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Competition: Variations on a theme 7 (Photo)
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05-01-2012 04:57PM#1After a year off, VOAT is back.
WTF is VOAT?
An informal short story competition open to anyone with a boards account.
"Back", you say?
Yup, there were seven previous incarnations of the competition in 2010 and due to popular demand/lack of anything better to do, it's been relaunched for 2012.
Cool. So is this a regular thing or...?
Hopefully. It all depends on how interested everyone is in keeping it going.
It's for established writers though, right? I haven't written anything in years and even then it was just a best man speech. People laughed, but they were pretty drunk.
There's no money involved so that rules out most of the big Nobel/Booker nominees. There's no better way to find out if you have some sort of talent than by posting up something you've written for other people to look at. It could be the start of something you've always wanted to get into. Besides, we need someone to come last.
Where can I see previous rounds so I know what I'm up against?
Search for variations on a theme and you'll see all the discussion threads of rounds 1 to 6. There was even a 3.5 for reasons we won't go into.
To see the stories themselves, search this forum for short story competition and you should find threads like this (1), this (6) and this (3.5)
Pfff, every one of those is hopeless. Where do I sign up?
Just follow the instructions below.
There's no way in hell I could write anything that good but I'm nothing if not a masochist. Where do I sign up?
Just follow the instructions below.
Instructions for use
You will write a short story of no more than 2000 words. The story should be in some way inspired by this image
If that's not showing up for you, you can see it at this link:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6640605851_8086731f3e.jpg
If you still can't see it, first stop using Lynx browser then imagine a large boat in motion, view from the deck and looking out past a smoking mustard and blue coloured chimney stack. There is a helipad in the foreground. The image was chosen at random from flickr. It was the second image picked. The first was a nudey lady. Your story may also feature nudey ladies but it is not a prerequisite.
Once you're done, send me a PM with the story. If it's too big to fit in a PM, break it up or PM me a link to a version of it online or something. Do not post it in the thread.
The closing date for competition entries is midnight GMT on the 22nd of January. I'll be accepting submissions via PM as of today. Voting will run from the 23rd to the 31st of January.
As is the rule, all votes must be accompanied by a post on the thread giving feedback to at least one of the stories, although obviously the more time you take to give your impressions the more the writers will benefit.
Please post in here with any queries on the competition itself.
Please do not post pieces directly in the thread.
Best of luck!6
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pickarooney wrote: »Midnight on Sunday the 22nd, just before the clock ticks over into Monday
Ha ha, totally forgot that there was a 20th of the month. I really need to start sleeping more! So I have a day more than I thought.0 -
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