Approved for Running: Small Writing Competition

[bobandbill]

Another GT, another SWC!

Three judges (myself, Bay, gimmepie) should be fine. We need to decide on a theme (I propose something related to Pokemon given the nature of this year's GT. I suppose that means rule six can be scrapped for this year (see below).

Standard OP in the spoiler like previous years! Updated links within it. Need the prompt, timing (when will entries close/judging begin?) and see if we're fine with these existing emblems or not.

Spoiler:

Small Writing Competition
Judged by bobandbill, Bay Alexison and gimmepie​

Welcome everyone to the Small Writing Competition! Ready to write a story based on this year's prompt that will impress the three 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 bobandbill, Bay Alexison, 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, 16th July 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

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

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

Emblems
First Prize

Second Prize

Third Prize

Entrants:

 

[gimmepie]

What if for prompts we randomly generated a Pokemon and sent a different one to each participant? Would that work?

 

[Bay]

Usually when we decide on themes it's so everyone can give it a try. If we do the random generator thing, it might be harder for us to judge I think?

 

[bobandbill]

What if for prompts we randomly generated a Pokemon and sent a different one to each participant? Would that work?

Usually when we decide on themes it's so everyone can give it a try. If we do the random generator thing, it might be harder for us to judge I think?

I am not so keen on the random theme thing, as that puts people on unequal footing. Say one gets a popular Pokemon and another has one they dislike, etc. Bay also makes a good point on that it may make it harder for us to pick.

Ideas... Something based on the anniversary aspect? Pokemon fics with 'anniversary' or 'nostalgia' as a theme. Maybe 'Kanto'. Could also be 'celebration' as that's the whole point of the GT, to celebrate 20 years of Pokemon.

Alternatively - just require it to be Pokemon themed. Completely open-ended beyond that.

 

[gimmepie]

I like both using "nostalgia" as a theme and also just keeping an open ended "Pokemon" theme. Either is fine with me.

 

[Bay]

I think we used "celebrations" as a theme before or something similar. Otherwise, I'm fine with "nostalgia" as a theme and also keep it Pokemon to fit with the anniversary celebration.

 

[bobandbill]

Let's go with nostalgia then! Seems we're all fine with it, and I think it'll be both decently open-ended for use as a prompt, and fitting for the GT theme/anniversary year too. Keeps to the 'prompt every SWC' theme too.