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DLP Story Competition is back! December 2017

Discussion in 'Announcements' started by Lord Ravenclaw, Dec 6, 2017.

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  1. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    Dec 6, 2017 #1
    Hey DLP,

    What do you want for Christmas? More stories to read? Me too! That's why we're bringing back the DLP Short Story Competition.

    The competition provides a prompt/first line/theme, a word limit, and a deadline to authors. Authors submit their stories to a designated moderator, they're posted anonymously, and reviewed/scored by the community. The competition will be held on a regular basis (we're thinking monthly right now, but we'll see).

    Winning entries will receive ultimate DLP bragging rights as well as a forum badge.

    Some details TBD, but here's what you need to know for the first competition:

    Prompt: Harry discovers why Albus doesn't drink
    Word limit: 10k
    Deadline: 27th of December.

    Entries should be sent to Xiph0 via private message. Xiph0 will post them anonymously in the Story Competitions forum, where users will vote on them. Instructions for voting will be in a sticky thread in the forum once entries are posted.

    Dust off your muses and break out the fireball DLP, because Albus is thirsty and the night is young.

    Feel free to ask questions in this thread.

    Finally, a shout out to Sorrows who badgered us into making this happen and organized much of the process. Without her, this wouldn't have happened any time soon. :)
     
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  2. CaptainFlowers

    CaptainFlowers Fourth Year DLP Supporter

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    Dec 6, 2017 #2
    For those of us not inclined to writing, would we be able to suggest a prompt or -- ?
     
  3. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    Dec 6, 2017 #3
    You can suggest prompts for future competitions but the prompt is set for December.
     
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  4. Jarizok

    Jarizok Auror DLP Supporter

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    Dec 6, 2017 #4
    Will we be voting best story only, or does everyone make a top 3 or something?

    Will genres be separated?
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    I’m stupid. I’m guessing we just use the tried and true 5 star scale?
     
  5. World

    World Oberstgruppenführer DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    Dec 7, 2017 #5
    All stories will be thrown together and reviewed by everyone. We'll set out a reviewing guideline with scores in various categories for better comparability. We'll only count reviews by users who have reviewed every story.

    More details will follow when it's time to review.
     
    Jarizok, H_A_Greene
  6. Sorrows

    Sorrows Queen of the Flamingos Moderator

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    Dec 9, 2017 #6
    Out of interest how many people are planning on submitting a story?
     
  7. H_A_Greene

    H_A_Greene Unspeakable –§ Prestigious §– DLP Supporter

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    Dec 9, 2017 #7
    Let's keep that hush too just in case?
     
  8. Sey

    Sey Not Worth the Notice DLP Supporter

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    Yeah, that pretty much destroys the point of anonymity.
     
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  9. Lord Twain

    Lord Twain First Year

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    Wait, is the limit at least 10.000 words, or at most 10.000 words?
     
  10. Sorrows

    Sorrows Queen of the Flamingos Moderator

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    @Lord Twain At most, you can use as few words as you like.
     
  11. M.L.

    M.L. Groundskeeper

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    Dec 11, 2017 #11
    Where should we post?
     
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    Sey Not Worth the Notice DLP Supporter

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    Dec 11, 2017 #12
    Reading is paramount:
     
  13. Xiph0

    Xiph0 Yoda Admin

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    Dec 11, 2017 #13
    Fuck up my inbox.
     
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  14. Hawkin

    Hawkin Chief Warlock

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    Jul 19, 2018 #14
    Have you implemented the badge reward for contest winner? Maybe I'm just dense and don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm pretty sure Joe and James don't have any kind of badge showed around their avatar to denote their win.
     
  15. Ched

    Ched Da Trek Moderator DLP Supporter ⭐⭐

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    Huh, I hadn't thought of that. At present the award for participating is that voters are required to provide useful feedback and the reward for winning is picking a prompt for the next competitions poll.

    If a badge or something is a bit much or difficult I wonder if it'd be possible to implement something on the profile page? That way if someone won more than once I guess it could update to reflect that, etc. I really don't know what is or isn't possible with the forum software.

    For anyone looking for the current competition, here it is. Prompt is vampires.
     
  16. Ched

    Ched Da Trek Moderator DLP Supporter ⭐⭐

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    Jan 13, 2019 #16
    Current Competition!

    The prompt for Q1 2019 is... DEATH!
    • Word count limit: 17.5k max (no minimum)
    • Deadline: March 15th (my birthday)
    • Voting: March 15th - March 27th
    Go check it out! Keep it going by reviewing, commenting, spreading the word, or however else you feel like participating. Like writing. Writing would be good.
     
    Jeram, theimmortalhp, H_A_Greene, Zombie
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