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Competition: Variations on a theme 4 (World Cup)

pickarooney

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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pickarooney

We might have enough entries to make a play-off at this rate!

Mr E

Finished!

3 days to spit shine, and shave 150 words off it.

angelll

Hmmm, i might write about what the bloody ref was thinking when he declared that wasn't a goal!!!

Antilles

I keep going back to the script Patrick Stewart is writing in 'Extras'.

Patrick Stewart: And I do other stuff, like I go to the World Cup final, and it's Germany versus England, and I wish that I were playing, and suddenly I am, and I score the winning goal, and they carry me into the dressing room and there's Roony and Beckham and then Posh Spice walks in and ...

Andy Millman: Her clothes fall off?

Patrick Stewart: Instantly.

Blush_01

So we have until midnight on the 1st then? *scratches head* I hope I'll get something by then.

ToasterSparks

Submitted my awful, awful story. Truly cringe-worthy!

Please be very generous with your votes people, VERY generous.

The Mad Hatter

Finished draft two. It's in that weird place where I like it, but I'm not sure if it's any good.

Antilles

I'm afraid I'm going to have to withdraw from this one. I have a 400 word chunk, but I'm exhausted from work with more of the same for the rest of week. I just don't have the energy to write

Also Starring LeVar Burton

I'm going to have to get cracking on this tonight... I've had the premise since last week...

Oryx

Pickarooney you did get mine?

pickarooney

Three qualifiers so far... come on lads and lassies!

ToasterSparks

Yay! Guaranteed third! :P

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Wrote half of it this afternoon, but then had to go to work... stupid work... hopefully finish it tomorrow afternoon...

Also Starring LeVar Burton

This could either go very well or very badly for me, as I've decided to take a big risk on this one...

ToasterSparks

CaptainNegative wrote: »

This could either go very well or very badly for me, as I've decided to take a big risk on this one...

Me too! I took a big risk mainly because I was forced to. But it should be fun to read the entries.

Mr E

Another risk here. Wow... I'm expecting some interesting reads on Friday morning!

So who did the story from the perspective of the ball?

The Mad Hatter

These are due tomorrow, not tonight, right?

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Right, sent mine in...

It's awful...

Mr E

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

These are due tomorrow, not tonight, right?

Yep, tomorrow night at midnight.

ToasterSparks

Mr E wrote: »

So who did the story from the perspective of the ball?

Not me. Which is probably a bad thing!

I have the strangest way of finding a domestic violence theme in every story. :rolleyes: But I was damned if that was gonna be my entry. Although it might have won if I accompanied it with this picture.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

ToasterSparks wrote: »

Not me. Which is probably a bad thing!

I have the strangest way of finding a domestic violence theme in every story. :rolleyes: But I was damned if that was gonna be my entry. Although it might have won if I accompanied it with this picture.

That picture made me laugh - I'm totally against domestic violence, but it still made me laugh...

Antilles

Ha, I just started speed writing thinking I had 105 minutes left to submit. My piece will still be rushed, but I've had a last minute idea and I'm going to submit something after all.

angelll

Have around 400 words written so will send mine in tomorrow too

pickarooney

5 in, angellllll to make it 6 by midnight?

Oryx

Do you think its the word count, the subject or the fact that everyones watching the football that has kept entries low?

Mr E

Subject, I'd say.... I wasn't too pushed about it when it was decided, but I'm pretty happy the way my story turned out.

pickarooney

I'd say it's a mix of the subject (which nobody was really pushed about but the same was true of alternatives) and VOATer fatigue. With holiday season coming up we might take a break until September.

ToasterSparks

pickarooney wrote: »

I'd say it's a mix of the subject (which nobody was really pushed about but the same was true of alternatives) and VOATer fatigue. With holiday season coming up we might take a break until September.

No! I'm counting on VOATer fatigue to help me win. Don't give the talented people time to recover between stories!

Blush_01

Yay, we're all going to be awful together (except Mr. E, who's happy with his entry).

No summer breaks!

Well mine's poo, but since everyone else said there entry is poo too I'm bulking up the numbers.

Lots of poo!

angelll

Crap still haven't written anything! Won tickets today for all three finals in croke park on sat,premium level seating. Can't find anyone to take them,lol, and don't want them to go to waste. Will give it another go and then write the story.