Letter Challenge February 2012

Letter Challenge, February 2012
Last date/time for submission: midnight (GMT) 28 February 2012
Voting: 1st March to 21st March. (GMT)

We are pleased to announce a new contest.

- Please write a spanking story in the form of a letter.
- The letter should be a minimum of 1,000 words in length. There is no upper limit.
- You can feature whatever orientation you prefer to write about - M/F, F/m etc. and you can write about whatever topic you choose.
- You can have more than one entry if you wish.
- All letters entered must not have been previously published anywhere on the internet.
- Please note that we do not allow letters/stories that feature sex between an adult and a minor.



As before, all letters entered for the contest 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 letters.


How To Submit Your Letter For The Challenge
Submit either by using the Contact Us button and pasting it into the message box or by sending 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 letter is for the contest. Preferred format for stories is plain text but as described elsewhere we can handle most formats including rtf, pdf, Microsoft Word and others.
Letters submitted for the contest 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 Letter Contest screen will list all the letters that were entered but the author names will not be shown, just the letter titles. The story contest software is accessible by clicking the Latest button from the site menu, and then the Contest button. When the contest is open for voting this button will be yellow, in the meantime there won't be much to see except details of the previous contest.

Users will be able to view all of the letters from this screen. Note that contest entries will not appear in the Latest Read table, nor will the Activity page show the details of what is being read. Similarly, should you decide to comment on a contest letter 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 contest entries 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 place your votes on every entry, and assign each one a score between 0 and 10. Authors can vote for their own entries if they want to - but please vote for all the others and not just your own! 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 spanking stories/letters 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!

Thanks and good luck everyone,
flopsy

Just a question, is this one letter, or can it be a series of letters between two or more people?

Second point is that I see those darn ducks from the last contest are still in the picture now flying around. Exactly who do they spy for anyway?

CS

Can I add my plea to that of CS for more than one letter? If not - I'll have to plan a different entry to the one I'd planned!

Yep, you can have one submission which consists of an exchange between two or more people. You need to tell a story via the medium of a letter.

Thanks Flopsy

Flopsy, it's the same addy used in Noticeboard/Story Submissions?

So does the story have to involve a personal letter (or letters), or could it also reflect a 'letter to the editor' of a newspaper, magazine (more likely) or even an internet site/blog?

Personally, I'd prefer the former, but I'm just wondering... --C.K.

Don't ask, just write. If your contribution gets disqualified, it will get more views and comments than all the others put together

Hi CK
Yes - any of the above is fine. Lots of scope!

Never mind, I found out the skinny on it....