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Edit (1/18/14): Okay, that's all for now! This contest is officially closed. No more entries will be accepted now. I'll now sift through the entries and I'll have the winners posted as soon as possible. Thank you to everyone who participated!
Edit (1/17/14): LAST CHANCE TO SUBMIT YOUR ENTRIES! I REPEAT, LAST CHANCE TO SUBMIT YOUR ENTRIES! I WILL NOT BE ACCEPTING ANYTHING AFTER TODAY!
Edit (1/11/14): Let's get your entries in, everybody! Sorry for spamming, by the way~
Hey, everybody!
Well, here's the contest I promised you. The idea for this came last night, while my family reminisced about a doll I used to have when I was small. It was a nice expensive gift from a distant aunt of mine. I mean, the thing was really pretty to start with: I can remember it having a fancy pink dress and a glass face and little brown curls. You know, the kind you'd expect rich old ladies to have, I suppose. Everything was fine until I dropped the thing and its face shattered. Then my mom tried to fix it with a hot glue gun, and the results were horrifying. Looking back, I was never afraid of it as a kid, but my older siblings hated it.
It really made me think about how we view things when we're children, and was the inspiration for this contest. Now, enough boring background; let's get into the big idea.
Objective Write a piece from a child's perspective describing something terrifying.
Rules
Deadline: January 18th, 2014
I'm accepting all forms of literature for this: poetry, short stories, vignettes, monologues, etc. As long as it's literature, it's good to go.
Poetry should not exceed 75 lines; all other forms should not exceed 2,500 words.
Content will be judged on creativity, execution, and how far you can run with this prompt.
Please include a link to this journal in the Author's Comments of your entry.
Post a comment with a link to your piece on this journal when you finish writing it.
I think that's all! Now on to the part you've all been waiting for...
Prizes
First Place:
100
50 , a llama, and a journal feature from GuinevereToGwen
40 , a llama, a poetry request, and 2 critiques from crystallized-skies
30 , 2 llamas, 7 faves, and 5 constructive comments from VivaFariy
1 , a llama, and 10 faves from The-Jelly-Princess
3 critiques from saltwaterlungs
A feature on my page
A llama badge
Second Place:
50
50 , a llama, and a journal feature from GuinevereToGwen
20 , a llama, 5 faves, and 4 constructive comments from VivaFariy
a critique from saltwaterlungs
a llama and 5 faves from The-Jelly-Princess
Third Place:
50 , a llama, and a journal feature from GuinevereToGwen
25
10 , a llama, 3 faves, and 3 constructive comments from VivaFariy
a critique from saltwaterlungs
a llama and 3 faves from The-Jelly-Princess
I know a lot of you wanted to donate prizes, but I thought I would check and make sure of amounts/limits/etc. before making it final on the journal. If you'd like to donate to the prize pool, let me know in the comments!
I'm sure I've probably forgotten something, but for now, I'm going to post this and hope for the best. I hope you consider joining in. Best of luck to all of you!
Kat
UPDATE (12/31/13): We've got more prizes posted! The stakes are rising, guys!
(1/4/14): We're now two weeks from the deadline. Keep writing!
reach out and tag someone
emsoileau (https://www.deviantart.com/emsoileau) got me again, and seeing as I couldn't manage to do it the first time, here's my thirteen facts, question-answering thingamaboo.
Thirteen Facts:
1.) I LOVE reading about unsolved crimes, unexplained disappearances, mysteries, and ghosts. I'm always intrigued by a good mystery and these are my favorites which sometimes makes me think I'm a little twisted. It's not that I like the fact that people went missing, I'm just curious about how it happened and why, especially when there are cases with inexplicable details that nobody can understand. And then after I read all of these scary/disturbing stories, I get too scared to sleep
I fucking love ghost stories
I'm addicted, I love reading them. Have any good ones? I'd really love to see them. Especially if they're personal ones about odd little goings-on, those are my favoritessss and I've pretty much read all of the internet's ghost stories but I NEED MORE
School starts on Monday and I have to write two five-page essays on books I didn't read within the next less-than-48 hours so wish me luck? Summer work is lame as it is but it's especially lame when you work 12 hour shifts and come home wanting to just sleep so you can get up and work the next morning yknow? My motivation for reading those suckers was zero and now I'm FUCKED C:
Also I really w
zero motivation
sorry :(
I think something's changing about me. When I was a kid, I could write stories for hours and hours and never get bored. Lately I feel like I have no attention span. All I can write are poems and most of those I don't even finish. My whole life I wanted to be an author and now I think that's changing.
I'm about to be a senior in high school and everything just feels weird. I was dating this boy for the past two years and I was idiot-poet in love with him and he dumped me like I meant nothing and it hurt for a long time but it's gotten to the point where I'm okay with it because I can look back and realize that he wasn't a good perso
2015 Wrap-Up Challenge!
Hello, world!
As we all know, 2015 is winding to its inevitable close, and the looming glow of 2016 is preparing to welcome us into the new opportunities of a fresh year!
I decided to write a little wrap-up to tie 2015 with a neat bow, but then it occurred to me that I could easily make a game out of this, so that's what I intend to do.
The challenge is simple!
:star: Write a journal summarizing your 2015!
:star: Include your favorite work from this year that you have written, and also your favorite work that you have found, from another artist. You can show more than one if you'd like. You could even make a feature if you so choose.
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