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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high_time

13 years ago

I'll help out a bit with the judging, even though I'm not good at reviewing, sorry if I'm scoring things a bit unfairly and subjective(just in case)

I won't be able to give out scores on all of them though =)

Toxic Influence

13 years ago

1: The fuck is White Day?
2: So any entries that haven't been resubmitted can be ignored?

Jericho Antares FAKKU Writer

13 years ago

Entry

Alternate entry link. Also March 15th may work. Unsure though.

RealtaForge

13 years ago

Noel wrote...

Fine. Deadline will be tomorrow. =3=

I lied. Deadline will be White Day-ish.

I don't suppose this means that people who didn't manage to get their work in on time before could do so by next Monday or so, could they? Or are we just resubmitting the ones that were lost in the first place?

I think I still want to do mine, since I'm a little compelled to write it (or should be more so..), but I've been forced to keep it on the backburner because of college and all.

If I'm allowed to enter still, I could conceivably finish it this weekend or so, but if I'm not gonna be allowed to in the first place, then I'd rather be spared the stress of more time constraints and just publish it whenever I feel like finishing it.

Noel

13 years ago

Deadline for grades is White Day-ish.

Deadlines for stories was V-Day.

Ignore anything that hasn't been reposted or whatever.

Disgusting

13 years ago

Thanks for the information.
Guess I should start grading now.

Reposted entry :
With this Paperback Book In Hand

aka_neko

13 years ago

Sorry it took me so long to re-post. I got sick and then my daughter did + family issues, ugh! Anyways here's my V-Day contest entry again.

[V-Day] From Worst to Best(story)

RealtaForge

13 years ago

Noel wrote...

Deadline for grades is White Day-ish.

Deadlines for stories was V-Day.

Ignore anything that hasn't been reposted or whatever.

Aww, you make Gabrielle cry and Tobias drink more =(

Well, in any case, that's one less deadline for me, and now I can re-establish my flow. Sometime.

ArcheVixen

13 years ago

https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?t=62696

Here. 7k+ ('only').

Please comment, as I'm eager to know how it fares against so many other top-notch writers.

electronicmaji

13 years ago

I'm pretty sure I lost my entire fucking story. Shame, I though it had a chance to win

Cinia Pacifica Ojou-sama Writer

13 years ago

electronicmaji wrote...

I'm pretty sure I lost my entire fucking story. Shame, I though it had a chance to win

No it isn't, check my PM now!

iamkoold

13 years ago

Toxic Influence wrote...

1: The fuck is White Day?

Basically it is Valentines day for boys. Celebrated in Japan 1 Month after Valentines Day. On Valentines Day, girls give chocolate to boys and 1 month later, the boys can give a gift that is white to girls.

CoffeePrince

13 years ago

Valentines Day and White Day are just another example of weakness in Japanese men. Rather than having the cohones to tell a girl, "I like you, here's chocolate." they have to wait until a girl might be interested in them.

electronicmaji

13 years ago

My Entry

high_time

13 years ago

Just want to let you guys know that it's already been so many days past the deadline. Still no indication about the contest at all. Are you sure that we're going to let this be?

Cinia Pacifica Ojou-sama Writer

13 years ago

I guess I have to start reading all the V-day entries and score them and PM them to Noel~ if we don't score them then this will never find its end....

Noel

13 years ago

I can be lazy and average my scores with Toxic's. Lol.

If I had scores... XD
I'll try to have that done this Monday. Just so busy...

Xenon FAKKU Writer

13 years ago

You'll be even more busy once a winner is decided and you have a new manga to find out who to translate it so you can then edit. I'd like to say 'you brought this on yourself' in the most respectful way possible. One of the reasons I didn't enter was because of priorities.

neko-chan

13 years ago

I feel really bad because I have read many of your guy's entries but have not scored or even commented on any of them. Pending my situation this weekend I'll try to give some scores.

Cinia Pacifica Ojou-sama Writer

13 years ago

I kinda wanted to ask this for awhile now:

Will you show the averaged scores of all the writings when you announce the winner? Just asking.

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