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Jan-30-2010 07:30


(Creative Writing Contest)

In the wonderful spirit of giving and universal oneness Sleuth is showing, I have decided to host a contest I have wanted to do for a while. The premise of this contest is inspired by a charming little movie I watched a while ago called “Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day”, whereby in the course of twenty four hours the character of Miss Pettigrew is introduced, developed and, by the end of the movie, gets her romantic destiny achieved.

The contest is this: Write a creative piece in which you introduce a fictional character to the reader, develop it as much as you can with interesting detail and have it fulfill some sort of destiny within the course of one day in the character’s life. The rules are as follows:

1. The character has to be fictional -it can be your detective’s or another one that you’ve created.
2. The piece you submit is limited to 6,000 characters (i.e. 3 posts as a maximum.)
3. Your piece must be entitled: “Mr/Miss/Mrs (insert your character’s name) Lives for a Day”.
4. The entries will be judged on writing, creativity and entertainment value.

The judging will be done by yours truly. I promise to endeavour to be as fair as humanly possible.

The winner will receive a 6-month gift subscription to Sleuth Noir. There is also another optional prize if the winner is a role player and would like to start a new thread on the stage: I will offer to join his or her story as the Violet Parr character or as a character of the winner’s choosing and design.

All entries must be submitted by the deadline of Saturday, February 6th, 2010 at 23:59 hrs, Sleuth Server Time.

I encourage everyone to give this contest a shot, enjoy writing and have fun!

Feb-8-2010 02:28


*turns to JZ & SS*

Now, Mr. Zeo and SS… Since your delightful and very well-written posts were out of time, I could not include them in the judging and still be fair to the other contestants…

Having said that, you would have been very strong contenders had you made it on time and I cannot bring myself to disregard your wonderful effort and great writing skill altogether.

*looks both ways and slides them each a 1-month gift subscription under the table*

Feb-8-2010 03:27

Mr. Parr, you are too kind! Thank you for hosting such a wonderful contest. I thoroughly enjoy reading all the entries as well.

Congratulation Riza!! Yours is a wonderful entry and worth winning the contest. I think everyone's a winner too (and Violet made it so as well). Wow, those characters and stories really take a life of their own. Absolutely wonderful :)

Feb-8-2010 14:49

Congratulations to the winner (s) and thanks Violet.

Feb-9-2010 14:31

Hooray, well done everyone! :D

Feb-9-2010 15:17

Conrats Riza!

And Heim, Mr. O'Neil, SS, and Joey *ahem* Joseph. ;D

Wonderful stories and imaginations!

Thank you so very much, Ms Parr!

Feb-9-2010 17:10

What Anais said... yeah. Double for me. :D

Oy, I'm so lazy. Okay, then.

My hearty congratulations to ALL the entrants for their wonderful stories! And many thanks to Vi for running this wonderful contest. :-)