Anniversary Literature Competition 2012 |
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012 |
As part of our seventh annivesary, the Round Table hosts its traditional literature competition Participants have until the end of the 10th of December 2012
GMT to upload their specific entry for the competition. Upload your
submissions to the ‘Literature’ section. Choose ‘Anniversary Literature
Competition 2012’ in the category (Entries will be accepted from the 1st
of November 2012 on).
(NB: If you haven't submitted
a story yet, you should ask Guillaume le Courageux or Uther Di Asturien the clearance to be able to
post new articles).
This year will feature a motto for the first time: The Errantry War.
You can follow that motto with your submission, but you are not forced
to.
If you
want other members to proofread the first draft and listen to their opinions in
order to build the strongest story, you are free to create a thread to discuss
your story in the subforum ‘The Hall of the Bards’. Keep in mind though that
only submissions to the 'Literature’ section count and you cannot change it
anymore (at least until after the competition).
Also don’t forget that you can read last year’s
entries in the ‘Literature’ section: search in the annual ‘Anniversary
Literature Competition’ category.
The Rules
Each member can submit at most one submission
- Your
submission must be related to Bretonnia and be set entirely in the Warhammer
World.
- Your
submission must be a new one: i.e. you may not have submitted it to the
literature section here or on another website in the past. Plagiarism will not
be tolerated!
- The
story should at least be one page (+/-1000 words) and at the most three pages
(+/- 3000 words) long.
- Please
use a standard font (Times New Roman 12, Calibri 11 or use the default font
styles in the Editor when sending in the article), standard interpunction and
interlines.
- It
should be a stand-alone short story with no ties to other stories.
Here are the five criteria the
Judges will base themselves on to grade your submission:
- Creativity (20): How creative and
fresh was your story? Did it enthral the reader or was it more like a newspaper
article? Another damsel-in-distress story or a true ballad of heroism? Does the
story have a certain depth or is it a walk from point A to point B?
- Theme (10): Did you you follow the theme / topic of the competition in your story?
- Readability (10): How well written
was your piece in fact? Was it a smooth read or was the reader's experience
hampered by too many interpunctions, degradations and so on?
- Consistency (10): Does the entire
story add up or is the reader lost in the many contradictions? No plotholes or
does the character's colour of hair change with every page for example?
Is the usage of tenses correct or does the writer change between past and
present?
- Correctness (10): Is the story
conform with the rules set out for the competition or did the writer choose his
own path at his own risk?
The Staff of the Round Table wishes the
inspiration of the muse to you and good luck.
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