User blog:DogwoodFlowers/HEY LOOK IT'S A CONTEST

OKIE DOKIE FIRST THINGS FIRST: my 18-month baby cousin somehow already knows "shoot", "gun", and "hands up" in vietnamese AND  he knows to put the nerf gun (that's also twice his size btw) up to his eye

like what the heck BUT HE'S THE CUTEST GANGSTER BABY EVER I CANT EVEN

okay now for the title of this blog!!! I'm holding a contest because the wiki is crazily devoid of these things. I'm thinking about holding them monthly or every other month?? but ON TO THE CONTEST

The theme is villains!! Your job is to write a short story (10k words max) about a villain's descent into, well, villainy. This can be a special for one of your existing fanfics! The deadline is March 17th, so you have a month and a week to write it. It can be written in any POV- first person, second person, third person, from the view of an outsider, or someone close to the villain, the villain themselves, etc.

 Prizes: 

3rd Place: I'll read one of your stories and give you a comment on it!! (has anyone else noticed how hard it is to get comments these days??)

2nd Place: Same prize for third place!

1st Place: A chibi cat drawing by me! And also a comment on one of your stories!

Judging will be based off of:

-Villain (How good is the villain? How are they not the usual mustache-twirling bad guy?)

-What pushed the villain to become evil? (Is it realistic and understandable?)

-Does it stray from cliches? (Cliches I'm thinking of off the top of my head: The insanity excuse, unrealistically obsessed love "now im gonna kill everything cuz im so edgy and emo after my tru lov died", born evil) NOTE: These are NOT limitations!!!! Insanity can be used if it isn't as an  excuse and going insane because of love is allowed! There are also many ways to play with the "born evil" thing, but I'll leave that up to you if you choose to do it!

So yeah, have fun! Get writing! And don't forget to link me your submission in the comments!

* walks away to go obsess over her backwards-hat nerf gun in-hand baby cousin singing barney's "i love you, you love me"*