Creative Writing Competition. (5 sliver in Prizes or 50k )

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TheBreadMan
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Creative Writing Competition. (5 sliver in Prizes or 50k )

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--- Rules ---

It can't be random junk or insulting.

Entry book must be handed to 'Thebreadman'.

Best 10 Entries will be placed into a vote on here.

All suitable entries will be added to the DG library.

The top entry will be given 3 sliver or 30k with 2nd and 3rd place 1 sliver or 10k.

Winning entry to be displayed(spawn) on Britannia's bookshelfs.

Entries accepted up to September 30th or Recieved 10 suitable entries.

Accepted entries will be judged by me. 5 pages minimum for acceptance though leway given if story is suitable at shorter.

EDIT: Upto three books are allowed!
Last edited by TheBreadMan on Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:52 pm, edited 2 times in total.

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Awesome, ill find a good orcish story teller to add one that you will probably need translated.
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Re: Creative Writing Competition. (5 sliver in Prizes )

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Any idea how many pages a book will hold? I've got a ton of uo fiction, but it's probably too long, lol

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Adunaphel wrote:Any idea how many pages a book will hold? I've got a ton of uo fiction, but it's probably too long, lol
UO books are 20 pages, I believe. And if I had to guess from memory, like 10 lines per page and maybe 20 characters per line? This is a blind guess though as my last UO book was when I did the auction.

20x10 = 200 chars per page...x 20, 4000 characters.
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Re: Creative Writing Competition. (5 sliver in Prizes or 50k

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Aw, shoot!

Since I was the one who suggested this in IRC, I decided to put my words where my mouth is and I wrote up two stories for this competition...didn't read closely enough that it has to be in an in-game book! I think at least the longer one will be too long for an in-game book. Time to type up the shorter one and find out I guess.


Edit: even the much shorter one is 4,500 characters with spaces. That will not fit then, it sounds like. Hmmm....

Damn 4,000 characters is little space to tell a story....that's probably not even counting whole lines of character lost due to paragraph indents....with that, a book has maybe 2,500 characters for an entry....

Breadman, are you should we can't turn in two books, Volumes I and II for an entry and for the library? 8)

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Re: Creative Writing Competition. (5 sliver in Prizes or 50k

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Sorry! for late reply! - Thought id replied

Yes up to Three books will be allowed. No more than three though!

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Got 2 books for ya, Bread.

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Got an entry for you, Bread

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Enties are now closed! Post to vote will be up shortly.

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