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Well, for starters, it might be a good idea to have flash-fiction and poetry submissions as that would probably help increase submissions and move on to more lengthy works once all the kinks of the system have been worked out.
I would hate to have turned in an epic and have it not get the right attention - and most works probably won't get their due until the contest is a bit more established.
So for now, it seems appropriate to put up a fresh prompt asking for only a few hundred words, just for the first couple of rounds for people to test out the waters a bit.
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Judges. I don't care about the bias nor the length it would take for it to be judged. I want my work judged and commented on by someone who knows what a story should consist of, not by someone who got a little bit of a laugh at a minor joke, or because it pleased the fanboy/girl in them.
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Well, for starters, it might be a good idea to have flash-fiction and poetry submissions as that would probably help increase submissions and move on to more lengthy works once all the kinks of the system have been worked out.
I would hate to have turned in an epic and have it not get the right attention - and most works probably won't get their due until the contest is a bit more established.
So for now, it seems appropriate to put up a fresh prompt asking for only a few hundred words, just for the first couple of rounds for people to test out the waters a bit.
Good ideas there. If we limit the beginning stories to just FF, people might not be able to come up with something good.
A few hundred words is probably not enough to work with for a story though, not unless you want it to be a story like "see spot run" or something. The shortest i have is 4 pages (2745 words), that gives enough space to tell an adequate story and set up the characters better.
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Well if we're working with Final Fantasy the characters are already established, unless you're doing one about Final Fantasy XII. Ba-zing! *cough* But anyhow, I think we should work with fairly broad minimums and maximums. It can't be any less than a page. That's just ridiculous... but anything more than 5 pages is just WAY TOO MUCH to read, especially when we're setting up how this goes. But you could easily write a comical narrative about Cloud and Tifa's trip to the grocery store gone wrong or something like that in two to three pages.
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Haha... oh, Aztec. This situation looks shockingly (not really) familiar to one on another FFF we used to be at. Honestly, when are you not stirring up trouble?
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Well if we're working with Final Fantasy the characters are already established, unless you're doing one about Final Fantasy XII. Ba-zing! *cough* But anyhow, I think we should work with fairly broad minimums and maximums. It can't be any less than a page. That's just ridiculous... but anything more than 5 pages is just WAY TOO MUCH to read, especially when we're setting up how this goes. But you could easily write a comical narrative about Cloud and Tifa's trip to the grocery store gone wrong or something like that in two to three pages.
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Under a page is way too short, 5 pages or anything way long...well...no judge wants to read 5 to 10 pages, and even if they did they wouldnt have the time. I should so totally do a story now about Garnet sending Zidane to the pharmacy to pick up tampons xD
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I think the first one should be FF related. Like I say, it's more likely to bring in a lot of participants. Like Aztec said, the characters are already established, so it will make for an easy starter.
I agree with the length of 1-5 pages. That is, assuming this is going to be a short story rather than a poetry competition.
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5 pages of poetry = torture
EDIT: Someone start that damn thread already!
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Love this quote
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