Note: You can still judge week 1 until the end of Monday.
Last week's prompt brought some interesting entries, and to be honest I was fairly disappointed not at the quality, but the effort that had gone in to some of the entries. I will, of course, never tell someone to spend time they don't have but when you are given two weeks I would hope you could spare more than a little bit to write it out!
But nonetheless I take the blame, because I have been told my prompt sucked. Very well then! I accept this burden and to make it right I shall go on a long journey to atone for my sin! I will meet a very attractive young woman, a wise man who acts old but is barely ten years older than me, and somehow make several mortal enemies.
I SHALL HAVE AN ADVENTURE!
Adventure is a genre not strictly defined. Adventure stories don't actually have to be about an adventure itself, sometimes the ideas expressed within it are adventurous. An adventure can be something mundane made grand by the characters you write.
Most importantly, an adventure comes from the heart.
Stories can not be longer than 4,000 words. No, really, not a single word over.
Don't be held back and do not be confined by this prompt. Let your imagination soar into the wind and let it take you where it will.
Happy writing, all entries due April 29th.
Prompt in Bold: Adventure Genre.
Please send all stories to [email protected]. There is no way they will get lost.
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I bring order and chaos, I am life and death, creator and destroyer, just like the rest of humanity. My bunnyslug: http://img.imgcake.com/nio/catapngzu.png
Your prompt was fine, Chris. I really think most of us could do pretty well with it if we put our minds to it. As it stands, I didn't care for anything I read.
I apologize for submitting a joke entry. I do, however, again draw attention to one GenesisSaga for firmly, frankly and deftly addressing the most glaring problems with said joke entry. Good on her; she definitely knows her stuff. (Lisel did a marvelous job bringing imagery into the fold, so honorary mention there.)
I will only submit if I have time, Chris, as I will submit something that is not, in fact, a joke post. I have classes, work shifts, two plays (and their subsequent reports), a musical performance (and its subsequent report), a theatre presentation and the rest of a feature-length screenplay to attend to so I may not have a chance this time around. Oh, and a research essay, but pfft, too easy.
I'm so proud of myself. I said I'd start on this today and I really did. It's mostly just bullet notes, but I do have the beginning and end drafted out at least. It's bridging it together in under 4000 words I'm going to have to work on (shouldn't be too difficult). This is going to be awesome.
Well unlike last time, Pram I'm not going to be silly enough to name a character after myself so you won't know it's mine unless I say so. If you don't know it's me, you can't tell where the hype will fall! ^_^
Reading the topics for this contest is like watching Star Trek: The Next Generation after being in the original Star Trek. I feel so lost and bewildered. WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE. WHAT'D YOU DO WITH SEPHSBLADE AND BOKO AND TURN.
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The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs upon the slimy sea.
2 - Winner 3 - Sir Chris' Favorite of the Week 5 9 4 6 8 1 7
Claim your stories as you wish, I know most of you did informally but I will never force people to REVEAL THEIR IDENTITIES and I may have lost the e-mails in question *cough*
Basically for a top 3 finish you get points. Winner gets 3 points second two points third one point.
Simple enough
If you are my favorite for a week you get 1 extra point regardless of where you finish. Call it host bias!
Anyway keep in mind this doesn't mean too much so don't worry about it. Just continue to improve and have fun =)
Hmm. Can we submit multiple entries? I doubt I'll actually be un-lazy enough to write more than one, but a man should have hopes and dreams.
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...the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time...
From: Blind Azathoth | #021 Hmm. Can we submit multiple entries? I doubt I'll actually be un-lazy enough to write more than one, but a man should have hopes and dreams.
I had a bunch of ideas, and spent a lot of time thinking about how to mix a few of them into a story, and then a lot of time trying to make any one of them into a story, and then I just started writing something completely different that includes none of them. Hooray.
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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they go by." - Douglas Adams
Damn. Almost halfway through the word quota and it's not ADVENTURE TIME yet. Too much buildup I guess. Oh well, finish it first and squeeze it to fit later. At least I decided on a tolerable opening.
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Aww, I lost to SuperNiceDog, Winner of the Rivalry Rumble Guru Contest
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I bring order and chaos, I am life and death, creator and destroyer, just like the rest of humanity. My bunnyslug: http://img.imgcake.com/nio/catapngzu.png
^You could always submit the over 4000 words essay as a Leisure Entry since it would be dq'd from the actual competition. Honestly I'm probably not going to read it though. Doesn't sound like my cup of tea.
... oh, yeah, that's right. Jeff wanted to put in a joke entry, but the others were so godawful his doesn't stand out. Welp, at least the story doesn't go to waste.
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Aww, I lost to SuperNiceDog, Winner of the Rivalry Rumble Guru Contest
... is what I would say, if this thing was within the word limit. I thought it was going to be shorter than this. Man I'm a windbag. At least it wasn't as long as the Space Opera one.
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Aww, I lost to SuperNiceDog, Winner of the Rivalry Rumble Guru Contest