Nightmare Night in April: 2024 · 9:23pm April 18th
For those who haven't seen my post about it a few days ago, it is once again April, and as I've done for the last few years, I'm running my horror event, possibly for the last time...
Nightmare Night in April: 2024
The event is simple: in order to encourage more horror writing, I hold a write-off event in which anyone can submit a Horror Story or Chapter, to be compiled by April 30th, the opposite day of the year from Halloween!
I have no rules for entries beyond "horror", so any entry will qualify regardless of technical quality, as long as it counts as a horror story. There's no "contest", per say, as I've learned the hard way that there will be too many good stories to judge, but I do try to promote everything that comes in, so expect plenty of views if you submit a story. This is also a really good opportunity to try your hand at horror if you're a new writer, or a writer who hasn't written much horror.
Remember, horror stories don't require violence, or even to be that scary or startling, only that they're about some creepy subject. This includes "Friendly Ghost" stories, stories like Friendship is Optimal which get into stuff like apocalyptic-events and brain-uploading, stories about summoning the dead or building a robot and "something goes wrong", or just exploring a creepy locale. This is a creative and fun event, so feel free to get creative and have fun!
If you need help, remember my writing advice blogs, and that I did a presentation on this at an online convention a few years ago which might give you ideas. I'm pretty sickly these days, but I'm also willing to offer advice if you catch me on Discord at Raccoon#5999 on most mainline pony servers, or PM me here, as are quite a few other authors.
This may be the last year I do this.
I am currently working on finishing up old fanfics, including a couple that were left to sit after I was left disabled by COVID in 2020. If y'all wanted to submit something to this, this may be your last chance to do so!
The announcement thread is up at this link, and the folder is open!
Hello. I would like to invite you to repost the event in the Hall of Contest group like last time. Thank you and hope the event will be successful.