Music Banter Creative Writing Competition

FaSho · 01-13-2011, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by AwwSugar

Well the **** will have to be sent in to someone on the site, right? How can it be anonymous?

Everyone can upload their story to a shared mediafire folder maybe. That's what I would do.

crash_override · 01-13-2011, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

I think it's something in the order of 4,000. It used to be 2,000 I believe, but our request to double it was granted by the admin a while back.

Yeah, that 2,000 word limit was really starting to cramp VEGANGELICA's style.

~~James~~ · 01-13-2011, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by FaSho

Everyone can upload their story to a shared mediafire folder maybe. That's what I would do.

I don't see why they can't just send me it, I will refrain from voting to avoid bias.

Anyway
Rules
You can write anything you like be it a short story, a poem or a scene from a play. Anything. The content of the story can be about anything too as long as it's not too offensive and isn't stolen. It is preferred if the piece is less than 4000 words but I'm sure that is plenty.

You have until Monday the 7th of February to complete the story but a few extra days can be rewarded if needed. Once the piece is completed you send it to me via PM. I will then post them in a separate thread but without mentioning names. A poll will be added and after a week of polling the winner will be announced. Anyone can participate in the thread.

storymilo · 01-13-2011, 11:04 AM

Maybe we could also say who submitted pieces, and then people can guess who submitted what? Like the compilation thread.

~~James~~ · 01-13-2011, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by storymilo

Maybe we could also say who submitted pieces, and then people can guess who submitted what? Like the compilation thread.

I was thinking that at first, but some people don't want people to know that they wrote things I guess.

Bulldog · 01-13-2011, 11:27 AM

Coolness.

I'll get cracking on this fairly soon...

SATCHMO · 01-13-2011, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by James

I don't see why they can't just send me it, I will refrain from voting to avoid bias.

Anyway
Rules
You can write anything you like be it a short story, a poem or a scene from a play. Anything. The content of the story can be about anything too as long as it's not too offensive and isn't stolen. It is preferred if the piece is less than 4000 words but I'm sure that is plenty.

You have until Monday the 7th of February to complete the story but a few extra days can be rewarded if needed. Once the piece is completed you send it to me via PM. I will then post them in a separate thread but without mentioning names. A poll will be added and after a week of polling the winner will be announced. Anyone can participate in the thread.

PM limit is 5,000 characters, about 1,000 words, which is very short, even for flash fiction. Anyone interested in writing anything longer will need to send multiple PMs or a link to an offsite document.

~~James~~ · 01-13-2011, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by SATCHMO

PM limit is 5,000 characters, about 1,000 words, which is very short, even for flash fiction. Anyone interested in writing anything longer will need to send multiple PMs or a link to an offsite document.

Yeah, I said prefer because you can go over it. Just means it'll have to be a link in the thread. There is no character limit really. Hadn't realised it was so few words, I think most of them will be over that so we will have to use an offsite location.

EDIT: pastebin.com would work for a offsite location.

SATCHMO · 01-13-2011, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by James

Yeah, I said prefer because you can go over it. Just means it'll have to be a link in the thread. There is no character limit really. Hadn't realised it was so few words, I think most of them will be over that so we will have to use an offsite location.

EDIT: pastebin.com would work for a offsite location.

Well, 4,000 words, about 20,000 characters is pretty adequate for these purposes. I think for the sake of making things a bit more organized and easier on you, we should designate pastebin.com as the site for everyone to upload their material to.

~~James~~ · 01-13-2011, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by SATCHMO

Well, 4,000 words, about 20,000 characters is pretty adequate for these purposes. I think for the sake of making things a bit more organized and easier on you, we should designate pastebin.com as the site for everyone to upload their material to.

Sounds good. Thanks for the help man.

01-13-2011, 11:04 AM	#24 (permalink)
storymilo Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,845	Maybe we could also say who submitted pieces, and then people can guess who submitted what? Like the compilation thread.

01-13-2011, 11:27 AM	#26 (permalink)
Bulldog why bother? Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: UK Posts: 4,840	Coolness. I'll get cracking on this fairly soon...