((Sorry guys, you'll have to wait another few days for judging!))
ARGH! Look! Gold is now 750 points and a trophy, silver is 400 and a trophy and bronze is 200 and a trophy!! I MIGHT EVEN OFFER MORE POINTS FOR TOP PLACES.
Now, this involves a lot of concentration. LOL, Don't turn around now though, it's worth it.
This is actually a workshop for creative writing. It really makes you pick up a few skills, and improve some of your own.
So, here goes.
FEMALES!!
In your piece, you must have 2 characters, a MOTHER and a DAUGHTER. You can be either.
You haven't seen each other in a long time.
MALES!!
In your piece, you must have 2 characters, a FATHER and a SON. You can be either.
You haven't seen each other in a long time.
These are the parts of your piece, they must be 1-2 sentences long and THEY NEED TO BE IN THIS ORDER.
1) The Meeting. Explain briefly where they are.
2) What Is Between Them. An object is between them, what is it?
3) Accesories. Clothing, jewellery, hand bags, accessories people!! Explain what the other character's accessories are.
4) Something They See. It could be something out of the corner of their eye, something small, something big THAT THEY BOTH SEE.
5) Something They Hear. Again, something THEY BOTH HEAR.
6) Give The Object Between Them A Human Feeling. This means give it a characteristic, if it is a tree it could be "mean looking" or "depressed".
7) Appearance Of One Character. Describe what they look like.
8) The Sound Changes. The sound that they heard before now changes, tell me about it.
9) The Person With The Accessory Changes It. Meaning, they play with it, adjust it, takes it off, things like that.
10) One Character Says Something Unexpected. Leave me with a cliff hanger, make me want more!!
The trick is, you need to role all of these parts into a flowing piece.
WARNING: IF YOU DON'T READ THIS, YOU MAY NOT HAVE A CLUE WHAT YOU ARE DOING. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO COMMENT, IT IS AGAINST SITE RULES FOR ME TO MAKE YOU DO THAT.
This is the piece I wrote, no editing was done at all. You are lucky as I was timed and had only a certain time to write this.
http://allpoetry.com/poem/2724568
RULES
1) Cussing is fine if it fits the piece. Don't over do it.
2) Somehow I don't think erotica fits into this
3) If you're female, your characters MUST be female.
4) If you're male, your characters MUST be male.
5) SPELL CHECK IS YOUR FRIEND, If you don't know how to use the new one, then simply write your piece in Microsoft Word and use the spell checker there.
6) NO CHAT SPEAK, NO SLANG, NO STICKY CAPS
SCORING
I will score mainly on your ability to make the piece flow, and how well you followed the instructions.
The content is also a big scoring factor.
Grammar and Spelling.
LAST MINUTE NOTES
You can set up your piece in either paragraph form, or free form (as an actual poem). Up to you guys. Because paragraph form is simple to comprehend, my example will be an example of a free form piece.
You CAN make your piece rhyme if you wish to do so. No brownie points though.
ARGH! Look! Gold is now 750 points and a trophy, silver is 400 and a trophy and bronze is 200 and a trophy!! I MIGHT EVEN OFFER MORE POINTS FOR TOP PLACES.
Now, this involves a lot of concentration. LOL, Don't turn around now though, it's worth it.
This is actually a workshop for creative writing. It really makes you pick up a few skills, and improve some of your own.
So, here goes.
FEMALES!!
In your piece, you must have 2 characters, a MOTHER and a DAUGHTER. You can be either.
You haven't seen each other in a long time.
MALES!!
In your piece, you must have 2 characters, a FATHER and a SON. You can be either.
You haven't seen each other in a long time.
These are the parts of your piece, they must be 1-2 sentences long and THEY NEED TO BE IN THIS ORDER.
1) The Meeting. Explain briefly where they are.
2) What Is Between Them. An object is between them, what is it?
3) Accesories. Clothing, jewellery, hand bags, accessories people!! Explain what the other character's accessories are.
4) Something They See. It could be something out of the corner of their eye, something small, something big THAT THEY BOTH SEE.
5) Something They Hear. Again, something THEY BOTH HEAR.
6) Give The Object Between Them A Human Feeling. This means give it a characteristic, if it is a tree it could be "mean looking" or "depressed".
7) Appearance Of One Character. Describe what they look like.
8) The Sound Changes. The sound that they heard before now changes, tell me about it.
9) The Person With The Accessory Changes It. Meaning, they play with it, adjust it, takes it off, things like that.
10) One Character Says Something Unexpected. Leave me with a cliff hanger, make me want more!!
The trick is, you need to role all of these parts into a flowing piece.
WARNING: IF YOU DON'T READ THIS, YOU MAY NOT HAVE A CLUE WHAT YOU ARE DOING. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO COMMENT, IT IS AGAINST SITE RULES FOR ME TO MAKE YOU DO THAT.
This is the piece I wrote, no editing was done at all. You are lucky as I was timed and had only a certain time to write this.
http://allpoetry.com/poem/2724568
RULES
1) Cussing is fine if it fits the piece. Don't over do it.
2) Somehow I don't think erotica fits into this
3) If you're female, your characters MUST be female.
4) If you're male, your characters MUST be male.
5) SPELL CHECK IS YOUR FRIEND, If you don't know how to use the new one, then simply write your piece in Microsoft Word and use the spell checker there.
6) NO CHAT SPEAK, NO SLANG, NO STICKY CAPS
SCORING
I will score mainly on your ability to make the piece flow, and how well you followed the instructions.
The content is also a big scoring factor.
Grammar and Spelling.
LAST MINUTE NOTES
You can set up your piece in either paragraph form, or free form (as an actual poem). Up to you guys. Because paragraph form is simple to comprehend, my example will be an example of a free form piece.
You CAN make your piece rhyme if you wish to do so. No brownie points though.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on April 2, 2007
- Rewards: Gold: 750, Silver: 400, Bronze: 200, Honorable mention: 4 people
- Final notes: Ok so this contest has been going for 3 weeks now, I did expect more entries but this way it's easier to judge .
The majority of entrants did an excellent job, and I had no trouble finding 7 poems to be rewarded here.
Congratulations to those who placed and I hope that everyone who entered has been able to take some knowledge away.
I'm looking at having more contests like this in the future, so keep an eye out.
Peace.
Contest Winners
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It has been twenty years since I last saw her. I told her to meet me here at the sand box. It was the last place I remembered seein• Commented on by judge. [remove] -
by TheMoodchangingPoet 25 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 30 12:56 PM 2007. In Story, Dark
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1) Time has repainted the vaguely familiar house with all shades of degeneration.
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She strolled through the garden
Toward her mother’s houseby aslanlight 30 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 18 5:42 AM 2007. In Life, Love, Personal Honorable mention
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She wanted someplace public,
wanted the distraction of idle chatter,• Commented on by judge. [remove]
Gold trophy winner
Bronze trophy winner
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I walk into the room littered with relatives
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The familiar sound of heels clicking.
I looked up.by clickclickBOOM 67 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 25 5:58 PM 2007• Commented on by judge. -
Spring meeting today at the flower shop;
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money alone doesn't matter muchby Purush 26 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 30 11:45 PM 2007• Commented on by judge.
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In a state, leopard print confusion, location a locust, opaque diversion
Mother Teresa as my mirror mirror on the wallby LeanneBridgewater 9 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 1 4:33 PM 2007. In Contest, Freewrite, Beat, Longing, My own style, Spiritual, Personal• Commented on by judge.
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I'm interested
I just recieved the notification for this contest. I just wanted to let you know that I am rather excited to get a piece into this. I'll probably enter my finished piece before hte deadline ends. ^_^ I want to be happy with it before I think of enterign it. THank you for the challenge.
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That's fair enough
I will more than likely extend the deadline anyway, as I want a great deal of entries for this one.
Can't wait,
SMW
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Cool
I'm not sure i can enter this...is the meeting supposed to be a POEM format or story-like? -
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It's up to you really. It's not a story... but it's not really a poem either. More of a paragraph really.
I do not mind if you make it into a poem though, so long as the instructions are followed and such
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Very unique contest =)
I am honestly going to try to enter this contest. I think it is really unique idea and hopefully I can enter before the deadline. I did read your example and I have to say I liked it...well I loved it actually. More so because I put myself in the place of the girl and it was sort of like...therapy in a way. *sigh* I have only one question - Can we expand the 1 to 2 sentences for each part we need to include in the piece of writing? Anyway, good luck with this contest and I hope you get a lot of entries.
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Cheers.
Nope, you can't expand the sentences
Course you can. I'd say... no more than 5 lines for each though.
SMW
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I think spell check was not your friend when you came up with this contest as you have done a cock up with the spell in the sentence "If you're make" I think you mean if you're male. not what you had.
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Spell check doesn't pick up on grammatical errors.
Thanks for that, will fix now.
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ok smartie pants! LOL...aunt desi will try to enter this..but no gaurentees...(work sucks sometimes!) love ya
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Quite intruiging!
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I hope you enter
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Congratulations to all the winners and thanks so much for hosting a most interesting contest.
Gaylene
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Thank-you for the Gold. This was quite a fun and interesting contest and I am quite happy Gratz to all the winners and thank-you for the contest.
~Ryan~
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