A Writing Competition?

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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.
 
Pooley said:
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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Exactly.

eisprinz said:
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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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.
 
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.
 
Aztec Triogal said:
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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PWNED.

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
 
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.
 
5 pages of poetry = emo ramblings trying to sound like Edgar Allen Poe

I suppose it would be alright for the beginning stories to be FF related, so long as they dont turn into 10 page lemons with Cloud and Tifa.
 
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