Inspirational Writing Contest!

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*IOWW the Iasc*

*IOWW the Iasc*

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Hello to all of our wonderful writers!

In an attempt to keep the energy flowing in The Professor's Writing Club, I'm going to be starting a new writing contest. I always love roaming around this section and reading all the wonderful stories, but there haven't been very many writing competitions recently to challenge our talented writers.

I am pleased to announce that the genre for this writing contest will be...
Inspirational Stories!

Here are the Ground Rules and Guidelines:
1) Seeing as it is an inspirational story, your entry can either be fiction or non-fiction. It can be anything, from a true moment that spurred inspiration in your life to a heart-warming story about Draco Malfoy finally getting the courage to raise kittens; it's all fair game. The only thing that must be consistent is that there must be a moral aspect/element that inspires your readers in some way.
2) Your story can be anywhere from 300 to 3000 words, although short stories are preferred: novels can be great reads, but they can be rather cumbersome in a contest setting. If you do write a story that meets or slightly exceeds 3000, that's fine (for all I know, you could write the next epic masterpiece of the century), but try to keep it within the limits to make it easier on us readers and on the forum.
3) Forum rules apply to all stories, although I don't think that'll be a problem with any of you. You know the drill: No swearing, nothing inappropriate, keep it clean for our family-friendly forum.
4) Only one story can be submitted by each contestant. Quality, not quantity. ;)

How do I submit my story?
Submitting your story is very simple.
First thing you have to do is post your work of art here in the Writing section. If it is a short story (one that fits on either one or two posts) then feel free to just post it in this thread. If it is a little longer, then go ahead and make a thread for it. In either case, once it is posted, send me a pm telling me you posted it and send a link with it so I can find it. I'll be putting the links to every contest entry in the very first post of this thread so all entries can be easily found and read. :)

If you wish to submit a story that you've already posted here in The Professors Writing CLub, then submitting your story is even easier. Just pm me the link.

You can submit your stories anytime from now until the contest closes on September 2nd. Hopefully this will give you guys enough time to contact your Muse's and kick out a great story (if not, let me know and I'll extend it a few days). Once it is closed, the voting process will begin for the Best Story.

Good luck! And start writing!:D

Contest Entries!
Wasn't It Just Yesterday? By ndfan1993
Room 525 By QueenSusanofNarnia
Somewhere Far Beyond Today By Ginny_JillPole
Parables of a Dark Wood By dayhawk68
The First Snowflake By Eveningstar
Cassandra By Lucy But Taller
Untitled Story By Inkspot
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VOTE HERE!!!

The Poll will be open for voting until Saturday, September 12th. Contestants in the competition ARE allowed to vote, as well!
 
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It kinds narrows it down with those categories...could we have a general fanfiction category? MOst of the stories I've seen around here are just generals.
 
we havent had a poetry contest, at least not to my knowledge. Plus poetry is easier to read through than longer stories.
 
I'll add to the poll.

Also, I'd like to add that even if the topic you want to write about doesn't get picked this time, it will get its chance later on. :)

-IOWW
 
I don't think we should say that they have to do a specific topic. I for one have a very hard time coming up with Narnia stories for example. That might be because I haven't read all the books. But anyway I like writing about whatever comes into my head.
 
I think it would be cool if you Holyboygave a few things that each writer had to use in thier story. say for instance you could say that there were three friends and then give cheracter descriptions of these friends and each writer had to use these friends as the main cheracters in their stories
 
Nightcrawler_Fan said:
I don't think we should say that they have to do a specific topic. I for one have a very hard time coming up with Narnia stories for example. That might be because I haven't read all the books. But anyway I like writing about whatever comes into my head.
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Actually I think it will be better if we narrow it down to a category. I know it can be hard to write, but it will also be more challenging, and easier to vote upon a winner. It's hard to compare fan fiction and limericks, if you see my point. ;)
 
DestinyLies said:
Hmm should I enter??????
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Yes, you should. :)

Aravis Kenobi said:
I'm not entering, because I don't think my story falls under inspirational. *it'd fall under General Fanfiction, which hasnt' been chosen*
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Well, you can write a short story and enter it, too. You have a few weeks to write one, if you want to.


Also, the deadline for contest entries will be extended to September 2nd.
 
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Can we enter a story we already wrote and... Already posted on here? Haha, I am just not entirely sure if it fits under the catagory....

EDIT: I am silly sometimes. I just saw that part on the front page just now LOL.
 
I can't enter any of my stories because all of them are, I'm sure, waaaaay more than 3,000 words.:( I wrote one short story I posted on there, and I have no clue where it is now. So yeah.
 
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