A writing challenge!
This is going to be so much fun! *Will get working on entries pronto* When's the due date? Or was that in the post and I missed it? *Is very excited*EDIT: I see it now.
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| Author: | Constable Jaynin Mimetes [ January 1st, 2012, 11:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Winter's Writing War |
Snow whispered out of the sky and settled over the kingdom of Holy Worlds. Winter had finally settled in. With all the holidays behind them people were beginning to become bored and restless with the cold weather. The snow was exciting, of course, but soon it would wear off and there would be nothing to do, nothing to look forward to, except the occasional birthday or technical error. Spring was a long way away. Galadriel wandered through the Marcher Lord's Hall, her long cape whispering on the stone floor. There was no other sound. The Hall was quiet, and mostly deserted. She glanced at empty desks and turned over the occasional file as she wandered. A bug error here, a promotional certificate there. Near the window one Marcher Lord dozed over a book. Pinned to the wall was a leave of absence notice from another. Galadriel stared over the sleepy kingdom, nestled under a white blanket of snow, and sighed. She missed the laughter and excitement of the parties they sometimes threw, but more than that she wanted to see the kingdom at work again, creating something of value rather than just celebrating a previous creation. Then the idea struck and a smile played around her lips. Oh, but of course. It was obvious. Suddenly confident, Galadriel left the Hall with a mischievous plan in her mind. First she went down to the library and determined who were the most well-known published authors in the kingdom, and solicited their aid. For weeks they schemed together on their secret project. An artist was brought onto the project, and word began to leak that a secret was afoot in Holy Worlds... No one knew what the secret was, who was involved, or when, if ever, it would be released. The secret was well kept, and no one suspected, until the announcement mysteriously appeared as the snow began to fall... ** Citizens of Holy Worlds! I, Galadriel, of the White Council of Holy Worlds, have the pleasure and honor of announcing to you... Winter's Writing War. On this day, January 1st, in the year of our lord 2012 I present to you a contest of writing skill! It is our express wish that as many of you partake as are able, and spread word of this contest far and wide! Please find the details below. Please read through these rules carefully before entering a submission. This contest is open to all three forums. Participants are allowed up to one (1) entry in each of the following categories: Historical, Fantasy, and Sci-Fi. A first place and second place winner will be chosen in each category. The prizes are as follows: Science Fiction: First Place: Red Rain, by Aubrey Hansen, and certificate Science Fiction: Second Place: Red Rain – ebook, by Aubrey Hansen, and certificate Fantasy: First Place: What Lies in the Dark, by Bethany Faith, and certificate Fantasy: Second Place: TBA, and certificate Historical: First Place: The Unseen, by Luke Alistar, and certificate Historical: Second Place: Offset – ebook, by Luke Alistar, and certificate As you may have guessed, your judges will be published authors from our member base: Aubrey Hansen, Luke Alistar, and Bethany Faith. They have graciously donated their work as prizes, allowing us to run this contest on a minimal budget. Please thank them for their time and effort by spreading the word about them and their work. Judges comments will be provided for every entry, time allowing. Submissions open today, January 1st, and close on January 31st. Winners will be announced February 14th, on St. Valentine's Day. Rules Contestant must be a member of one of Holy World's three forums. Entries must be an original, unpublished short story between 1,000 and 5,000 words. Entries should be e-mailed to [email protected] Please include the contest name (Winter's Writing War) in the subject of your submission. Entry Submission Form: Your name Your HW username Your story's genre Your story title Your story's word count Please use a separate form for each category. You may not enter the same story in more than one category. You may not enter more than one story in a given category. You may enter one story in each category for a total of three (3) entries. The contest administrator (me) reserves the right to change the category of any entry if it is deemed appropriate. Contestants will be informed of any such change. Communication with the judges about the contest is strictly prohibited. Judging will be done blindly, meaning the judges will not know who the authors of the stories are until after the winners are selected. This will prevent any bias, either in favor or, or against, a contestant. We ask that you respect this and not post the title of your submission anywhere in public until judging is concluded. Judges decisions are final. Comments are provided as a courtesy, and should be treated as such. You are welcome to talk to the judges afterward about their comments, but as they are all busy being published authors please be aware that they may not have time to discuss your entry with you. I apologize for the length and detail of this post, but that's how rules are, you know? |
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| Author: | AzlynRose [ January 1st, 2012, 12:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Winter's Writing War |
A writing challenge! This is going to be so much fun! *Will get working on entries pronto* When's the due date? Or was that in the post and I missed it? *Is very excited*EDIT: I see it now. |
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| Author: | Lady Elanor [ January 1st, 2012, 12:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Winter's Writing War |
It's here! *Is so excited about this* I always love your stories, Vanya.  A Vanya announcement is bound to have a Galadriel story surrounding it!  Closing date is 31st of January, Mae. 
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| Author: | Celestria [ January 1st, 2012, 12:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Winter's Writing War |
Oooh! Sounds fun! 
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| Author: | Constable Jaynin Mimetes [ January 1st, 2012, 12:19 pm ] | |||||||||
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Also, we have graphics, designed by our very own BushMaid!
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| Author: | Lady Elanor [ January 1st, 2012, 12:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Winter's Writing War |
Bushy! They are totally awesome! *Gasps* Oh my! So pretty. |
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| Author: | Crushmaster [ January 1st, 2012, 4:39 pm ] |
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Ooo, a contest! Pretty.God bless, Joel ><>. |
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| Author: | Aldara [ January 1st, 2012, 4:51 pm ] |
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Ooh! This will be fun! I needed something like this, too. I haven't been writing much.  Oops.
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| Author: | Airianna Valenshia [ January 1st, 2012, 5:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Winter's Writing War |
I did that blog post on this that you asked me to do, Katie. It is now live.
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| Author: | Constable Jaynin Mimetes [ January 1st, 2012, 5:51 pm ] |
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Ah, thanks. I sort of forgot about that. |
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| Author: | Skathi [ January 1st, 2012, 6:02 pm ] |
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*claps hands* Oh yes oh yes oh yes!! Oh I hope I have time to enter this contest!!! |
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| Author: | Airianna Valenshia [ January 1st, 2012, 6:08 pm ] |
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*chuckles * As I recall, it was left for me to remember. So you're good.
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| Author: | PrincessoftheKing [ January 1st, 2012, 6:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Winter's Writing War |
I have a quick question. Am I allowed to submit a story I wrote for another contest a while back? (If you're a judge don't read the following question... it might give away my entry, if I use the story I'm thinking of. )Also, can the story be Christmas-themed? |
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| Author: | Constable Jaynin Mimetes [ January 1st, 2012, 6:12 pm ] |
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As long as it wasn't an HW story I think that's fine... That's fine too, as long as it fits into one of the categories.
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| Author: | PrincessoftheKing [ January 1st, 2012, 6:17 pm ] |
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Okay, great! *goes to polish story before submitting it* |
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| Author: | kingjon [ January 2nd, 2012, 2:25 pm ] |
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Vanya Katerina Jaynin wrote: Entries must be an original, unpublished short story between 1,000 and 5,000 words. Can you clarify "unpublished"? (As I mentioned in the "American Poets" thread in General Discussion, as far as the copyright law and a potential traditional publisher are concerned, something I've posted on my blog is "published", but that's not what we usually mean.) And: 5,000 words? Sigh. My most presentable, most suitable piece (which I've been meaning to thoroughly revise anyway, probably expanding it to turn throw-away concepts into foreshadowing) is over 6,000. Sigh ...
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| Author: | Constable Jaynin Mimetes [ January 2nd, 2012, 2:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Winter's Writing War |
The winning pieces will go on the blog. So I think unpublished in this sense means not previously appearing on HW, or in any publication that would prohibit its appearance on the web. (Yeah, I'm sort of making this up as I go along...) The judges were the ones who picked the word limit based on what they thought was long enough read. So learn the art of brevity. (You're not the first one to lament that you tend to write long short stories.)
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| Author: | Aragorn [ January 3rd, 2012, 3:45 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Winter's Writing War |
Vanya Katerina Jaynin wrote: Also, we have graphics, designed by our very own BushMaid! Nice art, BushMaid.
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| Author: | Varon [ January 3rd, 2012, 9:37 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Winter's Writing War |
I'll see if I have time with the Team PYP program to whip one up. |
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| Author: | Lady Pilgrim [ January 3rd, 2012, 11:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Winter's Writing War |
Airianna, I commented on your blog post that announced the contest: "Airianna, is it possible for me to participate in the contest? I haven’t been active on the forums lately, just visiting the blog. Thank you for taking time to answer! Maria Tatham" Just let me know. I may not be able to participate, but just in case... Lord bless you! |
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| Author: | Constable Jaynin Mimetes [ January 3rd, 2012, 12:00 pm ] |
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Sure! By all means you may participate. That's why we put it on the blog, to reach people who might not be as active on the forum.
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| Author: | Airianna Valenshia [ January 3rd, 2012, 12:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Winter's Writing War |
Yep yep, Lady Pilgrim! that was Katie's hope in having me announce it. That we would catch the attention of HWer who may not visit the forum as often, but read the blog.
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| Author: | Lady Pilgrim [ January 3rd, 2012, 11:12 pm ] |
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Airianna and Katie, thank you! In His joy, Maria |
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| Author: | Lady Pilgrim [ January 4th, 2012, 11:19 am ] |
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Should the entry form info go in a cover e-mail, and the story (minus the author's name) in an attachmment? What kind of attachment: .doc, .rtf, etc.? Thank you! |
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| Author: | Constable Jaynin Mimetes [ January 4th, 2012, 11:37 am ] |
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That would be fine. .doc, .rtf, and .txt are all suitable attatchments. I have problems with .docx, which newer versions of MSWord use and it would be better to avoid .odt as well. |
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| Author: | Lady Pilgrim [ January 4th, 2012, 3:01 pm ] |
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Thank you! |
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| Author: | Tsahraf ChahsidMimetes [ January 5th, 2012, 3:19 am ] |
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Marvelous! Marvelous idea! I shall certainly do this! Will there be limitations on the reading level? Can it be scary? Mine will be very strange I expect. |
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| Author: | Constable Jaynin Mimetes [ January 5th, 2012, 12:23 pm ] |
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Haha! That keeps coming up too. Ask your brother about it, he's the other one with a scary story. There's not a limit, but keep in mind that excessive scariness could turn off your judges. By all means, write a scary story, but don't be gratuitous about it. |
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| Author: | Tsahraf ChahsidMimetes [ January 5th, 2012, 12:42 pm ] |
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Well if Bethany Faith and Luke Alistar are judges... |
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| Author: | Aldara [ January 5th, 2012, 7:41 pm ] |
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I have a question. Could the story be geared towards children? More of a knights-in-shining-armour type of story, and slightly silly? I'm not sure if that's what I want to do yet, but it's one idea I'm considering. |
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| Author: | Constable Jaynin Mimetes [ January 5th, 2012, 8:24 pm ] |
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By all means! If there's no reading limit going up than there's no reading limit going down either.
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| Author: | Laura Elizabeth [ January 6th, 2012, 10:43 am ] |
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I'll certainly try to enter! I love contests
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| Author: | Ophelia MirZA Mimetes [ January 8th, 2012, 12:45 pm ] |
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After the contest will a thread be made where we can read all the submissions if the authors post them? *Is hopefully going to enter* ~ZA |
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| Author: | Lady Elanor [ January 8th, 2012, 12:46 pm ] |
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That's a neat idea, Mira.
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| Author: | Ophelia MirZA Mimetes [ January 8th, 2012, 12:52 pm ] |
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| I think it'd be nice. Either way, I'll probably end up posting mine in short stories, but I'd love to read everyone's submissions. ~ZA |
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| Author: | Constable Jaynin Mimetes [ January 8th, 2012, 1:42 pm ] |
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The winning entries will be posted on the blog. I like the idea of creating a thread for people to post them on, if they want.
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| Author: | Aragorn [ January 8th, 2012, 1:45 pm ] |
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Since a thread like that might get cluttered, perhaps authors could just post stories with [Contest Entry] in the title after the contest is over, to let readers know that the story was entered in the contest. |
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| Author: | Lady Elanor [ January 8th, 2012, 1:52 pm ] |
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That is a good idea, Jon. They can post them in the short story section, in Fireside then. |
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| Author: | Aragorn [ January 8th, 2012, 1:54 pm ] |
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Exactly.
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| Author: | Airianna Valenshia [ January 8th, 2012, 6:11 pm ] |
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I think Jonathan's idea is solid. |
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| Author: | Ophelia MirZA Mimetes [ January 8th, 2012, 6:43 pm ] |
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I agree with Jonathan too. (  I don't know if whether I agree or not matters, but I thought I'd mention it. ) Hurray! I hope lots of people post their stories! ~ZA |
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| Author: | Constable Jaynin Mimetes [ January 16th, 2012, 10:41 pm ] |
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How is everyone's entry coming? If you've sent in an entry and didn't get a reply from me, please let me know here so I can look into it. I will confirm the reception of all entries. |
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| Author: | Aragorn [ January 16th, 2012, 10:58 pm ] |
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I finished the first draft of one entry. Now it just needs to be revised. 
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| Author: | Lady Pilgrim [ January 16th, 2012, 11:05 pm ] |
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Getting my entry ready, Katie. Thank you! Best wishes to everyone! |
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| Author: | Suiauthon Mimetes [ January 17th, 2012, 12:04 am ] |
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Mine is coming very slowly; I might not finish in time.
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| Author: | Lady Pilgrim [ January 17th, 2012, 12:02 pm ] |
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Suiauthon, hope and pray you finish in time! But if not, you'll have accomplished a lot towards getting this story done. Best wishes! |
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| Author: | Rachel Newhouse [ January 17th, 2012, 12:33 pm ] |
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Suiauthon wrote: Mine is coming very slowly; I might not finish in time. But, but, MARK! You have to finish! For Philli? Phill wants to read an entry from Mark. 
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| Author: | Suiauthon Mimetes [ January 17th, 2012, 7:47 pm ] |
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Lady Pilgrim wrote: Suiauthon, hope and pray you finish in time! But if not, you'll have accomplished a lot towards getting this story done. Best wishes! Thank you. Aubrey Hansen wrote: But, but, MARK! You have to finish! For Philli? Phill wants to read an entry from Mark. Everyone keeps saying that.  I struggle with both writing and having the time to write -- so deadlines are never good for me.
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| Author: | Rachel Newhouse [ January 19th, 2012, 11:03 am ] |
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Yes, but, this is Philli we're talking about... the one who's always begging you to write? Come on, just this once? I mean, there's a prize involved! Now's a really good time to humor me and write something!
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| Author: | Suiauthon Mimetes [ January 20th, 2012, 1:00 am ] |
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Philli wrote: ...the one who's always begging you to write? You're not the only one. I am writing! It just probably won't be done in time.
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