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Elftown Prose Contest - Fairy tales



Welcome to the second Elftown Prose Contest. If you can't follow the rhythm of poetry, or just like writing stories, this is the contest for you!

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Theme: Fairy tales
However there is a slight difference this time. The opening paragraph will be given, and so will be common to all contestants' entries. Beyond this, feel free to take the story where you like, although bear in mind the rules and guidelines below. Any story not following either rules or format will be removed.
The opening to be used in your stories can be seen at:
Prose contest - fairy tales opening

Rules:

1 - The story MUST be written by you. If anyone is found to be stealing someone elses work they will be disqualified from this and all future official Prose contests.
2 - No fan-fiction in this contest. We accept that you may be inspired somewhere, but if you write a story with a land called Marmia containing Baslam the lion, it's not going to cut it with us. Original work here please.
3 - Not counting the given opening paragraph, the story must be no longer than 2000 words.
4 - Please bear in mind the theme is Fairy tales. So we want to minimise Tolkein / Dungeons & Dragons style writing. We want fantasy, but carbon copies of Legolas and Gimli, while won't get you removed, won't score your story very high with the judges. Try to keep it classical, and a moral to the story is highly encouraged.
5 - As per theme, the story should be easily read by young children. So should contain little to no mature violence, and nothing sexually explicit. Use your common sense as to what would be acceptable and what not, but the judges' decision in this matter is final.
6 - NEW RULE: quality restrictions. If you want us to put effort into reading the story, put effort into writing it. Stories with exceptionally bad spelling and grammar will be disqualified at the judges' discretion. Note: We realise that typos are one thing, and laziness quite another. We will distinguish between the two here.

Judging:
The stories will be judged on:
a) How well your story fits the theme.
b) Creativity, originality and plot.
c) Format - Proper paragraphs, spelling, grammar, use of vocabulary etc.

The stories will be judged by:
[Melocrie]
[shotokan_gal]

Finalist judges: [ally], [Jay Ladlehaus], [Sunrose]

You can earn the following by participating in and/or winning this contest

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The winner earns the coloured bookworm.
Members who participated earn the green bookworm and all participants become Donors of Writing.

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Submissions:


Name - wiki
Reminder: number your entries and separate them with the <hr> tag




1. [Skydancer] Skydancer's ETPC Entry


2. [Tawnee.] ..//starburst.x's ETPC Entry


3. [ACCOUNT DELETED.] - She Used To Be A BigSHOT's ETPC Entry


4. [EmeraldGrizzly] - incomplete by deadline


5. [TheRogue] - TheRogue's ETPC Entry


6. [Artemis Riddle] - the kingdom far, far away


7. [Valient Tragedies] - Vampryc Touch's ETPC Entry


8.[AnnMiuka] - Greats


9.[dew_farie] - Summer Country


10.[Asryth] - incomplete by deadline


11.[-Shadow-Nell-] - Once...


12.[Lizisthebest] - Rings of doom


13. [Wolf By Nature] - Dreams of Prophecy


14.[wilwarina] - Good deed


15. [thoughtfox] - Come and Play With Me


16. [Reonowyn] - Young King and Queen


17. [ufo] - ufo - Never trust a hatted dwarf


18. [Dark Side of the Moon] - Ir-Iddyns Wiki Prose Page


19. [MidSuMMer.Nights] - //Cold.as a.raZorBlade//.:'s prose entry


20. [BinaryPhoenix] - Kiba-Chan's ETPC Entry


21. [Ceallaigh] - The Order of White


22. [Mikhul, the Bard] - has removed story from contest.


23. [Elisha Kelly] - The Red Rose Ruby


24. [David the Good] - One Rainy Day


25. [farawaygone] - Penny for your thoughts


26. [An_Lei] - Brave yet without guilt...


27. [Paz] - Paz's ETPC Entry


28. [Lakayana] -Amazing Inheritance


29 - [DeadSockMonster] - The Curse of Greed


30. [Shika Lane]- Removed for exceeding the word limit.


31. [Artsieladie] - Funtosee, the Dwarf


32. [I stabbith ye] - Once Upon A Raven


33. [Cliché] - Blue Fairytale


34. [Paul Doyle] - Dwarf Scout Cookies



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The winners are [DeadSockMonster] - The Curse of Greed and [Dark Side of the Moon] - Ir-Iddyns Wiki Prose Page. Congratulations!


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2006-02-25 [Elisha Kelly]: }:] I want to rant... as it is me [Shika Lane] has pointed a finger at... *glares at [Shika Lane], so I shall be content with that one glare, and move on.

2006-02-25 [I stabbith ye]: You people aren't very good at moving on are you ¬.¬

2006-02-25 [Shika Lane]: *does not want to get uncivil and so quietly walks away*

2006-02-25 [Elisha Kelly]: no I am afraid it isn't one of my talents :P

2006-02-26 [Artsieladie]: *blushes* Thanks, [I stabbith ye]. Only about 2/3 of the story is there, though, so I could fit it in the limit. If I had a quarter for the number of times that I counted & re-counted just to be sure. Editing it down to fit, too, I did several times. I love to write for children. I enjoyed just writing a good childrens' story & trying to see how well I could. *staying out of the controversy* I enjoyed reading all the different stories everyone wrote & the diversified directions they took!  :D

2006-02-26 [Skydancer]: It has been interesting, just as I had to rip out chunks to make it fit, then redo the entire tense of a paragraph to bring it back into the knit, I can see here and there where other authors have done similar edits. :D

2006-02-26 [Elisha Kelly]: I counted as I wrote... when I got to 1500 I knew it was time to wrap the story up... a lot easier that way... :D I like writing, I never really have a plot in mind, I just let the story take me were it will... it's the same for my artwork... I rarely have a set idea... :P

2006-02-26 [Dark Side of the Moon]: Based mine on a dream I had. Dreams also make for excellent inspiration for stories. You just never know the kind of fun (and sometimes horrifying) things you'll see as you sleep! 8D

2006-02-26 [Artsieladie]: Glad to see that we're talking about writing, now! XD

2006-02-26 [Elisha Kelly]: when were we ever talking about anything else ? :P

2006-02-26 [I stabbith ye]: YAY my interfearing worked ^_^ Anyhoopy: Dreams can be a good inspiration

2006-02-27 [Lakayana]: Mine was based on treasures and unexpected inheritance. I think that looks more of a fairy tale than Just a mere prose

2006-03-09 [Ceallaigh]: Don't wanna sound rude, but could you estimate a date for when the winners will be announced?

2006-03-09 [Dark Side of the Moon]: I was sort of wondering that myself. But, there is a lot to read here and the judges may have other things going on in their lives. Not to sound rude either, mind you. Cheerio all! :^)

2006-03-09 [BinaryPhoenix]: You try reading all of them and deciding the winner! It's not so easy as it might seem! =D

2006-03-09 [shotokan_gal]: While I can't give a date - I can give some insight into our general judging strategy this time around. While initially all the stories are read by myself and [Melocrie], we wish to narrow down the selection at this stage, and then have those read and judged by further judges, all based on the criteria outlined on the main page. So it's not merely a matter of reading all the stories and choosing our two favourites out of those (which would be very subjective) to be winners :)

2006-03-09 [Ceallaigh]: Thanks for the info! :)

2006-03-09 [ACCOUNT DELETED.]: When do we find out who won etc?

2006-03-09 [Dark Side of the Moon]: Read the above comments. No one knows yet...

2006-03-10 [ACCOUNT DELETED.]: Oops; sorry. Was late when i wrote that. Must have missed the comment. Ta.

2006-03-25 [David the Good]: .........

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