The green light has been given! After weeks of preparation, the Contest can be launched!
This has been brewing in many users' mind for awhile. Enter the Official Writing Contest!
General Rules
1)Submissions for the context must specify the word count implemented. 2)It must adhere to the period's theme as the main idea, or at least have some connection. 3)It must be submitted by the deadline. (The deadline will be according to AG time so that people will not be confused by the timeframe/exploit difference in time zones.) 4)A winner cannot win twice in a row, though he or she can submit an entry the next week. 5)Winners get a merit.
What not to include
1)No excessive inappropriate language, such as vulgarities, swearing. This includes slandering anyone in the AG community. 2)No slandering of race, religion, culture, language of people. 3)No sexual references or innuendoes, though romantic scenes such as kissing can be included.
Actions that lead to disqualification
1)No plagiarism. If it has been discovered that the story has been copied, e.g. the plot has been copied, the user will be disqualified with immediate action. However, elements of inspiration can be allowed. 2)Only one submission is allowed for each user. So please do not create multiple accounts for multiple entries. If it has been discovered that a user has submitted many entries due to this method, he or she will be disqualified. 3)If someone's username is used as a character's name or mentioned in the story, ask for permission first. Failure to do so may lead to disqualification.
Judge: Me, though I will appoint someone else if I want to take part.
I throw in as much as I want...Strop that's your final re-entry!
Say what? I hope by that you mean you're going to use that rewritten first paragraph and paste that onto the rest of the story, if you're going to use that.
Otherwise I'm not intending to properly proofread for a few months anyway. Too busy.
Actually I think it said it should be established, ei have had a couple of rounds and still be active, but whatever... I am tired, so I dun really care.
Say what? I hope by that you mean you're going to use that rewritten first paragraph and paste that onto the rest of the story, if you're going to use that.
Part of it reads like one of those unassuming self-discovery essays you get in standardized tests here.
(41) Which title best fits this story?
(a) Into the Inferno (b) Firefighter Jake and the Fiery Birthday Cake (c) Passages (d) Australia, the Land of Fire
I'm not critiquing the title. I just really hate that question and that is the only one I remember more clearly. They had to italicize best. Most of the time, the other choices were just absurd.
Hmm, fire... There is not some interesting definition I need to know about, like with the Tri-Daily, right? The theme is just "Fire", right??
Yes 'Fire'. Anything you can think of regarding the fundamental and multiple definitions possibly connected to it. An inferno, sacking an unruly and annoying employee, the sound of glee a soldier makes, being fired up.
Anything is possible. I do not wish to be branded as a manipulative control freak. And it does give lots of room to imagine.
