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Thread2026 Short Competition #2
Welcome to the 2026 Short Competition #2 (Part 1?) Topic(s): Summary of a story that follows the prompt: picking a chapter from any Harry Potter book, and rewriting it (point of divergence) Word count: Under 1250 characters (AO3 Summary Length) Deadline: Saturday, May 2nd at 11:59pm (23:59) PST This is going to be a short writing exercise that is designed to help us write better summaries for our stories. When you send your summaries to @Lindsey mention what divergence point along with...
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Writing Marathon 2026
[IMG] ---------------------------------------- Quick Statistics Since 2020, DLP has written a total of 12,240,777 words. Last year, DLP wrote 1,258,916, the majority written by 3 people (@BTT, @TheWiseTomato, @Dark Syaoran , @Anarchy, and @Lindsey). The most prolific writer of 2025 was by @Dark Syaoran with 759,600. He is also the second most prolific writer since 2020 with a total word count of 2,016,765. ---------------------------------------- Links Writing Marathon 2026...
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2026 Short Competition #1
Welcome to the 2026 Short Story Competition 1! Topic(s): The first 500-1000 words of one of three divergences: 1) Harry does not manage to bring Cedric's body with him from the grave yard, and when others later go to check there's no evidence of anything having happened there 2) A student finds Ravenclaw's Diadem after it has been turned into a horcrux. 3) Harry manages to ask Cho out before Diggory Word count: ~1000 words This competition is going to be a little different from the...
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2026 Main Competition #1
Welcome to the 2026 Main Competition #1 Topic(s): picking a chapter from any Harry Potter book, and rewriting it (point of divergence) Word count: unlimited (no minimum) Deadline: Sunday, May 31st at 11:59PM Eastern time. Send your stories to @Lindsey once you're done. Authors will be kept anonymous between the two of us, and I will not know who you are until after the competition has ended. Feel free to claim credit for your story if you want it but we'll keep it confidential...
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Entry Two
Entry Two A Strike for the Common Wolf The moonless night fell over the Black forest. The evergreen trees ruffled with heavy wind, branches shaking off the relentless drops of rain that turned the ground into soft brown muck that splattered all over Buck’s torn trousers as he ran towards his settlement. It was the sort of night he might have enjoyed, empty and full of sounds of nature, and wet enough so vampires would stay in their huts and swing their clenched fists towards the heavens,...
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Entry One
Entry One The wind kept biting his cheeks and the skies had been threatening snowfall all morning. There did not appear to be an easy way back inside, however. It wasn’t just Rita Skeeter and her henchman Bozo, there were paparazzi from France, Korea and some unidentifiable Nordic and/or Eastern European countries blocking his view of the door. Pushing his chest forward like a proud erumpent, Ernie began making his way through, a sharp elbow here, a pointed “pardon you” there. “Hey there!...
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2025 Q4 Story Competition!
Welcome to the 2025 Q4 Story Competition! Topic(s): an international emergency Word count: unlimited (no minimum) Last competition had a fantastic turnout and I'm ready for more. This time I picked four prompts from the prompt thread, as it's been awhile since we've used them. If you have no interest in even wanting to write, don't vote. Deadline: Sunday, December 21st at 11:59PM Eastern time. Send your stories to @Lindsey once you're done. Authors will be kept anonymous between the...
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Entry Three
Entry Three Prompt: Time Travel Note: This is an ongoing work, please treat it as such and not a complete story. Prologue The pain hit like a blade into the now faded remnants of his scar. It was instantly familiar, and with it came that uncomfortable feeling of another.It had been decades. This shouldn’t be possible. The pressure and the pain kept building. It had never been this bad. Staggering up from his chair, the desk in front of Harry Potter blurred and blackness began to engulf...
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Entry Two
Entry Two Prompt: The Lies of Dark Magic what we became in winter I. The Unlikely Invitation He first met Daphne at the end of fourth year. “It’s true?” she questioned, stepping beside him. “He has returned?” Harry looked up from where he stood on the hospital wing steps. Students hurried past with their trunks, most avoiding his eyes. Daphne Greengrass wasn’t. She was looking directly at him, waiting for an answer. “Yes,” he said. She nodded. “I thought so.” Her voice was quiet....
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Entry One
Entry One Prompt: The Lies of Dark Magic Black “Bellatrix! You either squash the beetle or you let it go." Bellatrix, tongue poking out the side of her mouth, had been tuning out her mother’s voice for some time already. It was delicate work removing the leg of a beetle without killing it. Exoskeletons, Bellatrix had read up on them. “Why don’t you tell me about your friends at Hogwarts instead, my beautiful.” Seconds passed. Then Bellatrix looked up, her eyes bright and triumphant....
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2025 Q2 Story Competition
Welcome to the 2025 Q2 Story Competition! Topic(s): The Lies of Dark Magic or Time Travel (2 bonus points if your entry uses both) Word count: unlimited (no minimum) Last competition had a fantastic turnout and I'm ready for more. This time I picked four prompts from the prompt thread, as it's been awhile since we've used them. If you have no interest in even wanting to write, don't vote. Deadline: Sunday, August 24th at 11:59PM Eastern time. Voting: August 25th - September 6th...
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