Picture Story Challenge, August 2010

Contest name: Picture Story Challenge, August 2010
Contest description: Write a spanking story based on your interpretation of a picture
Originator: flopsybunny
Last date/time for submission: midnight (GMT) Fri, 10th September
Voting: 11th September to 19th September inclusive. (GMT)


Following on from the success of our last story contest, we are pleased to announce a new contest. This one is a bit different, and will hopefully generate plenty of interest.

- Please write a spanking story based on your interpretation of the picture below.
- The story should be a minimum of 750 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 must 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.

As before, all stories entered for the contest will not reveal the authors name until after the voting has taken place. 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 contest. Preferred format for stories is plain text but as described elsewhere we can handle most formats including rtf, pdf, Microsoft Word and others.

Stories 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 Story Contest screen will list all the stories that were entered but the author names will not be shown, just the story 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 stories from this screen. Note that contest 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 contest 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 contest 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
Each user has a total of 10 points which they can allocate to the contest stories in whatever manner they see fit except that no more than 5 points can be awarded to any one story. Authors can vote for their own stories if they want to. It will also be possible to change the number of points allocated to a story 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 contest screen will then show the top 3 stories along with how many points each received. In the case of a tie or ties then more than the top 3 will be shown. 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 a spanking story before, now is your chance to have a go! You don't have to be an established spanking author to join in.

Thanks and good luck everyone,
flopsy

Great news! Great picture! So, quite difficult to get a beach party in then?

I think you'll find the beach in the room next door.

It's a great picture, the problem is, it opens up so many ideas for a story, it's hard to narrow it down to just one

Well who says you have to write just one ... why not submit a whole bunch?

Looks like fun! Count me in

JT

I enjoy story contests. Plus, I've heard the winner might get a puppy. Just sayin'...

-LK

You can have my puppy. He just ate the last bit of shortbread.

I'm not that keen on writing contests, but that picture is intriguing. I'll see if something comes up (as the Bishop said to the actress).

Thanks barrethunter. It's just intended to be a bit of fun really - nothing serious or stuffy or pretentious. If you go to the Contest page you can select the previous story contest from the drop down list and see the entries that were submitted. And yes, I think the pic is intriguing too