Post: Obs did a thing · 2:17pm Jun 7th, 2014
If you haven't heard, Obselescence is hosting a writing contest.
The objective of the contest is simple: write a story (2,500 - 15,000 words) with at least one of these prompts:
-An OC Alicorn.
-A Human in Equestria.
-A Seventh Element of Harmony.
-Second Person Perspective.
-An OC and a major canon character (such as one of the Mane Six) fall in love with each other.
Secondary criteria for the story also includes:
-No Previously Extant OCs. If you're using an OC for your prompt, it can't be something anybody'd recognize from elsewhere in the fandom. This means no Snowdrop, Nyx, Blackjack, TD, Lil Pip, etc.
-No Parodies/Crackfics. You know the kind. It's a little too easy to write a "passable" story about an OC Alicorn if the trick is that you're writing about Raven Metalclaw Darkscar and blatantly poking fun at all the tropes. This doesn't mean you can't write a comedy, or lampshade tropes a little, but the goal here is to show you can write these concepts well, not show how well you can satirize their general badness.
-No Clopfics. It's a little too easy to cash out on some of the above concepts by making them about juicy sexual happenings instead of the human or the alicorn or whatever, so that's a no-go here. Mature-rated entries are provisionally allowed, to allow people access to, say, gorier stuff if they need it. But nothing about sex or otherwise involving sex scenes.
-No Crossovers. Forgot to bring this one up earlier. I only hope you can accept my apologies. You'll need to find your own human. No going with Superman or Darth Vader or anyone to make the job easier. Crossovers in general are kind of niche appeal, and likely to be disproportionately favored/avoided depending on the readers' feelings toward the source material, so gonna have to dodge these. This does include Fallout: Equestria and Doctor Whooves. Sorry. Feel free to make references, but they can't be the focus of your story.
On top of that, the top three winners will win prizes ranging from Steam games to pony plushie to pony art. More details on the rules and judging can be found in the link at the top.
I'll be entering the contest (even though I have way too many things to do as it is 
) as I have decent idea I want to do and I hope anyone who reads this will enter as well. :3
But first I have an Computer Graphics assignment and the Twilestia entry to do...
P.S. vren: You should totally enter. =P
Hmm. I've got too many things on my plate already, and a quick skimming of the rules has already shot down the first three ideas I had.
Still, if I get caught up with everything else, maybe I'll have a run at it.