A Writing Competition?

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In light of the recent competitions that have (finally) been springing up here, I suggest a writing competition, along the lines of creating an entirely fictional piece of writing by a certain deadline, with a certain theme and members can vote for their favourite entry. Story of the Week, if you like :P In other words, it could go the same way as Sig of the Week.

As a reward for the winner, maybe an avid Graphics expert could create some kind of banner - "Story of the Week Winner: dd/mm/yy," or something. It's out there; yay, or nay?
 
Yes yes yes yes yes!
I'd love to see a writing competition be set up. I love writing, though I haven't done anything for several months. A competition would be great to get me going again. And I don't think it would be hard to set it up, or find the support for it.
 
Does it have to be a story? What about a Poetry Competition? I approve of the idea though.
 
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Yes, why not?
We have some talented writers on this site, and I'd love to see this competition anyway. :D
Haha, and yeah, why not a poetry competition to go along with this as well?
 
I had planned on forming a writing competition towards the end of the year. I think an entire fictional piece is a great idea. And I think December 31st is the perfect deadline. That would give members...about 5 months to work on their pieces.

How long should the submissions be?
 
Well, it depends what the piece is. Will it be a fanfic, an original story, or a poem? And what the theme is too.
Maybe add a poll to the thread to decide on it?
 
Well, I wasn't really set on any way to go about this, and I just used a Story as an example. I'll rename it to the "Literature Competition," if that helps ;)

As for deadlines ... well, that would all depend on the size of the writing piece. December 31st seems a bit too colossal for a first-time competition. I was thinking more along the lines of short stories, with fortnightly deadlines :P Of course, if you'd like to run it, Nephany, then that'd be up to you :)
 
There WAS a bigger thread about it.......i dont know what the fuck happened to it. Replies to it stopped and i cant find it....

EDIT: either this thread is on crack or my job is stressing me WAY worse than i thought...because i could have sworn when i replied to this a few minutes ago it was only one page long....now it's two....I'm going to blame it on my job.
 
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Last time we were setting up rules and we never even got around to it. Why don't we go to writer's boulevard and start this thing. The best way to see what rules we need is to do a few small competitions and build our way up to bigger challenges. Let's pick something like short stories to start off with, take entries, and try to have the first set of writings submitted by the end of the month.
 
I agree with that. You learn by doing, after all.
I think the first one probably should be FF-related, there's more likely to be more interest that way.
 
Aww for real? I had this awesome story i wrote in my junior year with Zidane in it...but my bastard English teacher never gave it back. I have another that's inspired by Tactics, but it's 50 pages long <.<
 
Quick Question.
For those of you who intend to participate in a writing competition, would you rather the winner be declared via a group of elected judges, or via forum vote?

Think about the pro's and cons here.
Elected judges may be biased towards their decisions...as they should be. Yet a forum vote would consist of a bunch of DUH retards voting without knowing what's going on.
 
I say judges. There may be biases, but they'll be obligated to read the full stories and analyze them, whereas lots of members may just be lazy and skim through the stories, or vote for anything containing Cloud.
 
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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