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Short Story Contest About the First Christmas. High GPS awards & growing!**CLOSED |
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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only **  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I am honored to have been added to the Seal of Approval list and to proudly display this image - MarysTears   ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only **  ~  ~ ~ CONTEST DEADLINE ~ ~ ~ Dec 25th 2006 - 11:59pm WDC time. Using a creative approach - re-tell the story of the Birth of Christ. Where and how you start and end the story is up to you. Please be truthful to the Gospels. Other than that - be creative !! YOU DECIDE HOW TO WRITE IT ! ~ ~ ~ IDEAS ~ ~ ~ - Tell the story from the viewpoint of Mary,or one of the wisemen, or Joseph or even Jesus himself. - Be an outside observer in Bethlehem and tell what you saw the night Christ was born - Put yourself into the scene and describe what you see - Interact with the people or just narrate it - or ???? got another idea? Run with it!** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ~ ~ ~ WHAT WON LAST YEAR? ~ ~ ~  FIRST PLACE "Invalid Item"  [] by A Guest Visitor SECOND PLACE"The Wonder of Christmas" [E] by spazmom Mary knew only that her's was the greatest honor a woman could have...  HONORABLE MENTION "Invalid Item" [] by A Guest Visitor ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  ~ ~ ~ THE RULES ~ ~ ~  ~ Short story, Dialogue, Article, etc. ~ Between 1,000 and 5,000 words. *Put the word count somewhere in the item*If you're a little under or over on the count - that's ok - but please - no novels or flash fiction ~ Spelling, grammer, punctuation are critical and will be part of the judging. ~ Only E rated items. Anything else may be suspended and/or deletedand will not be considered for judging. NO exceptions !!!!  ~ NO profanity, violence, language, etc... NO exceptions !!!!The item will not be considered for judging if it contains any of these things. ~ NO editing after closing date - (Dec 25th 2006 11:59pm WDC time)until after the judging is complete and winners posted or you will be disqualified from judging!!! ~ One entry per author per year. ~ Must be written new for this contest. ~ Post in item, bitem or titem format. If you need help with this - read:~ "Invalid Item" by A Guest Visitor or: ~ "The illustrated guide to linking" by Writing.Com Support  or email me MarysTears for help ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 'PRIZES' ~ ~ ~ THESE WILL MOST LIKELY BE INCREASING DUE TO VERY GENEROUS DONATIONS I WILL ANNOUCE SOON WHAT THE NEW/BIGGER AWARDS WILL BE!! - 1st place - 50K BLUE Ribbon OR 25K BLUE Ribbon + 25K GPS Winners Choice - 2nd place - 25K RED Ribbon OR Merit Badge + 15K GPS Judges decision - 3rd place - Merit Badge Judges Choice of badge  - Honorable Mention (IF any) - 5,000 GPS. More may be given but that will be at the discretion of the judges. ALL VALID ENTRIES WILL RECEIVE A DETAILED REVIEW DURING THE JUDGING A minimum of five valid entries are required to guarantee prizes. If there are less than five valid entries, each author will receive 2,500 gps and the contest will be declared over without being judged. We still may give out an award if an item is exceptional, but that is at the judge's discretion. **ANY ITEM NOT WITHIN THE RULES AND GUIDELINES ARE SUBJECT TO DELETION AND WILL NOT BE JUDGED!!** ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  ~  ~ ~ ~ 'DONATIONS' ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Donations of 20k or more will receive a Merit Badge !! (Angel, Appreciation, Generosity) MANY THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR GENEROUS DONATIONS !! EACH ONE HAS RECEIVED A MERIT BADGE ~*~Damiana Returned~*~ - 100,000 gpsbutterfly388 - 50,000 gps TexansBeatTheMiamiDolphinsBy3 - 21,000 gpsA HUGE thank you to everyone!!!!! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 'THE JUDGING' ~ ~ ~  The Judge(s)MarysTears That's ME!  TexansBeatTheMiamiDolphinsBy3 So far, that's it - BUT I may add a guest judge if we have a lot of entries (I hope, I hope, I hope  ).I will post their name here as early as possible if I do. ~ Judges decision is final ~ Deadline: Dec 25th - 11:59pm WDC time. NO editing after this date until after the judging is complete and winners posted or you will be disqualified from judging!!! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ VALID ENTRIES ~ ~ ~ ***IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER***
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