ✌️

Venia Silente August 1st, 2020 7:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aquacorde (Post 10189366)
ok i did end up writing it all out properly now it just needs a day or so to incubate before an editing pass ✌️

Already? Wow. I'm still 3500 words till the end beginning lol.

Aquacorde August 1st, 2020 8:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Venia Silente (Post 10189572)
Already? Wow. I'm still 3500 words till the end beginning lol.

i tend to fall in the 1k-3k range with everything i wtite, be it chapters or one-shots. thats what it takes for me to say what i need to say ig! so it doesnt take me long to smack it down and the rest is just refining word choice. i lost my wordiness a long time ago lol

Hyzenthlay August 1st, 2020 11:20 AM

Sadly I now have too many responsibilities all at once, which is such a shame because I had it planned and was excited to try! But I haven't even written a single word yet (it's all being processed in my head) and I won't manage by the deadline, especially with an important quiz coming up. Still, I wish you guys heaps of fun!! It'll be nice seeing your completed stories! :)

Venia Silente August 2nd, 2020 2:45 PM

It's not looking like I'll be able to get proofreading *and* corrections done by tomorrow, so I'll maybe ask for a extension or die like a writer. On the good side, I have the beginning and the end done! So I only have to mostly write the middle.

You know, that part that actually connects everything...

Aquacorde August 2nd, 2020 5:56 PM

well im done looking at it bc i keep making poor choices so there u go its sent


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