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Winner: [chuchutrain]!

The Valediction Contest, a Flipside contest!

Hosted by [Mister Saint]

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Valediction Contest Judging

Please drop by this wikipage for the contest results.

From www.merriam-webster.com
Main Entry: val·e·dic·tion
Pronunciation: "va-le-'dik-shen
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin valedicere to say farewell, from vale farewell + dicere to say
1 : an act of bidding farewell
2 : VALEDICTORY.

I have designed this contest especially for the benefit of some of our 'dark' writers, but it should be fun for everyone. Get your flying shoes on!

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Theme

The idea of this contest is to write a farewell scene. However, this is no ordinary valediction. We will be writing a farewell scene with some very specific themes, so read this section very carefully!.

Here are the thematic rules for the story. If you do not adhere to these rules, I won't even judge your entry. The idea of this is to help you break away from dark writing, and/or expand your horizons into something you may not have done.

1. There shall be no killing, death, dying, blood, demons, illness, cutting, or other similar elements in this story.

2. The story is to be a romance.

3. Any genre, any race is okay.

4. Happy ending, happy progression. No tragedies.

5. Be creative! A valediction, in literature, is a farewell speech. Make sure that you imply to where your person is going.

6. The scene must have only two characters.

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Rules

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1. Both poetry and prose are allowed.

2. Submissions must involve the theme.

3. Original work only, please.

4. Spellcheck and grammar check your work. This time, grammar and spelling errors will hurt your entry's score, so check 'em!

5. 400-2000 words prose, or 8-50 lines of poetry.

6. Respect the work of others.

7. The deadline for this contest is January 25th, 2006. Late entries will not be accepted.

8. Content: Submissions should be clean enough for twelve year olds to read. So profanity, gore, and sexual content should be kept to reasonable levels (although if your entry has gore, you aren't winning anyway ^-^).

9. Entries will be judged on the following criteria: Creativity, adherence to the theme, grammar and spelling, and overall effect.

10. Entries should be in standard paragraph form.

Prizes

I haven't decided yet.

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Submissions!

Please give your username, a link to your story, and a word count if at all possible. For poems, a line count is preferable.

Submissions:

1. [chuchutrain]: 63.Valediction Entry Word Count - 631
2. [Burning Inside]: 233.Short Stories.Farewell 1,138 words
3. [Kuzco]: 212.Saudade 1513 words.

If you intend to enter, please place your name in this list. Thanks!

1. [chuchutrain]
2. [Burning Inside]
3. [Kuzco]

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The Valediction Contest, a Flipside contest, hosted by [Mister Saint], king of the world. Writer/Poet buttons by [Ash], courtesy of WritersCo Graphics. [Mister Saint] will see you in his trailer for the traffic mooning scene.

2006-01-15 [Mister Saint]: Then I will begin judging today. ^_^ It might take a little while, as I plan to be as thorough as I can so that we all learn as much as possible. ^^ In the meantime, if anyone wants to enter before I submit my results, that's fine.

2006-01-16 [Mister Saint]: My judgments have been written up. ^^ It took me a few hours, so I hope you all can learn something and be proud of your accomplishments. This is LAST CALL for entries. I will submit my results shortly, at which time the contest will be closed. ^_^

2006-01-16 [chuchutrain]: yay ^^

2006-01-16 [Burning Inside]: YAY good job Chu you completely deserved that

2006-01-16 [Mister Saint]: *applauds Chuey* I am extremely pleased with all the entries. It took me hours to write the reviews o.o which should tell you how much interest I had in them. ^_^

2006-01-16 [Kuzco]: THey were awesome reviews. And yeah Chu, I'm with Burn there, very well done you rule! :D

2006-01-16 [chuchutrain]: thank you guys :D I'm so happy that people like my writing lol

2006-01-16 [Kuzco]: Don't laugh, we're seriously complementing here! ;). Anyways, now what? that it for this wiki?

2006-01-16 [Mister Saint]: Probably. This particular contest has its winner, so... we move onto the next contest! Muaha! >.>

2006-01-16 [chuchutrain]: yay! and I'm sorry for laughing but I don't really know what to say with all this praise ^^

2006-01-16 [Kuzco]: I know, I wasa just messinga with'ya. And yeah, ok people, three...two...one...move on!

2006-01-16 [chuchutrain]: *moved*

2006-01-16 [Kuzco]: DAMN I'm good!

2006-01-16 [Mister Saint]: You noticed, eh? *poke*

2006-01-17 [Burning Inside]: hey just a question, where are these reviews? im stuid and don't think I've seen them

2006-01-17 [Mister Saint]: Valediction Contest Judging, the link is at the top of this page. ^^

2006-01-17 [Burning Inside]: wow don't I feel stupid ^^

2006-01-17 [Mister Saint]: Meh. I feel stupid about twice a day. ^^

2006-01-17 [Burning Inside]: lol i feel stupid most of the day

2006-01-17 [Kuzco]: You should see a doctor. You might be contracting some sort of delusional disease Burn. Just so you know, you're not stupid. :)

2006-01-17 [Burning Inside]: delusional disease.....wut?!?!?!?!! and yea ask Chu, im stupid

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