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♥ Introduction ♥

Feeling expressive? Take up this writing challenge and win some prizes while you're at it!

♥ Rules ♥

♥ Follow the Terms of Service and the Rules.
♥ The word limit is 800 words. You can enter with fewer, but not more than 800.
♥ The contest will run till the event forum closes. Don't wait till the last minute to get your entry in!
♥ Your entry must be your own work. Plagiarism will not be tolerated.
♥ Your entry must be submitted via posting in this thread with the entry form. PMed entries will not be accepted.
♥ You can enter multiple entries, but you can only win once.
♥ Please use your main account when entering.
♥ Be respectful to all, including yourself! Have a little pride in your works. You've worked hard and done your best! :) Please do not complain if you do not win. Each entry will receive equal considerations. This is a friendly competition.

♥ Themes ♥

Choose one of the following themes per entry!

♥ Good ol' Fashioned Love Story: Conjure up the sweetest, candy coated romance you can possibly think of!
♥ The Tear Jerker: Have a tale to share that will break our hearts?
♥ The Anti-V-Day: Not a fan of all the gushing couples? Let us hear your gripes!
♥ Celebrate! Happiness, Prosperity, and Health to All!: It's time to welcome the Lunar New Year! This is the general theme for the Lunar New Year.
♥ Traditions Span Across the Ages: Highlight a piece of the Lunar New Year's cultural practices. If you happen to celebrate it yourself, share your memories!
♥ The Ultimate Challenge: Valentine's Day and the Lunar New Year fell on the same day this year. Use your creative powers to come up with a tale merging both holidays!

♥ Prizes ♥

Overall Best: 8000 gold and February 10 CI set
Ultimate Challenge Winner: 6000 gold and February CI set
Staff's Choice 6000 gold and February 10 CI set

Best Good ol' Fashioned Love Story: 6000 gold
Best Tear Jerker: 6000 gold
Best Anti-V-Day: 6000 gold
Best Celebrate! Happiness, Prosperity, and Health to All!: 6000 gold
Best Traditions Span Across the Ages: 6000 gold

♥ Entry Form ♥

You must post your entry using this form!


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♥ Entries ♥


Good Ol' Fashioned Love Story

JessehBoo
laniparis
IHateTests
Goblin Maiden
Allanasha
Moondey
RinaRoad
Lovers Never Tell
red rose
sadrain
BlueEyedWallflower
RinaRoad
Iltu
mwahhaha
Saravi Boo
Mnemosyne
fuyumi_saito

Tear Jerker

Red Cross Robbery
Krokodil
Clair Voyant
Obsidian Raven's Song
Stress
Dixie H
Ravinessa24
Princess Cupcake
Jauni
Luna_Starburst
happy515166
Cicadetta
Method of Vendetta
HanaKasuga
Bejamin Mason
EmilyNova
x_cannibalisticcows
Misha-chan
TutsTalkin..
Winter Wind
sadrain
Cami
Iltu
Sinsue Hoshigo
Closet Shadow
hayzel
hayzel
iinsanely Sane
Kat Dakuu
Xandriana
fuyumi_saito

Anti-V-Day

mwahhaha
broadway_princessxo34
GLITTERjazz
Wisdom
Milady Grimoire Valentine
EmilyNova
Winter Wind
m00finsan
LaVida
Beliar
White Orgundy
Lovers Never Tell
Milady Grimoire Valentine

Celebrate! Happiness, Prosperity, and Health to All!

`Cexlan
Krokodil

Traditions Span Across the Ages

broadway_princessxo34
LaVida
Dirt Man
Winter Wind
Luenola Marxiel

The Ultimate Challenge

IHateTests
Espada_Reaper_13
HanaKasuga
Cicadetta
fuyumi_saito
Luenola Marxiel

♥ Winner's Circle ♥

Will be announced after the event.

*smiles* A writing contest! Let's see if I have a little inspiration and time to squeeze into this one!

I already have an idea for the tear jerker ^.^

I may enter multiple categories though ^.^

OMG! I already have a great idea for my entry! I'll be entering soon. :D

I have absolutely no idea what to write, but I'll try to come up with something. XD I'm not really the love story type.

Will be entering soon. This is going to be fun.

Oh goody, a writing contest. Let's see what Cupcake can come up with~!

ooh fun XD I think I might just do the challenge one...

I have an old story I can re-write for this occasion, I think...

YES! A writing contest. So entering this. ^_^

Oh goody! I love to write. I think my main problem will be keeping it under eight hundred words since my average roleplay post is at least a thousand. That will be the true challenge. Well I have a free day in English tomorrow. I'll work on it then.

All riiiiight. *Mai warms up her writing mojo engine* Let's OWN this thing! XD

♥ I Stitched a Tale! ♥
Red Cross Robbery:
139:

9:00 AM Collision

We could travel through the sky
We could travel, you and I
Oh, such beauty is found in the lack of light.
Curse the day, and love the night.

The wax of our candles now wanes with the moon.
Shh, my darling. Infinity is soon.

Put on your blindfold, and grab my hand.
Ignore the glass, and its grains of sand.
The rain starts to fall, but can't hold down the smile.
I stare with such care, I stare for awhile.

A hand on your face, and my lips touching yours
My mind starts it's racing, my heartbeat starts to soar
I wake from the alarm clock, I'm disappointed yet again.
My mind crashes on beaches, only dreams remain.

February 14th will be a lonely day this year
I lay back down in my bed and try to disappear
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Umm... I hope this is the correct Format? I'd assume this would be in Tear Jerker, but maybe Anti-Vday? Not sure :[

Um, is poetry allowed, or is this a prose-only contest?

How many entries can we make?

Ohh? I assumed with a 800 word limit that it would be full of poetry. I spent 139 with that little poem up there. I can't imagine painting a very imaginary short story with only 800.

I write short stories, and 9k is an average for me, so I figured it was meant for poetry?

Reading the comments, I think I may be incorrect in my assumptions?

I'm glad to hear all the interest in entering! I look forward to seeing what you all write. :)

@Cami: Two of the themes are non-love related - the Lunar New Year themes.

@Red Cross Robbery: Thank you for the entry. ^^ My initial reaction was that it's a Tear Jerker rather than a Anti-V-day prose. But I'll let you decide.
I don't want to limit anyone, so I'm taking poetry and prose. In the past, we've had stories written with word limits of 100 and 400. It's possible! *nods*

@Krokodil: Poetry is allowed.

@LenGe: As stated in the rules, you can enter multiple times, but you can only win once. So there's no limit to how many you produce. There's just a focus on quality rather than quantity.

skldfj nevermind, I see it's allowed.

/goes off to write something

Hmm, for the love related topics can it be family related? Such as the relationship between sisters or a mother and daughter?

Ahh, thank you for the response! :D

Tear Jerker it is then :]