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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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2006-05-05 [Child of God]: . . . hehe . . . oops . . . ^-^'

2006-05-06 [Kiddalee]: ***is rewriting a story just for this contest* [4200]

2006-05-06 [Kaimee]: Brilliant :D Is it uploaded anywhere here yet?

2006-05-06 [Kiddalee]: ***points at thread*

2006-05-06 [Kaimee]: Hehe, I already saw your reply in the forum, I like the story but don't understand it. Which is the way I like short stories to be ;)

2006-05-06 [Kiddalee]: I don't, but it's not like I'm going to keep the story in a way I don't like just to win your contest (and now I'm worried that I'll surely lose for changing it. Why'd you go and tell me that?). I don't see where the ambiguity is, though.

2006-05-06 [Kaimee]: Heh. Where's the ambiguity? Why is she crying? What's the point of the story? What are you trying to get across? Why did you write it?

2006-05-06 [Kiddalee]: You like not knowing those things? I thought that was one reason why the story isn't great.

2006-05-06 [Kaimee]: I like what it makes me think of, trying to figure it out. The fact that I can't think of the reason you wrote it, but it obviously means something to you. I hate straight forwards pieces.

2006-05-06 [Kiddalee]: The funny thing is that I didn't actually mean to make it ambiguous. I just did a weak job of turning an episode of my life into a narrative, then added some teacher pleasers. Me, I don't like essays in disguise as stories or poems. Sometimes straightforwardness can do that, I guess, but I don't think an understandable piece is necessarily straightforward, especially if it's about the story, and not some oh-so-wise writer tooting his horn.

2006-05-07 [Kaimee]: So cut it down and write it again, the way you want to :P And I don't think it's the literary devices that make this story ambiguous, or even that you did a weak job. It obviously means something to you, and I have no idea what it is. I think that's what I find ambiguous. I don't understand what happened, why it happened, or why you wrote it. Therefore I don't really think I understand anything about it, and find it ambiguous ;)

2006-05-07 [Kiddalee]: So it's your fault you find it ambiguous?

2006-05-07 [Kaimee]: Why fault? Why is being ambiguous a fault?

2006-05-07 [Kiddalee]: Okay, if you're going to be nitpicky, is it by your own doing that you find it ambiguous?

2006-05-07 [Kaimee]: If we're going to be nitpicky, I'd say it could only be by your doing, as you wrote it ;) Your job to guide the readers mind where you want it.

2006-05-07 [Kiddalee]: I was only asking... Seeing as you said that it wasn't because of the way I wrote it that you found it hard to understand.

2006-05-07 [Kaimee]: No no, it wasn't because of the literary devices. I just outright do not understand what's happening. Why are you crying? What's the significance? What is the story actually about?? None of that seems to have gotten across to me. I have no idea if it immediately makes sense in the minds of others, I just.. found no reason for anything, including why it was written. And instead of assuming that you just have no reason, I'm assuming the story is ambiguous ;)

2006-05-07 [Kiddalee]: No, it's just poorly written.

2006-05-08 [Kaimee]: xD

2006-05-09 [Winkx]: Is there a deadline?

2006-05-10 [Kaimee]: Not yet. I want to see what speed everyone's moving at first. I myself am pretty busy as well, so I wouldn't mind a rather distant deadline ;)

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