RinORourke
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- Posted: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:57:09 +0000
Winners Anounced!
1. Salvatore Shan
prize: 5,000
2. Sacred Seraph.
Prize: 3,000
3. Telai
Prize: 2,000
4. Alexial Rose
Prize: 2,000
5. Clouddrifter
Prize: 2,000
Finalists who did not place will recieve 500 gold
Esp1on
Indigo14
Mephistophelian Sociopath
1. Salvatore Shan
prize: 5,000
2. Sacred Seraph.
Prize: 3,000
3. Telai
Prize: 2,000
4. Alexial Rose
Prize: 2,000
5. Clouddrifter
Prize: 2,000
Finalists who did not place will recieve 500 gold
Esp1on
Indigo14
Mephistophelian Sociopath
This contest is for the great, yet hardly recognized beginnings
to the adventures many embark upon daily.
to the adventures many embark upon daily.
I have always believed prologues were among the most important chapters in a story. A prologue is meant to capture the reader’s attention, to drag them from the shelf in which they picked the book from over to the counter. A good prologue can weave a mystical spell around the mind to have them reach deep within their wallet and sacrifice a good five to ten dollars to continue the journey into the realm in which they had just glimpsed within the first thin pages of the very item they now carried from the store, garage sale, library or attic.
So whether it’s pushing aside card bored boxes in an old attic, browsing through a library, or stopping to glimpse at the newest novels on the shelf at your favorite supermarket, a prologue is where you grab the attention. The summary, the title, the genre, these all hold key values in getting a reader to pick the book up, but it is the prologue that binds you.
So tell me, do you believe you have, or can write, an astounding prologue? Can you capture a reader’s attention in a few pages or paragraphs so completely that they have no choice but to continue on to the first chapter?
If you do, maybe you should enter this contest.
The entry fee is a simple 50 gold and the entries can be up to five pages long.
The lowest prize will be 1,000 gold, the highest will depend on the amount of Entries this contest receives.
You may post a maximum of five entries but they must be paid for and you can only win a prize for one. So if you have two or three prologues and you love them all and can not decide which to use, fear not! You can submit all! Entries are limited to five so others will have a chance and the judges aren’t overwhelmed with your 20 something prologues.
Prologues do NOT have to go with an actual story. You may just write a prologue and not think anything else of the story, but if the prologue does have a story to follow into please post a link so readers may continue if they wish.
Each story will be rated from 5-10. Because nobody wants to get a one or two, it’s demeaning...
Ten {a must read}: Prologue is interesting and original, captures the readers attention quickly and efficiently with few errors. (Nobody is perfect!)
Nine {a must read}: Prologue is Interesting and original, captures readers’ attention quickly and efficiently but has several errors.
Eight {a must read}: Prologue is interesting and original, takes time to capture the reader’s attention, and has many errors.
Seven {worth reading}: Prologue is interesting not very original but has an imaginative twist, takes time to capture reader’s attention and has many errors.
Six {worth reading}: Prologue is slightly interesting, not very original, takes time to capture readers’ attention, and has many errors.
Five {worth reading}: Prologue is not very interesting, slightly original, takes time to capture the readers’ attention, and has many errors.
Zero {a waste of time}: Entry is poorly written, have many mistakes, and author had no really passion to write. Entries possess slang, l33t, and an abundance of misplaced/missing punctuation. Includes block text, joke entries, ect. These will be automatically disqualified.
