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Post by Mikauzoran on Dec 11, 2016 15:49:56 GMT
Themed Writing Contest #29: Festival Writing: December 11 - Sunday, January 1 Voting: Sunday, January 1 - Saturday, January 7 Theme selector: Mikauzoran
Theme: "Festival" Optional Prompts:
1) Seasonal 2) Romance 3) School Themed Writing Competition Guidelines
Event Details:Each participant needs to write a short story to be posted by midnight according to the Cafe clock in the Contest Entries section of the Fanfic Library: www.poirotcafe.proboards.com/board/31/poirot-cafe-contest-entries . 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. Keep stories relatively short (1,500 to 5,000, with 300 words TOPS to "wrap it up"), and please post word count at the top of your entry. 2. K-T ratings only. (Think suitable for about 14 years old.) 3. No crossovers or spoilers. 4. Must be new material written within the contest's writing period. No re-posted stories. 5. Please be fair and courteous when voting and reviewing! This is one of the themes I suggested when we voted as a community for the next theme, but it wasn't particularly well-received. Although, that could just be because there were literally twelve other choices and a lot of those only got one vote as well. ^.^; I know people are probably going to be too busy to participate, but I hope we have a good turnout anyway. I'm going to try to get an entry in too. I look forward to seeing what everyone else comes up with!
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Post by Mikauzoran on Dec 22, 2016 20:27:03 GMT
Hi all! Is anyone else thinking about participating? I think I remember sgamer mentioning that he was working on something. I just started my entry today, and I think I have a cute KaiAi idea if I can get it together.
The deadline is Sunday, January 1, so there's still a week and a half left if anyone wants to join in.
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Post by sgamer82 on Dec 23, 2016 3:07:07 GMT
Hi all! Is anyone else thinking about participating? I think I remember sgamer mentioning that he was working on something. I just started my entry today, and I think I have a cute KaiAi idea if I can get it together. The deadline is Sunday, January 1, so there's still a week and a half left if anyone wants to join in. I've got an entry in the works. Coming along, and thinking I should be ready in time without rushing too much. I know where I'm going with things it's mostly just filling in the blanks and checking some references for the particular festival I've chosen. EDIT: Just adding a note that my story has been posted.
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Post by Cesela on Dec 29, 2016 10:55:49 GMT
I'm not going to participate in anything this time around. Haven't had time or motivation or energy to get anything down on paper :/ But good luck to anyone who plans too!
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Post by Mikauzoran on Jan 1, 2017 15:51:41 GMT
Hey guys. So it doesn't look like we're going to be having a vote on this one. I'm probably not going to get my entry done today, and we'd still be short one nonetheless. I'll check back in later when I start the Super Short vote, but if we don't get enough entries, I'll open it up for suggestions for the next theme and optional prompts.
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Post by Mikauzoran on Jan 2, 2017 17:12:12 GMT
So we didn't get enough entries for a vote. If you guys want to throw out suggestions for the next theme with optional prompts, I'll start a vote on them on Wednesday. Thanks!
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Post by sgamer82 on Jan 2, 2017 22:48:04 GMT
A victory by default is still a victory *nods sagely*
Will the next contest count as Jan-Feb or Feb-March? Either way, given to potential timing I'll toss out the obvious theme, assuming we haven't done it already, to link to Valentine's Day: Hearts
Optional prompts: 1) Chocolate hearts (for Valentine's/White Day)
2) A romantic date
3) Literal hearts (This is a manga about murder mysteries, after all.)
Alternatively, since we'll be closing out winter, and after skimming fanart threads: Snow Day
Optional Prompts
1) A day off in the snow
2) Stuck inside on a snowy day
3) Mishaps in the winter weather
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Post by Mikauzoran on Jan 2, 2017 23:35:12 GMT
Hahaha! How can you win when there was no contest? XD
This next contest will be starting on January fifteenth.
Let's see...my contributions are:
Lost and Found:
-Confidence -A Special Someone -A Meaningful Item
and
Food:
-Dinner Date -Special Meal/Comfort Food -Holiday/Festival/Seasonal Food
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Post by sgamer82 on Jan 3, 2017 0:50:26 GMT
Hahaha! How can you win when there was no contest? XD Can't lose either, so I figure better to be the optimist.
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