The Great Planeshift Story Challenge

[Caraick]

@Steuben: If it seems like most people need a bit of an extension on the due date, I'll gladly move back the submission deadline 

@Jilata: >_> Good luck!   

[novacadian]

The advantage of posting to this thread or, simply, one that the author creates is not really clear to me. Perhaps if there were categories of voting; like best character development, best story line, etc. it would make a more positive competition; giving positive feedback to a number of authors. To just vote first past the post on one story seems to be an overall negative approach to supporting game story writing, and their authors, in my opinion.

- Nova

[Caraick]

A couple very good ideas, Nova, let me clarify one point, though.  The authors PM their stories to me, and I'll post them in a separate forum topic, one by one.

With regards to the topics: I think that's an excellent idea, and I believe I'll use it, if you don't mind.  We'll still retain the overall favorite story category, but if we get enough submissions, I'll include categories like "Best Character Development", "Most Exciting Plotline", "Best Hero/Villain", etc.

Thank you for the ideas! 

[novacadian]

Thank you for the ideas! 

Your welcome. 

[Aramara Meibi]

well said Nova. I was already excited to partake because i find joy in writing and reading what others have written. I think the whole idea will push each author to explore new boundaries which will result in some good reads. Here's me cheering everybody on.

[Jilata]

hm... now I do have a question... I have written down my first idea, which is only 465 words long at the moment (there will be more after I reworked it), still I am not too sure if there would be that many more. Is that a problem? Like the text should be for example be between 9 thousand to 10 thousand words long?

[Caraick]

Write as little as you'd like, or as much as you'd like.  The word limit is just a rough guideline to help people who are going to be reading the stories to be able to do so without spending an entire evening in front of their monitors 

Quality, not quanitity! 

[Caraick]

(Shameless double post)

Little more than a week left for the submission deadline! So far, only one story has been received, but I'm looking forward to reading the others that come in! 

[Caraick]

Attention all!

There is Less than one week until the final submission deadline! If you're still planning on entering the contest, please submit your story soon, or at least let me know it's in progress!

[Aramara Meibi]

 


that is all.

[Caraick]

T-minus three days! 

[Aramara Meibi]

I would like to request that once all entries are submitted, and each is posted in its own individual thread, that those threads be locked until after the voting is done. This would prevent any opinionated statements being made about each work, avoiding the creation of bias in the reader. Once voting is complete, however, is the time for critiques to be made.

[Caraick]

I've planned to put a simple request to the forum moderators to this effect.  I would prefer to simply have all of the stories in a single thread, and space for comments located in a different thread.

Good point, I'm glad the idea has some support without me having to propose it 

[Caraick]

One day until the submission deadline!! If you haven't already, get your stories in, or let me know it's in progress!

[Caraick]

Thank you to everyone who's submitted their stories!! As of today, I'm only waiting on one more submission, then the deadline will have passed.  Expect the stories to be posted in the next two to three days, then the two week voting period will commence!

Good luck, everyone!