Writer of the Month #2 Guidelines

Theme: Despair
Explained: The main focus of the story is despair, in any fashion.

Components:
● The despair is caused by an event that the despairing character had no control over.
● The despair is caused by first world problems (remote is on the other side of the room, no milk for your cereal, etc).
● A character inflicts or causes despair rather than feeling it personally.
● The story reaches some sort of happy or positive conclusion for the protagonist.
● The story is not set in the modern day.

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Flash Fiction Entry Rules
● Components: 1 required, use of more allowed.
● Word Minimum: 0
● Word Maximum: 1,500
● The PM Title Must Be: WOTM #2 Entry: Flash Fiction

Short Story Entry Rules
● Components: 2 required, use of more allowed.
● Word Minimum: 1,000 (100 if poem)
● Word Maximum: 3,500
● The PM Title Must Be: WOTM #2 Entry: Short Story

General Rules
● Submissions Due By: April 23rd, 2014, 11:59 PM PST
● Send all entries via PM to the WOTM account.
● All Submission PMs Must Include: Your entry (provided titles will be used as hider titles) and a list of which components you used.
● No resubmitting entries or sending in multiple entries.
● If you have any questions about the contest or the current theme, feel free to ask in the thread. However, if it pertains to your ideas for an entry which would compromise the anonymity of your entry, please instead direct the question via PM to the WOTM account or one of the managers.
● Your entry must be something made specifically for this contest, not something you've written in the past that happens to fit the components.
● Plagiarism will not be tolerated. If plagiarism is proven, you will be publicly disqualified and banned from all future WOTM contests. Fan fiction is not necessarily plagiarism and is allowed, but you must note in your entry PM that it is fan fiction and what existing piece of fiction it is based on.
● All site-wide rules (no trolling, no flaming, no spamming, etc.) apply to WOTM threads as well, and any transgressors will be reported and dealt with accordingly.

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This contest brought to you by the Writer of the Month Contest Managers: Brovo, Kaga, and Jorick

As I did for the WOTM #1 entries, I shall also be posting reviews for this round of entries after the voting period closes. I don't know if that's any good as an incentive for people to enter this month, but hey, it's worth a shot.

Jorick said
As I did for the WOTM #1 entries, I shall also be posting reviews for this round of entries after the voting period closes. I don't know if that's any good as an incentive for people to enter this month, but hey, it's worth a shot.

OMG I have a chance of receiving Jorick's minimal but divine attention, now I have to enter this!!! /s

Hmmm......Gonna be a little tougher to tackle this one. I'll get something down.

PlatinumSkink, I am sorry it had to be this way.

PlatinumSkink, I am sorry it had to be this way.

EDIT: Awww, and to think I almost evaded the double-post.

Hahahahahahahahahaha...

I have no reason to complain. It is only the second WOTM yet, after all. And just look at that fourth component! XD

That fourth component (and the second, actually) was included purposely for the sake of the theme not being 100% grimdark, so feel free to make full use of it.

I have an idea already. And I love it.

Hopefully, that will not make it obvious which entry is mine.

XD

You guys labeled this as #1 in the original post to this thread. Nonetheless, I intend to become a scribe of this contest. That is all.

Nightrunner said
You guys labeled this as #1 in the original post to this thread. Nonetheless, I intend to become a scribe of this contest. That is all.

Hah, so we did. That is one of the many dangers of copying and pasting a template.

And it's fixed, along with the divider lines that apparently don't work when you copy and paste 3 hyphens.

Hm, I might actually attempt this. Despair is my speciallty.

Wreck said
Hm, I might actually attempt this. Despair is my speciallty.

Well, good to know you're interested.

I started writing earlier, then realised that this is a writer's forum. I'd only embarass myself lol

_99bottles_ said
I started writing earlier, then realised that this is a writer's forum. I'd only embarass myself lol

No need to feel shy! This contest really isn't very competitive. It's just friendly, light competition between writers who come to have fun and maybe learn some new skills along the way. Everyone's welcome to give it a try. ^^

Are we still doing the "no comment" option? I didn't see it in the rules.

Holmishire said
Are we still doing the "no comment" option? I didn't see it in the rules.

We left it out because it was rarely ever used. In the entire history of WOTM, it was only ever used twice. :/

Bumping. Hopefully people didn't forget about this while the Guild was down.

Prepare for Armenian Genocide, folks.

Hmmm......Gonna be a little tougher to tackle this one. I'll get something down.

Edit: This might be the slowest double-post in the history of the internet. How did that even happen?