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Competition: Variations on a theme 4 (World Cup)

  • 17-06-2010 09:18AM
    #1
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,066 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    The latest installment of our themed short story competition is now underway. For details of some previous contests, see here and here.

    The theme this time is A World Cup Story.
    Word limit is 1500 for this competition and submissions should be by PM, to me.

    The closing date for competition entries is the 1st of July and I'll be accepting submissions via PM as of today, June 17th. Voting will run from the 2nd to the 7th of July.

    Once again, 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.

    Good luck!
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  • #2
    Mr E
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    1500 words.... great! Should give us a bit more room to manoeuvre.


  • #3
    Antilles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    Shorter deadline and longer wordcount. Meep!


  • #4
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,066 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    1500 is just the upper limit. If you can get your story done in 1000 or even 250, all the better.

    You still have a link to Cinderella in your sig, by the way.


  • #5
    ToasterSparks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 368 ✭✭ToasterSparks


    Hmm...

    Coming up with an idea is proving harder than I thought. Work, brain, work!


  • #6
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Have a great idea for this competition - I just hope that no one else has been thinking on the same wavelenght as me or I'll just end looking stupid... again...


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  • #7
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,066 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    It's a cagey, scoreless draw for the moment with nobody yet having committed anything. There's likely to be a flurry of activity in the last minute though.

    Nope, just not able to make a football metaphor today.


  • #8
    angelll
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭angelll


    Out in Italy at the moment,they're world cup crazy here,and sure who can blame them! Will write something this weekend when i come back. Hear ye are all baking over there,we had thunderstorms for the last 3 days,thankfully the sun is back today! Looks like this will be a last minute thing for me again! Next competition i'm going to start as soon as it's announced!


  • #9
    Mr E
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    I'm struggling. I have an idea, but its hard to flesh out.


  • #10
    The Mad Hatter
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    To my astonishment, I have a story. The first draft is finished now, but it's Bloody Awful, so gonna see if I can make it into something that's Not Terrible.


  • #11
    Antilles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    Hope I'm not the only one tearing my hair out over this!


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  • #12
    Mr E
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    Nope, I've barely started. I've put aside some time on Sunday to work on it. Deadline is Thursday night, so I need to move my arse.


  • #13
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,421 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Three own goals so far. Im doing worse than the French. Any chance of extra time ref? :D


  • #14
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Have not had a moment free to get at the second draft of this. Writing while moving house and starting a new job is hard...


  • #15
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,066 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I haven't had a single PM yet. I think an extension might be necessary if this doesn't pick up :)


  • #16
    Mr E
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    I think an extension might be necessary if this doesn't pick up :)

    Extra time, dude. Try to keep up the analogies! :D
    What'll we do for penalties if you're still scoreless after extra time?


  • #17
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,421 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    I thought this was a pretty broad scope for a story, but as it turns out, when Ive tried to write, the stories have gone nowhere. But I havent resorted to helicopters and explosions yet...

    I was joking about the extra time btw.


  • #18
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,066 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Just write whatever story you want and add a line like "there was nothing on telly only that ould Word Cup ѕhite."


  • #19
    ToasterSparks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 368 ✭✭ToasterSparks


    I have a vague, terrible idea in my head. It's awful.

    But hey, if no-one else enters, I'll win! :D


  • #20
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Just write whatever story you want and add a line like "there was nothing on telly only that ould Word Cup ѕhite."

    Totally unfair on those of us who sat down and made time to come up with an excellent World Cup Story... :mad:
    ;)


  • #21
    The Mad Hatter
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    I haven't had a single PM yet. I think an extension might be necessary if this doesn't pick up :)

    Anyone else find it funny that we can all write a 500-word story in an hour, but none of us seems to be able to do a 1500-word one in two weeks?


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  • #22
    Antilles
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    I could write a 1,500 word story in an hour. The problem is I'd never be willing to show the resulting crapfest to the world ;)


  • #23
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
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    The Mad Hatter wrote: »
    Anyone else find it funny that we can all write a 500-word story in an hour, but none of us seems to be able to do a 1500-word one in two weeks?

    I think its more the fact, that since we've two weeks to write it, we'll spend more time on it and not end up sending it in until a day or two before the deadline... Why do today, what you can put off until tomorrow...


  • #24
    ToasterSparks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 368 ✭✭ToasterSparks


    I know I shouldn't show my story on here, but it's so good I felt I had to share immediately. It's obviously the winner.
    It was summer. The World Cup was on TV. France did not win. I enjoyed that.

    Fin.


  • #25
    Antilles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    ToasterSparks wrote: »
    I know I shouldn't show my story on here, but it's so good I felt I had to share immediately. It's obviously the winner.

    Now that you've posted that story, it should be disqualified from winning.

    And thank god, because I think it would have gotten pretty much everyone's vote ;)


  • #26
    Wantobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 554 ✭✭✭Wantobe


    Cannot think of anything remotely resembling a world cup theme. Writers block.I hate soccer, and hate world cup. Only thing that could be worse would be a badmington/tennis theme. :(


  • #27
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,421 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Well wonder of wonders. I just made my pigs ear of a beginning into a whole pig of a story. :) I have something to enter. Hooray!


  • #28
    angelll
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭angelll


    :( . Am jealous oryx. Fair play to you. I usually leave the writing til the deadline and think about what i will write in the meantime but i haven't a clue!


  • #29
    --amadeus--
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,095 ✭✭✭--amadeus--


    I have a story written "in my head" but I don't think I'll get to write it on paper, real life keeps getting in the way :(


  • #30
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,421 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    You said that before and you managed it. :) And you did a winning story in less than an hour. No excuses! :)


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  • #31
    Mr E
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    Very productive morning..... 750 words in the last couple of hours.
    Looks like I will have something to submit after all.

    Glad the word count was extended too.... 1000 wouldn't cut it for this one.


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