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bobandbill June 10th, 2021 1:17 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, 15th July 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 a minimum of 50 points for their team when their entry is sent in. 3rd place gets 100 points (including those participation points), 2nd gets 200, and 1st place 300 points.

This year, you can choose one of the prompts! You can choose either Contentment or Frustration.

Entrants


VisionofMilotic
Hyzenthlay
Eleanor
Venia Silente
Aquacorde
Radio
Sqwerty
Juno


Venia Silente July 5th, 2021 6:27 PM

> implying I wouldn't be already in

Technically, I will be unavailable from now until the 10th (meaning also I won't be around to support the team in the VGM Quiz, sorry) and that leaves me at most like five days of participation barring extensions but come on, like that's ever stopped me before, we all know how the play goes. I'm a glutton for punishment. Please send help. If I get back bby 10th or 11th I'll let you know to officially confirm my participation.

Sheep July 5th, 2021 7:11 PM

Going to give it a go this year. I've not written anything seriously in around two years now, so this would be a nice little motivator to get going again!

Hyzenthlay July 6th, 2021 6:01 AM

Hmm, interesting prompts... Hopefully I can get something in this year, will be fun just to give it a try!

Bay July 10th, 2021 8:53 AM

Hiya folks! Dropping by to check in to see how you're all doing with your entries or if there's anyone else interested. Remember, you have until July 15th to turn in your entries and you can either choose the prompt "contentment" or "frustration"!

Eleanor July 10th, 2021 9:30 AM

Ok hi
I'd be interested in trying something out, just unsure if I'll be able to write an entire story in due time... because all I have so far is some rough plans!
Wish me luck, send me hugs, and I can probably make something <3

Venia Silente July 10th, 2021 9:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bay (Post 10380275)
Hiya folks! Dropping by to check in to see how you're all doing with your entries or if there's anyone else interested. Remember, you have until July 15th to turn in your entries and you can either choose the prompt "contentment" or "frustration"!

I just got back to life yesterday evening, so today I'll be working on the prompts to settle on one of three ideas I have for the contest. Two contentment, one frustration.

Hyzenthlay July 11th, 2021 10:38 AM

Things have taken quite a sudden downward turn for me so I'm not sure I'll be able to meet the deadline after all - I only have ideas drafted at the moment, nothing written up. However, if by some miracle I can write an entire story in two days I'll still send it in ^ ^

VisionofMilotic July 13th, 2021 7:09 AM

Is poetry allowed?

gimmepie July 13th, 2021 8:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by VisionofMilotic (Post 10381152)
Is poetry allowed?

We're fine with a poetry submission. Just be aware it may make it harder to judge the "Characterization, Plot, and Description" segment.

Venia Silente July 14th, 2021 10:46 AM

I don't know how's everyone else doing with their writing, but I wanted to ask and see how we were doing and if there was any use to a request for a 12h or 24h extension.

gimmepie July 14th, 2021 11:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Venia Silente (Post 10381561)
I don't know how's everyone else doing with their writing, but I wanted to ask and see how we were doing and if there was any use to a request for a 12h or 24h extension.

We've decided to give you a 24 hour extension, but that's as long as we're giving everyone.

BlissyMKW July 14th, 2021 5:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gimmepie (Post 10381572)
We've decided to give you a 24 hour extension, but that's as long as we're giving everyone.

That's a bit lucky. I haven't even started my entry yet mostly because of Majora's Mask Randomizer tournament qualifiers, so that extension will likely help me get my entry done in time...I think. I hope, at least.

Sheep July 14th, 2021 5:55 PM

Unfortunately I might need to back out :( The last few days have been so exhausting and I'm just not mentally there, can't get my creativity flowing at all (and my event participation has really dwindled as a result). But I still really love my idea and hope to make it a reality in the form of a short story which I hopefully will post in FF&W <3

VisionofMilotic July 15th, 2021 9:35 AM

Op says to post in this thread after sending a PM to confirm an entry. Here's my Milotic time stamp.

Venia Silente July 15th, 2021 10:22 AM

I'm one scene to the end so this should be done by tonight. If I'm extremely lucky I might deliver by morning tomorrow, else it'll have to be after lunch. But certainly the extension did help (this might be the first SWC entry since like 2016 where I did not have to drop scenes!!!!!!!) , so thanks for that!

Hyzenthlay July 15th, 2021 2:43 PM

Here to confirm I have submitted an entry! I suppose it wasn't wise staying up all night to do so, but I'm content to have it done. <3

Bay July 15th, 2021 7:59 PM

We got your entries, Milotic and Hyzenthlay!

Also dropping by real quick to remind everyone that you have 24 hours from now to turn in an entry for the SWC!

Eleanor July 16th, 2021 4:37 AM

Hello, I've sent my entry to all the judges! Or tried to, we'll see <3
I hope it's a good read :pleading_face: ♥

Venia Silente July 16th, 2021 10:16 AM

Hey everyone I've sent my submission for this contest.

Technically it's a first revision, if there are still changes to be made and time allows I might submit a furtther revision, but in the meantime this should do at a contest-ready level.

Please lmk if any issues.

Aquacorde July 16th, 2021 10:23 AM

sigh

stay tuned

Aquacorde July 16th, 2021 12:07 PM

alright it's in, tia for the participation points ( b◜‿◝ )b♡

Bay July 16th, 2021 4:58 PM

We got your entries Eleanor, Venia, and Anna!

Also, you have 3 hours left to submit entries! We'll also be accepting revisions then too!

Duck July 16th, 2021 6:13 PM

Sent an entry.

Hope it doesn't make you give up on literature as an art form after reading it <3

Venia Silente July 16th, 2021 6:34 PM

Just in case this makes it in, I've sent a revised version to the judges. It's mostly minor fixes, but you never know, not in this business!

Good luck everyone!


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