New contest prompts for March April 2023

LtBroccoli

Is there a deadline for when we should have the stories submitted? I have an idea.

Enchantress

Entries must be submitted by midnight on March 31st.

Tinman

Enchantress technically speaking, if submissions are allowed throughout the day of March 31st, the deadline is either 23:59 March 31st, or Midnight April 1st. It’s today until 23:59:59, then it’s the first second of tomorrow. 😁

DarkArchon1980

@LtBroccoli Roughly midnight to 1:00 am ET as trhat’s the time zone that I’m in.

RapeU

https://theblackvan.com/d/1005-thespians-thirst

Shocker

RapeU I simply have to ask are you related to Brandon Sanderson? Writing high Quality stories in barely any time?

RapeU

Shocker
Not that I know of. This one actually took a little more time to figure out than it appears. I muddled through several possibilities until I happened to stumble on the fact that there exists a play called The Crucible. From there the simple plot was born.

It also probably helps that I have a commute of about an hour to the school I teach at. So two hours of my day I’m driving and can think of some stuff in my head while listening to music.

Shocker

RapeU just saves me the hassle of reading the play, as that play had been my first idea also. So when I saw your title I made the assumption you went that route.

Vela_Nanashi

I only have a vague idea what I want to do yet 🙂

RapeU

Shocker
It won’t bother me if you use the play idea. There’s multiple possibilities that exist in which an actress, a stagehand, or even a member of the audience watching the play could become the victim of unfortunate circumstances.

Shocker

RapeU Don’t worry if I had fully committed to the idea I would have used it. At the end of the day that is why I have to refrain from reading your story or any other contest entries before posting my own. I don’t want to suspect myself of taking the excellent ideas of others and subconsciously put them in my stories, I’m a bit odd that way.
But now there are two stories I’m eager to read and can’t.

Vela_Nanashi

https://theblackvan.com/d/1006-cherrys-crucible

My story for this contest 🙂

Vela_Nanashi

Shocker I am the same way now that I have posted mine I am allowed to read the others though 🙂 I will get to that as they get posted and time allows 🙂

Shocker

I have an idea now that should work just fine

DarkArchon1980

Tinman Fear not, if the thread doesn’t say it’s locked and/or itis locked you can still drop an entry.

KittyUmbrass

My entry: Countess of the Crucible, 4,450 words (I hope that’s close enough to the word limit, otherwise I’ll go and edit a few snippets!) https://theblackvan.com/d/1027-countess-of-the-crucible-contest-entry

Tinman

DarkArchon1980 I fear nothing, I just enjoy being pedantic. 🤣

LtBroccoli

My submission is “One of Us”, a supernatural/sci-fi story. The prompts are used throughout the story, and the length according to Pages is 4099 words. It’s definitely a challenge to keep the word count so low.

Enjoy.

https://theblackvan.com/d/1037-one-of-us

Gigi

So there are three words. Do we have to use all three words in the story or is that the subject of the story? How are the three words relative to what we are supposed to create. I totally get to 4100 word limit I just don’t understand how we are supposed to use those words in the story or make them the subject of the story? Sorry I’m blonde.

Shocker

Gigi the idea is to use the concepts expressed by those words, not necessarily the words themselves. Further all three concepts need to be used in the story. Not entirely sure how strict @DarkArchon1980 is on checking for the use of them.
The gentleman who kicked off this kind of contest to websites ago, was fond of saying that he enjoyed seeing the concepts getting used as creative as possible, not sticking to the most literal meaning. I used to call this raping the concepts until they fit my story.