FlutterDash Contest #4: Nightmare Night, What a Fright! · 10:52pm Sep 20th, 2017
A few days ago, Tilgoreth suggested that we in the FlutterDash group run another competition. I realized it had been a year since our last contest, so I figured it was high time to do another one!
The Prompt
The prompt for this contest, as suggested by the season, is the classic Equestrian rhyme:
Nightmare Night, what a fright, give me something sweet to bite!
You may use any portion of the rhyme, or all of it, as a prompt for your story. Feel free to be creative!
The Rules
Submitted entries are to feature the Fluttershy x Rainbow Dash pairing in either a romantic or a platonic relationship. This can be in any form you wish: Anthro, Humanized, Equestria girls, Alternate Universe, etc. are all fine so long as it features the paring.
1) Submitted entries are to be greater than 1,750 words in length, but can be as long as you want.
2) Submitted entries are to have no greater than a T rating.
2a) That means no explicit descriptions of anything more “heated” than passionate kissing.
3) No content that would require the entry to be tagged “gore” will be permitted.
4) Multi-Chapter stories must be marked complete before the contest deadline.
5) Each contestant may only have one entry.
6) Entries must be written for the contest. No stories posted prior to September 20th, 2017 can be entered.
7) None of the contest judges may have been involved in the writing, editing or pre-reading of your entry. Asking for help from others though is both allowed and encouraged.
Submitting
A subfolder for Contest 4 has been created within the main folder "Writing Contests" called "Writing Contest 4: Nightmare Night" and has been made public for anyone to submit stories into. Please be sure to submit your story to the folder, and, preferably, make a note of its submission in the thread as well.
The Deadline
The deadline to submit a story for the contest is Tuesday, October 31st at 11:59 P.M. Pacific Time. The contest folder will be locked off after that point and you won't be able to submit your story, so be sure to submit your entry before then!
Judging
The judging period will happen after the specified deadline and the winner shall be announced by Monday, November 13th.
Our judges for this contest are:
Titanium Dragon
Dalek Saxon
Tilgoreth
ChappedPenguinLips
Prizes
* Keys for PC video games! First place will get to pick two games off of this list, second place will get to pick one game. If there are ten or more entries in the contest, first place will receive three games, second place will get two games, and third place will get one game. Most of these keys are for Steam, but a few are for uPlay or Origin.
* Titanium Dragon will post reviews of all of the stories on his blog; if you don’t want your contest entry to be publicly reviewed, you may instead ask for a private review to be sent to you. He will also make a public note of the winners of the contest on his blog.
* Front page posting as the contest winner for an unspecified amount of time.
Tips
1) Don't procrastinate! You have 42 days to write your entries, which makes it seem easy to wait until the last minute to write something… at which point, it seems like you’ve almost run out of time. Try to get an early start, so that you don’t have to rush at the end.
2) Proofread your work! Try to be as thorough as possible with your story to have as few grammar or spelling mistakes as possible. No one's perfect, but try really hard and even get outside assistance if necessary to make sure your story is as grammatically correct as possible.
3) Ask for help! Even though the judges can't help you with your story during the contest, that doesn't mean you're all alone. Ask for help from as many people as possible, there exists groups on this site that can help you for this kind of thing, and of course, there are likely many FlutterDash fans who would be eager to help you produce a good story!
4) Be Creative! While ‘tis the season of Halloween, your story does not necessarily have to be about Nightmare Night (though don’t be afraid to write about Nightmare Night if the idea takes you!). Try to think outside the box and create something truly creative that will hook people.
5) Have Fun! Don't feel like you have to do this or that you just want to do this for the prize. If you're writing for the contest and you're not enjoying yourself, then what’s the point? Have fun and try to enjoy writing something that other people will read and enjoy themselves.
Good Luck!
If you have any questions regarding the contest please feel free to ask them here in the thread or PM one of the judges.
The official contest thread can be found on the FlutterDash forums, here.
Good luck to all those who want to enter!
So many shipping contests! @_@
One day, I'm gonna judge a contest. Sounds so much more fun than writing for it. Maybe later. Unless you need a tiebreaker. Basically:
Good luck to y'all! I'll be lurking over here!
Wow. I haven't written a fictional story since I was...12? Even so, that list of games is tempting.
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It's given me:
An idea for another "friendship adventure" the two of them could have, but the prizes are so uninteresting to me, I might just write the story and post it without actually entering the contest...
Mike
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That's allowed.
I'd love to see it regardless.
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Keep an eye on:
The AugieDog page, then, hopefully by the end of October. I'm thinking it'll be based on a couple Greek and Roman myths as well as Dante's Inferno and that the title will be "Shades of Hades" from this 1930s swing band tune.
Mike
Hmmmm...