The Temple of Dagon

Note: Because this round of the contest has ended, the links below are now dead.

Competitors:

Hodgson - "An Anonymous Journal"
Jesus Prime - "Where the Wild Things Are"
Eternities End - "The Void Reaper"
EG Admin - "Requiem of the North"
odin2 - "Raven Mocker"


From now till the 30th, voting will take place. The entrants receiving the fewest votes will be dropped and the remaining two will advance to the final.

In the final, the word limit will be raised to 3000 and will be written from an alien/non-human perspective.

Comments from voters will be welcome but not necessary.

Let the games begin.

By 'local' you mean local to where we live, or local to New England?

local to where you live

Oh, okay.
I will try to have something up by the 10th then.

Can I just use a local setting and a coloquial tone?

Jesus Prime wrote:Can I just use a local setting and a coloquial tone?

I don't see why not. The more the merrier in any case.


But now I have a question. And I feel bad for asking it, since I'm the one who just posted the damn rules.

In the space of this afternoon and early evening, I've written what I believe to be a decent story for the contest but it came out to around 2600 words . I thought I'd paced it better than that--it came to less than 4 single-spaced pages. But if I do my best to whittle it down a bit, will anyone object if it comes out to slightly more than 2000 words? It's fairly tight as is.

If not, I suppose I can summarize some parts, but I thought I'd ask.

I suppose you might as well whiddle it down to 2000 words, or close to, instead of making a new story.

Well, I've got 8 more days. I'll see what I can do between now and then.

Hodgson wrote:In the space of this afternoon and early evening, I've written what I believe to be a decent story for the contest but it came out to around 2600 words .

sweet hamster of new hampshire! i feel like i'm about to get pool-sharked in this thing. i haven't even started on mine yet

I've only come up with outlines for two possible stories

Enkil wrote:I've only come up with outlines for two possible stories

Well, I wouldn't worry about that. Quick doesn't necessarily mean good, and I may think better of what I've written when I make time to reread the whole thing.

I had just started another short story, and I suppose I was worried about getting bogged down trying to work on two.

JJ Burke wrote:sweet hamster of new hampshire!

Some day, when you have plenty of time, I want to hear all about the sweet hamsters in New Hampshire.

Every. Salacious. Detail.

On The 10th are you gonna post a new thread so we can enter our stuff or should we just send it to you?