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Post by Mikauzoran on Feb 28, 2016 4:16:18 GMT
6-8k Writing Competition #2: Personality Writing: Sunday, February 28 - Sunday, April 17 Voting: Sunday, April 17 - Saturday, April 30
Theme selector: The Poirot Cafe Community
Theme: "Personality"
Optional Prompts: 1) Warped2) A Special Item Befitting Owner's... 3) MultifacetedThemed Writing Competition Guidelines Event Details: Each participant needs to write a story to be posted by midnight according to the Cafe clock in the Contest Entries section of the Fanfic Library. That's midnight Sunday going into Monday; you have the entirety of Sunday to work. 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. Entries should be 6,000-8,000 words long (with 500 words TOPS to "wrap it up"), and please include word count at the top. 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!
Well, it's a bit of a cliche theme, but hopefully it'll inspire some neat fics. Have fun, guys!
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Post by Mikauzoran on Feb 28, 2016 4:18:48 GMT
I'm a few hours earlier than usual, but by the Cafe clock, it's Sunday February 28, so I think it's fine. If any of you have heard me griping lately, you'll know I've had a rough week culminating in seven more hours of overtime today. So I think I'm going to crash tomorrow. I just wanted to take care of early morning forum duties before I did so.
Ahem. Anyway! Have fun and good luck! I do so hope we have a good turnout this time. *Crosses fingers*
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Post by sgamer82 on Feb 29, 2016 5:32:59 GMT
Hm, I may have an idea or two I can work if I can make something long enough out of them.
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Post by Cesela on Feb 29, 2016 12:42:49 GMT
I might have an idea too. But I'm not sure if it'll fit the exact criteria of the challenge. Never know if I don't try I suppose.
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Post by ichthyophobia on Apr 7, 2016 21:03:25 GMT
As far as I can tell from lurking in the chat box, looks like we've only got two people working on an entry? I'm gonna try to come up with something, just so we can have a vote, but unfortunately no promises.
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Post by boogum on Apr 7, 2016 21:06:31 GMT
I thought we had three? One has been posted, then sgamer is working on one, and Cesela has one that is in editing mode.
That said, I was considering doing the same (writing something so we can have a vote), but I can't make any promises either. I'm going to be busy this weekend.
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Post by Cesela on Apr 7, 2016 21:11:49 GMT
Well, yeah. I have one. Done-ish. I just realized how much I loath the ending after getting it back from Tal I'm starting to reconsider if I want to post it at all and just smash my computer to get rid of it.
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Post by boogum on Apr 7, 2016 21:12:45 GMT
If it makes you feel better, 90% of what I write is posted with the knowledge that I think it's terrible and not worth reading. I say post it! I bet we will love it.
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Post by Cesela on Apr 7, 2016 21:22:21 GMT
Oh my. I wouldn't have the guts to post it if I thought it was terrible. but you got 300 stories under your belt. I got...8? Well. It's all rubbish. Still, this one is just odd. And I have to cut out a whole scene to get it under the max limit. It does nothing for the story though, it works well without. But I like the scene.
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Post by boogum on Apr 7, 2016 21:24:12 GMT
Learning how to be ruthless with your writing is a good thing. Even if you like the scene, if it's not doing anything for the story then just cut it.
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Post by Cesela on Apr 7, 2016 21:37:40 GMT
Well. It does actually have soemthing to do with the story. For such a short challange none of the scenes can be without purpose. But I simply just added a paragraph to the next scene that went through the actions of the previous one, so you can stay on the storyline without knowing he exact details? I'm not sure if I'm making any sense here...
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Post by boogum on Apr 7, 2016 21:45:16 GMT
Er, kind of? Like a transition paragraph to bridge the scenes, do you mean?
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Post by Cesela on Apr 7, 2016 21:49:05 GMT
Something like that I guess? It makes sense in my head. I promise.
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Post by boogum on Apr 7, 2016 21:53:22 GMT
Well, you probably don't need it as much as you think. Is the flow of the story more continuous or cut up into many different points of time? Cause if it is the latter, you can get away with abrupt transitions.
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Post by Cesela on Apr 7, 2016 21:59:02 GMT
It's the latter. Tal reassured me it works without with the way it's written. I just think it's a very sudden transaction. It's liking going directly from A to C. I just don't... like it. That's all. Feels lacking. Might be cause I've already written the scene.
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