Valentine's Day Writing Contest

Noel · 2011-01-12T21:10:37-01:00

Seeing as we had one for Christmas and New Years, I figured, why not have one for the most romantic day of the year, Valentine's Day!!! Ahh... Such a sweet holiday. Full of love and tragedy... and Hallmark Cards! Spread the love. Make someone happy this year! Win or lose, just have fun writing a story. Deadline for all entries is 11:59 PM (0:00 GMT), February 14th, 2011. But hey, it's Valentine's Day, so who knows what can happen to this. Haha. Judging Who will do it...? I dunno... Me and possibly others...? We'll see... Anyway! We need something concrete, so.... We'll use a point system! So.... We'll make the readers rate the stories! Use this point system! Use spoilers for the scores! 1. Rules - (-5) points ---- Obvious. Don't use banned words if Poetry, Line and word limits, etc. Docking 5 points for every rule broken. =o 2. Imagery - 25 points ---- Imagery. Make us imagine! XD 3. Rhythm and Flow - 20 points ---- Read it! If you cringe, it sucks! Minus points! Portray your love! Gotta flow like water... Or something... 4. Overall Feel - 20 points ---- Just how much a person likes it really. It'll vary per judge, but hey... What can you do? 5. Emotion - 20 points ---- Does your story/poem illicit some sort of emotional response? Will I feel good at the end? Will I cry? How will I feel throughout reading this piece? Make it awesome! 6. Coherency - 10 points ---- Does it have a point? Do they sound like they're from the same poem/story? Does the theme tie your story together? Can I say... "That was great! Especially how this part and that part go together so well." 7. Grammar - 5 points ---- Use proper grammar. Spelling, punctuation, all that good stuff. 8. Title - 5 bonus points ---- Is it an awesome title? Does it make me want to read it? Hahaha... I love creative titles... Total: 105/100 points FAQ Q - How do I enter? A - Make a new thread in the Writing (and Lemons) Section. Then copy the url in this thread. Q - Can I enter multiple times? A - Only one entry per division please~ Q - Can I change my entry? A - Anytime before the deadline! Q - How do I write a love poem without love words!? A - Use your imagination! You can do it! We believe in you! Q - Can I use your scores and critique to change my submission? A - Yes! You can! No score is final until after the deadline! I want to read your best and most romantic piece! Q - I want to judge! Can I!? Can I please!!? A - Yes. Yes you can. All readers are judges. If you like it, rate it as such. Please rate it as how you feel and not because they're your friends. Do spoiler your scores as well. Q - Does it have to be under/over the line/word limits? A - Yes... Yes it does. Q - How will the winner be decided? A - We will see which was scored the highest in the end. Some stories will have more people read and score more, so we'll probably just take random reader scores, like, 10 of them or whatever and average them out... We'll see how that goes... Haha. I don't want this to be a popularity contest. I want this to be about who wrote the best! Submissions: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArNiF3Jj5fIAdFY0UXZLNHVlWFNNTnFuVi0yR0R2OHc&hl=en&authkey=CNijjtQO

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neko-chan

13 years ago

Lofulamingo wrote...

Classy wrote...

neko-chan wrote...

Classy wrote...

Stickied then unstickied make up your damn minds.

You don't know what you are talking about.

I know this thread has been stickied, unstickied, then stickied once again.

Mods need to make up their damn minds.

The thread become unstickied when the creator edit his/her post.

Exactly. Whenever someone edits a post that is stickied, it gets unstickied. Noel had to change the rules, so it became unstickied - rinse, repeat.

Jericho Antares FAKKU Writer

13 years ago

Anomalouse wrote...

I want to write a story about Fakku like it's a small nation, and I want the male character of my story to be a random Fakku forum-poster.

I wish I could make this character nameless, but "forum-poster" is so unwieldy, can anyone help me think of a nice, nondescript name?

Anon.

And I stopped my work because it was, in essence, shit, Lofulamingo.

Classy

13 years ago

https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?t=59532

My entry.

Noel

13 years ago

Well, there are a lot of entries, and I don't quite want to go through pages for who submitted entries... I'm lazy like that. Lol.

I'm busy editing and school and stuff! ;-;

777dcc7ea05b8594ba70d9d73

13 years ago

Heh, I know its real late and all, but I really couldn't decide which poem to hand in ( having made 5 prior to handing this in). Hopefully I can still enter this into the contest though. So just feel free to browse it and have a look at it. Don't worry about ripping mine to pieces. I'm happy with as much feedback as possible.

https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?p=1893285#1893285

electronicmaji

13 years ago

this shit ain't hood

rober2

13 years ago

... D:

Well.. this really sucks... Fortunately, I have a back-up of my story... :D... Does that technically remove a great number of the competition? xD

doswillrule

13 years ago

Well, you have a list of submissions and their hyperlinks; the threads technically do exist, they just don't have any posts in them. I would suggest pasting them all into Google a.s.a.p. and trying to recover everyone's stories from cache for them, since a fair few of the people who entered might not be regular visitors.

Good luck, and I hope this contest has a happy ending. :)

Joe-kun

13 years ago

Is the contest over yet?

Please let it be over.

Setzu

13 years ago

Just found out about the problem. I already edited my entries in their same, respective threads. (Unless I make a new thread.)

Poem: https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?t=59327

Prose: https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?t=61114

Aki-chan

13 years ago

Will there be any more contests coming up?

Toxic Influence

13 years ago

I think I heard something about zombies being involved in a contest, don't quote me on that though.

Cinia Pacifica Ojou-sama Writer

13 years ago

Ummm.... I don't think so~

Neko-chan will hold one in May I think, it'll have horror them in it~

And Noel said taht he has a plan for another contest or something in mind~

ShinTai The Harem God

13 years ago

there goes my score sheet :d gone, did anyone win yet? im just curious.

Cinia Pacifica Ojou-sama Writer

13 years ago

No, no one won yet.

Aki-chan

13 years ago

Okay, I'll keep checking back. I've been wanting to get back into writing...this will be a good reason to.

Cinia Pacifica Ojou-sama Writer

13 years ago

I look forward to reading what you may come up with.

CoffeePrince

13 years ago

Ugh... so we just repost on our old threads right? Not make new ones?

Go_Master

13 years ago

You know, next time if it's going to be a contest, you should set a page limit so you don't have to read so much. I'm still eager to find out who is the winner of Valentine Entry, cuz I want to read it >

Cinia Pacifica Ojou-sama Writer

13 years ago

CoffeePrince wrote...

Ugh... so we just repost on our old threads right? Not make new ones?

Your wish, but if you post on your old thread then you still won't be able to find it on this section, it is permanently out of the list of threads.

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