Constrained Writing Contest #12 + Winners of Constrained Writing Contest #11
Most writing contests give you a writing prompt or at least a couple of words to work your idea around, which is why I decided to host a slightly different contest.
A constrained writing contest
Instead of giving you an idea or a writing prompt, I will allow you to choose the topic completely by yourself. But, varying from week to week, I will come up with different challenges to limit your writing.
You will be required to omit certain words, use a specific word in every second sentence, use a given sentence unchanged, write a story with a certain amount of words... or a combination of all.
Winners of constrained writing contest #11
This week I was the judge for the contest and I must say, you've given me a very hard task! There were a total of 9 amazing entries this week. I thank everybody again for their entries, I had a very good time reading them.
Here are the winners:
- 1st place: 0.609 SBD + 0.221 STEEM
@foragingquietude with the entry "Death of a lawyer".
Judge's note: I believe your work gives valuable insight into the potential mistakes that occur during police work – or any other work for that matter – even when you've taken all precautions and studies all possibilities. Well, almost all. ;)
Your story shows that we are all merely humans who make mistakes no matter how hard we try not to. Sometimes, they just happen. Sometimes for the better... and sometimes for the worse.
- 2nd place: 0.366 SBD + 0.132 STEEM
@earthangel with the entry "The Encounter".
Judge's note: As @earthangel knows, I've had a comment about the woman's story falling a little short. But I can't help myself but be blown away by the twist in the story. Amazing imagination that was, that little slipup aside, also well executed!
- 3rd place: 0.244 SBD + 0.088 STEEM
@soulturtle with the entry "A puzzling situation".
Judge's note: This story had a real life lesson very well embedded into a fictional setting and as I already told @soulturtle, it was exactly what I needed to read in that moment to get me to do something I've been postponing just a little longer than I'd be willing to admit.
Honorable mentions in no particular order:
- @thot2word with "Love on Steemit"
- @dfrankle with "The meeting"
- @kbbyelizabeth with "The text that never sent"
- @simgirl with "The alternative route"
- @brazen with "Stranger than Facebook"
- @felt.buzz with "Breakfast in bed"
Judge's overall note: There were some amazing entries this week that I feel sorry for that I couldn't place in the top 3. I was thinking long and hard, trying to come up with as much different criteria as possible to define the 3 winners. The competition was tough.
I guess I've given you a hard task to write the story with a constraint, and now you've come back at me and made it hard to decide who wins.
It makes me very happy that we've come from zero or 1 entry a week to 9! And it also makes me very happy to see so many great entries. I believe future holds great things for all of us!
Also sending out a special 0.1 STEEM to @ewkaw for keeping me entertained and motivated at all times.
With that out of the way, onto constrained writing contest #12!
Rules:
This week we have @simgirl joining us as the judge for the Constrained Writing Contest #12. She is responsible for the rules; and for picking the winners. Here are the rules for this week;
- Include ”Little did he/she/I/we know” somewhere in your story
- The story must be at least 250 words long
- Upvote this post (Since this post has been downvoted to oblivion, please consider upvoting the Constrained Writing Contest #12 Promotion post. It is by no means compulsory, but it is very welcome)
- Resteem this post (optional, but preferable)
- Post a link to your entry in the comments below
- Include tag #constrainedwriting among your other tags
An example story by @simgirl can be found here.
An example story by @svashta can be found by clicking here
Prizes
That way your upvote is directly tied to the prize pool and hopefully there won't be too many 5% upvotes.
- 1st place: 45% of post's payout
- 2nd place: 27% of post's payout
- 3rd place 18 % of post's payout
- Judge takes 5 % for his/her efforts
- I will take 5 % for hosting, writing and editing the contest
*In case I receive any donations for the contest, the payout percentages apply to the donation itself as well.
Judges
This week we have @simgirl joining us as a judge. She will pick a winner based on her own preference and try to be as objective as possible.
What's that I hear? You wish to be a judge too? Well look no further!
To apply for a judge and make up your own rules, send @svashta a hearty hello on steemit.chat.
*Disclaimer: I will only allow fellow writers as judges to keep the competition high quality.
Deadline
- Entries are accepted until this post's payout
- Your entry post must be newer than this post
Gave it a go; productive little distraction from writer's block haha
https://steemit.com/constrainedwriting/@mitthradiumn/back-at-the-restaurant-or-constrained-writing-contest-12
Here it is. I hope you enjoy it!
https://steemit.com/constrainedwriting/@foragingquietude/the-day-that-changed-her-life
Here is my piece. Crossing my fingers you would like it.
https://steemit.com/constrainedwriting/@yadah04/story-of-a-pathetic-friend-little-did-she-know-constrainedwriting-12
Woohoo congrats to all the winners and participants!
Oh my goodness! Thank you! Congrats to everyone that participated. I enjoyed reading your stories so much. Can't wait to see what y'all come up with for the next one.
You've earned it! ;D
And I can't wait to read yours if you participate again :D
Contest 11 helped me come up with a pretty good idea for a story. It may end up turning into a novella. I'm hoping to get some of it posted next week.
That's a-m-a-z-i-n-g to hear! :D I hope to read it soon ! ;D
Oh my God. I won. im so happy. i actually thought i wouldnt cause there were other great stories too. thanks svashta. this is a nice way to end the year.
Tell me about it. It was HARD to pick the top 3. But you've earned it! :D
Hope you had a blast "last night", and that your 2018 will me absolutely amazing! :D
Thank you. wishing you a great 2018.
Congratulations to the winners! I will have a sample story for the next contest soon! Have fun!
Can't wait to see what you come up with :D
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Wow! That is impressive. Honorable mention, I will take it! Thank you so much. Just noticed this!!
Your challenge was added to Steemit Contest Compilation (01.01-07.01): Win free SBD and STEEM for current week.
Thank you @svashta for giving Steemians (especially minnows) a chance to get free SBD and STEEM.
Thanks for adding it to your post! :D
Hopefully this flagging nonsense stops and I can proceed to give out prizes as usual.
Was wondering what happened... Do they NOT know I'm Judging!!!???!?!?!
I'm not entirely sure "they" care.
"They" just went to my blog and downvoted the last 5 posts to the ground.
I dare say they never read them.
That is sad :(
Very sad indeed. :<
Apparently the flagging "stopped"... so far no new post has received a flag.. yet.
I'm afraid to even send SBD to @qustodian in fear of it becoming nullified. ._."
Were you targeted at random or got beef?
Well... Since I flagged a post of his, and upvoted @themarkymark's comment on his post... I can't really call it random I guess...
You can read more about what happened here