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The War of the Words!
Hello everyone and welcome to *dramatic music* the War of the Words!
*gasps*
Let me explain.
The War of the Worlds is a creative writing/poetry competition split into different rounds. Each round has a unique, creative theme.
ROUND ONE: Write a short story excluding one vowel (harder than it sounds).
ROUND TWO: Create as many sentences as possible using the amount of letters in each word as digits in Pi. (3.1415926 might be "May I have a whole container of coffee?")
ROUND THREE: Create an acrostic poem with each letter of the alphabet.
ROUND FOUR: Free writing (under 750 words)
QUARTER FINAL: Free poetry
SEMI FINAL: Free writing (under 750 words)
GRAND FINAL: YET TO BE REVEALED
In each of the first three rounds, only the top five contestants will receive points depending on the position they came. This is not essential in your survival in the competition, though it will be added to your total score if you make it into the Grand Final.
Anyway, in round four, the top 8 contestants move through to the Quarter Final. Please note that people who do not make it in will not have there scores announced because, lets face it, no-one wants to come last. If we have few entries, we may skip the quarter finals all together.
The top four entries will then go through the the Semi finals, and so on.
I will be the judge in this competition, though please note that this is just a bit of fun and should not start any arguments or conflicts.
Okay, we will begin on the 15th and I'll cover the rounds in more detail later on. Please sign up below and enjoy!
~Coraline
submitted by Coroline
(December 4, 2018 - 12:56 am)
(December 4, 2018 - 12:56 am)
Congrats, everybody!
(January 14, 2019 - 1:22 pm)
I am so surprised and honored! I expected to get last or so...
Thank you so much!
What's the word limit for the pi round? Is it 750 like the free writes?
(January 13, 2019 - 10:41 pm)
May I join the second round?
(January 14, 2019 - 8:09 am)
@Kitten, I guess the word count would be 750, but it is a lot harder to do Pi, so it's okay if it's a lot shorter.
@Ojie, you sure can.
(January 14, 2019 - 4:11 pm)
Aah, thank you so mcuh!! I'm so happy, ee!
Everyone, you did amazing! I enjoyed reading your works!
(January 14, 2019 - 6:11 pm)
(January 16, 2019 - 8:14 pm)
Top!!!
I am writing random text to top this post because toppingness is great and I would like this post to be topped. Topotopotopotopot is a palindrome. It is also not a word.
On a separate note, I am working on my pi story and hope you are as well!
(January 18, 2019 - 1:59 pm)
Top! Oh boy, writing according to Pi is hard.
(January 19, 2019 - 7:12 pm)
@Leafpool, I know, it's really hard. My expectations aren't much higher than 25 words. It wouldn't be much of a story, really.
(January 19, 2019 - 9:43 pm)
Is it ok if I join the second round?
(January 20, 2019 - 12:29 pm)
@Leo, sure!
(January 20, 2019 - 5:18 pm)
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TO
TOT
TOTH
TOTHE
TOTHET
TOTHETO
TOTHETOP
TOTHETO
TOTHET
TOTHE
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(January 24, 2019 - 8:45 pm)
My Pi story (because I can't get much mor out of it)
Pandas at Schol??
"Can I take a panda (carefully) to school? Maybe I'll serve homeless! Entertain elderly!" Misstress Lee An Kim entreats.
The, um, End?
[Key: sentence 1- 31415926, sentence 2- 5358, sentence 3- 97, 93238.]
(January 25, 2019 - 9:32 am)
Soren I loved the story it was so well done - this is a really hard thing to do.
(January 26, 2019 - 2:31 am)
Nice! I'd just like to point out one thing, that Mistress is spelled with 3 s'es, so the word is only 8 letters long.
(February 3, 2019 - 1:20 pm)