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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

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

Go or return to:
- Elftown Prose Contest
- Prose contest - Fairy tales opening

2006-02-13 [Lakayana]: tanx a million times [Ceallaigh]

2006-02-13 [Lakayana]: *shrugs and walks away*

2006-02-14 [Melocrie]: People, the deadline is approaching. So please be sure your entries are compleet. Also, be wise to check your grammer one more time and of course the count of words used. Unfinished or incorrect stories will be deleted after the deadline. Good luck!

2006-02-14 [David the Good]: Would anyone mind reading over mine?>One Rainy Day

2006-02-15 [Melocrie]: Sorry, I'm off to school now, but I'll read it when I get back^^

2006-02-15 [thoughtfox]: if anyone could spare the time to read my story as well, I would be thankful too <Come and Play With Me>

2006-02-15 [Ceallaigh]: And while your at it people, take a look the 27 other entries...

2006-02-15 [Melocrie]: The stories will all be read, but during the judging. We count on you to read over your stories yourselves.

2006-02-16 [BinaryPhoenix]: I agree, In art contests, you don't ask other people to "correct" your artwork for you. So why in a prose contest?! o_O

2006-02-16 [thoughtfox]: you can certainly ask them to comment on your artwork. We just want to make sure what we've written is of the standard expected in this contest. But yes, an art contest one can scan over images: here one has to read up to 2000 words, so we really shouldn't ask.

2006-02-16 [David the Good]: And [Melocrie] has made a statment on the matter so why should anyone else?

2006-02-19 [shotokan_gal]: Another reminder: this contest will close midnight elftown time on Monday, after which we will check for and remove stories not following the rules. Any changes to your wiki page made after the deadline will not be looked at in the judging, so if there is a problem with your story (particularly if it's still incomplete! Also too many words, not using the given opening etc) fix it soon!

2006-02-20 [Skydancer]: Done, done, does a little dance, done!!

2006-02-20 [shotokan_gal]: ^^

2006-02-20 [thoughtfox]: and if no more entries come in, then it'll be just under half of the entries of the last prose contest ^_^

2006-02-20 [Dark Side of the Moon]: Well, that should make things run a little faster for all of the poor souls that have judge this thing. Thanks for running this contest guys! *stands and claps for judges*

2006-02-20 [I stabbith ye]: I am sensing sucking up!! Grr...it shall not beat my bribes ;)

2006-02-20 [Dark Side of the Moon]: [I stabbith ye] I stabbeth ye! Tis not sucking up! Just showing appreciation... and bloody glad it isn't me that has to read all of these! ;^)

2006-02-20 [Shika Lane]: *laughs*

2006-02-20 [thoughtfox]: absolutely. The judges deserve our deepest appreciation for their patience and organising the contest. Ir-Iddyn speaks on behalf of us all by showing her gratitude.

2006-02-20 [I stabbith ye]: How dare you stabbeth me...but the power of stabbith is much more powerful than the power of stabbeth...And I want to read all the stories anyway :p

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