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UCC Winners | UCC Submissions


About Unusual Creatures

The aim of these contests are to help members reach deep down to their creativity banks and come up with a totally strange, bizarre and very unusual creature and then find a way to place them in a strange or unusual scene or predicament. Entries will be judged on originality, detail to the set theme or task, and style of writing.

Maybe you'd even like to take a stab on drawing your unusual creature too! Though no extra points will be given, but it would certainly give us all something more to look at.

Unusual Creatures Contest Line-up

Stage 1: Creature Creation - Closed!
Creation of your unusual creature!
This part of the contest is closed, but remember if you want to take part in the later stages you still have to create an unusual creature!

Stage 2: Unusual Territory - Closed!
UCC Unusual Territory
You have your creature now place it in a proposed unusual scene; can you manage your creature in someone else’s territory?

Stage 3: A weird Predicament - OPEN!
UCC A weird Predicament
Phew! You managed to get through the unusual territory, but now something bizarre is about to happen, how will it affect your unusual creature?

Stage 4: The Showdown!
The showdown, you have got this far, but can you handle the final showdown of the UCC.

Entry Requirements for all parts of the contest

» Prose or Poetry is accepted (you do not have to stick to one style for all the UCC stages)
 Prose: 1500 words max
 Poetry: 40 lines max

» Original 'make-belief' creature (for first part)

» Use your original 'make-belief' creature in all follow up parts of UC.

Rules

» It MUST be an original piece by you.
» No prejudices against any other please.
» Create your entry on a separate wiki page.

Prize

As with all contests I host, I will provide a personal crit of your work covering plot, characters, grammar, and writing style. You take the time to enter my contest, so I shall take the time to offer opinions on your writing.

For winners    For Participants

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Contest hosted by: [Font]

Credit given to: [pixie_shimmer]

For making my badge design reality ;)

and to: [Sunrose]

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2006-01-17 [Sunrose]: I want credit!

2006-01-17 [Font]: lol :P ok

2006-01-17 [Sunrose]: *giggles* :p

2006-01-18 [SleepingDragon]: Hey is it ok to post an excerpt from a previous work? Also, I'm a little confused as to whether I should make a wiki or writing page

2006-01-18 [Font]: Writing page or wiki page, which ever you find easiest. Mmm yeah an excerpt could work! 

2006-01-19 [SleepingDragon]: Ok, posted. I wrote this a couple years ago. It was one of my favorite parts of the story

2006-01-23 [SleepingDragon]: edited the piece to include a link to an illustration at Elfwood

2006-01-23 [Font]: I saw, the picyure looks great!

2006-01-30 [Yaumi]: When does this contest end? oo

2006-01-30 [Font]: Not too sure yet, possibly when there are at least 5 submissions.

2006-01-31 [RiddleRose]: is there a minimum number of lines for poetry submissions?

2006-01-31 [Font]: Nope, but lets say no less than 4 :P

2006-01-31 [Yaumi]: Ah, good then I have some time. ^^ hehe

2006-01-31 [RiddleRose]: i think i can manage more than four... XD

2006-01-31 [Font]: The more the better :P  If you guys think there should be more time or if 5 submissios are enough let me know.

2006-02-10 [Fuzzysabeast]: Well Font here's another submission for the contest.:)

2006-02-11 [Font]: Excellent, one more submission and well call it a close?

2006-02-11 [Yaumi]: O.O Ah! I wanna submit a story!!!! Will I make it???????? >< I wonder......

2006-02-11 [Fuzzysabeast]: Hey [Font] what is the deadline for this contest?

2006-02-11 [Font]: 5 submissions, unless others want to submit

2006-02-12 [pixie_shimmer]: I am working on something too :/ *is another who wants to submit*

2006-02-12 [Font]: Close at 6 then :P

2006-02-13 [Fuzzysabeast]: Thanks [Font]

2006-02-14 [pixie_shimmer]: *^_^*

2006-02-14 [Font]: Too speed things up a little, let's say closing date is 21st of Feb.

2006-02-15 [Yaumi]: XD Ah! Oh no! Now we have a closing date?? >< Hope I'll have the time to finish mine in time this time.... TT.TT

2006-02-15 [Font]: Hopefully you will ^_^

2006-02-21 [Font]: [Yaumi] and [pixie_shimmer] do you have submissions ready to be entered?

2006-02-22 [Font]: Well this round is now closed. I'll msg crits of each piece over the next few days and annouce the winner by saturday. Thanks everyone for taking part, they have all been excellent pieces!

2006-02-26 [Font]: Woo all 6 pieces were great! Picking winners will certainly be hard! I enjoyed reading each piece and if anyone would like to talk to me about any comments I made or if they would like me to go into them further please pester me until I reply.

2006-02-27 [Yaumi]: Nooooo! TT.TT *sob sob* I didn't get the time to finish my enter!!! TT^TT *sob* Boo.... *walks away sadly...*

2006-02-27 [Font]: Yaumi, if you send me a link to your entry, ill still look over it and give you a crit if you want.

2006-02-27 [Grey Wanderer]: Um, can I still edit mine? I wrote it quick last night and when I read it today I found a slew of things I want to fix.

2006-02-27 [Font]: Grey your submission was in after it closed too, but if you want I can read over yours too. Though it wont be held in this part of the competition

2006-02-27 [Grey Wanderer]: Realy? Darn. No, that's alright; it wasn't realy ready, but I liked the contest idea, so I stuck in a something rough to start with.

2006-02-27 [Font]: I'm thinking of having a follow up, which you will need to have a submission for the first part, so it is handy to have it in

2006-02-27 [Grey Wanderer]: Alright, I give in ^.^

2006-02-28 [Aeolynn]: ive drawn my dude! But I dont have a scanner...

2006-03-03 [Fuzzysabeast]: Well Font have you decided on a winner? :)

2006-03-03 [Font]: Winners are posted at UCC Winners Well done everyone, you all give me a good read! I am hoping you all take part in the next part of UCC, which will begin in a few days!

2006-03-03 [SleepingDragon]: A big congrats to all the winners!

2006-03-04 [RiddleRose]: congratsies!!! question: if you entered poetry in the first part, do you have to do the same in the rest?

2006-03-05 [Font]: No No, you can switch and change between each for any stage. Just as long as you use the same creature you created in the first part.  Stage two info will be put up on tuesday,

2006-03-05 [RiddleRose]: coolio! my poetry muse seems to have gone on early vacation... >.<

2006-03-10 [Grey Wanderer]: So, since I have a creature I can participate in the next part?

2006-03-11 [Font]: Yes, as long as you have a submission for each previous part you can take part in the next.

2006-03-11 [Fuzzysabeast]: Does this mean that these are all different contests?

2006-03-11 [Font]: Practially yes, but more like rounds, at the end there will be one final winner for the whole contest. Prize for that I am still thinking about ;) 

2006-03-11 [Font]: Actually I know what it is, but I won't tell you little minions until later :P

2006-03-11 [Grey Wanderer]: How cruel! We're dying of suspence.... XP

2006-03-12 [Fuzzysabeast]: oOo a surprise I like surprises

2006-03-12 [Font]: Me too, I shall pretend I don't know what it is, and then when we reach stage 4, I will be suprised too when i 'remember' :P

2006-03-12 [Fuzzysabeast]: *laughs and pokes*

2006-03-12 [Font]: :P It sounds like a great plan! Along with the 'prize' there will also be a special overall winners badge

2006-03-12 [Fuzzysabeast]: Nice, sounds like fun. I'll have to get to work eh?

2006-03-12 [Font]: Yes, yes. Same goes to everyone else :)

2006-03-18 [Grey Wanderer]: *long silence filled with keyboards tapping and pencils scratching*

2006-03-19 [RiddleRose]: *sneezes*

2006-03-19 [Font]: I could all give you a deadline if you want :P

2006-03-20 [RiddleRose]: NOOOOO!!!! no deadlines!!!

2006-03-20 [Font]: Well lets say a month from today! So get your skates on! 20th April!

2006-03-20 [Grey Wanderer]: Done! Still needs some fixing up, but that's doable...*goes off muttering, trailing paper*

2006-04-20 [RiddleRose]: almost done! phew!

2006-04-20 [Aeolynn]: im almost done too... just not in a mood to write these days...

2006-04-20 [RiddleRose]: well, it ends tomorrow! yipe! i hope i can finish tonight... XD

2006-04-20 [Font]: We can extend the deadline to say the 30th if more of you guys want to enter?

2006-04-20 [Aeolynn]: that would be great

2006-04-20 [Font]: then the 30th it is spread the word

2006-04-21 [RiddleRose]: sveet... revisions here i come!

2006-05-01 [Aeolynn]: is there a way i can get a two day extention? i am really busy w/ school and i am just finishing a hugse project and im workin on my entree in my spare time...

2006-05-01 [Font]: actually so am I, so I can extend :P How nice am I. Maybe some we should just wait until there are more submissions?

2006-05-01 [RiddleRose]: sounds good to me... since there are only two submissions at the moment... XD

2006-05-01 [Font]: We should pester people.. or rather I should. mm a job for tomorrow! :)

2006-05-02 [RiddleRose]: heehee! have fun! pokethme with virtual sticks!

2006-05-02 [Font]: I shall do my very best :)

2006-05-03 [Aeolynn]: im be done in a day or so...

2006-06-06 [RiddleRose]: any idea when the third section will be ready [Font]?

2006-06-07 [Font]: Oh soon soon, catching up with a few things offline - expect to see Stage 3, by this Friday, maybe even earlier if I get around to it... Isn't it exciting :P

2006-06-07 [RiddleRose]: oh the yayness!! i can't wait!!!!

2006-06-08 [Font]: Stage 3 is now open!

2006-06-08 [RiddleRose]: and how exciting it is!!! i'll have to think about this one!!! btw, can this be a kind of second chapter? can i continue from where i left off? (and keep using my other two chars... telling it from their point of view)?

2006-06-08 [Font]: Yes of course, you must use your original creature, and you can most certainly carry on from where you left off. Ideally each participant should have an entry into each Stage so that it can follow through.

2006-06-08 [RiddleRose]: excellent. i like my lisa character... ^_^

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