Theme - "Fool's Errand"
Word Limit: 2000
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, 3/10 by 11:59 PM Pacific.
Voting begins Thursday, 3/11, and goes until Saturday, 3/13 at 11:59 PM Pacific.
Optional Secondary Objective: Alternate Endings. This requires a bit of explanation:
-Come up with three different ways that you could end your story.
-Rather than the first three things that you think of, try to come up with a list of the three strongest, most effective possible endings.
-Choose the best of the three to use as your actual ending.
-Write a few sentences about the other two endings you came up with, in spoiler tags. You can put this in a separate post, or at the bottom of your story. Either way, it doesn't count against the word limit.
-For mega-bonus awesome points, actually write up the other two endings. Still doesn't count against the word limit.
Submission Guidelines:
- One entry per poster.
- All submissions must be written during the time of the challenge.
- Using the topic as the title of your piece is discouraged.
- Keep to the word count!
Voting Guidelines:
- Three votes per voter. Please denote in your voting your 1st (3 pts), 2nd (2 pts), and 3rd (1 pt) place votes.
- Please read all submissions before voting.
- YOU MUST VOTE in order to be eligible to win the challenge.
- When voting ends, the winner gets a collective pat on the back, and starts the new challenge.
Writing Challenge FAQ
The Entries:
kid ness - "Superman's Dilemma"
John Dunbar - "Fool's Gold" (Alternate endings)
ZephyrFate - "In Her Good Graces" (Alternate endings)
Aaron - "Leviathan Hunt"
Dresden - "Sweet Summer Sunset" (Alternate endings)
Irish - "Waste"
Ward - "Hey Brosef, Were retelling it for 1997"
Tim the Wiz - "The Call"
crowphoenix - "A Rare Luck"
bakemono - "Under Old Silenus' Dome"
Ashes1396 - ''A Tale Macabre: The disappearance of Baby Elizabeth McCook'' OR ''Suffer The Little One''
Cyan - "The Four Impossible Tasks of Aristophanes" (Alternate endings)
The Results:
1st Place: Cyan - "The Four Impossible Tasks of Aristophanes"
2nd Place: Ashes1396 - ''A Tale Macabre: The disappearance of Baby Elizabeth McCook'' OR ''Suffer The Little One''
3rd Place: crowphoenix - "A Rare Luck"
Word Limit: 2000
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, 3/10 by 11:59 PM Pacific.
Voting begins Thursday, 3/11, and goes until Saturday, 3/13 at 11:59 PM Pacific.
Optional Secondary Objective: Alternate Endings. This requires a bit of explanation:
-Come up with three different ways that you could end your story.
-Rather than the first three things that you think of, try to come up with a list of the three strongest, most effective possible endings.
-Choose the best of the three to use as your actual ending.
-Write a few sentences about the other two endings you came up with, in spoiler tags. You can put this in a separate post, or at the bottom of your story. Either way, it doesn't count against the word limit.
-For mega-bonus awesome points, actually write up the other two endings. Still doesn't count against the word limit.
Submission Guidelines:
- One entry per poster.
- All submissions must be written during the time of the challenge.
- Using the topic as the title of your piece is discouraged.
- Keep to the word count!
Voting Guidelines:
- Three votes per voter. Please denote in your voting your 1st (3 pts), 2nd (2 pts), and 3rd (1 pt) place votes.
- Please read all submissions before voting.
- YOU MUST VOTE in order to be eligible to win the challenge.
- When voting ends, the winner gets a collective pat on the back, and starts the new challenge.
Writing Challenge FAQ
The Entries:
kid ness - "Superman's Dilemma"
John Dunbar - "Fool's Gold" (Alternate endings)
ZephyrFate - "In Her Good Graces" (Alternate endings)
Aaron - "Leviathan Hunt"
Dresden - "Sweet Summer Sunset" (Alternate endings)
Irish - "Waste"
Ward - "Hey Brosef, Were retelling it for 1997"
Tim the Wiz - "The Call"
crowphoenix - "A Rare Luck"
bakemono - "Under Old Silenus' Dome"
Ashes1396 - ''A Tale Macabre: The disappearance of Baby Elizabeth McCook'' OR ''Suffer The Little One''
Cyan - "The Four Impossible Tasks of Aristophanes" (Alternate endings)
The Results:
1st Place: Cyan - "The Four Impossible Tasks of Aristophanes"
2nd Place: Ashes1396 - ''A Tale Macabre: The disappearance of Baby Elizabeth McCook'' OR ''Suffer The Little One''
3rd Place: crowphoenix - "A Rare Luck"