HEY, EVERYBODY, LOOK!! IT’S MY FIRST CONTEST!!! w00t!! *happy dance* and it only took me, what, a year to get the points! 
First off, THANK YOU GENUFLECTMANUI55 for giving me 51 points and helping me get that last 20 or so
I will repay you someday lylas
Also thanks to cherche -d -ame who gave me 60 points for honorable mentions, so if you get honorable mentions thank her.
BEING THAT… this is my first contest, I had a hard time choosing what I wanted it to be. I am therefore giving you three options. THOSE OPTIONS ARE:
1) Give me lyrics. I love music and lyrics. But don’t give me just any lyrics- I want your ab-so-lute BEST. Make me hear the music playing. I want a new favorite song by the time this contest is over.
2) Take one of the following song TITLES and write a poem OR A SHORT STORY based on what the title makes you think. I love short stories, but do keep in mind that I’m not on the computer a whole lot, so the judging is going to take a while as it is. Too many not-so-short stories will make it take even longer. Anyway, the song titles ARE:
Like a Racecar
Start to Fly
We Live
Letters to the President
Something to Believe In
Right Here
Dare You to Move
Lost the Plot
Dreamer
Just take the title and write about it. Lyrics, poem, short story, whatever. Just no essays. And remember- too many short stories will REALLY slow down the judging. I AM NOT JUDGING YOU ON HOW SIMILAR YOUR WORK IS TO THE ORIGINAL SONG. Therefore it doesn’t matter to me whether or not you have heard the song ever in your lifetime.
3) It snowed a bit this week. It put me in a Christmassy mood. 
Take your favorite Christmas carol and write a poem or short story with the same title. IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE ALL WARM FUZZY I-LOVE-MY-FAMILY. You can write me a horror story if you want to, just remember it has to have a Christmas THEME.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ MY CONTEST, MY RULES!!!!! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
yeah, yeah, yeah, groan if you want to but I’ve wanted to say that since I decided to have a contest.
RULE #1) Prewrites are allowed ONLY in the lyrics option.
RULE #1.5) If you enter prewritten lyrics, you must also enter a non-prewrite in another category. This other poem-story-thing has to have some obvious effort. I don’t care if your prewritten lyrics deserve a Grammy category all to themselves. If your other entry is something Mother Goose wrote in kindergarten, you are DQed. Period. End of story.
RULE #2) If you choose the song title or Christmas carol option, your poem/short story has to have the same name. This is so I can tell which song title/Christmas carol you chose. Simple, right?
RULE #3) nO sTiCkY cApS. tHeY aRe AnNoYiNg AnD hArD tO rEaD.
RULE #4) No erotica or adult themes. I’m 16. I don’t want any of that in my contest.
RULE #4.5) Just so I know that you’re reading the rules and plan to follow them, put “All hail Aleicia, Queen of the Realms of Hyperness and Randomness, and may the Blue Sheep Eraser god reign forever!” in your author box.
RULE #5) No profanity. There are SO many MUCH better ways of human expression that f-bombing everything.
RULE #6) You may write angst poetry/stories, but no dark themes. It makes me mad when a contest asks for random topics and 95% if the entries are about depression and suicide and cutting and killing things. If you write angst, make me feel the angst, not the depression.
RULE #7) PLEASE stay away from love gunk. It will just depress me. I’ve been single for like six months after one steady boyfriend for a year and three months, and I am not enjoying it.
~*~*~*~*~*~THE FOLLOWING are what I like to call NOT-RULES.~*~*~*~*~*~
You know… a kind of you-don’t-have-to-but-it-would-be-nice sort of thing. They DO affect the judging, but only positively.
NOT-RULE #1) Be good sports. Comment on each others’ entries. Earn brownie points for critiques as opposed to just comments.
**DISCLAIMER**
Be nice. None of this, “You suck. Who on earth gave you a pen and told you that you could write? You don’t stand a chance of winning.” That kind of thing WILL get you DQed. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
NOT-RULE #2) If you applaud my stuff, I’ll have more points to dole out in the end
*drum roll* And now… the moment you’ve all been waiting for… POINT DISTIBUTION!!! Because that IS what you REALLY care about
FIRST PLACE- 300 points
SECOND PLACE- 200 points
THIRD PLACE- 100 points
As of right now, I don’t have enough points to do honorable mentions. Applauding my stuff, however, will give me more points.
***ANOTHER DISCLAIMER***
If you break any of the rules, you are automatically DQed. I will disregard all of your entries. No exceptions. At all. None.
*thinks* hmm… I think that’s about it now GO! and… have fun!!!
I extended the deadline so I can get more entries. I'm just having SO MUCH FUN with this!!!!
I extended it again because I won't have time to judge all the entries on Friday... or Saturday or Sunday or Monday. But I WILL on Tuesday!!
okay, people... I WANT MORE ENTRIES!!! please try to get others to enter!!!
First off, THANK YOU GENUFLECTMANUI55 for giving me 51 points and helping me get that last 20 or so
I will repay you someday lylasAlso thanks to cherche -d -ame who gave me 60 points for honorable mentions, so if you get honorable mentions thank her.
BEING THAT… this is my first contest, I had a hard time choosing what I wanted it to be. I am therefore giving you three options. THOSE OPTIONS ARE:
1) Give me lyrics. I love music and lyrics. But don’t give me just any lyrics- I want your ab-so-lute BEST. Make me hear the music playing. I want a new favorite song by the time this contest is over.
2) Take one of the following song TITLES and write a poem OR A SHORT STORY based on what the title makes you think. I love short stories, but do keep in mind that I’m not on the computer a whole lot, so the judging is going to take a while as it is. Too many not-so-short stories will make it take even longer. Anyway, the song titles ARE:
Like a Racecar
Start to Fly
We Live
Letters to the President
Something to Believe In
Right Here
Dare You to Move
Lost the Plot
Dreamer
Just take the title and write about it. Lyrics, poem, short story, whatever. Just no essays. And remember- too many short stories will REALLY slow down the judging. I AM NOT JUDGING YOU ON HOW SIMILAR YOUR WORK IS TO THE ORIGINAL SONG. Therefore it doesn’t matter to me whether or not you have heard the song ever in your lifetime.
3) It snowed a bit this week. It put me in a Christmassy mood.
Take your favorite Christmas carol and write a poem or short story with the same title. IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE ALL WARM FUZZY I-LOVE-MY-FAMILY. You can write me a horror story if you want to, just remember it has to have a Christmas THEME.*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
MY CONTEST, MY RULES!!!!! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*yeah, yeah, yeah, groan if you want to but I’ve wanted to say that since I decided to have a contest.
RULE #1) Prewrites are allowed ONLY in the lyrics option.
RULE #1.5) If you enter prewritten lyrics, you must also enter a non-prewrite in another category. This other poem-story-thing has to have some obvious effort. I don’t care if your prewritten lyrics deserve a Grammy category all to themselves. If your other entry is something Mother Goose wrote in kindergarten, you are DQed. Period. End of story.
RULE #2) If you choose the song title or Christmas carol option, your poem/short story has to have the same name. This is so I can tell which song title/Christmas carol you chose. Simple, right?
RULE #3) nO sTiCkY cApS. tHeY aRe AnNoYiNg AnD hArD tO rEaD.
RULE #4) No erotica or adult themes. I’m 16. I don’t want any of that in my contest.
RULE #4.5) Just so I know that you’re reading the rules and plan to follow them, put “All hail Aleicia, Queen of the Realms of Hyperness and Randomness, and may the Blue Sheep Eraser god reign forever!” in your author box.
RULE #5) No profanity. There are SO many MUCH better ways of human expression that f-bombing everything.
RULE #6) You may write angst poetry/stories, but no dark themes. It makes me mad when a contest asks for random topics and 95% if the entries are about depression and suicide and cutting and killing things. If you write angst, make me feel the angst, not the depression.
RULE #7) PLEASE stay away from love gunk. It will just depress me. I’ve been single for like six months after one steady boyfriend for a year and three months, and I am not enjoying it.
~*~*~*~*~*~THE FOLLOWING are what I like to call NOT-RULES.~*~*~*~*~*~
You know… a kind of you-don’t-have-to-but-it-would-be-nice sort of thing. They DO affect the judging, but only positively.
NOT-RULE #1) Be good sports. Comment on each others’ entries. Earn brownie points for critiques as opposed to just comments.
**DISCLAIMER**
Be nice. None of this, “You suck. Who on earth gave you a pen and told you that you could write? You don’t stand a chance of winning.” That kind of thing WILL get you DQed. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
NOT-RULE #2) If you applaud my stuff, I’ll have more points to dole out in the end
*drum roll* And now… the moment you’ve all been waiting for… POINT DISTIBUTION!!! Because that IS what you REALLY care about
FIRST PLACE- 300 points
SECOND PLACE- 200 points
THIRD PLACE- 100 points
As of right now, I don’t have enough points to do honorable mentions. Applauding my stuff, however, will give me more points.
***ANOTHER DISCLAIMER***
If you break any of the rules, you are automatically DQed. I will disregard all of your entries. No exceptions. At all. None.
*thinks* hmm… I think that’s about it
now GO! and… have fun!!! I extended the deadline so I can get more entries. I'm just having SO MUCH FUN with this!!!!
I extended it again because I won't have time to judge all the entries on Friday... or Saturday or Sunday or Monday. But I WILL on Tuesday!!
okay, people... I WANT MORE ENTRIES!!! please try to get others to enter!!!
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on January 14, 2006
- Rewards: Gold: 300
- Final notes: Aaaaaaaaaaand FIVE HONORABLE MENTIONS GO TO.............
Dreamer by broadwayluver24
Like a Racecar by Sharcu
Sweet Li'l Jesus by TheMOof
Little Secrets play Big Mind Games by DeHemelValt
Thank you all who entered. This was such a hard contest to judge.You're all incredibly talented. You made my first contest a great one!!!!Entries [15]
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One day.
You'll see.• Commented on by judge. -
I've played my fingers raw,
I've played them raw again...by Gleto Orica 53 lines, 8 comments, on Sep 21 7:04 PM 2005. In Lyrics, Personal, Love
Bronze trophy winner
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Verse 1:
I saw the Lord,• Commented on by judge. -
But it's for you to do what you do
I know now its all trueby livingItup 83 lines, 3 comments, on Nov 26 11:03 AM 2005. In Lyrics, Personal, Love
Gold trophy winner
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a childs imagination of a perfect christmasby angelofthecentury 59 lines, 12 comments, on Nov 28 5:19 PM 2005. In Nature• Commented on by judge.
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Verse 1:
Sweet Li’l Jesus,• Commented on by judge. -
The problems of earth
must affect our President;• Commented on by judge. -
Looking for you
Standing in front of me.• Commented on by judge. -
I don't know where my notebooks are:
the ones i carried with me in the war.• Commented on by judge. -
Decorations around the house
Christmas has come• Commented on by judge. -
Snuggled beneath the covers I dream endlessly of lovewhat it's like to be in loveand to be loved by someone elsethese dreams seem toby wohadreambig 80 lines, 1 comment, on Dec 13 11:42 AM 2005. In Lyrics• Commented on by judge.
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i lie to myself whispering "he could want you"
but empty lies make for empty cold girlsby DeHemelValt 52 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 29 11:49 PM 2005. In Lyrics• Commented on by judge. -
It's about unrequited love, okay?by MaryJaneWatson 19 lines, 1 comment, on Jan 12 10:22 AM 2006. In Personal• Commented on by judge.
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uhmm.. I have a pre-write lyrics to a christms carol i made up.. you didnt enable pre-writes, so now i cant put it..
hmph
-Karen Sue-
Romans 8:28
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OOPS i'll fix that!! sorry
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FantabulousContest!!!
All hail Aleicia, Queen of the Realms of Hyperness and Randomness, and may the Blue Sheep Eraser god reign forever!
allpoetry.com/poem/1530614
Hand an Angel a tissue, & get...AngelSnot...
Peacey...
Edited on Nov 26, 10:11 because 'ThingsChange 
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lol
you are automatically DQed...Sounds awesome!!! I LOVE Dairy Queen
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hmmmm...Christmas suicide sounds....happy...
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It's hokay... of course, it's YOUR baby
“All hail Aleicia, Queen of the Realms of Hyperness and Randomness, and may the Blue Sheep Eraser god reign forever!”
Hmmm.... I guess mine got pulled. Oh well, if at first you don't succeed... -
ok, i just put in my pre-write for the lyrics.. will write a poem and put it on here tomorrow.. right now i'm too tired
dont DQ me please
-Karen Sue-
Romans 8:28
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verty creative contest here i haven't written lyrics in awhile so i just might enter. kudos to u for a creative contest idea and happy holidays
Janine -
Heh alright, it took me a litte longer than a day to put in my other poem, but it's finally in. NO DQ FOR ME!
-Karen Sue-
Romans 8:28
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you listen to hawk nelson, don't you? They rock!
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I've got several that would have fit this (prewrites), but don't have time to write any new poems.
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Hawk Nelson, Superchick, Switchfoot... you get around your Christian rock, huh?
I'll enter a poem under "Dare You to Move". I like me my Switchfoot. -
oh, heck yes Hawk Nelson rocks my world
Edited on Jan 12, 8:43 because 'oh joy for fun typos'.
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yeah... i've sort of grown up in christian music. whether it was Steve Greeen when i was little or Falling Up now that i'm 16. Music's pretty much my life
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oog i need to close it so i'll have time to read everything... hey hold onto it, and when i have another contest, enter it there. k?
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Hey! Awesome contest! Congratulations to the winners and thanks so much for the honorable mention. Great job at judging this one, Alecia. I hope to see another contest from you sometime in the future.
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yay thank you! Which one did I get an honorable mention for?
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oh, yeah. sorry about that... it forgot to put up what i said to put up... you got it for The Twelve Lunches of Christmas very cute good job
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Silver trophy winner
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