Making the Wrong Choice Challenge 2015

The Wrong Choice Challenge 2015

Spanking stories with a minimum of 1,500 words based on the theme of making the wrong choice.

Closing date for entries: midnight (GMT) Wednesday October 14th, 2015
Voting period: Thursday October 15th 2015 to Thursday November 5th 2015 inclusive. GMT.



We are pleased to announce a new challenge!

- Please write a spanking story based on the theme of making the wrong choice.

- The story should be a minimum of 1,500 words in length. There is no maximum length.

- 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, including your own blog.

- 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, or stories which sexualise minors.

- Please bear in mind our content guidelines and write to an acceptable basic standard, as outlined in the author guide: http://www.thespankinglibrary.org/index.php?func=about&view=aut



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/

October 14th? I'll try to find time before then.

Great and thanks for doing all the work in putting this together. I think Challenges are fun and well worth every moment of effort on part of writers and readers.

CS

My first thought was that this will be the easiest Challenge ever. Most stories, and most spankings for that matter, are based on exactly that - someone making a wrong choice in one way or another. (Except possibly some of the erotic ones.) But, that is exactly what will make it the most difficult yet. The real challenge, to me, will be to find a different slant or scenario. I will do my best to come up with something, but I'm blank so far. It's a good thing we have almost a month.

Fi's put her finger on it - wrong choices simply abound in spanking stories, so we need to work hard to find a theme which hasn't been overused. If I think of one, I'm not telling anyone else!

Yahoo

Just an idea I had, not sure if it has ever been suggested before, but could the winner of a Challenge be allowed to chose the theme for next one.

Quick question here. Have any F/Mm writers entries ever even placed in one of these challenges? From what I've seen thus far, even those with a 'switch' or mainly F/M leaning tend to write M/F tales basically because these particular venues receive the most votes and accolades. So, as an aside and considering my F/M orientation, I think I may write an F/M story that just might garner one vote. Maybe.

In the "Oops!" Challenge (about breaking items) from a couple of years ago, our late colleague Bendover placed sixth in terms of voting points (third among the three runners-up) with a F/Mb story titled "Babysitting Surprise."

To me, the enjoyment is in the writing rather than garnering "the most votes and accolades," but if those are important to you then I'd suggest entering a F/M or F/F story which is sensuous/romantic and/or cleverly humorous... --C.K.

Now let me see... oh yes I did write a few ... for the past several challenges. If you look on my author page you will see them all. Cheers

CS