CONGRATULATIONS to our Winner, Entry #4 - Great Things by @FitzDizzyspells

Congratulations as well to our Runner-Up, Entry #3 by @M.L. !

Authors feel free to claim your stories if you want credit!

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In omnibus autem negotiis priusquam adgrediare, adhibenda est praeparatio diligens.
In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made. -Cicero​

Welcome to the third quarter of DLP's 2020 fanfiction competition! May 2020 forever remain in hindsight, and may we look back upon this competition at least with great fondness and joy. I've got something special for you all this time, what I'm calling a very corny Redux Deluxe.

2020 Q3 Competition - Redux Deluxe​

Prompt: ANY past winning prompt.

1. Harry discovers why Albus doesn't drink
2. "You're bleeding on my floor."
3. "Breaking into Snape's office in the middle of the night was a risky move at the best of times..."
   
4. Vampires
5. Romance
6. Death
7. Daphne Greengrass
8. Azkaban
9. What the Professors get up to in the summers
10. Ritual Magic
11. Foreign Magical Regions
12. Magical Fairy Tale
13. Abstract Magic
14. 70 Years Later
15. Wizards in Space
16. Heist

Competition Specific Rules:

• The ideal is that you will a finish a story you started for a previous competition but were unable to finish/submit.
• You can't submit the exact same story you submitted previously.
• You can't submit a story that has had only minor edits since you last submitted it.
• You CAN submit a story with significant edits since you last submitted - we can debate significant if needed, but if you think you're 'toeing the line' on this part then just don't.
• You may submit a maximum of 2 stories.
• You must state at the beginning of your story which prompt you are using (you all need to title your shit anyway - add this as a byline under it)

Word Count: 0-17,500 words

Deadline: September 1st September 15th

Voting:
As per usual you will review each story then come vote in this thread. You do not have to read an entire story to review it, but you must still write a decent review on what you do read (and it's preferred that you read the entire story, just understandable that you don't want to read 15k words of something you hate). You will then come to this thread and distribute 7 points (subject to change if we get <4 entries) between your winners. See previous competitions for examples.

We've got four entries folks! Review the stories then distribute those 5 points between the four stories as you see fit in this thread! Reviews close October 1st.

Note: Authors can vote, though not for themselves. However please consider reviewing even if you choose not to distribute points and vote - your fellow competitors are doing this in large part for the feedback they'll be getting. If you review and don't vote then yeah, it might give away the fact that you entered... but it won't tell anyone which story is yours.

 

One thing that has already been asked - if you wrote a story for 70 years later that was only 1k words long, it does count as significant if you expand that story into 10k. It just needs to feel like a 'new' story in some way, not an old one that's had it's most major flaws pasted over. I'll only disqualify if this is blatant - voting from reviewers may also take it into account.

Ideally though this is a chance to submit a story you didn't get to submit before because you weren't able to finish it.

 

Nope? I read Hunger Games but wasn't a huge fan of it (it was okay) and don't remember details like this.

Edit: Unless I will get internet points for this being on purpose, in which case it definitely was.

 

Will hold you to that.

 

This is a good idea :>

 

Bump!

 

Yes

Hence the ability to extend a story originally 3k into one 13k and have it be different enough to qualify.

 

It’s not invisible if you use the standard DLP color scheme. Others have complained about it being impossible to see in others before though.

 

Whatever version you submit to the competition should be 'sufficiently different' from anything you've got posted elsewhere. The idea is still to do something new, after all, though admittedly it's a lot easier this time for people who have already been working on stories.