This is my third contest on story write, and I am proud to say my biggest. I've been hearing that everyone has been having writers' block lately, so I thought I would throw in OPTIONS (not your usual ones) for everyone to chose from. This contest is NOT just about writers block, ANYONE CAN ENTER. There is almost every type of genre I could stand to read listed below. If you do not see yours below then that is because I could not tolerate it. Your job as a writer is to entertain me, keep me interested. YES I WILL BE ADDING POINTS AS MORE ENTRIES ARE ADDED.
"Every subject except sex is boring, until the writer makes it interesting."-- I forgot who said that.
With that said, you may chose one option below to write about. If you would like me to add something to the list then please do not hesitate to add it in the comments below. I WILL comment on every story that is entered into my contest.
OPTION NUMBER ONE: ETHICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL TOPICS..
This option is for those of us who like to contemplate things. Since THIS option will consist of more philosophical and ethical subjects, I can't restrict anyone here. If you find one of my topics interesting, then you have free reign to expand upon it, agree, or disagree. You must provide a reason WHY you agree, disagree, or are expanding upon the topic. It must be lengthy and thorough. THERE IS NO LENGTH BOUNDARIES (please do not make me regret saying that). So basically if you have a thought, go with it, and let it finish on its own.
Choose one only!
1). Martin Luther King Jr. is a first rate world class intellectual and philosopher. He is the equal to James Madison (wrote the U.S. Constitution), and Thomas Jefferson (Declaration of Independence). M.L.K's interpretation of American history, democracy, and philosophy is just as good as anyone's. He was a major philosophical player.
2). Nothing is more important than the recognition of the person hood of humans. When you loose the person hood (race, class, personality) of a human being, it is an act of violence to not recognize the humanity (the worth) of another human being. (with this you could bring in examples of Hitler and the Nazi camps, Slavery in the early 1900's, or another example where people were treated and categorized as a farming animal.
3). Codes: (the definition in terms of ethics) is a set of written, or unwritten rules that determine ones course of action or thoughts. Could an individuals' "codes" have an effect upon the rising divorce cases in America, or the failures of relationships, or their ways of thought? And if so, and someone grows up in a family with bad "codes," is it their fault if they grow up with a bad code as well?
4) When we have a "paradigm shift" (the moment we come into deeper knowledge of the world and our place in the world) and our life changes for either the better or worse, is the price of knowledge worth it? The answer is, if you are strong enough. What does it mean?
NOW FOR ALL OF YOU PEOPLE WHO LIKE FANTASY HERE ARE A FEW TOPICS FOR YOU
OPTION NUMBER TWO: FANTASY, SUPERNATURAL, MYSTICAL
IMPORTANT FOR THESE TOPICS: If you chose the fantasy, supernatural, and mystical topic then you must make any of these below as your MAIN character. This away, everyone will not try and enter a piece that has a very vague mention of something fantasy and think they get away with it. Yea, you know who you are! XD
For this topic the LENGTH MUST BE a minimum of 500 words and a maximum of 3,500.
Yes, I am being very generous with the length. (you may thank me later) ANY TYPE OF GENRE IS ALLOWED FOR THIS ONE. Just as long as the main character is one of the below.
*****Main Character Usage: *****
Your main character(s) needs to be one of the following:
GODS AND GODDESS
* Amphitrite: (Greek Goddess) of the sea
* Antheia: (Greek Goddess) of flowers
* Bia: (Greek Goddess) of violence
* Hypnos: (Greed GOD) of sleep
* Mania: (Greek Goddess) of insanity
* Momus: (Greek GOD) of satire and criticism
* Selne: (Greek Goddess) of the moon
* Thanatos: (Greek GOD/DEMON) Of death and mortality
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SUPERNATURAL CREATURES
* Angel
* Birds of Paradise - "looks like a peacock"
* Centaur - "half human and half horse beings"
* Chaos Spirit
* Demigods - "half human and half god beings"
* Demons
* Dragons
* Dwarf
* Fairies
* Giants
* Gorgon - "like Medusa with snakes as hair"
* Incubus
* Mermaid
* Nymphs - "any entities in human female form" (this can also break down into a sub category ~ wood nymph, water nymph, air nymph, fire nymph)
* Sirens - "beautiful women who seduce people to their deaths"
* Sea Serpent
* Skin walkers -"are women and men dressed in wolves skins"
* Succubus
* Vampire
* Werewolf (this can be any of the sub categories. ~ were-tiger, were-bear, were-fox, were-panther)
* Witch
* Wizard/ Sorcerer
* Zombie (and that is only listed, because I am curious as to what you guys/girls will come up with! XD)
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO LIKE TO BE INSPIRED BEFORE YOU WRITE:
OPTION NUMBER THREE: CREATIVE OPTION:
For this option you will just pick one of the topics below. The minimum is 1,000 words and the maximum is 2,500. For this you MUST stick to the topics.
1). MUSIC: Pick a song and create a story from it. You must include a link to the song OR the songs name in your author notes so that I know which song to compare your story to. I will be very critical on this topic because I don't particularly favor this way of writing, but my opinion will NOT effect anyone who chooses this option.
2). PICTURE: Pick some kind of picture or painting and write a story based off of that. It can be anything, as long as you include a link of the picture so that I may be able to see where you got your inspiration from. Again, I will be very critical here as well.
LAST AND MOST CERTAINLY NOT LEAST!!!!!
OPTION NUMBER FOUR: CRIME, HORROR, EROTICA
For this option your stories need to be a minimum of 1,000 words and a MAX of 2,500
(I may waver on this, but if your story exceeds my limits then please let me know before you submit it).
1). CRIME: For this option you need to give me your best crime story. I demand it of you! Anything goes in this topic just as long as the plot is based on crime and stays that way. Put a twist somewhere in the story that I will not expect.
2). HORROR: For this option you can be as gory as you like or as descriptive as you like. Take it upon yourself to challenge your abilities. If you make me cringe then your on the right track. I do not care how sick, weird, twisted, or crazed your story gets. Rape is allowed as long as the character getting raped is not a child, all types of murder is allowed; EXCEPT SUICIDE. I've read enough of those to last me a life time already. Lunatics and serial killers wanted, rapists and pyros too!
3). EROTICA/ROMANCE: When I say erotica I mean, sex, love making. I do not mean "dirty erotica". You can write a lovely sex scene, or arousing sex scene and not make it crude. This anything goes here as well. Whatever you put in the story I will read. I do not care if there are lesbians, gays, bisexuals, or man and woman. Also S&M is allowed as well. I'm expanding my areas of reading so I will allow that too. Also any romance storys are welcomed!!!!
PREWRITES ARE ALLOWED!
******* RULES! RULES! RULES! RULES!!!!!*******
A. no bashing other writers
B. Cussing is allowed but don't over do it...you all know what I mean. (if there is more cuss words in your story than actual story you may have a problem)
C. NO SCRIPT FORM
D. ONLY ONLY ONLY 4 entries per person allowed!!!!
E. IF YOU WRITE SOMETHING THAT IS NOT VIEWABLE BY ALL AGES THEN PLEASE LABEL YOUR STORY APPROPRIATELY.
F. put this in your Author Notes so that I will know that you have read my entire contest or just the rules since the listings were so long.
My user name, the option you choose and its title, and the topic.
EXAMPLE: Amanda Vampiress
Option One: Ethical and Philosophical
Topic one: Martin Luther King Jr.
Thank you if you have made it this far. lol If you have questions then post them below. and most importantly HAVE FUN!
"Every subject except sex is boring, until the writer makes it interesting."-- I forgot who said that.
With that said, you may chose one option below to write about. If you would like me to add something to the list then please do not hesitate to add it in the comments below. I WILL comment on every story that is entered into my contest.
OPTION NUMBER ONE: ETHICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL TOPICS..
This option is for those of us who like to contemplate things. Since THIS option will consist of more philosophical and ethical subjects, I can't restrict anyone here. If you find one of my topics interesting, then you have free reign to expand upon it, agree, or disagree. You must provide a reason WHY you agree, disagree, or are expanding upon the topic. It must be lengthy and thorough. THERE IS NO LENGTH BOUNDARIES (please do not make me regret saying that). So basically if you have a thought, go with it, and let it finish on its own.
Choose one only! 1). Martin Luther King Jr. is a first rate world class intellectual and philosopher. He is the equal to James Madison (wrote the U.S. Constitution), and Thomas Jefferson (Declaration of Independence). M.L.K's interpretation of American history, democracy, and philosophy is just as good as anyone's. He was a major philosophical player.
2). Nothing is more important than the recognition of the person hood of humans. When you loose the person hood (race, class, personality) of a human being, it is an act of violence to not recognize the humanity (the worth) of another human being. (with this you could bring in examples of Hitler and the Nazi camps, Slavery in the early 1900's, or another example where people were treated and categorized as a farming animal.
3). Codes: (the definition in terms of ethics) is a set of written, or unwritten rules that determine ones course of action or thoughts. Could an individuals' "codes" have an effect upon the rising divorce cases in America, or the failures of relationships, or their ways of thought? And if so, and someone grows up in a family with bad "codes," is it their fault if they grow up with a bad code as well?
4) When we have a "paradigm shift" (the moment we come into deeper knowledge of the world and our place in the world) and our life changes for either the better or worse, is the price of knowledge worth it? The answer is, if you are strong enough. What does it mean?
NOW FOR ALL OF YOU PEOPLE WHO LIKE FANTASY HERE ARE A FEW TOPICS FOR YOU
OPTION NUMBER TWO: FANTASY, SUPERNATURAL, MYSTICAL
IMPORTANT FOR THESE TOPICS: If you chose the fantasy, supernatural, and mystical topic then you must make any of these below as your MAIN character. This away, everyone will not try and enter a piece that has a very vague mention of something fantasy and think they get away with it. Yea, you know who you are! XD
For this topic the LENGTH MUST BE a minimum of 500 words and a maximum of 3,500.
Yes, I am being very generous with the length. (you may thank me later) ANY TYPE OF GENRE IS ALLOWED FOR THIS ONE. Just as long as the main character is one of the below.
*****Main Character Usage: *****
Your main character(s) needs to be one of the following:
GODS AND GODDESS
* Amphitrite: (Greek Goddess) of the sea
* Antheia: (Greek Goddess) of flowers
* Bia: (Greek Goddess) of violence
* Hypnos: (Greed GOD) of sleep
* Mania: (Greek Goddess) of insanity
* Momus: (Greek GOD) of satire and criticism
* Selne: (Greek Goddess) of the moon
* Thanatos: (Greek GOD/DEMON) Of death and mortality
OR
SUPERNATURAL CREATURES
* Angel
* Birds of Paradise - "looks like a peacock"
* Centaur - "half human and half horse beings"
* Chaos Spirit
* Demigods - "half human and half god beings"
* Demons
* Dragons
* Dwarf
* Fairies
* Giants
* Gorgon - "like Medusa with snakes as hair"
* Incubus
* Mermaid
* Nymphs - "any entities in human female form" (this can also break down into a sub category ~ wood nymph, water nymph, air nymph, fire nymph)
* Sirens - "beautiful women who seduce people to their deaths"
* Sea Serpent
* Skin walkers -"are women and men dressed in wolves skins"
* Succubus
* Vampire
* Werewolf (this can be any of the sub categories. ~ were-tiger, were-bear, were-fox, were-panther)
* Witch
* Wizard/ Sorcerer
* Zombie (and that is only listed, because I am curious as to what you guys/girls will come up with! XD)
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO LIKE TO BE INSPIRED BEFORE YOU WRITE:
OPTION NUMBER THREE: CREATIVE OPTION:
For this option you will just pick one of the topics below. The minimum is 1,000 words and the maximum is 2,500. For this you MUST stick to the topics.
1). MUSIC: Pick a song and create a story from it. You must include a link to the song OR the songs name in your author notes so that I know which song to compare your story to. I will be very critical on this topic because I don't particularly favor this way of writing, but my opinion will NOT effect anyone who chooses this option.
2). PICTURE: Pick some kind of picture or painting and write a story based off of that. It can be anything, as long as you include a link of the picture so that I may be able to see where you got your inspiration from. Again, I will be very critical here as well.
LAST AND MOST CERTAINLY NOT LEAST!!!!!
OPTION NUMBER FOUR: CRIME, HORROR, EROTICA
For this option your stories need to be a minimum of 1,000 words and a MAX of 2,500
(I may waver on this, but if your story exceeds my limits then please let me know before you submit it).
1). CRIME: For this option you need to give me your best crime story. I demand it of you! Anything goes in this topic just as long as the plot is based on crime and stays that way. Put a twist somewhere in the story that I will not expect.
2). HORROR: For this option you can be as gory as you like or as descriptive as you like. Take it upon yourself to challenge your abilities. If you make me cringe then your on the right track. I do not care how sick, weird, twisted, or crazed your story gets. Rape is allowed as long as the character getting raped is not a child, all types of murder is allowed; EXCEPT SUICIDE. I've read enough of those to last me a life time already. Lunatics and serial killers wanted, rapists and pyros too!
3). EROTICA/ROMANCE: When I say erotica I mean, sex, love making. I do not mean "dirty erotica". You can write a lovely sex scene, or arousing sex scene and not make it crude. This anything goes here as well. Whatever you put in the story I will read. I do not care if there are lesbians, gays, bisexuals, or man and woman. Also S&M is allowed as well. I'm expanding my areas of reading so I will allow that too. Also any romance storys are welcomed!!!!
PREWRITES ARE ALLOWED!
******* RULES! RULES! RULES! RULES!!!!!*******
A. no bashing other writers
B. Cussing is allowed but don't over do it...you all know what I mean. (if there is more cuss words in your story than actual story you may have a problem)
C. NO SCRIPT FORM
D. ONLY ONLY ONLY 4 entries per person allowed!!!!
E. IF YOU WRITE SOMETHING THAT IS NOT VIEWABLE BY ALL AGES THEN PLEASE LABEL YOUR STORY APPROPRIATELY.
F. put this in your Author Notes so that I will know that you have read my entire contest or just the rules since the listings were so long.
My user name, the option you choose and its title, and the topic.
EXAMPLE: Amanda Vampiress
Option One: Ethical and Philosophical
Topic one: Martin Luther King Jr.
Thank you if you have made it this far. lol If you have questions then post them below. and most importantly HAVE FUN!
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on March 14
- Rewards: Gold: 350, Silver: 275, Bronze: 200, Honorable mention: 5 people
- Final notes: Hello everyone! I would like to apologise for taking so long to judge the contest. I recently have been of pressure from school; mid-terms and all, and so school had to come first.
I did get around to reading EVERY entry; like I promised, as well as commenting on everyone's stories. This was my biggest contest so far, and I did enjoy every story that was submitted in my contest. I have seen more wonderfully written stories this time than in any of my other contests, so judging this contest was very hard. I could only choose 8 people to receive an award, though I would give you all one if I could.
I judged the stories depending on:
Grammar/spelling errors which goes along with form, whether or not the story went along with my given options, character usage, descriptions, plot structure, and whether everything worked together well.
I hope you all would take the time to check out the stories that I chose as the winners. All the stories were great and I thank you all for entering my contest.
I hope you consider entering other contests that I may construct in the future.
---Amanda Vampiress
Contest Winners
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As the fires burn, I dance. As the flames fly from wall to wall seeking out life, I twist and twirl. The smoke floods the barren room with• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
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by tallblondie 3100 words, 62 comments, on Apr 24 2:14 PM 2008. In Adult, Dark, Disturbing, Graphic, Horror, Murder, Torture, Violence
Bronze trophy winner
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Never again1 / Never again will we be broken / Our voices silenced by the pain / Never again our cries unspoken / Our tears washed away by• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
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Jack Clayborn drove slowly down the long winding dirt driveway, noting the dilapidated condition of the wood fence which lined both sides.• Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
Gold trophy winner
Honorable mention
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by Fibe Kill-DFW Punk- 1300 words, 21 comments, on Dec 10 12:30 PM 2008. In Dark, Horror, Not for young readers, Vampire• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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by itachi 900 words, 15 comments, on May 26 10:21 AM 2008. In Fiction, Love, Romance, Science fiction, Young adult• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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by YaoiQueen Killa 800 words, 7 comments, on Oct 18 7:49 AM 2008. In Adult, Boyxboy, Death, Demon, Gay, Homeless, Homoerotica, Poison, Yaoi• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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If there’s one thing and one thing only that you wanted to know about dragons, it would be – NEVER touch one of the suckers on the nose.
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by DoozerDan 100 words, 68 comments, on Oct 16 8:22 PM 2008. In Black humour, Dark, First person, Satire, Thought-provoking• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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A chemical plant explodes turning the populace to zombies. This is the story of one unfortunate zombie.by WritersEffigy 2100 words, 14 comments, on Aug 28 5:10 PM 2008. In Dark, Horror, Humor, Science fiction• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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by itachi 600 words, 6 comments, on May 26 3:25 PM 2008. In , Dark, Fanfiction, Fantasy, First person, Horror, Love, Romance, Young adult• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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The white coated men drug me into the room kicking and screaming. I fought with all my might to break free and escape but they had druggedby Fibe Kill-DFW Punk- 1000 words, 20 comments, on Dec 2 12:22 PM 2008. In Horror, Not for young readers, Phsycological• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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by VampireFriends 1000 words, 8 comments, on Dec 23 6:55 AM 2008. In Adult, Dark, Depression, Erotica, Fanfiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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by VampireFriends 1300 words, 20 comments, on Dec 23 7:32 AM 2008. In Abuse, Adult, Crime, Dark, Fanfiction, Fiction, First person, Gay, Hmm, Sex, Weird• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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The dragon kidnaps Alona and has a conversation with her.by tonialoise 800 words, 31 comments, on Jan 30 11:57 AM. In Dark, Depression, Dragon, Fantasy, Love• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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The year was 1920, two years after Luitenit Robert Jay Garfield returner from the great war. Four years of fighting in european trenches doby Fibe Kill-DFW Punk- 800 words, 14 comments, on Jan 13 6:45 PM. In Action, Dark, Phsycological, Strange, Thriller, War• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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by itachi 2700 words, 4 comments, on May 26 11:40 AM 2008. In Dark, Fantasy, Fiction, Love, Romance, Science fiction, Young adult• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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by intoothandclaw 3500 words, 14 comments, on Oct 11 1:29 PM 2008. In Adult, Dark, Death, Erotica, Horror, Love, Murder, Pain, Werewolves• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Without the RFID chips... life was almost useless....• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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In a world where human achievement has seemingly reached its apex, society still functions using a backward system in which greed is king a• Commented on by judge.
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MERCHANTS DOOM PART11 / This treatise is or, maybe my only worthwhile legacy. Oh! I have riches and moneys, properties and business interesby Tomereader 3900 words, 18 comments, on Jun 18 2:07 PM 2008. In Adventure, Dark, Fantasy, First person, Horror, Strange• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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In part 1 we learned of the merchant and how an evil fetish / idol came into his posetion, the tale of its aquisition.1 / MERCHANTS DOOM PAby Tomereader 2100 words, 6 comments, on Jun 18 2:16 PM 2008. In Adventure, Fantasy, First person, Horror, Strange• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Wow! So many choices... so little time to write! I could enter a pre-write but since this is for writer's block I think I might feel a little guilty entering something that's not new. Hope I'll be able to get something in this one for you.
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Lols I will be moving the date back further if you would like to take your time. lols I could only put it for so many days, but if you need more time then just let me know and I will move it back. And you may enter up to four times.
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ok, I just may 'cause you've already read a bunch of my stuff and some others just miss the limits.
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Lols and it isn't just for writers block, I will have to change the description some what. lol Its just for anyone really and at any time.
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I'm putting my thingy here -- I can't be stuffed to mess up my AN ..
Amanda Vampiress
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Hahas Okay, as long as I see it, that is fine. Thank you
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Aww man, the options are astounding, but all my stories miss by soooo close. >.< I have one for each setting pretty much, but they fail on each point. Oh well. Have fun.
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Hmm, message me if you want to enter any of them, and give me a brief description of each piece and I could make an exception. Or I could add a topic if you like that fits one of yours.
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I loved this contest until I saw 'prewrites allowed.'
That's no way to cure writers block. lol
You should make them write something new, not pimp out their 60+ commented story. I hope someone actually gets inspired to write something new. A strange concept, I know.
Good luck with the contest.
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Lol Thank you, I suppose I should have removed that line about writers block. This was really just a regular contest. I just like commenting on other peoples stories so the 'writers block' part got put in at 2 am when I wrote up the contest. XD
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srry amanda but can u plz ignore the qualifying version of demon within
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I'm sorry I'm a bit confused as to what you are asking...maybe thats because I just woke up lol So do you not want me to judge the story in the contest list?
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Not screwing with my author notes, so I will tell you here. I have three stories so far - and all fit Option 4 - Horror. All three are disturbing in some way, but one is fairly hardcore. The stories are: Strange Love, A Rare Breed and Sapphira.
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Okay, as long as I see it then that is fine. I will accept it since you've written it here.
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Bookmarked. I will be back.
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Awesome!
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I have a prewrite that fits both the erotica and the werewolf one. Which should I put it under -- or both?
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Which ever one that you think fits it the best, just put it under that. I'm not going to judge whether the story is mislabeled or not, it just gives me a general idea of what the story is going to consist of before I read it.
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Oh Jesus. I just glanced at the comments and realized I've entered the same story in one of your contests before. Argh! I wish my memory for usernames was better x.x Do you want me to leave it or replace it?
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Sorry I am replying to this just now, I was in the middle of a really good read. lol Yes, you may leave the story even if I have already commented on it. I will re-read it and comment again anyways.
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would you accept a pro-communism essay because i was truly thinking about doing one and its idea applies to that of the "ethical and philosophical" topics which you suggested
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Hmm, I've yet to read one of those on here. Sure, if you would like to add it I would love to read it.
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you need to start going through and judging these man, dont wanna make the staff have to go through and do it for ya
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No worries, I will soon enough. I am extending the deadline for another week or week in a half because of people wanting to enter that needed extra time, so I'm already on it. lol
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Oh gosh, I want to write about Thanatos *dances* I hope I finish it x.x *has too much projects*
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Hahas, if you need more time then just let me know and I will extend the deadline a bit.
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Apology
Sorry I have accidently entered 'Merchants Doom part 1 which is too long so please would you DQ it as I cannot work out how to pull it myself, (old codger & techno duffer). Please accept my grovelling apologies for any awkwardness caused. Thanks. T. -
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Apology accepted, but that will not be a problem. I will gladly read and comment on your story whenever it be that I find time to view it.
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