Short Story Competitions

Discussion in 'Support & Feedback' started by Torana, May 24, 2007.

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How long should the short story contest last?

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  1. Torana

    Torana Contributor Contributor

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    Lpspider I think you have made a wonderful suggestion with the forum having a shirt story competition that runs over a month.

    I think if we ran both then it would keep everyone happy, one for a major competition and one for just a casual and fun competition just as an excercise like the poetry competitions.

    Either way I think it that the members here that write short stories will just be happy to have competitions for them to be honest...

    ~Torana
     
  2. Torana

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    Sorry if I seem pushy or annoying with this but I am just wondering when this will be starting up..
     
  3. Targaddon

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    I've just been reading this thread and think its a very good idea. I also thought why not have the reviewers judge the short stories the ones that are writing for the cash prize. Since were reviewers I thought we'd be a good choice to offer a great deal of advice to the others.
     
  4. Ferret

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    About the weekly comp:

    1. Do we want to do the short story competition, or not?
    2. How long do we want it to be, words wise?
    3. Do we really want to do dreams again? 'Cause if we do, I will post something barely considerably a dream.
    4. I'd like to get this going Monday, if that's okay with you guys.
     
  5. Torana

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    I think that there is enough members here that would like to see the short story competitions start back up. I think between 100 - 1500 words would be the best way to go with the word count.
    Not so sure about the dreams theme, but there are a lot of themes out there to pick from so it shouldn't be too hard to come up with one for the short stories competitions.
    I also think that starting them up on Monday would be a great idea.

    ~Torana
     
  6. Daniel

    Daniel I'm sure you've heard the rumors Founder Staff

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    Okay, well here is what I envisioned.

    A short story contest with a $25 prized that is based off of a picture that I select. The contest would run for 2 months and the word length would be between 500 and 3000 words. I would select the "top ten" entries and we'd have a public poll.

    That's what I had planned. However, if the majority of you would prefer something else, that's fine too.
     
  7. Torana

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    Well I think that sounds rather good to be honest. I think that selecting a picture for the entrants to write a short story about is a great idea personally.

    I think that your idea is great and should definately be started up.
    I think members are also interested in having a weekly or fortnightly one though. Is it possible to have both short story competitions running?
     
  8. Ferret

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    ...I don't see why not.
     
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    I want to do them that's for sure!! But I'd like to see good topics to write about, that are both fun and all. Topics that that will bring out the good in everyone. Sorry I'm not being very clear does anyone know what I mean? LOL
     
  10. Daniel

    Daniel I'm sure you've heard the rumors Founder Staff

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    Well, we do have the weekly poetry contest... so would you be interested in having the same thing, only for short stories?
     
  11. Ferret

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    I think that's the general consensus.
     
  12. Raven

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    With it been weekly then the stories would have to be considerably shorter especially for a weekly voting sense because you don't get as long to vote and stories a far bigger than poems so might i suggest if we have a weekly short story contest we have a word max count of no more than 1500 words remember to get a far vote not everyones going to want to read anything bigger.

    As for weekly themes thats the easy part it'd be like the poetry contest.
    Someone picks a theme and thats it.

    If your all interested something can be started by the end of this week.





    ~Raven.
     
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    I disagree with the 1,500 words thing.
     
  14. Targaddon

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    I don't. For a weekly thing this is very long in itself. what about lower it to say 1000 words.
     
  15. Torana

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    Well the old short story competitions were 500 to 1500, so maybe go with that. It doesn't mean everyone has to write something 1500 words.
    But I guess being weekly maybe having 1000 words would be better, if only running for seven days that is, but if it went for longer than maybe it would be easier for some members to have the time to post something a bit longer, say around 1500 words.
     
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    I think anything upto 1500 is just right.
    when will this start and what will the weekly winner achieve. who will run this also.
     
  17. Daniel

    Daniel I'm sure you've heard the rumors Founder Staff

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    Well, it will probably be run my myself or a moderator. The "prize" would simply be the satisfaction of winning and perhaps getting their story stickied on the top of the short story forum. I'm open to suggestions though ( (I just can't afford a weekly prize, that's all)
     
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    Which Moderator will be Running this contest.
     
  19. Raven

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    Ferret Will be Running the Short Story Weekly Contest so all questions should be directed to him.




    ~Raven.
     
  20. Night Haunter

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    When will this contest be starting anyhow?
     
  21. Daniel

    Daniel I'm sure you've heard the rumors Founder Staff

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    The weekly short story contest should start either this week or next.

    The bigger, two-month contest will be run by me and will probably start sometime this week.
     
  22. Torana

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    Thankyou for letting us all know and I look forward to them starting up and will try my hand at entering into the weekly one.

    ~Torana
     
  23. Ferret

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    In a few minutes...
    It will run for one week, and voting will run for one week.
    The theme will be dreams, which leave room for whatever you guys want, and all of this is will up for debate in the thread...
     
  24. Daniel

    Daniel I'm sure you've heard the rumors Founder Staff

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    The 2 month short story contest can be found here.

    Furthermore, the weekly short story contest can be found here.
     
  25. Daniel

    Daniel I'm sure you've heard the rumors Founder Staff

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    Just a little reminder to ya'll. You asked for it and we gave - but there hasn't been a terrible amount of interest yet. Enter!
     

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