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Post by Mikauzoran on Jul 12, 2015 19:28:12 GMT
Themed Writing Competition #14: Supernatural
Writing: July 12 - Sunday, August 2
Voting: Sunday, August 2 - Saturday, August 8
Theme: "Supernatural" Optional Prompts:
1) Ghost 2) Pandora's Box 3) Cursed Themed Writing Competition Guidelines Event Details:Each participant needs to write a short story. At the end of the writing period, any member can vote for their favorite story. The winner will get a prize and get to choose the theme for the next competition. Make sure that when you post your stories on FF.net that you mention that the story was written for Poirot Cafe's competition to our readers! Let's have fun and advertise at the same time! Prize:Custom designed award badge that you can use in your signature or elsewhere. Guidelines:1. Keep stories relatively short (1,500 to ~5,000 words). 2. K-T ratings only. 3. No crossovers. 4. Must be new material, no re-posted stories. 5. Please be fair and courteous when voting and reviewing! This was the other theme that people showed interest in when we voted as a forum to decide the next contest theme, so I decided to use it to start up our 5k contests again. Have fun everybody!
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Post by Nikudou Natsumi on Jul 12, 2015 21:42:53 GMT
Ooh! I wanna do this one! Specifically ghost . . . Or maybe that's just me rping DP too often XD I'd have to come up with plot, though . . .
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Post by TinyTantei on Jul 12, 2015 23:44:53 GMT
Ooh, I've got a good one for Shinichi and "cursed". Of course, this is me encroaching into AU territory again, whoops.
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Post by neonkoi on Jul 13, 2015 1:54:45 GMT
I want to do this, but I don't know if I should, or can.. Screw it, I'll probably end up trying anyways.
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Post by neonquincy1217 on Jul 23, 2015 2:52:06 GMT
Dunno if I'm in the right state of mind to do this... but then again the prompt seems fitting with what happened to us lately. I have something in mind and all I have to do is get myself in front of the PC again. We'll see...
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Post by Mikauzoran on Jul 23, 2015 3:49:50 GMT
*Cocks head to side and raises eyebrow* Good luck!
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Post by Nikudou Natsumi on Jul 23, 2015 17:47:10 GMT
'Tashi no baka, I keep forgetting about this stuff . . .
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Post by Crimson Amarone on Jul 24, 2015 2:46:41 GMT
This is really surprising but I've kinda been hoping this theme to come up eventually. I have an idea based on the Japanese Willow Wife folktale. I'm really bad at coming up with short stories though and again this idea has a bit of a mystery twist to it, so that usually makes the plot become longer. I guess we'll see if I have the time to work on this story idea and see if I can actually get the outline to work for a short story.
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Post by Shihominn on Jul 25, 2015 21:44:02 GMT
Ohhhh! I just was adding something to an idea I had a while ago! Something involving Kazuha, KID and a friendly ghost Too bad is in spanish T.T
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Azrayah
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Post by Azrayah on Jul 29, 2015 0:34:31 GMT
Okay, so here's my idea for the competition, and I'm not sure if it qualifies. I explained my idea poorly (using a really vague idea because I was trying to save space) when I was asking for help in the chat box and so Mikau said it wouldn't count because the whole fic has to pertain to the theme (which makes sense, obviously, and I really appreciate that she answered my question) but I think my fic idea is kinda on the fence and so I'm explaining my idea with greater depth in hopes that maybe I can have better informed answers? If the answer is still, "No, it doesn't qualify." Then obviously I won't enter it but still write it at a future point, and maybe come up with something else, but the theme totally inspired me to write this fic and if it qualifies then that's even better, you know? It'll be a Supernatural/Soulmate AU for Kaishin and maybe some others. (We can having pairings in the contest, right?)
Anyway, here's a rough idea of my fic idea: Akako has cursed Shinichi and Kaito so that every lifetime they live, they die in a certain amount of days after meeting each other. My story would show each lifetime in a snapshot, but only really focusing on when they meet and die. Akako would kinda be telling the story, introducing each snapshot and giving a quick background, as well as her thoughts. A few of the snapshots would have magic and the supernatural, and some would have effects of Akako's curse, and some would be kinda normal like our world.
Here's the tiny summary I have for it for when I post it: She knew, long before they met in this life, they were to be matched, torn apart, ripped to shreds, and repeated again and again. She knew. After all, it was her curse that made them this way.
Would this idea be acceptable for the contest? Or does it not have enough supernatural elements/too much of other elements that I should come up with a different idea and write this later?
Any help with this is much appreciated!!
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Post by ichthyophobia on Jul 29, 2015 2:05:45 GMT
I would say it's definitely supernatural enough. We're not super picky about things fitting the themes perfectly around here. That said, good luck telling that from Akako's point of view! Seems like it could get very tragic/disturbing very fast.
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Post by Azrayah on Jul 29, 2015 2:13:44 GMT
Thanks. Not all of it will be from Akako's POV though. It'll be her and 3rd person POV.
Once again, thanks for the encouragement~
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Post by Mikauzoran on Jul 29, 2015 3:02:33 GMT
Okay. That makes more sense when you explain the specifics. It sounded like you were going to write a series of scenes, kind of like a bunch of shorter, standalone stories with only one or two fitting the theme, and I was really wondering.
The premise sounds interesting, only I believe Luna Darkside has already beaten you to it. She did a KaiShin cursed to reincarnate but die after meeting each other fic last year when she was taking requests, so it's kind of already been done in an extremely similar fashion to what you're planning. :/ Hers wasn't from Akako's point of view, though, so that would be an interesting take on the idea. Sorry to burst your bubble. :/ I always feel bummed out when I learn that something I thought I had been the first to think of was already done by someone else. There are only so many different ideas out there, though, so it's not strange that you'd have an idea that's already been done, but that's crazy that you two had such similar ideas for an AU. I'll have to see if I can find that story again. That was interesting.
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Post by Tiny on Jul 29, 2015 3:48:22 GMT
Heh, reincarnation seems to be a really common writing topic, at least. I've got one that's AoKai, but it's kinda weird. They're not reincarnated at the same time, it's more of a disjointed meeting halfway kind of thing (also something I was thinking of writing for this theme, but it wasn't giving me enough ideas so I had to put it on the side burner)-
It starts with Aoko remembering Kaito, and Kaito not remembering Aoko, but when he finally remembers her, then she's fated to die, and he has to wait for her until he finds her again, at which point SHE doesn't remember, and if/when she does, then HE dies and it's basically like that over and over again.
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Azrayah
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Post by Azrayah on Jul 29, 2015 4:50:40 GMT
Mikau: Ahaha, yeah, I realized it was really confusing and that's why I brought it here... Ah, yes, Luna Darkside is an amazing Kaishin fanfic writer, but she's not leaving any ideas for the rest of us I feel like I may have read the fic you're thinking of, but one fic that came to my mind when I thought of this idea was a Haikyuu kagehina fic, and even that story didn't have a witch... So, since Luna has already written a very similar story, could I still possibly use this idea and just avoid copying her ideas and have a different format? Or would I have to take a very different approach, like focus solely on Akako's version of the idea? Or should I just scrap the idea for the competition and just write it later for myself? I don't want to write something and post it, thinking I have a chance, only to find that I was disqualified and shunned, you know? Either way, thanks for taking the time to answer my concerns.
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