jimisim:
I have a quite long 'novella' in preparation.
One chapter is solely F/M
I have read it again and with a little editing it can become a stand alone story.
It hasn't appeared anywhere. Is it permissible to enter this story in the competition and later include it.slightly modified in the serial novella it was intended for?
So long as it qualifies under the Challenge's criteria for entries, this sounds fine to me.
Once a Challenge has been concluded (including the voting period), I'm assuming that you can do whatever you wish with any stories you've submitted to it--they're still your intellectual property, after all.
I've posted Challenge entries to other internet sites on occasion, but not until after that particular Challenge was completely over with...
--C.K.