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Writer With the Force- A Survivor Style Challenge-- And the WINNER of Round One is...
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ForceWriter
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Date Posted:
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Writer With the Force- A Survivor Style Challenge-- And the WINNER of Round One is...
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Hello all and welcome to the Writer With the Force Challenge! I am your host, mavjade.
This will be a Survivor style challenge for all Star Wars fics regardless of era, characters parings, OC's or cannon characters! No matter what you like to write, you can participate!
How it will work:
A prompt will be given, it could be required words, a quote, a title, or any number of things, after the prompt is given those signed up will be given one week to write a short fic and to send it to the challenge sock, ForceWriter. The fics will then be placed in a random order and placed in a thread in the appropriate era anonymously.
There will then be a set amount of time to vote (again depending on how many entries), where anyone, writer or not will vote for their favorite and least favorite story. The writer with the most positive votes will be given immunity for the next round of prompts, until we reach the last three writers where immunity will go away. The writer with the most negative votes will become one with the Force and be out of the this competition round.
This will continue until we are left with a winner for this round of competition.
Since DRL sometimes sneaks up on us, each writer will be given a pass, where they can skip a week of competition without being penalized.
Please read the following rules if you are planing to write and/or vote! I know there are a lot of them, but it is a little complicated so please bear with me!!
Writing Rules:
1. Stories must fit in the word limit. I will be checking, using this word counter as I use a mac and don't have MS Word. Should your entry be a little over the limit I will allow some leeway, but not much so please check your word count before you submit. If you exceed the word count, your entry will be disqualified. You will then either automatically use your pass if you have it, or if you don't you will become one with the Force and out for this round of competition.
There is no minimum word count.
Note: Word limits will be set after we see how many people sign up. I don't want to set it high and a bunch of people sign up and people have to much to read. Word limit may also change as the competition goes on and fewer writers are left.
2. Stories must be sent to the sock before the deadline or you will automatically use your pass or if you don't have one left you will be disqualified. Should you decided you need to pass( and remember you will only have one), you should send a PM to the sock before the deadline to let me know.
Deadline will be posted with each prompt.
3. Stories must stick to the prompt. Creativity is encouraged, thinking out side the box is always great, but if it is in no way related to the prompt, it will be disqualified.
4. Please don't include your username with your PM as it might accidentally get posted. Stories should include the information below. This information will not be counted towards your word count.
Title:
Characters/Pairings:
Era: (Before, Saga, Beyond)
Spoilers: (if applicable)
Summary: (optional)
5. If you must use a beta, please make sure they know they are not allowed to vote for your entry, a positive or negative vote, as they know which story is yours. They may vote for other entries.
6. Please don't post your story in your own thread until after voting is complete and a winner for that round has been announced. If you wish to post your stories in your own thread in its appropriate era, that if fine, but please only use one thread unless you are expanding and making a larger story out of that entry.
Rules for Voting:
1. Please read all entries before voting.
2. Do NOT vote positive or negative because you love/hate those characters or pairing, you should be voting on how well the story follows the prompt, characterization, creativity etc., not for the characters themselves.
3. Send a PM with your votes and a reason, please.
Example: I vote for [story number/name here] as the best story because it used the prompt very creatively.
I vote for [story number/name here] as the writer to become one with the Force because I felt the characterization was not accurate.
If your reason is because you don't like the pairing or character, your vote will not count.
If the writers choose, I will send them the reasons given for their votes (without the user name of who wrote it) so you see why the votes went the way they did. This is a great way to get/give anonymous concrit! (Flames will NOT be tolerated!)
4. Writers still in: You may vote, just not for yourself in either direction.
5. Writers who have become one with the Force: You may vote for anyone.
6. If you beta for one of the writers, please don't vote in either direction for that writer as you know which story is theirs and that completely defeats the purpose of the anonymity. I have no way of checking so we are on the honor system!
7. No voting more than once by using socks! Nor are you allowed to vote for your own story by using a sock! Doing so will result in disqualification.
8. Deadline for voting will be posted when the stories are posted.
Links to the entry threads:
Beyond the Saga
The Saga
Before the Saga
Round 1 sign ups are now over, if you would like to sign up for the next round you can PM the Sock and I'll send you notice when sign ups start again, or just watch this thread!
Any questions, comments, snide remarks??
(Quick disclaimer: I didn't come up with this idea, it was taken from the Torchwood community writerinadrawer at Live Journal. I just adapted it to Star Wars and thought it might be fun!)
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ForceWriter
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Date Posted:
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RE: Writer With the Force Challenge-- A survivor style writing challenge
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Current Prompt:
For this challenge you are to write about the "five times" someone did something or something happened. This is a common writing technique in other fandoms and I thought we could try it here. Your title should be "The Five Times" followed by what it is about.
Example: The Five Times Luke Hurled Force Lightening
Then the story would proceed to explain each of the five times Luke hurled Force lightening.
Max Word count: 2,000
Prompt Deadline:
11:59pm on Sunday August 28th
Voting Deadline:
6 pm board time on Sunday August 31st.
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Date Posted:
5/13 10:00am
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RE: Writer With the Force Challenge-- A survivor style writing challenge
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Writers Still in:
Ceillean
Jedimaster_JainaSolo
ZaraValinor
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Date Posted:
5/13 10:01am
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RE: Writer With the Force Challenge-- A survivor style writing challenge
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Writers who have become one with the Force:
Round One, Challenge One:
earlybird-obi-wan
Round One, Challenge Two:
RX_Sith (due to disqualification)
Round One, Challenge Three:
Alexis_Wingstar
Round One, Challenge Four:
lazykbys_left (due to disqualification)
Jaina_and_Jag
Round One, Challenge Five:
BaronCoop (due to disqualification) Winner of Mini Challenge, won a place back in the game!!
DarthBerryStraw
Round One, Challenge Six:
BarronCoop
Round One, Challenge Seven:
LordNyax113
Round One, Challenge Eight:
Persephone_Kore (due to disqualification)
LASOS
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Date Posted:
5/13 10:02am
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RE: Writer With the Force Challenge-- A survivor style writing challenge
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Writer With The Force Champions:
Round One Champion: ZaraValinor
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Persephone_Kore
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Ooh, sounds like fun.
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Jedimaster_JainaSolo
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sounds cool,  I'll give it a shot...
 Dana
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Ceillean
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5/13 12:20pm
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Sounds complicated. I'll give it a shot, though, to keep the brain juices flowing.
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mavjade
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Ceillean posted:
Sounds complicated. I'll give it a shot, though, to keep the brain juices flowing.
LOL! It really isn't as complicated as it seems (mostly complicated for me!  ), just hard to put into words! You'll see once we get going! 
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5/13 1:34pm
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This looks really cool!
I'd like to give it a try. (Let's hope DRL doesn't pop up.  )
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lazykbys_left
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5/13 2:28pm
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Although I'm fairly certain I won't last a month - count me in.
- lazy
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Date Posted:
5/13 3:24pm
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RE: Writer With the Force-- A Survivor style writing challenge
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This sounds like fun!  Count me in.
I have one question (for now, but I reserve the right to ask more... and probably will  ). You mentioned the story (ies) submissions have to be within the word count. Is there a set word count for each phase, or will every phase have a seperate limit?
Edit: For clarification.
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Alexis_Wingstar posted:
I have one question (for now, but I reserve the right to ask more... and probably will ). You mentioned the story (ies) submissions have to be within the word count. Is there a set word count for each phase, or will every phase have a separate limit?
Feel free to ask as many questions as you want!!
It will stay the same through most of the rounds... only getting longer once there are only a few left in this round of competition. Example: It could start off as a limit of 1,000 words, but when we get down to the final 3 writers it may go up to 2,500 words. The limit will depend on how many people sign up, but right now I'm thinking it will start out at 1,000 words.
I just don't want people to have to read through a novels worth of entries for each round!
Did that help?
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Yep, that made sense.
Tries to wait patiently for the start of the challenge.
[voice=MonkChant]You must learn patience, padawan. You must learn patience, padawan. You must learn patience, padawan.[/voice]
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LordNyax113
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Count me in please. I'll probably be voted out first like I was in the 87th season of Survivor, but oh well. It's the journey...
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I like to participate
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