First contest.

Okay,
I will give you a few options on what kind of story/poem to write, you pick, tell me the category in your author notes, and I'll decide how well you did with your chosen category.

Here’s a hint, I love poems. Long, deep emotional poems. And if you can make a poem feel deep and emotional while mixing it with your category, you'll get a better chance with gold.

I also love stories, yes. Do me a favour and don’t make your stories too long. I am very picky with things and if it doesn’t grab my attention right at the beginning, I wont read it if it’s too long.
So, either make your story REALLY good and long,
Or make it good and short.
I will read your story no matter what… but I might fall asleep half way through if I don’t get entertained and it’s far too long

Any way, now for the options.
Write me a story or poem that is/about…

Option 1.
Dark and deep. Make me feel like I am engulfed in darkness, really make your words sink into my mind and make me think. Dark and deep.

Option 2.
Painful and sympathetic. Make me feel pain for the writer/character. Make me feel sympathy for them and want to help them, make me feel the pain that they're feeling.

Option 3.
A really tragic love. Write me a story/poem about the greatest love in the world, and then just crush it some how. Maybe he/she dies? Leaves? Maybe it is impossible to be together? I don’t know. Just make it tragic love.

Option 4.
Just plain love. Make me want to feel true love. Describe to me in the best words you can think of on how great and wonderful it is to feel loved, or to love. Make me say ' aw ' or make me smile. (Which is extremely hard to do)

Option 5.
VERY sad tragic story/poem. Make me cry, make me want to scream and yell " why did that happen?!" or "omg! That’s so sad!" Bring tears to my eyes. Drench my heart in sadness. Make me cry. (Once again, hard to do)

Now as for the rules...

No TyPiNg LiKe DiS. I hate that. I don’t understand why people enjoy that.

NO CAPITALS. IT MAKES IT SEEM LIKE YOUR YELLING AND DISTRACTS ME FROM THE STORY/POEM

Nothing over 3000 words please and nothing under 200. I don’t like very long stuff, and I don’t like short very short either.

Please PLEASE try to keep your grammar decent. I know that it’s hard, and annoying. But it is very distracting when I read a story and find things spelt COMPLETELY wrong and I have to try to see it as the write spelling. Same with your punctuation. And I have bad grammar too, so I know how difficult it is. You wont be DQ'd if your grammar is bad, but it might lower your chances of winning.

Please separate your story/poem into decent paragraphs. It's hard to read otherwise.

Absolutely no mean comments on others stories/poems! You are DQ'd if you do that! For sure!

No more then 1 entry.

And write in your author notes, or some other way to let me know you read this… just tell me you read the rules.
Thanks.


And for the final rule....



HAVE FUN AND BE CREATIVE!




Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on February 18, 2008
  • Rewards: Gold: 600, Silver: 100, Bronze: 100
  • Final notes:
    I was satisfied with all the entries! Every single one was great, and I had such a hard time judging! Congradulations to the winners of this contest, and thanks for entering to the ones who didnt win. Yours were brilliant too! I cant wait to make another contest, and get more great stories and poems as I did in this one.
    Thank you all for giving me the pleasure of reading all these wonderful stories/poems!

    ~Roby~

Contest Winners

  1. Dream With Me
    Lying on his side, curling into a ball in the white padded room. His tousled jet-black hair contrasting against his pale skin and the vacan
    by boxOFjuice 2000 words, 30 comments, on Jul 16 11:19 AM 2007. In Love
    Gold trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  2. My Lonley Heart
    by Just Breathe. 200 words, 8 comments, on Feb 8 11:50 PM 2008. In , Dark, Depression, Poem, Sad
    Silver trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  3. Hurt
    I hate you so much that it hurts.1 / But I forgive because I love you.2 / Sometimes I wish I never met you.3 / Then this hurt could hav
    by On.Cue 400 words, 9 comments, on Nov 5 11:23 PM 2007. In Letter, Love, Pain, Personal, Poem, Poetry
    Bronze trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  4. Error: Unable to find finalist item 127659, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
  5. Error: Unable to find finalist item 138808, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
  6. Will I Live? [[Hmm...deciding on title]]
    by Taylor Renee 100 words, 8 comments, on Nov 13 8:42 PM 2007. In Other, Poem, Taylor, Young adult
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]

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  • Kat222
    February 14, 2008
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    hi

    i forgot to put in my author's note that i'm going for a tragic and sad story


  • xBitterxSweetx
    February 15, 2008
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    hello

    I have a story that is completely heart wrenching but it has a small sex scene. Is that ok?


  • Xtclozer-
    February 15, 2008
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    Well, my age is 13 and I am pretty sure that I wont be allowed to read any sex scene.. you could try, but if I dont read or comment, it's because I couldn't read it.
    Go ahead and try,
    But dont be dissapointed if I didnt read and comment it, that would be because I litteraly cant read it, no matter how much I'd want to

    Go for it

  • Etched
    February 17, 2008
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    ooopppsss i didn't know my story was over 3,000 words i thought it was shorter. . . is there any way i can remove it. . . though i did read the rules. I'm really sorry about this. If there is no way i can remove it you can just DQ me. . . I understand. Sorry again!


  • Xtclozer-
    February 18, 2008
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    Okay. I'm ending the contest today. I forgot I wont be ableto judge it tomorrow, ski trip. So yea

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