Only eight people may enter this contest. Those eight are:
Alexgia
Tiger-Lily
Gary Alexander
Rainy.Day.Kisses
Lady Pixie
ElfSong
Decadent Anomaly
Tonialoise
Whether or not they enter is up to them, but no one else may enter this contest.
Rules first:
1. Please send me a message that lets me know you *plan* on entering, especially closer to the closing date. You don't have to enter, but if you want to, I can't wait forever.
2. Label appropriately
3. I'm going to be particular about grammar and spelling this time so make sure it's close to perfect. There are only two rounds left.
4. You are allowed two entries, but at least one MUST be one of the four prompts listed below. The other entry is up to you (meaning you can enter absolutely anything you wish). If you opt to only enter once, your entry MUST be one of the five prompts below. If none of them suit your fancy and you still want to enter, message me and we will work something out.
5. Word minimum: 1,000
Word maximum: 8,000 (if you don't mind the fact that it might take me awhile to read and comment)
5. Please have fun, I promise more points will be added to second (and maybe third) place.
Options:
Beast-- Write about your worst fear and turn it into mine. Terrify me.
Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles-- Use the lyrics of this song to write about irony or loneliness or anything else these lyrics inspire you to write. Creative use of this song will get you extreme brownie points (I can't guarantee a spot in preliminary finalists).
Oh!Lust-- Let's give love a chance shall we? Erotica is allowed just make sure there is some kind of feeling of love/lust/infatuation/obsession. Something. Serial killers and other kinds of murderers are also allowed as long as they experience some form of romantic (or creepy obsession) feelings. You know what I'm talking about.
Words: (use at least ten)
Narcotic
Convert
Armoire
Arduous
Zebra
Delectable
Uninhibited
Transcendental
Synthesized
Brothel
Vaudeville
Raunchy
Prophecies
Bloodbath
Yesterday
Imagine
Melody
Blatant
Neon
Paradox
Music:
Eleanor Rigby- The Beatles (this prompt focuses on the instrumental features of the song)
You've Got Her in Your Pocket-The White Stripes
What I'm Fighting For-Matisyahu
Diamonds on the Inside-Ben Harper
In the Cold, Cold Night-The White Stripes
Shalom/Salaam-Matisyahu
Come Together-The Beatles
The Ballad of John and Yoko-The Beatles
Help!-The Beatles
Yesterday-The Beatles
Blackbird-The Beatles (sorry about all the similar music...)
The Fanatic-Felony
Before the Lobotomy-Green Day
Sleep the Clock Around-Belle and Sebastian
I'll be adding more to this later. I'm in the middle of transferring all my CD's to my computer and I'm maybe 1/8 of the way done...
Prewrites are allowed at the moment. Feel free to change the tense or form of any of the words. Have fun!
-Atticus
Feel free to message me with any questions!
Oh! By the way, only five of you will go on to round four, at maximum.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on August 29
- Rewards: Gold: 400, Silver: 150, Bronze: 50
- Final notes: I am so sorry it took me so long to do this... School started back up and I've been sick...
Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for sticking with me and not getting too annoyed at me. ^^ I hope you've all had as much fun as I have. The three of you that placed are welcome to continue and that won't be for a while as I've got to get myself settled into my new work/school routine and accumulate enough points for gold to walk with... Eh... 1000 or so points. If you know you don't want to enter, let me know now so I can ask someone else to take your place or so I can end this charade here.
Thanks for entering!
Atticus.
Contest Winners
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Thump, thump, thump.1
by Lady Pixie 500 words, 47 comments, on Jul 22 7:31 PM. In Crime, Dark, Horror, Short story, Weird
Silver trophy winner
• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
Gold trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
Entries [6]
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by Lady Pixie 800 words, 6 comments, on Jul 18 3:23 PM. In Contest, Fantasy, Short story, Starting idea, Young adult• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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A navy officer's girlfriend goes missing. He will do whatever it takes to get her back.by tonialoise 1900 words, 8 comments, on Jul 11 3:22 AM 2008. In Crime, Dark, Fiction, Love, Third person• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Julian Delambre had an appreciation for fine art. Beauté Dans Blanc was his obsession. Would she be the death of him?by Decadent Anomaly 2700 words, 3 comments, on Aug 3 12:14 AM. In Dark, Horror, Murder, Short story, Vampire• Commented on by judge.
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I am definitly entering
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I have a question about your serial killers/lust thing. Does it have to be lust on a person? Or can it be lust for something bigger... like power and obsession over a certain particular thing of a person?
I ask this because I have a story I just wrote that would fit under serial killers/lust.. but the lust that the killer has involves the lust of gaining power through blood.
Just lemme know. If that doesn't work, I'll come up with something else
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Hmmm... I think that would work just fine.
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okay
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Yeah! I finished! I didn't opt for the long story I was thinking about, but I like how this one turned out anyway. The other story I entered is an older one that hasn't gotten a lot of feedback on so I figured why not.
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