2005-07-12 [Doormat]: Can the mythical creature be made up?

2005-07-12 [Poindextra]: Provided there is a decent description of the creature throughout the story. There is nothing wrong with making it up, as it adds to the creativity. :)

2005-07-12 [Doormat]: Another question, it can be in any setting, time, location, world, planet or whatever, right?

2005-07-12 [Poindextra]: Yes. Try to avoid realistic settings, if at all possible (no urban cities, etc.)

2005-07-12 [Kelaria Daye]: what if it's a made up city? not all cities are "realistic"

2005-07-12 [Doormat]: Well how about if we found a way to incorperate a mythical creature in a modern setting?

2005-07-12 [I NeED mONeY]: y dont u just start like me stop wasting time no offense at all

2005-07-12 [Kelaria Daye]: *shudders* IM speech... no writer should EVER use IM speech.... and that was rude. You cant rush good writing. Any real writer knows that.

2005-07-12 [I NeED mONeY]: i am a real writer and i have wrote many stories but by the time i was done screwing around the comp was over and i dont use IM speech in my storys which most of them are based around modern time so this is a real challenge to me i wasnt meaning to be rude i am sry to ne one a offended

2005-07-12 [Kelaria Daye]: riight...

2005-07-12 [I NeED mONeY]: whats that supposed to mean you watch ill win the competition

2005-07-12 [Kelaria Daye]: ummm... in case you havent noticed, I'm one of the judges. And [Poindextra] is one of my best friends.

2005-07-12 [I NeED mONeY]: ok i want you to read my story and not judge me because of me trying to give advise to people so they wouldnt rune out of time

2005-07-12 [I NeED mONeY]: which would really not be cool

2005-07-12 [Kelaria Daye]: I wont. But the way you're going, you could be banned from the competition. It's common sense not to enter if you dont have a story finished yet.

2005-07-12 [I NeED mONeY]: well its almost finished so i just figured it wouldnt hurt nothing

2005-07-12 [Kelaria Daye]: ...I just have nothing to say to that -_-;;

2005-07-12 [I NeED mONeY]: Ok

2005-07-12 [Doormat]: Somehow my question got lost in that...So i'll try again...Well how about if we found a way to incorperate a mythical creature in a modern setting?

2005-07-12 [I NeED mONeY]: sorry bout that dude

2005-07-12 [Paul Doyle]: [I NeED mONeY], I need money, too. :B *watches this page*

2005-07-12 [I NeED mONeY]: yea every body needs money in society today

2005-07-12 [farawaygone]: I am so excited about this competition once again you have all amazed me with your ability to keep coming up with great competitons!

2005-07-12 [Sunrose]: Another one is on it's way ;)

2005-07-12 [Lothuriel]: Yes [Paul Doyle] i need money..."lots and lots of money, I want the pie in the sky" One suggestion. Spell Check. =0)

2005-07-12 [Estantia]: I am definitely competing, there is no way I'm going to miss this...

2005-07-12 [Poindextra]: I'm glad you all like it. And to [I NeED mONeY], if you keep back-talking the judges, you will not be allowed to enter.

2005-07-13 [Sunrose]: Sorry to have to ask, but what do you mean with 'back-talking'?

2005-07-13 [Poindextra]: A few comments ago, he mentioned "stop wasting time" and was generally being rude. He also said "ok i want you to read my story and not judge me because of me trying to give advise to people so they wouldnt rune out of time."

2005-07-13 [Poindextra]: There were also signs of complete arrogance. (Check above)

2005-07-13 [Inoni]: ^_^ I might enter this. I love writing!

2005-07-13 [Sunrose]: Hmm okay, thank you :)

2005-07-13 [Rambert]: Question: do ALL the characters in the story have to be mythical creatures? Or can there be a humans in there as well? This will greatly affect my story...

2005-07-13 [Iron-Man-429]: can we use our characters from a game cause im doing one on Armored Core

2005-07-13 [Kelaria Daye]: I'd have to check with [Poindextra]... but for [Rambert]'s question, I believe the answer is yes. As long as your story INCLUDES mythical creatures. --- And for [Iron-Man-429], I would imagine the answer to be no. Because that doesnt seem very creative and original... it seems more like copying.

2005-07-13 [Rumplestiltskin]: Contest sounds interesting...I am currently working on a story, but there's no way ill finish by sept 15. Ah well...Great contest idea, though!

2005-07-13 [the phantom that haunts you]: Hmmm are vampires mythical creatures?

2005-07-13 [the phantom that haunts you]: like waht if i had a vampire, angel and ghost? would that count?

2005-07-13 [I NeED mONeY]: im not a judge or ne thing but i dont think they r

2005-07-13 [the phantom that haunts you]: hmmm im no good at writng about orcs and stuff....what kidns of fantasy are allowed then?

2005-07-13 [I NeED mONeY]: i dont no things like pegasaus ancient mythical creatures i love writing about them

2005-07-13 [Rambert]: All right, thanks for answering my question. See you all in September! *goes off to write*

2005-07-14 [Kelaria Daye]: STOP with the IM speech [I NeED mONeY]! And for [the phantom that haunts you] I think they count as mythical creatures. But I'll double check with [Poindextra]...

2005-07-14 [I NeED mONeY]: Ok its just the way i talk on the net

2005-07-14 [Kelaria Daye]: well it's irritating and it makes you look really dumb.

2005-07-14 [I NeED mONeY]: well thats a big surpirise i am dumb

2005-07-14 [Rambert]: Belittling yourself isn't gonna get you on anyone's good side, Money. On the contrary; now I can taunt you! *points and laughs* You're dumb!

2005-07-14 [Sunrose]: Stop the bickering here! This is a contest about prose, not an argument-arena...

2005-07-14 [Rambert]: *looks at floor* ok. *trudges off*

2005-07-14 [Moorn]: May I ask about the rules concerning content? Especially where 'bad' language is concerned, I mean.

2005-07-14 [shotokan_gal]: Ohhhh a new contest. A pity I can't write, but should hopefully turn up some good reading :) *avid fantasy reader*

2005-07-14 [pixish]: :P I have seen your articles [shotokan_gal]! Evidence that you CAN write :P so there

2005-07-14 [shotokan_gal]: *blushes* That's not writing, that's rambling ;)

2005-07-14 [Okami]: Oi! i have a question. . . do they have to be traditional mythical creatures? or do any fantasy creatures count??

2005-07-14 [Poindextra]: Any kind of fantasy creatures count. That includes Vampires, Orcs, Elves, Fairies (in any variation of spelling,) Ghosts, etc.

2005-07-14 [Okami]: . . . what about original fantasy creatures? do they count?? (my appologies if this question seems reppeatetive. . XD)

2005-07-15 [Poindextra]: Provided the character is not a copy of someone else's work, and it isn't of this world, it is considered a mythical creature.

2005-07-15 [Okami]: ok then! thank ye grandly~!! <3

2005-07-16 [Ellington]: do Gods count as mythical creatures? I mean, I know they aren't of this world, but I'm not sure on the 'creature' part of that

2005-07-17 [Bar Weinch]: hey i have a question would hobbits be mythical creatures?

2005-07-18 [Poindextra]: Gods, yes. I'm a little quibbish about the Hobbit, but I'll say yes.

2005-07-19 [Rambert]: quibbish? lol is that supposed to be derived from "quibble" or something?

2005-07-19 [Kememmótar]: what about multiple entries?? are those allowed?

2005-07-19 [I stabbith ye]: I don't think they should be...

2005-07-19 [Kememmótar]: but i have lots of stories....

2005-07-19 [Alfirin Lindlea]: so pick one

2005-07-19 [Kememmótar]: Thats the problem.. having to pick...

2005-07-19 [Alfirin Lindlea]: do an ip-dip, that's what i did

2005-07-19 [Kememmótar]: ip dip?

2005-07-19 [Alfirin Lindlea]: yeah... where you say the weird rhyme and go round in a circle-y thing *shushes*

2005-07-19 [Kememmótar]: eeny meeny miny moe?? thats the only weird ryme i know...

2005-07-19 [Alfirin Lindlea]: yeah like that

2005-07-24 [Ambaron]: Does elf count?

2005-07-24 [Kememmótar]: damn it!!!! I CANT FIND MY STORy.. i finally decided which one i was going to submit, and now i cant find it!

2005-07-24 [Alfirin Lindlea]: screwed

2005-07-24 [Kememmótar]: *grumbles* stupid jump drives are worthless!!

2005-07-25 [Akayume]: I wrote a story about a girl who is bitten by a vampire.....boo woo

2005-07-25 [Raesha]: i wrote(am writing) about fairys.

2005-07-25 [M_Sinner]: Grrr... Stupid word count limit... Lol.

2005-07-25 [Raesha]: ^_^ i agree!

2005-07-25 [*Night_Shade*]: Yeah, I'm glad I'm not competing lol. I hate that rule >.<'

2005-07-25 [Akayume]: *shrugs* I want to get a participation bade thingy, cause I know that I probably wont win, since I've read some of the stories, and they are all really good

2005-07-26 [M_Sinner]: Hmmm... I've managed to cut my story down until it's only about a hundred words too much (I still feel like I was killing my baby, though). Exactly how much leniency is given?...

2005-07-26 [Kememmótar]: my sotry is almost 5000 words right now.. (the one i originally wanted to turn in.) the one i lost was about 1000.. hopefully i still ave the paper copy somewhere.

2005-07-26 [Kelaria]: just out of curiosity... do the judges get a badge? :D

2005-07-26 [Alfirin Lindlea]: hehe ye should

2005-07-26 [M_Sinner]: You should since you can't "participate" even though you're doing more work than the rest of us put together. Lol.

2005-07-26 [Poindextra]: There is no leniency. I'm sorry, but because we all have to read each one individually, if everyone got an extra fifty or so words, it adds up. It's not fair to the judges. Again, I apologize.

2005-07-26 [M_Sinner]: No problem. I figured that it was a question worth asking. If the answer had been otherwise, I would have been severely irked at myself for writing an entirely new story for nothing. Lol.

2005-07-27 [Drezella]: I agree the judges should get a badge.....or at least something good for their time well spent!

2005-07-27 [Sunrose]: The judges don't get badges, they volunteered to do this work: they asked for this competition themselves and wanted to do the work. In that sense the fact that we are having this competition is a reward on its own. It is also a chance for them to prove themselves for possible future jobs. I don't see why more rewards are needed, when they are doing what they wanted to do in the first place :)

2005-07-27 [Poindextra]: I just started this for the fun of it. I've never seen Elftown have a Prose Contest.

2005-07-27 [NamelessMerc]: Can my piece have a graphic for the title? Using a h1 tag for the title just seems so damn boring.

2005-07-27 [Poindextra]: It doesn't matter. It adds to creativity.

2005-07-27 [NamelessMerc]: Hehe happy now. It's not gonna give me brownie points though, is it? 'Cause that wouldn't be fair.

2005-07-27 [Poindextra]: The real thing we're looking for is in the story.

2005-07-27 [NamelessMerc]: Good good. Well it'll be a nice break for the judges' eyes then, even if I don't have a hope of winning haha.

2005-07-27 [*Night_Shade*]: Still...a badge would be fun...*looks at empty trophy case* heh ^-^'''

2005-07-27 [Poindextra]: Hey, I'm happy just having my name up there.

2005-07-27 [*Night_Shade*]: Says you who has like 20 badges lol...

2005-07-28 [Poindextra]: Escusi, but it's only 5, and I worked for them. Just submit some art or sumthin.

2005-07-28 [*Night_Shade*]: Too lazy....

2005-07-28 [Poindextra]: Well, then...Your loss.

2005-07-28 [*Night_Shade*]: hehe, maybe one day I"ll get an effort. Or get the pc working so I can upload more art...

2005-07-29 [chuchutrain]: so really this is a story contest? does it have to be a mythical creature that already exists? Like...can it be a made up race?

2005-07-29 [Poindextra]: I've said it before, you can make up your own creatures.

2005-07-29 [pixish]: Maybe you shoudl put it in the rules. Newcomers may not read through all of the previous comments.

2005-07-29 [Sunrose]: Comments by [Raesha] were deleted; please don't post nonsense here thank you :)

2005-07-29 [Raesha]: sorry...

2005-07-29 [Kelaria]: I didnt mean a badge as a reward, I meant a badge so that people know we judged a contest. *shrugs* I know I volunteered. I dont need a reward for judging.

2005-07-29 [Sunrose]: And why would people need to know that? :)

2005-07-29 [Kelaria]: *shrugs again* look, I dont know. I just thought it would be nice. okay?

2005-07-30 [Raesha]: what do you guys mean when you say it has to be linked to a wiki page?

2005-07-30 [Poindextra]: You must have your story written on a wiki-page. Anywhere else, and it would be harder to find the story.

2005-07-30 [Kememmótar]: wooot! i found my rough story! all i need to do is retype it... Yippee.

2005-07-30 [Raesha]: so i need to create a wiki page for my story?

2005-07-31 [pixish]: yes :-) Look at the other people's entries to see what you should do.

2005-07-31 [Raesha]: okay!

2005-08-02 [Angel of Shadows]: Now would one consider angels and demons mythological creatures?

2005-08-02 [Kelaria]: -_-;; I give up. Shoot me in the head. Cause I just give up.

2005-08-02 [Angel of Shadows]: I'm sorry to ask it, I know lots of people ask these questions.. but some consider them to be real, and I was just clarifying

2005-08-02 [Tails Of the Revolution]: Dude, if I may: the answer was yes, it's just been said already.

2005-08-02 [Kelaria]: real ON EARTH. how's that? but ask [Poindextra]. Maybe I'm wrong...

2005-08-02 [Angel of Shadows]: Okay, thanks... and sorry... v.v I just wanted to be sure

2005-08-02 [Kelaria]: it's okay. I'm just extra touchy right now because of the stupid new description limitations.

2005-08-02 [Angel of Shadows]: I don't blame you. We all have those moments...

2005-08-02 [Kelaria]: I feel like I want to scream, cry, slap the people responsible, and throw things, all at once!

2005-08-02 [Angel of Shadows]: .> Poor baby... You should get some sleep

2005-08-02 [Kelaria]: yeah... maybe...

2005-08-03 [Art squall]: I need to do this...

2005-08-03 [M_Sinner]: Yeah... smae here. I still haven't gotten around to making a new story. Lol.

2005-08-03 [Art squall]: I have tons just sitting around at home :)

2005-08-03 [M_Sinner]: Lol. I used to, before I moved!... Lol. Now I have to write stories from scratch! How aweful! Lol, j/k.

2005-08-03 [Art squall]: oh, thats bad

2005-08-09 [Forever Equine]: I'm an inspiring young novelist and would I be able to place my foreward into my story?

2005-08-09 [Poindextra]: It would be ebtter if you had a completed story, because if the judges have to read more than the foreword, it counts as going above the word count limit.

2005-08-09 [Forever Equine]: Well the whole story is far too long, I was just going to post the foreward but I guess prehaps not. =(

2005-08-09 [Poindextra]: Post it and we'll judge it.

2005-08-12 [AnnMiuka]: I can't wait to see who the judges pick for this contest, (or how they pick it) maybe they'll do like the costume one and have a vote on the best ones...that would be cool, but slow...

2005-08-13 [thoughtfox]: Does it have to be an actual plotted story? i think it may be easier to stick to the word limit if it's just "A Day in the life of..." sort of prose. is that ok?

2005-08-13 [Poindextra]: As long as it fits the guidelines, It's acceptable.

2005-08-17 [Unknown one]: Is Cheguevarra considered as a mythicol creature?

2005-08-17 [Cascading water lillies]: What are those? *shock..* I don't thinik I've ever heard of one of those

2005-08-17 [Unknown one]: nevermind, sorry

2005-08-17 [Alfirin Lindlea]: isn't that the communist revolutionary?

2005-08-17 [Unknown one]: Yes yes, it is. The most famous one. But I thought this was a drawing contest, and I have a drawing of cheguevara. But nevermind.*