Secrets and Lies Story Challenge 2013

Secrets and Lies Story Challenge 2013

Closing date for entries: midnight (GMT) Wednesday 31st July 2013
Voting period: Thursday 1st August 2013 to Wednesday 21st August 2013 inclusive. (GMT)

We are pleased to announce a new challenge.

- Please write a spanking story based on the theme of secrets and lies (eg both elements should feature in your story).

- The story should be a minimum of 500 words in length. There is no maximum length.

- You can feature whatever orientation you prefer to write about - M/F, F/m etc.

- You can have more than one entry if you wish.

- All stories entered should not have been previously published anywhere on the internet, including your own blog.

- All stories should be entirely your own work - which also means no plagiarism.

- Please note that we do not allow stories that feature sex between an adult and a minor.



Stories entered for the challenge will not reveal the authors name until after the voting has taken place. PLEASE DO NOT LET ANYONE KNOW YOUR STORY IN ADVANCE. You, the library members can vote accordingly for your favourite stories.




How To Submit Your Story For The Challenge
Stories can be submitted either by using the Contact Us button and pasting your story into the message box or by sending them to our main email address. If you don't have our main email address then either message one of the site admins via the Activity screen (click the envelope icon to the left of the admin's name) who will message you back and give it to you, or send us a brief message again using the Contact Us button and we'll email you back.

Whichever way you do it please make sure your site user name is provided and you make it clear that the story is for the challenge. Preferred format for stories is plain text but as described in the Author Guide (linked from the About button) we can handle most formats including rtf, Open Office, pdf, Microsoft Word and others.

Stories submitted for the challenge will be pre-formatted and loaded to the library in the usual way except that they will initially be set to "restricted" so that they will not be visible to other site users.

When the voting begins the Story Challenge screen will list all the stories that were entered but the author names will not be shown, just the story titles. The story challenge software is accessible by clicking the Challenges button from the site menu. When the challenge is open for voting this button will be yellow, in the meantime there won't be much to see except details of the previous challenges.

Users will be able to view all of the stories from this screen. Note that challenge stories will not appear in the Latest Read table, nor will the Activity page show the story details of what is being read. Similarly, should you decide to comment on a challenge story you will only see your own comment and not those of others, nor will the comment show up in the Latest Commented list. And finally, if you decide to make one or more of the challenge stories a 'favourite' it will only show up in your Favourites list when voting has concluded. All of these measures are simply to try and not reveal the names of the authors until voting has finished.


Voting
You can assign a score of between 0 and 10 to each entry. Authors can vote for their own stories if they want to - but please vote for all the others and not just your own! And please vote fairly! It will also be possible to change the number of points allocated to an entry either by voting on it again with a different number of points or by deleting the vote and starting over.

At the end of the voting period it will no longer be possible to vote any more and the story challenge screen will then show the scores for the top 3 stories & 3 runners up. Points awarded for the other entries will not be shown as it could well be demotivating or upsetting to an author if they received very few points. However, if a particular author really wants to know they can always send us a popup message and we'll provide the info.

If you have never written any stories before, now is your chance to have a go! You don't have to be an established spanking author to join in, and it doesn't matter if you have never written a story before. Do try it - it will be fun reading all the entries.

Our blog readers are being directed to this thread so please keep discussions on topic.


Thanks and good luck everyone,
flopsy

Ooh! Sounds like a great theme! Looking forward to reading the entries.

I was just thinking yesterday that it was about time for another challenge. This one should be fun!

Yeah!! I love to read these story challenges. I get really excited about reading all the great stories. I know this involves a lot of work from the library staff, as well as the writers, and I thank everyone in advance for all their great work.

And let's see how many of the stories can AVOID being tales involving an attractive young lady with long straight brown hair wearing a sleeveless top whispering something in the ear of an equally attractive young lady with straight long blonde hair wearing a short-sleeved white blouse and a small pendant necklace, whose jaw drops as she listens.

The secret is this - the theme is NOT the photo (unlike in the photo contests), but rather "secrets and lies." I'm voting a big fat zero on any story that includes what is essentially a description of the picture. And that's no lie!

(There - have I presented myself sufficiently as a grumpy curmudgeon?)

Just to reinforce Rick's post... we alternate between photo challenges and themed challenges. This, as pointed out, is a themed challenge, the picture is not in any way intended to be the basis for the actual challenge entries... just a means of illustrating the theme.

This sounds like a good story challenge. I look forward to entering as usual. Good luck to all the authors.

You certainly are wasted here, Rick. Your talents as a curmudgeon deserve a far wider audience. After seeing those pictures that came back from Mars recently I can see an exciting future for you!!

PS Secrets and Lies is an excellent title for a story challenge. I shall start early in the hope of finishing something by the deadline. It is a wee bit tempting to include the two women in the photograph if only for the sole reason of annoying a grumpy curmudgeon.

Darn, Rick! There went my story idea

I think the LSF may be suffering from a case of the summer doldrums. Anyhow, I hope to have my contribution done by the deadline.