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RE: The Nome (Nth Society writing competition - imagine the world)
That's it? A man came to the place he was before. And? You've got to be kidding.
That's it? A man came to the place he was before. And? You've got to be kidding.
Yeah, there wasn't really a story as such. For the contest, I wanted to describe the world of Nth Society. My method was to write something that would read like an excerpt from a bigger story. But if it didn't work, fair enough.
Any suggestions on how I could've better tackled the contest goals? I don't really write fiction so all comments are welcome.
Well, I don't know what was the assignment and I have no idea what the Nth society is. My suggestion will be to write an actual story. Something should happen to the characters for a story to have a point. For example, Korrant could have got in trouble with the law in the North and asked his Sothern friends for a sanctuary. Then there would be some sort of a conflict between their feeling of friendship and the obedience to the law. Then, once the story is written, you can cut out from it whatever is needed for a contest.
I've got to give you credit for being honest. Most people that have no clue what they're talking about not only won't admit it, they don't even know it themselves.
If you don't know what the Nth Society is, I kinda wonder how you even found this post.
Maybe next time the Nth Society has a contest, you might have dug around enough to be able to submit an entry, and put your creative abilities where your critical mouth is. All too often it is observed that critics tend to tear down what they envy because they're incapable of creating anything of value themselves.
It would be great to see that you were better at informed contribution than at informed criticism, since you missed entirely the point of @adigitalife's purpose here, which wasn't to merely create a vignette, but to do so in order to reveal how the Nth Society game would be played.
He did that pretty well, I reckon. I'd love to see you do better, which would not only grant your criticism constructive value, but would contribute to the community's ability to visualize and craft the Nth Society game, that is their purpose.