this is a very open, creative contest with multiple options. It includes all types of writing: stories, prose, poetry.
option 1: Write anything about the following quote:
"You don't need to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone." - john ciardi
option 2: Write a story or poem based around a Beatles song. Use the lyrics for your plot and please write in the author's note which song you used.
option 3: Write about a love affair that would not be accepted if discovered. for example, family members, teacher-student, an older man and a boy, online relationship, lesbian, gay, transgenders. I would especially like teacher-student ones, those are fairly interesting. you can add erotica or not, it doesn't matter to me.
option 4: Write a poem about your greatest fear, and tell me what the fear is in your author's note. I would prefer fears more complex than spiders, or shots, or such.
option 5: Write a story with an unreliable narrator. For some reason, the character narrating must present the story in a different way than it actually is because of his/her own position or character, but this is not clear to the reader until the end of the story. Just ask me if you want some better examples for this, I will be happy to get you started.
option 6: Write a story where something is going on with characters in a room in which the TV is on, and the sound or images are added to the description and add to the story, yet the characters are totally oblivious to what is going on on the TV.
good luck, and if you have any other good options just ask me because I will probably be happy to let you use them.
Have a wonderful time, I would love to get some interesting pieces. Try to have good spelling, grammar, and punctuation. I will not remove your piece, but I will be too frustrated to focus on your piece, and you will probably not win!
You will have a better chance of winning if you do a new story, but i definitely accept prewrites! Also, brownie points for options 2, 5, and 6. But you can do the other options as well, it doesn't really matter!
Ok, have fun.
<3
option 1: Write anything about the following quote:
"You don't need to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone." - john ciardi
option 2: Write a story or poem based around a Beatles song. Use the lyrics for your plot and please write in the author's note which song you used.
option 3: Write about a love affair that would not be accepted if discovered. for example, family members, teacher-student, an older man and a boy, online relationship, lesbian, gay, transgenders. I would especially like teacher-student ones, those are fairly interesting. you can add erotica or not, it doesn't matter to me.
option 4: Write a poem about your greatest fear, and tell me what the fear is in your author's note. I would prefer fears more complex than spiders, or shots, or such.
option 5: Write a story with an unreliable narrator. For some reason, the character narrating must present the story in a different way than it actually is because of his/her own position or character, but this is not clear to the reader until the end of the story. Just ask me if you want some better examples for this, I will be happy to get you started.
option 6: Write a story where something is going on with characters in a room in which the TV is on, and the sound or images are added to the description and add to the story, yet the characters are totally oblivious to what is going on on the TV.
good luck, and if you have any other good options just ask me because I will probably be happy to let you use them.
Have a wonderful time, I would love to get some interesting pieces. Try to have good spelling, grammar, and punctuation. I will not remove your piece, but I will be too frustrated to focus on your piece, and you will probably not win!
You will have a better chance of winning if you do a new story, but i definitely accept prewrites! Also, brownie points for options 2, 5, and 6. But you can do the other options as well, it doesn't really matter!
Ok, have fun.
<3
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on June 24, 2007
- Rewards: Gold: 100, Silver: 50, Bronze: 25
- Final notes: Great job to everyone that entered.
I apologize to anyone that felt my comments were too harsh, I try my best to provide helpful criticism, and I'm sorry if people take it personally. Overall the submissions were great and very creative!
Contest Winners
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I look around and see no one by my side
And now it's just me and my solitude• Commented on by judge. [remove] - Error: Unable to find finalist item 91979, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
Gold trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
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Used to be full of such big hopes, / Thought i could climb the greatest mountain slopes, / Used to think i was capable of anything, / Thoug• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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My life is too lame to even care about. / Let alone someone to die with me / Or even watch. / I'd lay there crying as I slipped away / I woby Sinned Alchemist 200 words, 14 comments, on Jun 17 6:52 PM 2007. In , Contest, Greatest fear, Sad, Slight nejiness• Commented on by judge.
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A story of a man going insane from an odd point of veiw.
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• I want to sleep / But I can’t / I need to sleep / But I can’t / I have to sleep / But I can’t / I try to sleep / But I can’t / I go to sleep / But I can’t / I fall asleep / Soon I wake up / • Sby bedovich 200 words, 5 comments, on Jun 21 7:19 AM 2007• Commented on by judge.
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The fear / I lay thinking, trying to block out the fear / The silence so loud I can not hear / Slowly it rises, slithering as a snake / Coiling its way up from the pit of my stomach / I daby annianngirl 200 words, 1 comment, on Jun 21 2:06 PM 2007• Commented on by judge.
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Deep inside me / where my soul won't venture / my agony mates with my fear / the forsaken thoughts consume me / drenching me with my own teby DemApples 100 words, 1 comment, on Jun 22 9:59 PM 2007• Commented on by judge.
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Wow! I am SO entering this!! ^__^
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I forgot to say inthe guidelines, it would be nice if you specify the option in your author's note! that would be much appreciated! thanks
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i have a question, in option 4, it says to write a poem of your greatest fear, could i write a story instead?
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yes, I suppose that is fine.
to be honest, I am getting slightly sick of option 4, everyone is doing it and no one has come up with anything all that creative. Go ahead if you would like, but I will be pretty tough. If it's good, that's great and I'll give you props, but I would be a little more interested in your story if you did one of the options that less people have done.
either way, doesn't matter, just try your best
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Thank you for the silver.
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