Al Norris Posted August 27, 2017 Report Share Posted August 27, 2017 Castle Roland is excited to announce our 4th Annual Halloween Short Story Contest"Something Wicked This Way Comes" Contest Rules Submissions Deadline: 10/23/17 11:59 pm Central Time. Stories should be edited and polished. Regardless, they will be posted exactly as you send them. Stories must contain a Halloween theme that broadly relates to the above announced theme. There are no word limits. Write as little or as much as you want. Author's names (how you want your name to appear) and story titles must be on the story. They will be removed when posted here, to ensure blind judging. Submission must be emailed to castlerolandpr@gmail.com. Please include the following subject line: 2017 Halloween Contest Submission sent to any other email address will be disqualified. Submissions are open to anyone who is a member of our forum. The general public will not be able to read or vote on the entries. This also means that voting will be closed to the public and only forum members may vote. All submitted stories can be read and voted by members of the forum on from 10/24/16 and will conclude on 10/30/16. Members will be asked to judge the stories based on the following questions: Theme: Does the story embrace the selected Halloween theme? Content: Was the story gripping and enjoyable? Character Development: Were you able to connect with the main characters? Plot: Did the author develop a strong plot? How likely would you recommend this story to others? Each question may be answered on a scale from 0 to 5, with 0 (zero) being the lowest and 5 being the highest score for that question. At the end of the voting period, scores will be totaled and then averaged by the numbers of voters for each story. The top 3 stories will be hosted on our Story Site with a special October 31st update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeikor Posted August 29, 2017 Report Share Posted August 29, 2017 I'm in!! I already had an idea of a story before the theme was announced and WOW it will broadly match the theme (at least I think so). Now I have to get busy planning and writing and tweaking my idea so it fits. Who else is in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken barber Posted September 2, 2017 Report Share Posted September 2, 2017 I am in the bared naked draft is done already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken barber Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 Final Draft is done and its getting beta read now. I have to say for a genre I am not used to writing I really had a good time with this one. I hope everyone enjoys it. Looking forward to reading what everyone else is working on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken barber Posted September 24, 2017 Report Share Posted September 24, 2017 ok sent mine in. Who else is ready. One month left to get your submissions in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynus Posted September 24, 2017 Report Share Posted September 24, 2017 Writing one now, but it's so far only tangentially connected to the specific theme, so I'm trying to figure out how to strengthen it. Al Norris 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Artagnon Posted September 24, 2017 Report Share Posted September 24, 2017 I had one concept, but what I stared writing went in a different direction. I may have to start something new. I definitely don't want to put my guys from last year up again. Too predictable, and besides, that idea has more Christmas leanings. A month to go... I'll take another stab at it, but I don't know if there's enough time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken barber Posted September 24, 2017 Report Share Posted September 24, 2017 This is the first year I have been able to submit a halloween story so I am super excited. After all is said and done I really just am looking for some good feedback on a genre I have never dabbled in before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynus Posted September 24, 2017 Report Share Posted September 24, 2017 I'm done and submitted. Question: Can I do two? I don't know if I'll write another Halloween story or not, but I'm insanely early this year... Al Norris 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken barber Posted September 24, 2017 Report Share Posted September 24, 2017 I am not the officiating this one so my answer is only a guess but i don't see why not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Artagnon Posted September 24, 2017 Report Share Posted September 24, 2017 Al is the arbiter of all which is fair and good on this one. personally, since the voting is blind, i see no reason why you couldn't. others have submitted multiples in the past Cynus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Norris Posted September 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 Submit more than one story? Absolutely!! There is nothing in the rules that say you are limited to the number of entries... I might have to modify that to explicitly say that you can submit as many as you want ! Cynus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken barber Posted October 12, 2017 Report Share Posted October 12, 2017 Any Idea how many stories have been submitted yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Norris Posted October 13, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2017 Four stories have been submitted at this point in time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken barber Posted October 19, 2017 Report Share Posted October 19, 2017 Only a few more days to get your Halloween story submissions in. This should be a good one. Can't wait to read them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeikor Posted October 19, 2017 Report Share Posted October 19, 2017 Workng feverishly while I am off work this week to finish mine. Is going well at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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