Competition Suggestions

Hit me with dem sexy ideas.

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RELAY
Groups of 2-6 people (with the option to choose your own group or be sorted into one) participate in a short story contest. Once a week, a prompt is posted. (The number of prompts corresponds to the average number of players per team.) Each person on a team must respond to one prompt--if one team has fewer players, a single person may respond to two prompts. The prompts should build on one another to create a short story. After the competition is over, the judging is based primarily on whose story was the most cohesive and complete.

JOURNAL
Every participant must choose a single OC to participate. Throughout the course of the competition, questions will be posted relating to the character. Hardest decision? Biggest mistake? Love interest? To compete, the participants must respond to each question in journal-style prose, as if they are their character. The person who has completed the most entries wins. If there's a tie, it could go to the person whose character remained the most consistent. 

VERY SHORT STORIES
Over a period of a few weeks to a month, every participant creates ten 100 word or less stories. At the end of this time period, they select their favorite of the stories and the community votes on whose short story is the most impactful. Good exercise in learning how to use a little to say a lot.

I'll come back later if I think of any more cool ideas.

YAY CONTRIBUTION

1. I really like that a lot. It's like community stories, but you get to win.
2. Is it bad that I already know who I would do it with? I also like the idea of the prompts being vague events that they can twist into what happened during their day.
3. I love the community voting thing. But if I were to do that I think I'd have them submitted anonymously to lower the bias. Ooo the tension.

Also, I have the ability to set even timers that last days as well as post timers that do not allow you to continue writing when the time is up. Those could be fun to use somehow too.

so we did this in one of my previous schools a couple years ago; it's a legit thing if i remember but i just can't remember what it's called.

it's a short story of at least 1,000 words, but the catch is you're only allowed to use six or seven specific phrases. so say if the phrases are:

• "dude, listen here"
• "watch out for that fly"
• "never heard of a pink basket ball"
• "that's a shiny piece of metal"
• "pick the bag up and go"
• "oh look, they're back"

you are meant to write a piece of writing that only includes those six specific phrases as a dialogue. 

Wow, that really is a challenge! I really love that idea, it could really work those description skills. Definitely keeping that in mind!!

I said this before in my previous post, but maybe we can have this competition where the Staff will create a world in which there are predesignated physics, and laws. Participants will have to make a complete OC with a short story included to work their character into this universe. The winner maybe gets artwork of their character! And then we can open a roleplay with this universe, and everyone can participate!