Author Topic: Short superhero fiction contest :)  (Read 4458 times)

Talia

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on: January 29, 2010, 02:26:07 PM
Saw this on io9 and thought it would be of interest to some of y'all.

http://io9.com/5458844/hilobrow-announces-sf-micro-fiction-contest


Course, no one round here writes stories about troubled superheroes ;)



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Reply #1 on: January 29, 2010, 04:45:28 PM
Cool! 250 words, huh. Wow. That's short!


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Reply #2 on: January 30, 2010, 04:01:31 AM
Short is usually hard to do, but every now and then, it just comes to you.

I've got one started for the contest. Now I just gotta write it down.

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Reply #3 on: February 02, 2010, 09:19:28 AM
the first 270 words are easy.
then editing out a character.
then it is 231 words and you bring someone back in...
and you never get to 250 words.

thanks for the info

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Reply #4 on: February 05, 2010, 02:14:10 PM
Thanks for the heads up  ;D

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Reply #5 on: February 15, 2010, 09:34:37 PM
Just submitted my story.

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Reply #6 on: February 20, 2010, 12:10:39 AM
And, for some reason, I thought the 19th was the cutoff. It's the 15th. Missed it, and I had a GOOD one, too.

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Reply #7 on: February 20, 2010, 05:52:01 AM
And, for some reason, I thought the 19th was the cutoff. It's the 15th. Missed it, and I had a GOOD one, too.

Keep it ready...you might need it sooner than you know!


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Reply #8 on: March 12, 2010, 01:20:38 AM
Oh, I NEVER through away a story or story idea.

Don't know where I'm gonna find a home for a 700 word story that was SUPPOSED to be weird, though.

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Reply #9 on: March 17, 2010, 04:07:05 AM
And, for some reason, I thought the 19th was the cutoff. It's the 15th. Missed it, and I had a GOOD one, too.

Keep it ready...you might need it sooner than you know!

Hey, if you chop it down some, you can enter it in the Flash Fiction Contest! (Or...write a new story. Or six!)


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Reply #10 on: March 19, 2010, 01:32:59 AM
700 is the chopped down version!

I don't think it would fit any of the 3 EA pods, though. I was so specific for that one contest, it doesn't fit SF, Horror, or Fantasy.

But I am looking at some of my short stuff for the flash contest.

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