You know, I've been thinking about doing this for a while, and I've finally decided to just go ahead. I'm quite bored right now and I want something fun to read...
This month, I'm going to start up a Short Story competition, and, if it gains any popularity at all, I'll consider carrying it on into next month, and so on.
An SSC basically involves the choosing of a topic for the month (normally it would be by the last months winner, but in this case I'll just come up with one), then writers post stories that relate to the topic by the deadline, then I'll open a poll thread so that the people may vote to determine the winner.
This months deadline is the 26th, that gives everyone a fair amount of time to come up with a story, and about four days of voting time. I think that's fair.
The rules are simple. Keep it within reasonable PG-13 limits, follow the basic rules of JF, don't copy other peoples works (duh...), be creative, try to stick as close to the topic as possible, and just overall do your best. Oh, and NO BASHING. PERIOD. I don't care if it sucks (not that I'm saying anyone's story's gonna suck), just don't say anything.
I know there's gotta be some creative people out there, so let's see you all jump in and make some of these competitions AWESOME.
I think the theme this month should be... I'm gonna go with
It just seems appropriate, what with that big event that might happen on the tenth. Oh well. Anyways... You may begin thinking... NOW!
((Oh, BTW, if someone wants to do this with a Poetry competition, the position is open. I don't like poetry very much, lol
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