Fortnightly Writing Challenge: HUMANARIUM (Results)

[monkey424]

Fantastic!



This is going straight to the pool room!

[TheTelephone]

!!!!

Daahh! Trying not to gush over here.

I'd like to thank the academy. I'd like to thank the fans. I'd like to thank my fellow competitors.

Seriously, though, I really have no one to brag to about this, but being on this forum for less than two weeks and already getting a trophy to put in my signature... Man, I really got those warm and fuzzies all up in my tummy.

Really happy to be here, really happy to be making my very first adventure game, and really looking forward to sharing conversation/banter with all you beautiful people.

I have no idea how to go about posting the next theme, but if someone could give me an idiot-proof rundown, hopefully I don't mess it up too too bad.

Thanks again!!

[Sinitrena]

Congrats, TheTelephone!

I have no idea how to go about posting the next theme, but if someone could give me an idiot-proof rundown, hopefully I don't mess it up too too bad.

Let's see if I can manage an idiot-proof rundown

• Decide on a theme for the next round. (click through this list to see all the topics of the last few years.) We usually have a halloween themed round in October but it's still the beginning of the month, so if you don't want to, there's probably still enough time for this in the round after yours.
• Look at a calender to see when the deadline should be (about two weeks from now: 14th October).
• Start a new topic in the competitions and activities board.
• Put "Fortnightly Writing Competition" or something similar, your theme and the deadline in the subject line.
• Write a nice text that tells everyone what the next round is about. Add pictures or quotes if you want to, tell us if there is, just as some examples, a word limit or minimum, or if you want us to write only in dialog, or poetry, or whatever.
• Post thread.
• Draw trophies.

Was that idiot-proof? If not, just ask again.

[Baron]

It's a bit tedious going through that big list so here's a list of past themes that I've been compiling:

2014 August (7)           Absurdist Pulp Noir
2014 July (3)      Monumental Memories
2014 June (3)      Mutate
2014 June (9)      Fictional Game Review
2014 May (2)      That's an Actual Place?
2014 April (2)      Business of Yore
2014 March (4)           Not by Blue Cup of Tea
2014 February    (3)   Odd Couple
2014 February    (8)   In the Beginning (first chapter/paragraph + back of book blurb)
2014 January   (4)   When Art is Conceived
2013 December (4)   Happiness
2013 November (8)   Continuation Story Game
2013 November (4)   Broken Promises
2013 October   (5)   Haunted House
2013 September (4)   Suddenly (fictional devices suddenly have to deal with the real world rules)
2013 September (5)   Coercion
2013 August (4)           Rashomon Style (telling a story from multiple perspectives)
2013 July (5)      Robbie Burns
2013 June (5)      TV Tropes
2013 June (6)      Impossible Escape
2013 May (4)      Castaway!
2013 April (6)      iRobot
2013 April (5)      Invading Aliens!
2013 March (2)           Leprechaun
2013 March (6)           Dark Moon
2013 February    (4)   FanFiction
2013 January (2)   New Leaf
2012 December (2)   Happy Holidays
2012 November (2)   What if?
2012 October (9)   Spooky
2012 August (1)           That's Criminal!
2012 July (1)      The Beach
2012 June (3)      Riddle Me This
2012 May (4)      One Sentence Poems
2012 April (2)      Purple (overly extravagant language)
2012 April (3)      Extras (short piece featuring a pre-existing minor or supporting character)
2012 March (2)           Mythopoeia
2012 February    (2)   CENSORED!
2012 January   (3)   Road Trip!
2012 January   (7)   Text Adventure
2011 December (3)   Mad Scientist Edition
2011 November (2)   Catch Phrases
2011 October   (3)   Ghost Writing Spook-tacular
2011 October (2)   You Choose
2011 September (7)   Coffee Time!
2011 August (5)           Drabble/Mini Saga (stories of either exactly 100 or 50 words)

Sorry for the weird formatting, it doesn't copy & paste well.  The numbers in brackets are the number of submissions, so you can see what was popular.