Emperor Roland Posted February 10, 2019 Report Share Posted February 10, 2019 It has been eight weeks since the shaking started. At first no one, even the media, took much notice. Three score of earthquakes rippled across the globe all in the span of 96 hours. Only two deadly, yet all were enough to cause some damage and or things to fall off shelves. Then came a rash of bigger ones, 19 total in 16 days, all with enough power to cause structural damage and fatalities. The press reached out to experts, no one had answers. The general scientific communities' consensus was it was a statistical hiccup, nothing more. Six more sizable ones hit the following week, followed by nearly four hundred with enough power to dislodge things and make news reports worldwide. This was followed by ten more all above 5.0 along with hundreds of smaller tremors in areas well outside the tectonic boundaries. None of these did major damage, but no one felt safe. It was as if the earth was building toward something major. Then an 8.7 hit off the coast of Algeria sending damaging waves across much of the Mediterranean. Hundreds of ships capsized and thousands were killed on land and sea in dozens of countries. World leaders met to discuss the situation. Task forces of leading geologists were formed, and governments world wide went on alert. Then it stopped just as quickly as it began. Three weeks of relative calm with only normal tremors recorded allowed people to breath easy. Life went back to normal for most, but the geologist lead task forces tried to warn that this could be the calm before the storm. They were right… April 19th 2019: the day the earth came to life writing contest! Rules: All submissions must be sent into the PR group at castlerolandpr@gmail.com no later than Sunday April 14th at midnight. This way they can be posted on the forums on Friday the 19th. No more than about 40,000 words. Scoring will be done by the forums members only, who are given a number of questions for them to score the stories on. High scores will win. Top three stories will be featured on the website. Any / All remaining stories will be featured on the story site in six months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken barber Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 Just an update to this contest. The submitted stories will only be available to be read and voted on by forum members. Guests will only see the winners once posted on the website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken barber Posted February 17, 2019 Report Share Posted February 17, 2019 Anyone working on it. Interesting concept pretty broad based should be workable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parker Posted February 18, 2019 Report Share Posted February 18, 2019 No more than 40,000 words? Is there a minimum number? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Roland Posted February 18, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2019 No minimum. However the scoring will include how well the characters were developed. Parker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Norris Posted February 18, 2019 Report Share Posted February 18, 2019 No Minimum. And the suggested max is just that. A suggestion. Does that help? Parker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Aarons Posted March 3, 2019 Report Share Posted March 3, 2019 Hey, come on Castle Authors! Let get excited about this. It is a wide open disaster story! Do what you want, make up the details. The story possibilities are near endless and I am jumping in on this with both feet! (Already over 22,000 words!) lets get this part started! Al Norris 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Aarons Posted March 3, 2019 Report Share Posted March 3, 2019 just a little more inspiration! Al Norris 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken barber Posted March 10, 2019 Report Share Posted March 10, 2019 here is some motivation for you a list of earthquake movies with links to wikipedia. Enjoy 10.0 Earthquake (2014) 10.5 (2004, miniseries) 10.5: Apocalypse (2006) 2012 (2009) The 5th Wave (2016) Aftershock (2010) Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999) The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990) Deluge (1933) Earthquake (1974) Earthquake (2016) Earthquake in New York (1998, TV movie) Geostorm (2017) Ghostquake (2012) Kuso (2017) Megafault (2009) Nature Unleashed: Earthquake (2005) San Andreas (2015) Nihon Igai Zenbu Chinbotsu (2006) San Andreas Quake (2015) (PG-13) San Francisco (1936) Short Walk to Daylight (1972, TV movie) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Artagnon Posted March 11, 2019 Report Share Posted March 11, 2019 Don't tell Adam, but I am trying to get a story for this contest done. You know, at the risk of starting something new and not keeping up with things that are "in progress" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted March 12, 2019 Report Share Posted March 12, 2019 In response to D'Artagnon: "Touché", in both the literal and fencing connotations of the word! Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeikor Posted March 14, 2019 Report Share Posted March 14, 2019 I've started on a story for the contest but I am still working major overtime so we will see whether I finish on time. (Also working on the next chapter of my unfinished story). Jeikor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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