Welcome to the Inaugural Edition of the RPGWC Monthly Short Story Contest.
The concept is as follows:
- A prompt is chosen
- Folks have one month to write a short story based on that prompt and submit it as well as a new idea for a prompt anonymously
- Every one who participated votes on which story was best, not voting for their own story as that is super weak and against the rules
- Explaining why you chose which story you voted for is encouraged as is constructive criticism
- A winner is chosen and gets to chose the prompt for the next month from the suggestions that month and any previous ones
- The winner may choose to let folks know he/she won or remain anonymous
- At the end of the year maybe we see who won the most or maybe not, it's mostly just for funsies and to develop our writing
Prompts could be things as simple as Universal Themes like Loss, Love, Balance, or Time. Prompts might also be Settings like Wild West, Fantasy, CyberPunk, Warhammer or a combination of things if you want to be more specific. You might also make the narrative style part of the prompt, like First Person, Third Person, Third Person Omniscient, or Unreliable Narrator. I will maintain a list of previous prompts that were not chosen here in the Opening Post so that folks can more easily look back at past options if they win or if they just feel like writing up a short story. If you do that please let me know.
You can write stories that connect with one another or with each others if you want to or completely stand alone stories, but do try to make them self contained. You don't need to solve every mystery you might introduce in the story so cliff hangers are fine, but try to make stories that have some sense of closure at the end so that it is a complete short story even if the greater story continues on.
The first Monthly Contest will start immediately and conclude at the beginning of April 25th to allow time for voting.
The prompt chosen by group vote for the first month is
"Campfire Stories Made Real" which was suggested by Kalleth
Happy Writing! Tell Your Friends! Tip Your Bartender!
The concept is as follows:
- A prompt is chosen
- Folks have one month to write a short story based on that prompt and submit it as well as a new idea for a prompt anonymously
- Every one who participated votes on which story was best, not voting for their own story as that is super weak and against the rules
- Explaining why you chose which story you voted for is encouraged as is constructive criticism
- A winner is chosen and gets to chose the prompt for the next month from the suggestions that month and any previous ones
- The winner may choose to let folks know he/she won or remain anonymous
- At the end of the year maybe we see who won the most or maybe not, it's mostly just for funsies and to develop our writing
Prompts could be things as simple as Universal Themes like Loss, Love, Balance, or Time. Prompts might also be Settings like Wild West, Fantasy, CyberPunk, Warhammer or a combination of things if you want to be more specific. You might also make the narrative style part of the prompt, like First Person, Third Person, Third Person Omniscient, or Unreliable Narrator. I will maintain a list of previous prompts that were not chosen here in the Opening Post so that folks can more easily look back at past options if they win or if they just feel like writing up a short story. If you do that please let me know.
You can write stories that connect with one another or with each others if you want to or completely stand alone stories, but do try to make them self contained. You don't need to solve every mystery you might introduce in the story so cliff hangers are fine, but try to make stories that have some sense of closure at the end so that it is a complete short story even if the greater story continues on.
The first Monthly Contest will start immediately and conclude at the beginning of April 25th to allow time for voting.
The prompt chosen by group vote for the first month is
"Campfire Stories Made Real" which was suggested by Kalleth
Happy Writing! Tell Your Friends! Tip Your Bartender!
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