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Life:

"Why'd I come out? I wan't back in."

"What is half this stuff? Am I the only one like this?"

"Ignorance is bliss."

"Wow, she's hot."

"This is a waste of time."

"Wish I didn't have to wake up."

"Beautiful girls, all over the world..."

"Same shit, different day."

"I could do everything right but in the end I'm still going to die."

"Nothing to do but laugh about it."

"Same shit, different flies."

"Life is like a bottle of real lemonade, it feels full then you start drinking and you think, it's damn good, then you realize the bottle feels a little lighter, as you keep going and you have gotten two gulps out of it you realize that those two gulps are gone for good."

- dib8rman

I figure it could just be a 1 paragraph short story, good luck with the contest.



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Porcupine_I said:
zarx said:
Porcupine_I said:

I'm writing since a year on a sci-fi story about gamers in a virtual reality, i should finally finish it... and translate it into English.

 

i like the idea, but i think the theme should be closer to gaming or actual games, then a theme or setting.

 

I'd volunteer as a judge too


well that side of things is a tad sketchy ATM I will put more thought and effort into arranging it if/when there is enough interest to make it worth it lol. The common game setting thing came as more of a way of linking it to games without making it a fanfic contest as I thought that would be limiting to a lot of people and eliminate people that don't like the games or never played it.

i agree fan-fiction is the worst kind of writing ever conceived my humankind .

i would suggest a common theme that involves gaming or gamers, you know like we had a life.

a few suggestions:

"the future of gaming"

"the future of the gamer"

"gaming changed my life"

"how i survived the great console war"


hmm sounds interesting maybe at least one round could have something like that as a theme. I wide variety of themes should help different people and styles come through.



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Kasz216 said:

On the one hand... free oldschool game = awesome.

On the otherhand... I bet activision would just steal my story and make the game suck.


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Porcupine_I said:
zarx said:
Porcupine_I said:

I'm writing since a year on a sci-fi story about gamers in a virtual reality, i should finally finish it... and translate it into English.

 

i like the idea, but i think the theme should be closer to gaming or actual games, then a theme or setting.

 

I'd volunteer as a judge too


well that side of things is a tad sketchy ATM I will put more thought and effort into arranging it if/when there is enough interest to make it worth it lol. The common game setting thing came as more of a way of linking it to games without making it a fanfic contest as I thought that would be limiting to a lot of people and eliminate people that don't like the games or never played it.

i agree fan-fiction is the worst kind of writing ever conceived my humankind .

i would suggest a common theme that involves gaming or gamers, you know like we had a life.

a few suggestions:

"the future of gaming"

"the future of the gamer"

"gaming changed my life"

"how i survived the great console war"





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I'd be up for something like that. When do you think you'd start one if it did happen?



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I'd LOOOOVE to be a judge!!!

I would love to participate, I love writing stories, its my hobby...but I just don't have enough time to devote to that

But I'd like to judge if a place is available!



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darthdevidem01 said:

I'd LOOOOVE to be a judge!!!

I would love to participate, I love writing stories, its my hobby...but I just don't have enough time to devote to that

But I'd like to judge if a place is available!


How can you not have enough time if it's your hobby? I thought a hobby was something you devoted time to while not needing to devote time to do it, but doing it out of pure interest and joy.

I'd actually love to read what you'd come up with... but I already called dibs on your epic VGChartz battles.



priteshmodi said:
darthdevidem01 said:

I'd LOOOOVE to be a judge!!!

I would love to participate, I love writing stories, its my hobby...but I just don't have enough time to devote to that

But I'd like to judge if a place is available!


How can you not have enough time if it's your hobby? I thought a hobby was something you devoted time to while not needing to devote time to do it, but doing it out of pure interest and joy.

I'd actually love to read what you'd come up with... but I already called dibs on your epic VGChartz battles.

I'm not sure what you mean, I guess a hobby is something you do regularly...but I used to till uni started! Right now I have exams coming up soon and lots of Uni work for so I can't devote enough time to any of my hobbies....if zarx did this competition in February next year I'd have loads more free time!

I do have enough time to read the short stories and judge though!

You can do the epic VGChartz battles as long as no dogs die in them



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I have an awesome idea for a short story.  It's been in my head for a couple of weeks now.  My thing is that I'm afraid somebody will steal my idea abd actually get rich from it.  Of course, it's not doing anybody any good stored in my head, either.



darthdevidem01 said:

I'm not sure what you mean, I guess a hobby is something you do regularly...but I used to till uni started! Right now I have exams coming up soon and lots of Uni work for so I can't devote enough time to any of my hobbies....if zarx did this competition in February next year I'd have loads more free time!

I do have enough time to read the short stories and judge though!

You can do the epic VGChartz battles as long as no dogs die in them

Ah makes sense. I'm on the flip side. If the competition is in February I'll be MIA with uni.

Sweet. So now I've got a license to the wondrous chronicles of darth: the battle saga. *waits for infringements...*