Mistaken Identity Story Challenge 2016

Mistaken Identity Challenge 2016
Adult spanking stories with a minimum of 2,000 words on the theme of mistaken identity.

Closing date for entries: midnight (GMT) Friday June 17th 2016.
Voting period: Saturday June 18th 2016 to Friday July 8th 2016 inclusive. GMT.

It's story challenge time again!
Rules:
- Please write a spanking story on a theme of mistaken identity.

- The story should be a MINIMUM of 2,000 words in length. There is no maximum length.

- The story can feature ANY orientation and the spankees must be aged 18 and upwards.

- 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 bear in mind our content guidelines and write to an acceptable basic standard, as outlined in the author guide.


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. Put your story title in the subject field of the email, along with Challenge Entry. Preferred format for stories is plain text but as described in the Author Guide we can handle most formats including rtf, Open Office, pdf, Microsoft Word and others, but NOT DocX files.

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. This isn't about being competitive, it's just a bit of fun, so do please join in.

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


Thanks and good luck everyone,
flopsy

PS Newcomers to the site might be interested in viewing the previous challenges. Select the Features menu and from there click Challenges.

Non members of the LSF can click here: http://www.thespankinglibrary.org/challenges/

Very nice ... very nice indeed. Now to think of a plot ,,, oh, got one to them as it comes from my past partially written stories, but lots of work to do.

CS

It's time I put pen to paper (finger to keyboard) and submitted a story here. Mistaken identity is a very intriguing subject and I'm sure that many entries will follow.

Initially I didn't think I could participate in this one as I just came up blank on the topic, but then something about it woke the plot bunny up, and I may just have something for this. No promises, but I think I'll be entering.

I'm still quite blank, and really don't have a sniff of an idea. But it's still early days so we shall see...

I've participated in the past couple of challenges, and I really enjoy doing them. Even though I didn't "win" anything, I felt like I gained a lot from the experience due to the large number of comments I received and the opportunity to read and comment on the diverse offerings from the other authors who took part in the challenges.

A have a long list of notes for stories I'd eventually like to write when I have the time, but none of them seem to work well with the mistaken identity theme for the latest challenge. Luckily, I have a pretty good imagination and I've been able to come up with ideas for two stories after thinking about it over the past couple of days. Now, all I have to do is get to work.

Well, I've been rather distracted lately, but this does sound challenging, it could be both fun and interesting...

--C.K.

Interesting and challenging. I think I'll give it a try.

Just as a matter of interest (and I don't know if it's been mentioned somewhere previously), I notice that the rules for content of the challenge stories this year have become more strict in regards to age. The rule for these last two have been:"spankees must be aged 18 and upwards."
I would hazard a guess that this may be because of the difficulty in enforcing a rule against any and all sexualization of a story featuring a minor. It's always been forbidden to write about sex between an adult and a minor, of course. But there must be "fifty shades of gray" (if you'll pardon the pun) between a totally non-sexual account of a disciplinary spanking and an overtly sexual story. The difference is partly in the perception of the reader, and I've seen a few stories that may have strayed too close for comfort. So, I suppose a strict prohibition of minors is the best way to avoid having to make a judgment about disqualifying someone's challenge entry.

Judging by the latest newly-submitted stories, it seems this rule applies only to Challenge entries, and not to stories submitted to the Library. I don't quite see the logic of this. Could Flopsy or Februs clarify?