User blog:BladeOfHope/So apparently it got approved

Yeah people are making contests right now

(I feel like V33, Firey, and I are rivals for competition right now [and I'm not even sure how smart it is to set up a contest at the same time as theirs {but oh well}])

so yeah I got my first contest approved

C:

Ruleeeees~
they're really more like guidelines idk

The theme is the death of a friend.

I don't care if it's the main character's friend, mate, kit(s), mother, enemy, some random cat's friend, mate, etc., an enemy's friend, mate, etc.... just some important-ish cat's friendly relation. Make them die at the beginning, the middle, the very end, I DON'T CARE.

Options yesss

Nothing too long, and nothing too short. I'm not going to say, like, "Oh, everyone should have exactly seven chapters with forty lines each", but, guidelines. Say, at least four chapters and no more than about... ten? Ish? If it's shorter than three or four chapters, that's probably too short, but if you /have/ to go longer than ten, I gueeeeeeeeeess that's alright. As long as you realize that it'll take me five times longer to read/judge your story. (I'm not counting prologues and epilogues as chapters, btw.)

PLEASE. Grammar and spelling. Please. I understand that typos happen, and that some people have better grammar and mechanics writing-wise than others. But please. Try to use good grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc., and don't have a chapter full of paragraphs that are all, like, twenty lines long. (I might actually refuse to read a story with blocky paragraphs. I have trouble reading stuff like that. So, yeah. Don't do that.)

Oh, and please only use OC's ! You can use characters that you made for another story, or you can create entirely new characters for this one; it doesn't really matter. What I don't want is "Feathertail died and now Crowpaw is sad"-esque stories. No. Just. No.

I think that's about it so

Judgeeeees~
I will be looking for one or two other people to help me judge. I expect you to judge fairly - don't be biased and be like "This person is my enemy, they get a zero" or "This person is my friend, they get a 700!".

Yeah, don't do that.

I'm not going to have a judge form or anything, but if you want to help me judge, please kind of explain in the comments below why you think you would make a good judge. Stuff like "I'm not going to be biased" or "I won't take forever to start judging" and stuff is really what I'm looking for. No first come, first serve here. I'll pick you based on whether or not I think you'll really do a good job.

Storieeeees~
So.

If you're interested in entering my contest, please fill out this form:

Username/Nickname/Whatever:

Story Title + Link (title can be changed):

Who's probably gonna die (general idea):

Blurb (brief):

So, yeah, fill that out and stick it in a comment below. (I don't think this will happen buuuut) If twelve people sign up, I'm going to have to pick and choose. I'm not going to pick just my friends or anything; I'm going to pick the people whose stories sound the most interesting. If you don't get accepted but want to write your story anyways, let me know and I can still read it if you want C: You just won't win anything. Generally I'm going to shoot for five to seven people.

Prizeeeeees~
First place! Second place! Third place! Everyone else!
 * A coded signature done by me (gradients, shadows, backgrounds, whatever)
 * A picture drawn by me of one to three of your OC's (understand that I only have Paint to use for digital art, and that if you want me to draw something by hand it will be in black and white. I'll let you choose. I can also do simple backgrounds; I can't do anything complicated, but I will draw a basic background for you. See my deviantART [ http://www.bladetherogue.deviantart.com ] to see examples of my work.)
 * The epic satisfaction of knowing that you won ;3
 * A coded signature done by me (no gradients, but shadows and anything else you want)
 * A picture drawn by me of one or two of your OC's (for this prize I will not draw any backgrounds; it will just be the characters. Again, you can pick digital or traditional; the same conditions apply as for the first place picture.)
 * The cool-ness of having won the spot of the only ranked even number ;3
 * A simple signature coded by me (probably just text and background, maybe some sups and subs)
 * A sketch drawn by me of one of your OC's (again, digital or traditional, but this one will be more of a sketch than anything else.)
 * The knowledge that you have gained a Blade bronze medal ;3
 * A collective picture of one of each of the other contestants' OC's; so you won't get a picture of your own, but you WILL get an OC in /a/ picture.
 * The happiness that comes from having entered a contest and having tried your best ;3

So yeah. That's that.

" W h a t a r e y o u r u n n i n g a w a y f r o m ? "

" E v e r y t h i n g w a s k i l l i n g m e . S h o u l d I h a v e s t a y e d ? "  01:09, September 15, 2014 (UTC)