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Vote for the theme of the first ever Dungeon short story contest.

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Short story contests
« on: March 16, 2016, 08:28:28 AM »
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We have music and Sprite contests that are a great part of the forum. I haven't participated in any but I love to see them.

So... Why not have short story contests as well? We have as many talented writers here as we have talented sprite artists and musicians.

I think this would be a great, fun thing. There ough to be awards for it as well just like the other contests.

What do you guys think? Who else would like to see this?
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Re: Short story contests
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2016, 09:33:07 AM »
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Sounds interesting. I've personally never written anything classified as a short story before. This would be good writing exercise for some people struggling with their story-telling capabilities. Who knows, it might help with mine too. Just gotta think of a short story...
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Re: Short story contests
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2016, 09:45:49 AM »
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Right on X.

We would create a topic like with the other contests.

That would help get the juices flowing.

Let's see if this idea gets dungeon approved.

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Re: Short story contests
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2016, 01:01:14 PM »
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That's an interesting idea. It's been some time since I've written fanfiction, given Wayward Son was completed in November, but I'm always up for supporting other fanfic writers :D

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Re: Short story contests
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2016, 01:33:13 PM »
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I might give this a bit of a go.  It's been probably about 13-14 years I last wrote any fanfiction.  I might use this as an excuse to get at least part of one of those story plot ideas written.  Should we do things such as set max lengths, etc?
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Re: Short story contests
« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2016, 01:55:09 PM »
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I might give this a bit of a go.  It's been probably about 13-14 years I last wrote any fanfiction.  I might use this as an excuse to get at least part of one of those story plot ideas written.  Should we do things such as set max lengths, etc?

Yeah!

Let's see what the moderators think and see if we can set up awards. I think we'll want to make guidelines like a topic, and a min/max word count.

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Re: Short story contests
« Reply #6 on: March 16, 2016, 06:57:11 PM »
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Does it have to be based on CV?
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Re: Short story contests
« Reply #7 on: March 16, 2016, 07:31:53 PM »
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Does it have to be based on CV?

I'm thinking that would be fitting.

But I was thinking like different cv related topics.

For example: write a short story from the perspective of a towns person during the events of Simons quest. Examples. This could be a short story about the towns person locking themselves in their house at night trying to survive the horrible night. Or it could be an account of a meeting with Simon. Or something else. Those are jIt's examples of how we could have topics that are clearly CB related but full of options for creativity.
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Re: Short story contests
« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2016, 07:48:19 PM »
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I don't think we're thinking of the true potential this has.

We can now write stories about what the Master Librarian does when Alucard's not shopping, or what Dracula does while waiting in the throne room, or even a heartfelt story about why Schmoo loves ramen but theirs is a love that can never be because Schmoo has no hands/throat/stomach and can't eat it.

Shenanigans stories of legendary proportions are on the precipice of creation; I'm talking contests of Waffle-level fanfic shenanigans here, people.

Let's have the serious ones, but let's not forget to go absolutely and utterly mad now and then.


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Re: Short story contests
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2016, 08:06:10 PM »
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I approve of this idea, and would take part in the contests.

I've been doing this for quite a while at the page I'm an admin, and I can say people love these short stories about side characters involved with Castlevania.

Just writting about this already makes me want to write about something.

EDIT: Here's something I wrote LONG ago. Yes, it's badly written, but the thread got me pumped, so here it is.

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Re: Short story contests
« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2016, 08:12:31 PM »
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Let's have the serious ones, but let's not forget to go absolutely and utterly mad now and then.

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Re: Short story contests
« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2016, 09:31:56 PM »
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I approve of this idea, and would take part in the contests.

I've been doing this for quite a while at the page I'm an admin, and I can say people love these short stories about side characters involved with Castlevania.

Just writting about this already makes me want to write about something.

EDIT: Here's something I wrote LONG ago. Yes, it's badly written, but the thread got me pumped, so here it is.

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WAIT A MINUTE

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DO YOU?


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« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2016, 10:26:17 PM »
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I approve of this idea, and would take part in the contests.

I've been doing this for quite a while at the page I'm an admin, and I can say people love these short stories about side characters involved with Castlevania.

Just writting about this already makes me want to write about something.

EDIT: Here's something I wrote LONG ago. Yes, it's badly written, but the thread got me pumped, so here it is.

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Re: Short story contests
« Reply #14 on: March 17, 2016, 02:18:13 AM »
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Yeah!
Let's see what the moderators think and see if we can set up awards. I think we'll want to make guidelines like a topic, and a min/max word count.

I approve of this and might join in too. But it has been years since I last wrote fiction. I am rusty. haha.

Topics are to be listed and voted in a poll like what I use to do with the sprite contests.
I've been googling word counts and it seems 1,000 to 7,500 is common for a short story. Or we can just use a general >7,500 words.

As for the awards, which ones should we use? The same ones as the music awards?
Or something new? If so, someone needs to make them or this could be a theme for the next sprite contest.

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