Elder Scrolls Community competition Options

[mALX]

-giggles- Now I'm excited! Squee! Having writer friends is AWESOME!!!!

I had a ball doing that Feyfolken, deliberately did everything completely different so no one could guess. Rachel the Breton did the same thing, she won it like 6 years running and every year you'd try to guess which one was hers - couldn't tell which one was her at all, I was surprised every time. I broke her winning streak with that dark story (about the 6th House in Morrowind) - see, I only write about Oblivion, so no one guessed. People see what they expect to see.

[Elisabeth Hollow]

I'm exciiiteeeed!

I wanna write! I wanna participate!

[King Of Beasts]

You guys will never tell it was me who wrote my story

Anyway, so the entire story has to be how long?

[mALX]

You guys will never tell it was me who wrote my story

Anyway, so the entire story has to be how long?

3,000-7,000 words tops usually, I think Mustard said he'd consider 8,000 but let him tell you.

HEY KOB, you can't start writing the story till the contest starts, that would be cheating.

[King Of Beasts]

I haven't started yet. I don't even know what I'll be writing about

[mALX]

I haven't started yet. I don't even know what I'll be writing about

That is one of the reasons why in these contests they usually give a subject like "A day in the life of..." so no one knows what it is going to be about till the contest starts so there can't be any cheating. (We all have the same amount of time to write the same number of words about the same relative subject matter).

[King Of Beasts]

I'm happy that there is a theme. My story would never get finished if a theme isn't come up with. I have a really bad case of writer's block.

[Colonel Mustard]

I've got (what I think is) a pretty good theme for the competition, which should hopefully allow for plenty of room for creative manouevre whilst still giving a reasonably useful/clear guideline.

Actually, shall I go and post up the competition thread? Give people a timeline of a month to write a story between 3 and 7 thousand words and then announce the winner two weeks later? Seems to me to be a reasonable timeframe to do it all in, but I'm willing to listen to ideas.

[Elisabeth Hollow]

I like it.

[mALX]

A month to write sounds great, that allows for RL issues to still be handled.

[King Of Beasts]

I've got (what I think is) a pretty good theme for the competition, which should hopefully allow for plenty of room for creative manouevre whilst still giving a reasonably useful/clear guideline.

Actually, shall I go and post up the competition thread? Give people a timeline of a month to write a story between 3 and 7 thousand words and then announce the winner two weeks later? Seems to me to be a reasonable timeframe to do it all in, but I'm willing to listen to ideas.

Go ahead. The sooner we start with this, the better

[mALX]

I've got (what I think is) a pretty good theme for the competition, which should hopefully allow for plenty of room for creative manouevre whilst still giving a reasonably useful/clear guideline.

Actually, shall I go and post up the competition thread? Give people a timeline of a month to write a story between 3 and 7 thousand words and then announce the winner two weeks later? Seems to me to be a reasonable timeframe to do it all in, but I'm willing to listen to ideas.

Go ahead. The sooner we start with this, the better

He's already started it, it is in the FanFic section.