Shadowfang The deadline is when the competition ends, October 15th. Right now there's no dedicated page to see the entries. Hopefully that goes up soon.
Spring Contest Contract Question
MotivatedSloth unfortunately is often those stories that win since more chapters mean more readers
JKaiya ALSO note that some of the stuff might be wrong as I am just basing this on all the complaints authors put about the contract in forums like it feels like every week to two some1 makes a post about it? L
Please keep in mind most of the complaints come from authors who aren't contracted in the first place and doesn't have first-hand experience in signing it. Yes, there are some questionable materials in the contract, but a lot of it is just there for foundations and reassurance.
TravelingPoet Trust me. When a novel leaves new ranking, its all up to either your preexisting following, insane luck AND MOST OF ALL - features. All of that plus the usual stuff like catchy synopsis, nice cover and hooking first chapters. And its someone who experienced the process twice already, so I can say I'm speaking from my own experience, but also from what other contracted and experienced authors are claiming.
JKaiya No harm in participating. Should the contract arrive in your Inkstone, it's something to worry about then.
In the past, the contracts have been a royalty based. Meaning you earn a split when someone pays for a chapter or gifts a book. With any contract, it always recommended to have someone good with contracts read through and give you advice.
The contract generally asks for a couple of things from writer,
- Commitment to the initial signed story for the finish.
- exclusive copyright holding of all the story, even the stuff you haven't written on that particular signed story
Yes, WN practically own your story. No, they don't dictate how you write it. The only thing you have to be concerned with is finishing the story and walking away from it to be honest.
Regardless of win, this contest is a purpose to challenge skills with a prompt and finish a damn good story.
Good luck! Have faith in your abilities. You can do this.
So the Contract is enforced this time? They didn't do that previously huh? I remember the guy taking the 10k and stopped writing the next day Lol
Well I hope more contest's like these happen more often, it's a fast way to get contracted, instead of waiting months
ThyUnknownSaint 6 months for this contest run haha
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Are editors provided by Webnovel free?
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Little_Creation You get content editors who you can ask for help/advice from for free, but these are not editors, aka they will not edit your story for you.
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Are editors free or you have to pay? If you have reached 12 thousand words in your novel, do you get 800 dollars without signing any contract.
jumoke_nusi No, they are not free. You are getting paid for using their services! What's more, its not 800$ after 12k words, but 800$ for every 1k words you write!
<See how ridiculous that sounds? Now try to reread what you wrote yourself>