Picture Story Challenge: June 2012

Picture Story Challenge, June 2012

Closing date for entries: midnight (GMT) Sat 30th June 2012
Voting: 1st July to 21st July 2012 inclusive. (GMT)

We are pleased to announce a new challenge.

- Please write a spanking story based on your interpretation of the picture below.
- The story should be a minimum of 500 words in length. There is no upper limit.
- 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.
- 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 elsewhere 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! 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.

Thanks and good luck everyone,
flopsy

Oh gosh, this is not my kind of situation at all! But that's perhaps why it is called a "challenge"?

Our blog readers are being directed to this thread so please keep discussions on topic, i.e. to the current challenge. Muchas gracias.

So...a question if I may. Sometimes I have another author help me with some editing etc. I have never submitted a story in a Challenge series before that had a "editor" help me out, but I was wondering what is the ruling on this situation? Thanks

CS

It should be all your own work please, CS. We don't allow joint authorship or collaborative writing for the challenges because they are aimed at each individual entrant; and if you have help editing or some other form of input from someone else, then that isn't in keeping with the spirit of the story challenge idea. Also, the post that announced the challenge specifically asks people not to let others know their story in advance.
I'm sure you'll manage just fine on your own.

Damn! Now I'll have to tell J.K.Rowling her services are no longer required!

Yes! And I'll have to cancel that seance I'd set up with Tolstoy and Dostoevski ...

Time for the countdown! 10...9...8...7...

I gotta say Hemingway wasn't much help either. We couldn't agree on a thing.

It's as well that you didn't make contact as according to this famous quote, it might have been a mismatch:
"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)