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Winners of WPC #63 & 64
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Hello, dear authors~ From Feb 25 onward, the writing prompts contest shall undergo a change. The contest's time period shall be lengthened from one week to two weeks, and there will be more main prompt topics to choose from, as well as more abundant rewards.
Here are the main topics of this writing prompts~!
Writing Prompts Contest 63：One Chapter Challenge
Writing Prompts Contest 64：Moon； Robot；Alien
Writing Prompts Contest 63：One Chapter Challenge
Writing is just like singing. It's something that everyone knows how to do.
Whether it be a diary, blog, poem, song, essay, or short story... all of these are methods of recording that can be shared with others.
Let us try a one chapter challenge, to make writing part of our daily lives.
Rules of the challenge: no word limit, but all the words must be contained within one chapter (not including Volume 0 or prologues). The topic may be of your own choosing, but please don't have personal attacks against others.
Examples:
Diaries: It could be a record about the present or the past; it could be a record of tragedy or a record of beauty.
Blog: You could share any topic that you wish, such as gourmet food, makeup, the latest news, professional knowledge, little techniques to make life easier, or experience in love...
Poem/essay: inspiration typically comes from our own lives.
Song: perhaps see if a reader is willing to write a melody for your song.
Short story: try taking some inspiration from Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant, or O. Henry.
Others: any other category is fine as well.
If you believe that writing is highly personal, then feel free to use the "draft" function in Inkstone. If you're willing to share with us, then please press "publish"!
Writing Prompts Contest 64：Moon； Robot；Alien
From these three keywords, it can be seen that this writing prompt is more focused on science fiction. As space exploration technology advances, the moon is no longer as mysterious as it used to be. Every country has their own moon exploration plans. And of course, America is planning to reach the moon again and even establish a base on the moon. Why not try using that as the foundation to write an interesting science fiction story~
To repeat our contest's requirements, we welcome long stories, short stories, or even super short stories, with word counts anywhere between ten thousand or even thirty thousand words~
Contest awards - How to join - Rules
Awards
1.Featured on the front page
Every first place prize for each topic shall be shown on the front page's "Trending Original Stories" section for 2-3 days, across our PC + App + Mobile platforms. Based on past experience, this will add 1000+ or more readers who bookmark your story in their library.
2.Spirit Stone rewards
Every first place winner for each topic shall receive 1000 SS. 2nd and 3rd place shall both receive 500 SS. 4th through 10th place shall each receive 100 SS. These Spirit Stones will be handed out in the form of gift cards to each author's inbox. Every gift card will contain 100 SS.
3.Chance to sign a contract
outstanding novels will directly receive the chance to sign a contract.
How to join
Click the create button at the top of webnovel.com's homepage. After you log in to the Inkstone platform, choose [Writing Prompts Contest 63：One Chapter Challenge] or [Writing Prompts Contest 64：Moon； Robot；Alien] in order to join the contest.
Rules
1.This contest will take place from 4/8/2019 to 4/21/2019, over a period of two weeks. The contest results will be announced three days after the end of the writing prompt on the jianghu forums.
2.The final ranking list will be determined by the number of power stones they receive within these two weeks. However, the editors will also determine the winners based on the quality of the story submitted.
3.Fan-fic novels are ineligible for final rankings.
4.Novels entered in the contest must be your original work with the copyright fully owned by you. No plagiarism shall be tolerated.
5.The main plot of your novel must adhere to one of the writing prompt's topics. Otherwise, it will be treated as a non-participating novel.
6.Your novel may not disparage other religions or cultural beliefs.
7.Webnovel reserves the right of final explanations.
Tips
1.We encourage new writers with no writing experience to try writing a short submission of 10k-20k words.
2.It's important to have daily updates in order to attract readers' attention.
3.Proactively communicate with your readers. You'll receive sincere advice and encouragement.
4.Every chapter's word count length is recommended at 1500-2000 words. At minimum, please don't go under 800 words per chapter.
5.The main character's name should have a name suitable for the cultural setting of the novel. Please don't imitate translated Chinese novels in using pinyin names. More localized stories are easier to show their strong points with.
6.If you wish to learn more webnovel writing techniques, please check out the Book of Authors.
