*I AM NOW ALLOWING VAMPIRE STORIES*
Okay, well, I already have one contest up here, which not many people seem willing to enter, here-
http://storywrite.com/contest/6574
Anyhoo, because of this, I thought I would go down my usual route of having a scary Halloween/Samhain contest-nothing like tradition! 
So, there are going to be three options, so read them carefully. And before we go any further-No, I will not allow anything that is not in these options, sorry. 
Option 1
Many of you will have read my novel-in-progress, 'Conner', maybe you haven't. Well, this option is for you to read through the chapters, here- http://storywrite.com/list/773-Conner--My-Novel- , and then write your version of the next chapter, Chapter Fourteen!
Some rules though-
1. You can use a few more characters in the next chapter, but they should be new ones, not characters from fanfiction or your own stories.
2. You can have vampires,but try not to make them TOO cliche 
If you have already been reading it, this shouldn't be a problem, or if you would like to read it, but if you don't feel like reading it all, never fear! Because there are some other options!
Option 2
You can use one of these songs as inspiration for a story-
Haunted-Disturbed
Going Under-Evanescence
Rose for the Dead-Nightwish
Heart Shaped Box-Nirvana
I'm Alive-Disturbed
Cold-Static X
Numb-Linkin Park
I don't like having too many, as then it gets messy.....you know what I mean? So you can use any of these songs as inspiration. You can just use the title if you like, but I would suggest listening to the song and then seeing what you feel like writing. 
Option 3
This is kind of copying a great idea from IrishYndina's contest a while ago, about ekphrastic writing-this is a work of art inspired from a work of art.
So I would like you to choose one of these pictures to work from, and then write a story from that. It doesn't have to be what's in the picture-in fact, I would love it if you could spread your imagination further than that! 
Here are the pictures! (and yes, there's a couple of vamps in there)
http://najuzaid.deviantart.com/art/The-Horror-18490718
http://bear65.deviantart.com/art/My-Horror-5355913
http://nanya.deviantart.com/art/Lurking-Horror-47616655
http://sallow.deviantart.com/art/Vampire-39895851
http://bryanbaugh.deviantart.com/art/Autumn-Vampire-33685531
http://tronnie.deviantart.com/art/Werewolves-59015795
Now, a few rules:
Boring I know, but here we go!
1. Watch your spelling and grammar-please! I don't mind the odd typo, we all do it, but please look over your story for anything major before you post it here-a messy story will NOT impress me
2. Nothing above 5000 words-and try to get at LEAST 700 words Anything slightly under or over that is fine, but not hugely over.
3. Use your senses. Describe every detail to me. What can you smell? How do things feel? What are the emotions? What can you see? Everything. I love imagery
One last word: I am allowing pre-writes, in case you already have something that will fit one of these options-DO NOT enter something that has nothing to do with any of them! I am ruthless, will IM you, and if you have no reason for it being there, it will get taken out >
Now go and have fun! Go on!
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on November 9, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 300, Silver: 200, Bronze: 100, Honorable mention: 4 people
- Final notes: Woot! Another contest over!
I'm sorry it took me a while to judge-fmaily stuff, as usual.... *rolls eyes* But I got round to it when I could, and I throughly enjoyed reading every entry.
I hope you all (even though there was only four of you! lol)enjoyed entering as much as I enjoyed readng your stories.
Keep writing, and well done to everyone, as eveyone won this time!
Mirry xx
Contest Winners
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Bill Kurtz escapes to the museum every Halloween to avoid the weirdos. Only this time the paintings seem to pull him in more than usual.by tonialoise 1200 words, 15 comments, on Oct 30 7:28 PM 2008. In Dark, Fantasy, Horror, Third person
Gold trophy winner
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by lavanya 2400 words, 17 comments, on Oct 3 8:56 AM 2008. In Contest entry, Dark, First person, Ghost, Murder
Silver trophy winner
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“You know, you shouldn’t think so hard” Erin said softlyby DarkOneShadow 800 words, 3 comments, on Oct 21 12:31 PM 2008. In Contest, Fantasy, Romance
Bronze trophy winner
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I know nanya's stuff! I like the Lurking Horror one. Have you seen the Nyarlathotep one? Even cooler.
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I have seen Nyarlathotep, but not the other one, I shall have to look It is cool, she is an amazing artsit!
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Waitwut? What "other one"? Nyarly *was* the other one...
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I got mixed up, I was distracted, sorry I meant I hadn't seen that one
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Just a little hint, you might want to remove option 1, about your story, as this is considered promoting, as you encourage reads. I've had a contest deleted because of this
so I thought I'd warn you before the Mods do.
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Thank s for the warning I'll ask the greeters about it though, as I think I've seen a lot of people with them who were okay. Thanks for the heads up anyhoo
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great song choose i like most of them so i might enter the contest.I LOVE Nightwish and one of my fave songs is Rose for the Dead (i also LOVE Nirvana ) ... i have written a story(but not posted it yet...) coming from a collection of Nightwish songs and Tarja's can i use that one or does it have to be revolving around that one song?
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I'm afraid it has to be from that one song-if you can make it fit to the song (please put it in your notes) that's fine, but not other wise.
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well thanks i will try to make it fit into the song.
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I look forward to reading it!
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I am revising it to fit in now. Ummm... what are the minimum of words or characters?
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It would ideally be between 700-5000 words, but I won't DQ you if you are out of these by a few hundred or so
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I was curious about a few aspects of your novel. I would like to know how you would view other types of mythical creatures appearing within the story, perhaps even a different kind of were beast? Also a little bit deeper bio on the main characters, especially Conner. I have an idea for another chapter but it would not do well to try to involve other such creatures and portraying Conner in a way that ill befitted the original author concept. Thank you in advance.
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No, it's absolutely fine. I've already got the next chapter written, I'd just love to see what other's people's ideas of what it would be were
You can any character, any creature, as long as they are purely made up for this story, and not from another story
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All right I was just about to finish an entry and I saw that you posted your version. And yours is much better than what I had. I was wondering about whether I could perhaps do a fifteen or at least feed off of some of the information in fourteen. I know it sounds lame but I think I could do a better job with the new info. Let me know what you think. Thanks.
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No, please still enter it I'm not judging any of these entries against my own, I genuinly would like to see what kind of turn people saw in my story for themselves-please still enter it, I would love to see it
Mirry
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I like it alot!
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too bad I haven't written the part of Feral Nights where the pack comes into it, would have been perfect for the contest with the pic you have up there.
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You can still enter whatever other part you would like-I would love some more entries, as I'm going to have to make the dates longer if no-one else enters
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