ken barber Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 (edited) Castle Roland Announces A Brand New Short Story Contest. May The Fourth Be With YouA fan fiction contest set in the Star Wars® Universe. Since May 25, 1977 Star Wars has invaded international culture becoming an icon for all generations. The seven feature films produced by Lucas Films® and Disney Films® have led to animated spin-offs, fan fiction, and further novels. The main characters and denizens of the Universe have become household names. Phrases and scenes are quoted as often as world leaders. Now is your chance to try your hand at building a story based on the concept of the cultural phenomenon. Each submitted story must be between 10,000 words and 55,000 words. The stories must follow the lives of your original characters set in the Star Wars Universe. Stories must be submitted by April 1st, 2016. The submitted stories will judged by the Castle Roland Forum Members based on the following criteria: Does the story embrace the Star Wars Universe?Are the characters original and believable?Is the plot well developed considering the word count restrictions?Is the story enjoyable?Would you read more of this story if the author continued it? The top three winners will be announced and their stories will be posted in a special Star Wars update on May The Fourth, 2016. For more information or to submit your story please email the Castle Roland Public Relations Team at castlerolandpr@gmail.com STAR WARS © 1977 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved. TM & © 1977 Lucasfilm Ltd. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK TM & © 1980 Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) All rights reserved. RETURN OF THE JEDI TM & © 1983 Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) All rights reserved. "Twentieth Century Fox", "Fox" and their associated logos are property of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.Lucasfilm, the Lucasfilm logo, STAR WARS and all related characters, names and indicia are trademarks of & copyright © 2012 Lucasfilm Ltd. , or their respective trademark and copyright holders. All rights reserved. This contest is purely for entertainment purposes and no person or entity will earn any profit or compensation beyond fair use. Edited January 2, 2016 by ken barber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shayn059 Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 I was thinking Fan Fiction but I didn't want to limit it to Star Wars because some of us don't write in that area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken barber Posted January 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 Shayn,In order to have a contest we need theme. Just Fan Fiction is too broad to make it special. Many authors already write fan fiction. we debated a few themes and arrived at star wars for a number of reasons. One many many people are very familiar with it. Two we have had many fantasy stories so we wanted to give the sci-fi peeps something fun and three is really hot right now. We will do more contests in the future if this one is not to your liking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shayn059 Posted January 3, 2016 Report Share Posted January 3, 2016 Have fun. But don't forget about us Fantasy writers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Aarons Posted January 3, 2016 Report Share Posted January 3, 2016 Shayn,Why not give it a shot, branch out and get out of your comfort zone? Those kinds of challenges are some of the most fun for me because it allows me to delve into something uncomfortable. I feel doing so also helps be become a better writer. But hey, if you want to stick with fantasy, why not try writing a story based on the Kandric world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Aarons Posted January 3, 2016 Report Share Posted January 3, 2016 and Yeah, I am going to have to jump in on this Starwars theme. Ideas are already churning and bubbling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zergrinch Posted January 4, 2016 Report Share Posted January 4, 2016 Man, the sorts of shenanigans a force-sensitive boy named Robin/Kandric can do, with or without a lightsaber! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shayn059 Posted January 4, 2016 Report Share Posted January 4, 2016 Let me read Kandric and we'll see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zergrinch Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 Read Kandric you say? Ok, see you back in..... 20 days? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasNealy Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 Is this for the new "unified cannon" or can it include the old multi level expanded cannon that was renamed to Legacy Star wars? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken barber Posted January 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 Thomas as long as it's a Star Wars theme you can use any concept you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shayn059 Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 This is right up your alley Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Artagnon Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 Challenge Accepted! *slowly spreading evil grin* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zergrinch Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 I am somewhat perplexed why someone planning to write Star Wars fan fiction inexplicably sports an evil grin on his face.What, you're writing about the Sith kids of Moraband or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Artagnon Posted January 6, 2016 Report Share Posted January 6, 2016 writing about sith is boring. they only have one motivation, power, and one course to that, kill everyone. no, i have a much different story in mind, one that might take more than just the requested word count Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Artagnon Posted January 6, 2016 Report Share Posted January 6, 2016 Question to the staff- My idea has a huge starting point, but the story itself happens after some "schtuff" happens. Would some kind of "words in space" scroll posted somewhere else or maybe at the beginning count towards the word count? Hate to say it, but I never write anything small and this idea has, well, at least i think, continuation potential. As an option, could maybe each participant have a Words in Space section, perhaps here as a story teaser, or at the beginning of the actual story posting?Just ideas bouncing around in my magnetically sealed garbage compactor head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zergrinch Posted January 6, 2016 Report Share Posted January 6, 2016 (edited) Opening scrolls would probably count.And I think they should be mandatory. Since this is Star Wars, no story ever begins at the beginning And I agree about Sith in general. But these are Sith adults. Maybe Sith kids are just a teensy bit more malleable. If there can be Dark Jedi, why can't there be Light Sith? Edited January 6, 2016 by Zergrinch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken barber Posted January 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2016 UPDATE...............Each submission should have a 1500 word or less intro starting with "A Long Long Time Ago,In a Galaxy Far Far Away...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Artagnon Posted January 6, 2016 Report Share Posted January 6, 2016 Light Sith is like Diet Coke.... kinda missing the point. "Uh yes, I'll have a double whataburger with two slices of cheese, double bacon, jalapeno peppers, large fries and two hot apple pies.""Yes sir, and to drink with that?""Uh, a small diet coke" Light Sith would likely not survive Sith Elementary School. They'd wind up getting dissected for "Physics of a Lightsaber Attack" class. Either that or they'd wind up as like Sith Punching Bags. "Class, you don't want to be like Darth Carebear, here. You either kill or get stuffed into a 1 by 1 by one meter cube of carbonite and dumped into a lava flow on Mustafar." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zergrinch Posted January 6, 2016 Report Share Posted January 6, 2016 My, you are certainly jaded!Ken, the 1,500 word maximum is certainly quite generous! I went and counted the number of the words of the opening crawl in each movie. Not counting "A long time ago" or the movie's title, here are the results:The Phantom Menace: 78Attack of the Clones: 80Revenge of the Sith: 75A New Hope: 83The Empire Strikes Back: 81Return of the Jedi: 79The Force Awakens: 88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken barber Posted January 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2016 I think we have two people giving this a shot so far. Who else is in. I cant wait to see the stories. I am a huge Star Wars fan and can barely wait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parker Posted January 13, 2016 Report Share Posted January 13, 2016 I'm in. My stories usually run about 5 or 6 thousand words so this one is going to take me a bit longer to finish, but I'm sure I can manage it in two months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken barber Posted January 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 excited to read it Parker this is going to be fun Parker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeikor Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 I had thought to sit this one out . . . but . . . an idea kept buzzing around in my brain driving me to distraction so I guess I'm in. Parker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Artagnon Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 Star Wars Oddly, i keep having ideas on this one. Might be longer than the word limit.....or have to split into three parts..... Parker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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