Theme - "Night"
Word Limit: 1900
Submission Deadline: Wednesday 3/11 by 11:59 PM Pacific.
Voting begins Thursday, 3/12 (Cyan's birthday!), and goes until Saturday, 3/14 at 11:59 PM Pacific.
Optional Secondary Objective: Frame Story
Wikipedia says, "A frame story is a narrative technique whereby an introductory main story is composed, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage for a fictive narrative or organizing a set of shorter stories, each of which is a story within a story. The frame story leads readers from the first story into the smaller one within it." Basically, someone within your story is telling a story, or describing a dream they had, or reading a letter aloud, or relaying something somebody else told them.
What's the point? Well, you can do some fun things with the narrative. You could have an unreliable narrator (he's crazy, or a liar, or biased, or just has third-hand information), you can play around with narrator asides to the reader without breaking the fourth wall, you can break things up and change the pacing of the story, you can anticipate reader reactions and put them into the story (as in The Princess Bride). All sorts of fun stuff. Some famous examples of frame stories: 1001 Arabian Nights, Canterbury Tales, Alice in Wonderland. Or to use more recent examples from various media: World War Z, Slumdog Millionaire, Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time.
I've given a higher than usual word count to allow for the additional story space this takes up.
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.
NeoGAF Creative Writing Challenge FAQ
The Entries:
AlternativeUlster - "they fell in love with a dead boy"
Assemble! - "Night Jogging"
Ward - "Bodie Braun"
ZephyrFate - "A Choice, An Answer"
TimeDog - "Electric Burn Victim"
Great Rumbler - "Ebon Pinion"
RurouniZel - "The path to Knighthood"
BlueMagic - "Death at Night"
2DMention - "The Game Coach"
darkbanjo - "Not a rapist"
Gattsu25 - "Cradle"
Diuretic - "Olber's Story"
MorisUkunRasik - "Midnight Ride"
ronito - "Sleepless Man"
botolf - "Dreams Under The Stars"
crowphoenix - "Where?"
Darkpen - "Waking up to the Melancholy Twilight"
DumbNameD - "Sundays"
Cyan - "Army of the Night"
Word Limit: 1900
Submission Deadline: Wednesday 3/11 by 11:59 PM Pacific.
Voting begins Thursday, 3/12 (Cyan's birthday!), and goes until Saturday, 3/14 at 11:59 PM Pacific.
Optional Secondary Objective: Frame Story
Wikipedia says, "A frame story is a narrative technique whereby an introductory main story is composed, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage for a fictive narrative or organizing a set of shorter stories, each of which is a story within a story. The frame story leads readers from the first story into the smaller one within it." Basically, someone within your story is telling a story, or describing a dream they had, or reading a letter aloud, or relaying something somebody else told them.
What's the point? Well, you can do some fun things with the narrative. You could have an unreliable narrator (he's crazy, or a liar, or biased, or just has third-hand information), you can play around with narrator asides to the reader without breaking the fourth wall, you can break things up and change the pacing of the story, you can anticipate reader reactions and put them into the story (as in The Princess Bride). All sorts of fun stuff. Some famous examples of frame stories: 1001 Arabian Nights, Canterbury Tales, Alice in Wonderland. Or to use more recent examples from various media: World War Z, Slumdog Millionaire, Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time.
I've given a higher than usual word count to allow for the additional story space this takes up.
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.
NeoGAF Creative Writing Challenge FAQ
The Entries:
AlternativeUlster - "they fell in love with a dead boy"
Assemble! - "Night Jogging"
Ward - "Bodie Braun"
ZephyrFate - "A Choice, An Answer"
TimeDog - "Electric Burn Victim"
Great Rumbler - "Ebon Pinion"
RurouniZel - "The path to Knighthood"
BlueMagic - "Death at Night"
2DMention - "The Game Coach"
darkbanjo - "Not a rapist"
Gattsu25 - "Cradle"
Diuretic - "Olber's Story"
MorisUkunRasik - "Midnight Ride"
ronito - "Sleepless Man"
botolf - "Dreams Under The Stars"
crowphoenix - "Where?"
Darkpen - "Waking up to the Melancholy Twilight"
DumbNameD - "Sundays"
Cyan - "Army of the Night"