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This is Life Writing Contest


Hosted by [Kaimee], a flipside contest.



CLOSED: Judging has commenced








This is a short story or poetry contest about your life. Originally, I had intended to make it purely for short stories but then I realised that the same end could be achieved through poetry, and so there you go :)
The aim is to write an event, or day, or section, or story about your life or something/one in it. Pretty broad huh? Basically, it just means that whatever you write should be relatively true to life and from your own experience.
I don't want to hear about how you're acutally a vampire. I'm not even going to argue over that one, or listen to protestations that you really are a vampire! I'm just going to disqualify it.



Mature content is accepted, so if you don't wish to read it or encounter it, don't enter.
I expect all entrants to read the other entries. They wont be long, there wont be many, and it's a simple courtesy to the other entrants. If you don't wish to, then don't enter.
Critiques or comments will be dished during and at the conclusion of this contest. By entering this contest you are agreeing to let me judge yourpieces, and I am often quite voluble about my judging. If you don't wish to recieve my comments... you guessed it, don't enter.
But that's no guarantee that I wont comment on your work anyways >:P





RULES:
Subject to change at any time without notice

1. The theme of your piece must center around or focus on your own life, or experiences, or people you know or have met. This is a contest for real life stories so as deeply as you believe in magic, I don't actually care. No fantasy, futurism, far off lands and magic. Keep it true to life. Even if it means writing about your goddamn socks :P

2. Original work only, plagiarism will be looked for.

3. Prose and/or poetry permitted.

4. Prose: Maximum of 800 words, minimum of 150 words. Poetry: maximum of 35 lines, minimum of 10 lines.

5. Maximum of two entries per member.

6. I am not easily offended. Pornographic or gratuitously violent scenes will get you disqualified.
Other than that, *shrugs* if you're old enough to write it --- and have experienced it!!! --- then I'm old enough to read it.
I ask that any members with mature content post warnings on their pieces. Other members do not have to read these pieces if they feel they cannot handle them.
Anyone who enters the contest or reads other member's pieces has been warned; you may stumble across things you don't so much like.

7. If you squabble on or over the contest, I will get cranky :P




JUDGING AND PRIZES:
Entries will be judged by me, according to sheer brilliance, and how much they appeal to me :P This is not an infallible process. It depends very much on how I am feeling. You may think that you deserved to win more, and agonise over it, but hey. At the end of the day, you're not writing for me. You're writing for you. So who really cares what I think? :P
Correct spelling and grammar will heighten the chances of your story appearing brilliant and appealing, although if you're a good enough writer they may not get in the way. *Shrugs* Your choice on that, I just tend to enjoy correct spelling and grammar more.
If you do not adhere to the word/line count limitations you will be disqualified. If you break the rules you will be disqualified. My say is final.

1st, 2nd and 3rd places will recieve badges, everyone will recieve a participant badge. Pending
1st place will recieve a review of their winning piece by me, with as much commenting and critiquing I see the need for :P

The other two winners are doing it for prestige alone! ;)
Of course, I may just be un-predictable and do whatever strikes my fancy at the time. Brace yourself for either no c&c or a flood of it, no warning as to who will recieve. 1st, 2nd, 3rd or general participants are all equally susceptible 
to crazy Kaimee o.o

BADGES:

Pending...

For an example of a "Real Life" story or poem, see 5.Contest Entries.100 Words - Every Bit





ENTRANTS:
Please place your name here if you are intending to enter:

1. [Kuzco]
2. [Today for you, tomorrow for me]
3. [Po]
4. [Kiddalee]
5. [Winkx]
6. [Child of God]
7. [iippo]
8. [Athilea]
9. [Veltzeh]
10.[Calliope]
11.[Dark_Superman]
12.[Damian]
13.[RiddleRose]
14.[mousepoet]
15. [pirate witch]
16.[Ravendust]
17. [Samael_22]


ENTRIES:

Please place your entries below the line. Entries should be placed in the following format:
Username followed by a link to your story in the form of [member number.story name@writings] and the word count. For poems, please post the line count.


eg. [Kaimee] 5.Contest Entries.100 Words - Every Bit, 100 words. (Is it poetry? Then count the lines instead of words!)






1. [Kuzco]: 212.Rhimy things.Unbeatable 35 lines
2. [Kuzco]: 212.Kids' fight. 701 words
3. [Today for you, tomorrow for me]: 256.Poetry.Prayers - 18 lines
4. [Child of God]: 416.Poetry.Reconciliation, 28 lines
5. [Child of God]: 416.Poetry.The Crush, 16 lines
6. [iippo]: 207.Human-People.AcademicAttack, 611 words
7. [Veltzeh]: 39.Essays and Non-fiction.Me.Gender issues, 785 words
8. [Calliope]: 216.Contests.This is Life, 789 words.
9. [Athilea]: 498.My Love, 800 words
10. [Damian] 497.Heart of a Loser, Mind of a Geek.Life 28 lines
11. [Today for you, tomorrow for me]: 256.Poetry.Post-Quiz Boredom - 12 lines
12. [RiddleRose]: 298.contest entries.backstage - 509 words
13. [mousepoet]: 243.mousey's poetry.This is Life Contest entry - 35 lines
14. [pirate witch] 524.Contest Entries.Interlocken - 789 words.
15. [Ravendust] 343.This is life Roughly 800 words... my word counter is screwy, and it's always off...
16. [Veltzeh]: 39.Essays and Non-fiction.Me.Education, 354 words
17. [Kiddalee]: 225.Poetry.Formatted.A Sonnet In V Minor - 14 lines
18. [Samael_22]: 619.Short Stories.Take Him Down





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2006-10-14 [Kaimee]: This contest somehow ended up having a zillion entries more than my contests normally do, so forgive me if judging takes a little longer xD

2006-10-14 [RiddleRose]: perfectly understandable. we love you even if you take two hundred years!! well, possibly not two hundred years...

2006-10-14 [Kaimee]: I can't think of an end for your eyeball story mistress rose :(

2006-10-14 [RiddleRose]: but but but...! but! but it's an eye... it needs an end...

if you don't finish it... well. you know how it goes. an eye for an eye! (moo ha ha ha ha....)

2006-10-14 [Kaimee]: I'm not sure I want to know how this eye for an eye bit would work... O.o Heh, what's the most deathiest death you can think of then, miss gooey eyeball?

2006-10-14 [Kiddalee]: But are you judging now? When is this thing closed?

2006-10-15 [Kaimee]: I'm currently judging, but any new entries can be submitted any time until I close the page down and post the winners. I don't mind late entries you see :)

2006-10-16 [Kiddalee]: Well well...

2006-10-17 [RiddleRose]: but can a ghost eyeball die?

2006-10-17 [Kaimee]: you haven't read the story properly! It cuts off when the eyeball is about to tell the child ghost how she died, and why it makes the child ghost different :O

2006-10-17 [iippo]: Where is this story? o.O

2006-10-19 [Kaimee]: ... :)

2006-10-19 [RiddleRose]: oh, right. i think perhaps the eyeball used to be an old british lady, and she fell asleep in her tea one fine day, and drowned in it. killing the tea in the process, which is why she has tea as a ghost. and who knows why she's an eyeball? perhaps she's eccentric. or maybe, as her head fell toward the fatal cup of tea, the spoon gouged out her eye, thus saving the life of the old lady by waking her, but killing the eye and the tea. thus, it is an eye, and an eye only. voila, the end.

2006-10-19 [Kaimee]: You're daft (also insane), and you still haven't read the story properly! :P How the ghost child died, not the eyeball. The eyeball has probably been dead so long and made up extravagant lies so often that it can no longer remember how it died.

2006-10-19 [RiddleRose]: darn. i liked my way of it dying...

i think the ghost child dies of being on the computer too long. gradually, he brain began to drip out her ears, and she thusly died. (yes paz, that was a prediction)

2006-10-22 [Kaimee]: The word thusly is definitely being used.

2006-10-31 [RiddleRose]: thusly is a great word in the world of words

2006-12-28 [Kiddalee]: Oo. And I thought the deadline was already (kind of) past.

2006-12-29 [Kaimee]: Nah, I'm pretty lax about deadlines and such in my contests. Until I finish up judging and password protect the page I'm ususally open for more entries, as long as people ask nicely :P
You should have seen me a few years back when I discovered contests. No one could have stopped me from an overabundance of idiot bureacratic rules and deadlines.... time and laziness fixed that, and sense took over.
If someone wants to enter now... the more the merrier, and who better than to ignore silly rules and deadlines than me, as the creator of the contest? :P

2006-12-29 [Kiddalee]: Well, who knows? I might be able to come up with something. That other story I said I was going to fix has gone kind of stale.

2006-12-29 [Kaimee]: I know the feeling, I always end up leaving things then fixing them like 2 years later :P

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