Women of Power:
Starship Captains
Doctors
Queens
Politicians
Military officials
Mothers
Daughters
Sisters
Amazons
Basically any female you can think of.
Write a real girl power story.
Or write babes-with-guns story.
Here are some take-a-risk options.
If you know these subjects and can pull them off intelligently you will automatically be in the finalist list.
The Challenge: Write something set in ancient Egypt
The risk: it would be a really bad idea to not get your facts straight. Or quote Zahii Hwas in any way
The benefit: I love stories about the Egyptian queens and goddesses. They'll score well
The Challenge: Write about a female computer programmer.
The risk: ::EDIT:: Here I am refering to low-level languges (ie: Assembler) rather than simpler things like Visual Basic.
Most women are incabable of larning the skills required to program: our brains just aren’t wired for it.
Come up with some explanation as to why she can. Is she excpetionally gifted? dyslexic?...Increadibly stubborn? or maybe alien? Also keep computer-related information as accuarate as possible. If learn something new from this bonus.
The Benefit: I think it would be a cool story.
The Challenge: Write a Horse-story
The risk: I don't want a clone of one of those sappy, crap horse movies. And I want accuracy on the relevant details pertaining to modern horse-sport (bonus if you write about my discipline) or historically accurate Calvary tales. Or sheer fantasy (think Mercedes lackey)
The Benefit: Serious awesomeness
The Challenge: Set the story (or part of it) in space
The risk: if it's too cliché or too inaccurate I probably won't like it.
The Benefit: I love science fiction, especially when it's well orchestrated.
THE EPIC CHALLANGE!!!: incorporate two or more of the above challenges.
If you decide to play it safe and not take one of the challenges you still stand a good chance of placing or wining. Just make it female empowering!
The Rule!
If you'd get DQ'd for it in nine out of ten SW contests don't do it!
With that said Erotica and other 'Adult' content are permitted. Homosexual content is permitted.
By the way^^ the picture is drawn by a friend of mine on DeviantArt if you're on DA check him out^^ http://mruottin.deviantart.com/
Starship Captains
Doctors
Queens
Politicians
Military officials
Mothers
Daughters
Sisters
Amazons
Basically any female you can think of.
Write a real girl power story.
Or write babes-with-guns story.
Here are some take-a-risk options.
If you know these subjects and can pull them off intelligently you will automatically be in the finalist list.
The Challenge: Write something set in ancient Egypt
The risk: it would be a really bad idea to not get your facts straight. Or quote Zahii Hwas in any way
The benefit: I love stories about the Egyptian queens and goddesses. They'll score well
The Challenge: Write about a female computer programmer.
The risk: ::EDIT:: Here I am refering to low-level languges (ie: Assembler) rather than simpler things like Visual Basic.
Most women are incabable of larning the skills required to program: our brains just aren’t wired for it.
Come up with some explanation as to why she can. Is she excpetionally gifted? dyslexic?...Increadibly stubborn? or maybe alien? Also keep computer-related information as accuarate as possible. If learn something new from this bonus.
The Benefit: I think it would be a cool story.
The Challenge: Write a Horse-story
The risk: I don't want a clone of one of those sappy, crap horse movies. And I want accuracy on the relevant details pertaining to modern horse-sport (bonus if you write about my discipline) or historically accurate Calvary tales. Or sheer fantasy (think Mercedes lackey)
The Benefit: Serious awesomeness
The Challenge: Set the story (or part of it) in space
The risk: if it's too cliché or too inaccurate I probably won't like it.
The Benefit: I love science fiction, especially when it's well orchestrated.
THE EPIC CHALLANGE!!!: incorporate two or more of the above challenges.
If you decide to play it safe and not take one of the challenges you still stand a good chance of placing or wining. Just make it female empowering!
The Rule!
If you'd get DQ'd for it in nine out of ten SW contests don't do it!
With that said Erotica and other 'Adult' content are permitted. Homosexual content is permitted.
By the way^^ the picture is drawn by a friend of mine on DeviantArt if you're on DA check him out^^ http://mruottin.deviantart.com/
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on August 27
- Rewards: Gold: 100, Silver: 50, Bronze: 50, Honorable mention: 4 people
- Final notes: Final placings
13 Invasion of Stagna 3
12 A rare breed
11 Of Anger and Acusations
10 The love that Trancended Time
09 One Word
08 The Elements
07 Cold Scarlet
06 World Without Men
05 Pantagna
04 Silent Vigilante
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03 The Real Story of Rapunzel
02 Inside and out
01 TyuHaira
Contest Winners
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by Tiger-Lily 1400 words, 23 comments, on May 17 1:01 AM. In Dark, Depression, Fantasy, Fiction, First person, Horror, Young adult
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Gold trophy winner
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For the horse option, have you been disciplined in the English style or the western style? (I'm going to guess English since Enblish is a much stricted, much more disciplined style of riding)
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"most women are incapable of learning the skills required to program: our brains just aren’t wired for it."
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would you say I was being mean if I said that most men can't multi-task?
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if you said they were incapable of it yes.
if it's true that most women can't program, it's equally true that most men can't either. Programmers are a tiny segmant of the population.
But programming is for the most part a learnt skill, something almost anybody possessed of a certain amount of logic and basic math can accomplish if they choose to put their minds to it. don't get me wrong, i'm not saying that everybody can learn to program. Studies have shown that it takes a certain kind of perspective to program...you can distinguish those in a programming class tha will be good at the material within the first week of lessons usually, before anyone has even learned anything particularly complicated. But it's not a twist of mind that has anything to do with the way our brains are gendered.
But the real reason something like that is mean is because what it really says to any girl who knows a thing about programming is "You don't belong here."
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I see your point.
For me, the first time I was told that because I was female I'd never be able to understand the complicated, machine-levle code it made me really angy.
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so why spread the propaganda?
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the word propeganda implies that there is no truth to it.
There really are no women on the POWER BASIC forums, their were also no women in the pioneering age of compters.
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"the word propeganda implies that there is no truth to it."
Actually, that's not what the word means at all but we'll put that aside. I honestly do believe there's no truth to the claim.
It sounds like your information has come mostly from that programming teacher you mentioned to someone else. I've done research into the matter before however and have been able to find no proof that women do any worse at programing than men.
As for your observation about those forums you spoke of, did it occur to you that women aren't visibly there because they don't feel welcome in an atmosphere that viws them as automatically inferior because of their gender. Further more, would it surprise you if you found out that many of those assumed male people on the forum actually are women? It's not unheard of to sign up to computer forums under a male or sexually ambiguous name (I've done it a time or two myself).
anyway, I suggest you do your own research and not accept what your programming teacher says as gospel. It'll make you a much better programmer. -
I was refering to the connotstive implacations of the word rather than it's denotative meaning.
I suppose thay is one possibillity. Although that particular forum individuals sign in using their first and last names rather than fluffy sign in names like we do here. (even mine is just my nomme de plume)
that's something to think about. Seeing as it's just a hobby for me I've never really seen much reason to look beyond that particular individual's knowlage. He is among the best in his feild: the CEO and founder of a huge nationally incorperated company... So I know that he must know what he's talking about.
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women are incapable of learning the skills required to program
Huh?
I'll have you know I have just that skill, am not dyslexic nor an alien. I also know plenty of women who are far better at it then most men I know. Well, except for one we do think is an alien. 
Ok, now that I've had my say. I do have a "woman of power" story but it doesn't really fall into any of your categories. Should I still submit it? -
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A. I said most not all.
the categories were challanges. You can submit any female-centric story yo like^^
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I'm with the other two, that whole "brains aren't wired for programming" thing was probably the most sexist statement I've seen posted by a woman on this entire website...
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Any more sexist than saying that MOST men can't multi-task?
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"most women are incapable of learning the skills required to program: our brains just aren’t wired for it."
I'll have you know, that as a woman, my chosen career field is Information Technology. I can write code using BASIC, Visual BASIC, Cobol, C++ and html.
Last I checked, I was born here on Earth and there's nothing wrong with my brain...
Broad, 'sweeping' statements like this are tantamount to calling a blonde person dumb - just because of the stereotype. *NOTE* I am also blonde...
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Most not all. Dyslexia isn't something wrong with your brain. I've been coded "gifted" all of my life and only discoverd I was dyslexic five years ago. On average the structure of the female brain simply can't handle the complicated problem-solving required. I must add however that was my very MALE programming teacher who gave me this apparant misinformation.
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hmm.., i may join this. But.. i may need a bit of time
, so ill reserve a spot.
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Hmm.
For the Sci-fi, does the woman have to be the leading character and is there a word maximum? Are you interested in a woman who is a killer? I also have a woman superhero. I have an modern Egyptian evil magic practitioner who imagines herself to be a god.
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all of your ideas sound interesting^^
not necciacily a leading charactor but a centeral charactor. Protaganist or Antaganist it matters little.
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what about a crazy female murderer who triumphs over her ex-husband?
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that would be cool
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My mom happens to be a fantastic computer programmer. Last time she was fired, she was offered a new job a week later that was even better than the last.
Truely I dont believe womens minds aren't wired for programming. Its an aquired skill, some people are just better at it than most.
Personally, I find nothing fantastic about a story featuring a woman programmer. Also, why would she need some reason to be better at it than her male coworkers? I love my moms sense of "pretend you know what you're doing when you really don't" though. She's awesome. Also, you hear the following quite often around her office:
"Polina, HOW did you manage to do that!? I've never seen an error like that..."
"Polina, how'd you manage to break a computer without touching it...?"
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she be very brilliant and dedicated. Hey, I had a rather facinating lesson in POWER BASIC last night.
I'm not saying it's impossible. Just highly improbable. Thats why I wanted to read a story about it.
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Is there a word limit?
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nope
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For horses, can it be history, like say amazons, where it gets queens and horses together. Is that ok? And can it be an exerpt of a story if it fits?
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sure
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I have a story for this, but it won't be done in time. is there any possibility of extending the contest?
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i think that can be done,
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