First Official Facepunch Writing Competition! Fabulous Prizes! - General

[QUOTE=-Dazed-;23671369]We have the common opinion that having lose restrictions hampers our ability to fairly judge[...][/QUOTE] If objectivity is an issue with your panel, then perhaps you ought to reconsider who's on it. You outlined exactly how you plan to judge the stories in your OP(format, flow, characterization, narrative, etc, etc). These principles of writing don't change with the genre, and neither does how you judge them. For instance, I'll admit that I'm no fan of the post-apocalyptic setting you're suggesting, but I could still judge it based on those same basic principles you outlined. How believable are the characters? How effectively did the writer portray this world? Was the story thought out and compelling? None of these things change with genre. I'm not trying to be rude, and I'm really sorry if that's how I'm coming across. I'm trying to help you folks out with your future contests here. Ya'll are committed to this now, no take-backsies, but if you want an objective pair of eyes in this, I can help you judge the entries you receive.

-snip- I'm already writing one up

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;23671606]If objectivity is an issue with your panel, then perhaps you ought to reconsider who's on it. You outlined exactly how you plan to judge the stories in your OP(format, flow, characterization, narrative, etc, etc). These principles of writing don't change with the genre, and neither does how you judge them. For instance, I'll admit that I'm no fan of the post-apocalyptic setting you're suggesting, but I could still judge it based on those same basic principles you outlined. How believable are the characters? How effectively did the writer portray this world? Was the story thought out and compelling? None of these things change with genre. I'm not trying to be rude, and I'm really sorry if that's how I'm coming across. I'm trying to help you folks out with your future contests here. Ya'll are committed to this now, no take-backsies, but if you want an objective pair of eyes in this, I can help you judge the entries you receive.[/QUOTE] Indeed, and as you can now see your concerns were addressed. When I say that it injures our ability to judge I mean that as things differ more and more they are harder to compare - it requires more work. That's an inevitable fact. We just wanted to keep the workload down in case there was a GIANT flood of entries. Now, we've decided that we are willing to work VERY hard for all of you so that this experience will be magnificent. We will not be changing anything else about this competition. HAVE NO FEAR!

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;23671606]no take-backsies[/QUOTE] We are politely disputing this statement.

I just want to continue to reiterate that you need not expect future changes to our guidelines. At this point they are what they are. As BDA said, no backsies. We made one last minute edit, but we don't want you to believe that this will become 'our thing.'

Only 2000 words! How am I supposed to write a book!

Wow. This sounds awesome. I might have a go.

Though you [b]do[/b] have fabulous prizes.

If it was Non-Fictional I can write a book about the drama that goes on at my work.

[QUOTE=Bledrix;23671863]If it was Non-Fictional I can write a book about the drama that goes on at my work.[/QUOTE] You can always use it as inspiration!

[QUOTE=Bledrix;23671863]If it was Non-Fictional I can write a book about the drama that goes on at my work.[/QUOTE] Change the names, dates and location. BAM! Fiction.

I just wanted to say to the judges, get ready to read a [i]lot[/i] of post-apocalyptic stories.

Fictional, OK. Drama, well if all else fails I'll just go post-apocalyptic drama, since I never was sure what classifies as drama. To me the definition of a drama story and a story that isn't fucktardedly boring with no dramatic content was not made clear. In fact, would someone please kindly explain what exactly does define drama in this case?

[QUOTE=cercerd;23672055]Fictional, OK. Drama, well if all else fails I'll just go post-apocalyptic drama, since I never was sure what classifies as drama. To me the definition of a drama story and a story that isn't fucktardedly boring with no dramatic content was not made clear. In fact, would someone please kindly explain what exactly does define drama in this case?[/QUOTE] Not comedy.

[QUOTE=-Dazed-;23672080]Not comedy.[/QUOTE] Define comedy in this case.

Fuck that, prizes aren't worth the effort, I'd rather save my ideas for scholarship essays.

I think I'll have a go, I like how this competition sounds.

I see. So, I have half of fiction to work with? Ok, thanks. Wait, I can still have humor though? You always need dark humor in a dark story.

I wrote a short story like this just a couple months ago for english. I might send it in.

I submitted a wonderful love story courtesy of drabbles.

Fuck, I can't do Drama.

Well I wrote a really fucked up story a while back in English. We all wrote them, handed them to our partners to judge and then read them to the class. My partner was the teacher. He said I probably shouldn't read it to the class. Would it be OK if we post stroies that are not entries in the thread? Just for general critique?

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I sent two things in that, well, kinda intertwine with each other. Only need to read the short one. As for the second one, it's like a in-depth kind of 'play', I guess you can call it. Oh well, I can only hope...

[QUOTE=cercerd;23672190]Well I wrote a really fucked up story a while back in English. We all wrote them, handed them to our partners to judge and then read them to the class. My partner was the teacher. He said I probably shouldn't read it to the class. Would it be OK if we post stroies that are not entries in the thread? Just for general critique?[/QUOTE] Sure.

I can send in an .rtf document, right?

This isn't a submission unless you want it to be, but it does stick pretty well to genre (Drama). I was in an artsy-fartsy mood and wanted to try something a bit new. The focus was on exploring the emotions and motivations of my characters without the traditional "John is sad, Kate is happy" approach. I wanted the reader to be able to intuit every important aspect of these characters' lives just by painting an emotional picture, by the characters' responses toward the world and toward each other. I would definitely appreciate some critique on the damn thing. I feel more embarrassed than proud of this, because it's not the usual vein of story I enjoy telling. Got my wang in the wind here, so let me know what I could do better on so I can come forth a bit more confidently in the future. -snipped, too HOT for the internet-

roses are red violets are blue facepunch competitions <rhyme>

I can provide Microsoft software as prizes, not going to PM you because I'm too lazy

Also, is the winner gonna be posted in the thread?