[Teckniec]

Originally Posted by EVR

Genre and theme should be left for each writer to decide, in my opinion. What we should decide tho is the total max lenght (in words I assume) of the stories.

I disagree with the first thing you said.

[EVR]

ok... do you have a reason or something?

[Teckniec]

Originally Posted by EVR

ok... do you have a reason or something?

No, jk. Its more of a challenge if you have to write outside of your comfort zone thats all.

[EVR]

Originally Posted by Teckniec

No, jk. Its more of a challenge if you have to write outside of your comfort zone thats all.

Sounds good I guess, but we should choose one and then cycle through each other genre after that. Letting someone choose the next would be kind of an advantage as they'd be able to select the one they are better at.

[Teckniec]

Originally Posted by EVR

Sounds good I guess, but we should choose one and then cycle through each other genre after that. Letting someone choose the next would be kind of an advantage as they'd be able to select the one they are better at.

I concur

[vanteya37]

Originally Posted by Duratrix

I think the winner should be able to choose the genre as well as the theme (Unless the person doesn't want to of course, then one of the admins might choose a genre and theme).

Maybe start the first competition with fantasy(Genre) and freestyle(Theme), to keep it simple at the beginning.
Hmmm as a prize... Maybe receive a small winner medal or something?
I would make it monthly, since you need to think and come up with a good story. So as officials: vanteya37, Verlaine (but apparantly he's leaving soon), Nygus-sama? and ... Also a Hall of Fame would be good.

Originally Posted by Duratrix

That about the max. length is a great idea, then we should also have a min. length. Hmmm maybe a min. of 250 words and a max. of 500 words? This way the stories that we'll be reading will not be too long...

~CHECKLIST~
Length - 200 min, 400 max
Prize - Medal of some sort
Time - Monthly
Genre - Fantasy
Theme - Free style.
People - Nygus~sama... EH? Me? I'm too lazy for this

Originally Posted by vanteya37

Sounds like I appointed myself huh? But you know would run like the hounds of hell were after me if I was actually given the responsibility though

Anyways, isn't some sig/medal too little for a prize? Last thing we need to figure is the other officials? and how to pick the next genre+ theme

[Duratrix]

For the competition prize, maybe change the color of their name, still a sig/medal and there name comes in a hall of fame.

For the officials about this, there should be made a poll or something.
Also no bad language or cheating as a rule.

[Falsum]

Seeing as this thread has stagnated, duratrix and i decided (over the IRC), to get it started regardless. The first SSOTM(Short Story of the Month) will be put up soon, most likely(within a day at least).

I will take helm of the competition, if that is alright.

Thankfully, most of the details have been decided on already.

It will be monthly, alternating genre's in a set order.
The theme will be free-style for this first one, and the reward will be to get into a SSOTM hall of fame where your works will be stored and read by all, and to chose the theme for next month.
The length is already set as well, 200-500 words. If this proves to be too big of a restriction or too large a minimum, we can work around it. it's the first SSOTM after all, it's variable.

If anyone has any objections, please reply. If not, i will go ahead and start the thread within a day.

Hope someone reads this, and someone participates hah hah...

[Duratrix]

Originally Posted by Falsum

Seeing as this thread has stagnated, duratrix and i decided (over the IRC), to get it started regardless. The first SSOTM(Short Story of the Month) will be put up soon, most likely(within a day at least).

I will take helm of the competition, if that is alright.

Thankfully, most of the details have been decided on already.

It will be monthly, alternating genre's in a set order.
The theme will be free-style for this first one, and the reward will be to get into a SSOTM hall of fame where your works will be stored and read by all, and to chose the theme for next month.
The length is already set as well, 200-500 words. If this proves to be too big of a restriction or too large a minimum, we can work around it. it's the first SSOTM after all, it's variable.

If anyone has any objections, please reply. If not, i will go ahead and start the thread within a day.

Hope someone reads this, and someone participates hah hah...

Don't worry once the thread is up I'll put a link to it and I'll probably go tell everybody in the void that there is such a competition. That'll get the attention. (I hope)

Hmmm on the other hand I'll put in my sig already.

[Duratrix]

Originally Posted by giascle

once upon a time jim wanted to get a sword and he said "iwill get the sword" to his friend jim2 but jim2 said "no the sword is bad" and jim said ok. so jim wented to get the sword anyway because he was the mastre of tricks and jim2 was dumb. when jim foun dthe sword it said I AM A DEMON I WILL GRNT YOUR WISH IF YOU FREE ME and jim said NO I DONT TRUST YUO!! then the demon ate jim and jim2 laughed. TO BE CONTINED????

LOL xD
Errrr... that's a good start!

Too bad it won't count in the competition, it's to short and contains to much grammatical errors. But it was a good try.