SWC 2019 planning thread

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    I'll hunt down the previous year's layout for the OP for the event thread later (unless someone else wants to do that).

    First thing to decide is the prompt. Given the theme this year, we could say detective, or mystery instead for the prompt itself. Any other ideas/etc?
     
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    gimmepie said:
    A secret could be a mystery anyway really so I think mystery works the best also.
    What are the judging criteria? It's usually something like

    Plot ?/10
    Spelling and Grammar ?/10
    Relevance to prompt ?/10

    Right?
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    Correct, sans plot being plot/characterisation/description.

    Dragged out the CSS for last year's event, with some changes already here and there. Main thing to decide is the deadline! Following that is the point distribution.


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

    [PokeCommunity.com] SWC 2019 planning thread


    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.) The 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, 9th 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 30 points when their entry is sent in. 3rd place gets 50 points, 2nd 75 points, and 1st 100 points.

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

    Entrants

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    Let's start on launch, and go for... maybe a week or thereabouts, so 11:59 PM EDT, 9th August?

    Points we can adjust as necessary, but let's say 30 points for each submission we receive. If judging happens quickly (pending how many entries we get...), 50 for 3rd, 75 for 2nd, 100 for 1st.
     
    bobandbill said:
    Let's start on launch, and go for... maybe a week or thereabouts, so 11:59 PM EDT, 9th August?

    Points we can adjust as necessary, but let's say 30 points for each submission we receive. If judging happens quickly (pending how many entries we get...), 50 for 3rd, 75 for 2nd, 100 for 1st.
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    Looks good to me.
     
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