Discussion Art Contest Discussion Thread

[gnut]

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i am jiraiya's FAUST's Nagato...the inspiration to his story

 

[Charlie]

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i am jiraiya's FAUST's Nagato...the inspiration to his story

Bish plz -

when Charlie decided to be creative all these other better creative people started to post
(my luck with these things are so bad).

Still waiting for riki's (anticipation) and possibly Leo and specturm ofc.

 

[Buffynut]

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FAUSTY WROTE A STORY ABOUT ME!!

 

[Charlie]

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FAUSTY WROTE A STORY ABOUT ME!!

Shame he didn't know you were a vampire slayer.

 

[Farfalla]

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Faustie only gotta check the story length^^'

 

[Nii]

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Still waiting for a confirmation if I get a badge or not

Prolly won't participate this time, not sure if I could come up with a good story

 

[riki]

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Bish plz -

when Charlie decided to be creative all these other better creative people started to post
(my luck with these things are so bad).

Still waiting for riki's (anticipation) and possibly Leo and specturm ofc.

So I have two parts already but it's still the beginning LOL

 

[Farfalla]

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Still waiting for a confirmation if I get a badge or not

Prolly won't participate this time, not sure if I could come up with a good story

Sorry, Niichan. I'll be updating the list of winners this weekend and delivering the badges right after. Couldn't do it before due to some exams I had this week

[niichan]No big deal =)[/niichan]

 

[nanaDmari]

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Oh, yes, yes, niichan has two wins on Ava/Signature Sets n_n

 

[Utsune]

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I was wondering, maybe a word count next time would be more viable? Because dialogues one word or ten take up one line regardless ^^;
Or has that been considered and rejected for a reason before?

 

[riki]

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Maybe we can follow this guideline:

Other definitions place the maximum word count of the short story at anywhere from 1,000 to 9,000 words. In contemporary usage, the term short story most often refers to a work of fiction no longer than 20,000 words and no shorter than 1,000, or 5 to 20 pages.

?

 

[Farfalla]

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Yeah, we can use that^^ (the word count option). We decided on a length limit so the story would be indeed short and people would read it, and I thought that a line count would be a simpler to do it. I'll check that 20.000 criterion and then we can go with something along that in the next contest.

 

[Utsune]

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Ah I thought so. Well this is going to be a bit complicated and an opinion from a total amateur but how about something like:
- Cutting down to max ~40 lines, but
- If there were lines part of a sentence from a previous line that only have two words or less, they don't count towards a line;
- Sentences or dialogues that are less than half the length of a full line counts as half a line?

This way it would keep the story short in appearance (hence easily readable) while solving the one-word-one-line and dialogue issue (since sometimes a line could be simply 3 words for a dramatic build-up or something, but it's too short to account for anything really.)

 

[riki]

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If you want, we can use the standard for flash fiction instead (300-1000 words) so it wouldn't be too long.

 

[nanaDmari]

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I think the word count is a good solution... also it's the most used for magazines and sites for submitting short stories to be published, at least the ones I know of...
That also gives more liberty to writing them...
A story could be made mainly of short dialogs, that would extend the "lines", but would be within a limit of words and it can be done in a way the reader won't even notice it's somewhat "long"

 

[riki]

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Finished!

Now off to work on Ch. 16 of my story [sizept=1]and my other short story/novella/novellete[/sizept]

 

[Farfalla]

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Yay \o

Ok, so we can use a word count! I don't think that a mixed criteria involving lines and words counts will be necessary then, Utsune^^ Now we just gotta check the ammount of words that will be fitting for the contests, but I appreciate the suggestions a lot!

 

[Charlie]

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Riki - awesome as alway's - that ending <3<3<3!!

 

[Faust]

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riki's story was longer than mine.

 

[Farfalla]

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It has 50 lines as the rules require xD