Our bro Knighty over at Fimfiction has a huge write-off planned for this month, with some pretty epic prizes. He gave us some copy paste too! How nice of him. Check that out below:
Rules
Stories must be between 3k and 10k words to be eligible for entry.
Story must use the provided prompt
Prizes
- First place - $100
- Second place - $75
- Third place - $50
Schedule
- February 9th - Competition announced
- February 13th - Prompt announced and competition starts
- February 20th - Final date for submissions, voting begins
- February 27th - End of public voting period
- March 1st - Panel determined winners announced
Voting Procedure
In order to give every author a level playing field, all stories will be listed anonymously, and the stories you get to view and rate will be picked at random. Additionally, you won't be able to link to stories in order to promote them to other people. This should mean that there's no benefit to being an existing well known author, and let everyone have a fair shot at winning, regardless of their current status. The button to view and rate a story will appear on this page once the voting period begins on the 20th of February.
In order to give every author a level playing field, all stories will be listed anonymously, and the stories you get to view and rate will be picked at random. Additionally, you won't be able to link to stories in order to promote them to other people. This should mean that there's no benefit to being an existing well known author, and let everyone have a fair shot at winning, regardless of their current status. The button to view and rate a story will appear on this page once the voting period begins on the 20th of February.
Hit up the hub page for it here!
37 comments:
inb4"winter, get out"
ReplyDeleteWow, being first really does not affect my life in any way. Now I feel sad...
ReplyDeleteThe prompt is announced tomorrow... Must cancel all plans and spend day brainstorming.
ReplyDeleteThis does look awesome, can't wait to read the fics coming :)
ReplyDeleteCool, might submit something for this
ReplyDeleteWhy would trixie eat a pinecone? I'm confused :P
ReplyDeleteVladnaka.
ReplyDeleteWait, what? You can actually make money by writing fanfiction now?
ReplyDeleteI'm willing to read all of them! Yep.
ReplyDeleteWell, now that money's involved, I feel there's going to be a lot of desperate, loosely thought-up stories
ReplyDelete@Rainbow Dash
ReplyDeleteThankfully, all that stuff will get swept aside because without any way of seeing who wrote what, people can't just band behind a known author, and have to actually judge it based on quality and how well they like it.
I might give this a go, honestly, depending on the prompt. 3-10k words? Shouldn't be terribly hard.
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ReplyDeleteOh boy! Can't wait to be a part of this fun! Yay for reading!
ReplyDeleteSo many ponies will be writing in this! I fear the system might get flooded... Oh well, I am possitive that quite a few folks will have fun with this!
ReplyDeleteLittle bit late to post it here. ): 8 days until due.
ReplyDeleteoh well better start thinking about ideas
ReplyDeleteI am absolutely going to do this.
ReplyDeleteWell, if by some cosmic intervention I win, how am I gonna explain the my parent this money came from a My Little Pony fanfic writing contest?
ReplyDeleteDo shipping , and you'll get all my votes
ReplyDeleteI want to do this but I don't want any money :/
ReplyDeleteThis could be fun. Good luck to everypony that enters!
ReplyDelete@Michelle
ReplyDeleteContest doesn't start until the prompt's revealed tomorrow, so...
I really wish to enter it sounds like fun and I haven't actively participated in the pony community yet
ReplyDeletenow only if I knew the prompt
wouldnt it be horrible if the prompt is demanding everybody write a shiptastic clopfic? XD
ReplyDeleteI plan on entering, sounds like a fun challenge =D
@TechnoTrot
ReplyDeleteWell, it's in a little over 3 hours now.
I'm planning on doing SOMETHING...however, eight days might be a bit too short.
ReplyDeleteI hope that the prompt will be decent. IE something fun and interesting, rather than generic shipping #3743.
ReplyDelete@Starwirl the Bearded
ReplyDeleteIf you go to fimfic you'll see that it WON'T be a shipfic...
HOw the heck am i going to get that big a fic out in merely a week...
ReplyDeleteTwilight: You use the keyboard
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@Jonno
ReplyDeleteWell, you can choose to donate the money, which is what I would likely do on the off-chance that I actually won.
A week, you say? I'm never very much for deadlines, but I could give this a shot.
ReplyDeleteDitto what Jordan said. I really don't want to explain ponies to my parents...
ReplyDeleteI'd better get started on that Fanfic I was planning.
ReplyDeleteI would enter mine...but apparently Appledash shippings suck now. So, fml...
ReplyDeleteIF YOU CAN'T TRUST YOUR PARENTS WHO CAN YOU TRUST?! Besides, they might as well consider the literal benefits. And the fact that more than half of bronies are trying to get a diploma or degree (look it up).
ReplyDeleteIn a week?... I have school you know.
ReplyDeleteI already had a story written that conveniently followed one of the prompts. So I've already submitted.
ReplyDeleteGood luck everypony!