'Through The Keyhole' Story Challenge' 2012

'Through The Keyhole' Story Challenge' 2012

Closing date for entries: midnight (GMT) Thursday 31st October 2012
Voting period: Friday 1st November to Thursday 21st November 2012 inclusive. (GMT)

We are pleased to announce a new challenge.

- Please write a spanking story in which a spanking is secretly observed by an unseen witness. Please note that we are not expecting all entries to feature someone's eyeball glued to a keyhole - use your imagination!

- The story should be a minimum of 500 words in length and a maximum of 2,500 words.

- 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.

- 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 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.

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


Thanks and good luck everyone,
flopsy

Thanks, Flopsy. Who knows I'll be able to participate in this optically challenged challenge, Chronos permitting of course.

Thanks Flopsy. Sounds like a fun one.

Ahhh now I simply have to find time to write lol

Sounds good. My frst reaction is delight that there is an upper limit on words,
meaning we can all enjoy reading more entries. Thanks, flopsy.

I'm happy with an upper limit provided it isn't imposed on all contests. The shorter the limit, the harder it is to introduce subtelty and rounded characters into the story. That's rounded CHARACTERS. Introducing a rounded bottom does not require 2,500 words.

Now - no putting the key in the lock!

Aw, you've pinched my idea *lol*

You could put someone's eye out that way!

Sounds like an interesting challenge. I may even have an idea or two.

I don't agree with that at all. A good author can write a rounded character story with just the 500 words. I've read your work and you're one of them. I like the idea of the upper limit.