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Writing Competition #1
Damxge Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:42 pm
Come one come all! Here is a writing competition for all ages and all genres!
This competition will consist of three parts, for each part, the participants will follow the theme (ie: fictitious Story, Poetry, Misc, etc...)
Each part will be voted upon by other members (and even your competitors) the member with the most wins will be crowned our winner and receive a shiny badge to show they've won, their name will also be put up on the front page of the website.
Participants:
Drag
killer8529
LordTomyh
Themes:
1st Round:Fictional Account (First Person Story)
2nd Round:Poem (Any genre)
3rd Round: Any Work about dragons
Deadline for the second round is February 7th. Please submit your poems before then.
Deadline for the third round is February 18th. Please submit your work about Dragons before then.
Note:
Deadline for submission for the first round is the 31st of January. The voting thread will open the day after. While voting is still in progress, you may present your next piece (for the next round). Deadline for second and third rounds will be decided at later date.
This competition will consist of three parts, for each part, the participants will follow the theme (ie: fictitious Story, Poetry, Misc, etc...)
Each part will be voted upon by other members (and even your competitors) the member with the most wins will be crowned our winner and receive a shiny badge to show they've won, their name will also be put up on the front page of the website.
Participants:
Drag
killer8529
LordTomyh
Themes:
1st Round:
2nd Round:
3rd Round: Any Work about dragons
Deadline for the second round is February 7th. Please submit your poems before then.
Deadline for the third round is February 18th. Please submit your work about Dragons before then.
Deadline for submission for the first round is the 31st of January. The voting thread will open the day after. While voting is still in progress, you may present your next piece (for the next round). Deadline for second and third rounds will be decided at later date.
Last edited by Cross on Fri Feb 10, 2012 1:13 am; edited 4 times in total
Damxge- Rook
Re: Writing Competition #1
Damxge Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:17 am
Of course mate, just PM Ivory and Killer to see if they'll jump in too.
Damxge- Rook
Re: Writing Competition #1
Drag Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:46 pm
Okay! Starting to think of a first person story now.
Something in space maybe...
Something in space maybe...
Drag- Rocketman
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killer8529- Checkmate
Re: Writing Competition #1
Damxge Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:28 am
Of course mate, just have it submitted by the 31st of January.
Gives you over a week to work on it ^_^
Gives you over a week to work on it ^_^
Damxge- Rook
Re: Writing Competition #1
killer8529 Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:49 pm
do we post it hear or make a new topic tell soon already finished just need to look through it a few more times for gramical mistakes and things that dont make sence 
killer8529- Checkmate
Re: Writing Competition #1
Drag Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:55 am
Also, where is Tomyh in this! I was hoping he would join 
Drag- Rocketman
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Re: Writing Competition #1
LordTomyh Thu Jan 26, 2012 3:01 pm
It might be a bit late for me to join ... I could do the first and third ones easily but the second would take me about a week ... I suck at poetry
LordTomyh- Rook
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Re: Writing Competition #1
LordTomyh Thu Jan 26, 2012 3:02 pm
Oh I though it was like the 27th ... whoops :?:
LordTomyh- Rook
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LordTomyh- Rook
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Re: Writing Competition #1
Damxge Thu Jan 26, 2012 3:09 pm
Lawl, well, just post the work here in a spoiler. You can update it as much as you want until the voting begins.
The 31st deadline is simply for the first round, another deadline will be set for the second and third rounds later, probably no more than a week for the poetry bit and maybe a week and a half for the last.
The 31st deadline is simply for the first round, another deadline will be set for the second and third rounds later, probably no more than a week for the poetry bit and maybe a week and a half for the last.
Damxge- Rook
Re: Writing Competition #1
killer8529 Thu Jan 26, 2012 3:13 pm
- Spoiler:
- How i met Ferelga
I first meet Ferelga 32 years ago on a winter’s night at the time she tried to kill me but that was not meant to happen. This is how I met my first dragon the adventure that it would take me on I would never have dreamed of in a million years.
The year was 2012 I was at the north pole a storm came fast and strong I had to find shelter there was a cave I saw ahead of me so I headed towards that area when I entered the first thing I see is a big rock or so I thought. I waited a few hours to see if the snow storm would lighten up when I realised it was not going to I set up a tent and went to sleep.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY CAVE!!!!” that was what I woke up to a scream in my head that gave me a migraine I was barely awake at the time so said “please keep it down I am trying to sleep.” There was a sudden pain from my foot and I was lifted off the ground and that of course woke me up screaming
“Oh shut up you are making my ears hurt.” The voice in my head complained I looked at my foot there was a white tooth sticking through the middle of it still in huge amounts of pain I looked to see what had bitten me then I realised to the full extent how stuffed I really was in front of me was not a stone it was a black dragon!!!
It was everything I imagined a dragon to be so I did the most silly of things given the situation
“What’s your name you beautiful dragon?” I said while gasping for breath the dragon was in shook well I could not blame it, it’s the first time someone had asked it a question like that in it’s jaws
“M-m-my name? M-m-my name is Ferelga, Ferelga the daughter of Ferelgoth.” Ferelga stammered and slowly put me down and removed her jaws from my leg and looked at me like I looked at her, she was magnificent, she had two horns on the top of her head pointed strait back and two rows of small spines all along her back with them pointing back, her claws look sharp and are long enough for her to climb a wall, at the end of her tail was a small blade like structure like a arrow head her body was black with a slight tint of red.
“Why did you just put me down, Ferelga?” I asked after about 10 minutes of silence
“Because my father said if ever a man asks for your name he is you rider and companion don’t try to avoid it, it will happen either way you have been chosen.” Ferelga spoke this with her mouth not though thought that is how we met for the first time I felt prepose that’s what drove me to the North Pole.
By Killer8529
killer8529- Checkmate
Re: Writing Competition #1
LordTomyh Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:41 pm
- Spoiler:
- I ran hungry, starving. All I could feel was the hunger, the burning urge in my throat, like sand paper.
My body felt like water, gracefully and flowing, yet aflame with hunger, with hurt and rage.
The world speed past me, sharper than ever, the world alive with sounds, the hidden cries of the world unheard by normal ears, smells unnoticed till now.
I leapt over trees and branches, feeling as if I had the feet of a rabbit, Higher and higher I leapt through the trees, till I was running on the branches above the trees, where the air was clear and the sky empty.
A scent filled the air around me, a heavenly scent. Dirt covered the salty sweat, and the coppery smell of blood. I turned to follow the smell, leaping and swinging from branch to branch, silent as death yet fast as the sky fire.
I followed the smell to a path, my yes picking out the source of the mouth watering scent. Three men walking down a worn path, sharpened sticks across their shoulders, stone spikes hanging from their waists. One carries a large deer, hit’s neck cut and its body dotted with jagged holes.
My body froze, my hunger forgotten. In the distant part of my mind, a memory surfaced. Three men, smiling evilly, a stick protruding from my chest, a spear, one of the men stepped forward, stone spike in hand, a knife, a cut it across my throat, splitting the skin and spilling my blood.
Anger welled up within me, exploding within me, mixing with my thirst. My anger built up in my chest, parted my lips and escaped my body in an unworldly, ear shattering screech. The men beneath me fell to the ground, covering their ears, screaming in pain and fear. I leapt from the branch I was perched on, landing heavily on the middle on, the one who had slit my throat. Twin pains split my lips and I bit down on his neck, piercing his skin and drawing blood. Struggling the man cried out in pain and shock as I drank his blood, draining his life essence. It had taken only seconds yet it had felt like hours as I drank his blood, Soon the man fell still and I withdrew my fangs from his neck, the thirst was lessened, my throat not so dry now. I spun on the other two, hissing like a wild beast, my fangs still extended. One yelled and tried to spear me, the wood shattering on my skin as if it was rock. The other drew his dagger and swung at me, the sharpened stone breaking in half as if smashed against my head. I leapt on the second man, biting down on his neck. Screaming the man tried to hit me with the broken stone dagger, only shattering it further and further. I felt the third man stab me in the back with his dagger, only for it to shatter into a thousand pieces in his grasp.
The third man ran dry and I turned on the last, my thirst almost subsided and my mind clear. I watched in sadistic glee as the man saw my face, taking in every detail.
“You – How – How can this be? –We, We, We killed you” I slowly opened my mouth, revealing my fangs, my eyes closed I stood up to my full height. My eyes flashed open, reveal pupils once blue as the sky now red as blood. The man jumped back, horrified at my eyes. He tripped over the corpse of the first man, landing hard on the ground, too terrified to move
“Yes, you killed me. You speared me to death like a deer then slit my throat, and the gods have given me new life” I slowly stepped towards him, smiling evilly, my fangs always in sight. “And I hunger, for life that was stolen from me, for life taken” Now I stood over him, my shadow covering him, his face twisted in horror. I smelt a foul warm odour coming off him now, and knew he had passed water.
“So I’ll take you life, to slate my hunger, brother”
I leapt at him, and in his final moments of life he screamed, it echoing off the forest to the village at the edge of the trees. The people looking up in shock, as the scream rolled over my home.
Then the screaming stopped, and a unhuman screech took its place.
LordTomyh- Rook
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Damxge- Rook
Re: Writing Competition #1
killer8529 Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:23 pm
lordtomyh that is really good and very well done
killer8529- Checkmate
Re: Writing Competition #1
Drag Tue Jan 31, 2012 2:32 pm
- Spoiler:
- The wrench hit the floor, echoing through the maintenance area. I was strapped to a bar attached to the ceiling. One of the crew members told me that the weird sounds were coming from the ventilation. If this was a serious problem it would cripple our expedition to X-357, a new planet. It was exactly the same as Earth 1 and Earth 2. The former of which was now a junk planet. Earth 2 was going in the same direction. We had about 50 years before it would be inhabitable. And after we devoured all the recourses of this new planet we will have to find a new one. Kind of depressing really. I rubbed my tired eyes. Being up for three nights in a row can really take a toll on someone. At first I thought that the first report of sounds was just an anomaly in the system, but then more and more crew members were reporting it. Yet there was nothing wrong with the ventilation. Something weird was going on.
I decided to call it a day and go back to my quarters, when suddenly I saw something drop from deeper in the narrow area. Un-strapping, I fell to the floor with a loud thud. I walked closer to the object. Getting a closer look I could see what it was. A bone? Why would a bone be here? I inspected it, seeing some flesh still left on it. Picking it up, I headed toward the elevator. Once I was on the top level I headed to the kitchen.
“Is this from your kitchen?” I asked the head chef.
“No. And you should go to Security with that.” He replied, wiping clean his knife.
“Why?”
“’Cause that’s a human bone.”
Security had started an investigation into the bone. I couldn’t get any work done with all those red-shirts down in the vents. The detective stood smoking his cigarette at the crime scene.
“I really need to get to work in there.”
“Not happening. Now scram” He shooed me away.
I stepped away, but stuck around out of his sight. Once he turned to talk to the captain I opened a grate into the vent. Leaping inside I closed the entrance behind me. I crawled through, trying not to make much sound. While I was moving through the vent I inspected the mechanics. Everything was fine. What was the noise? Creak…Thud! I whipped my head around. That was the sound the crew had described. It was coming from an alternate route. I scurried up toward the sound. Another grate came into view, but this one was already open. My body froze when I looked through. Purple weed infested the whole area. And in the middle, a huge black humanoid beast laid. I took a quick breath in. The monster looked up at me, fangs hanging out with blood dripping down them. A huge claw reached out for me. Next thing I knew I was laying on the blanket of weeds. It was an alien. And it was going to destroy this whole ship. Memories flashed before my eyes. Family, friends, loved ones. If this expedition failed, everything I knew at home was doomed. I was not going to let this…thing ruin it all. Its huge hand held me against the floor, the monster licking its lips getting ready for its next meal. I reached for my small shock rod. It was a mini version of the security shock baton. I shoved the shocker into the beast’s stomach. Lurching back, the monster screamed at me. Not loud enough for the others to hear. This was my chance to run. I could leap through the vent and run back to the others. No. I was not going to let that thing get loose. I was stopping then and there. I whipped out my heavy monkey-wrench and lifted it above my head. Not aiming at the alien, no. I was aiming at the pressure pipes. Smashing those would collapse the pressure in the ship. The other engineers could handle it and fix it from their desks they sat at. I brought the wrench down onto the pipe, it blowing up. I could feel my body being crushed by the pressure. The alien leaped at me, but before it could reach me it curled up in pain. Suddenly, the monster’s body started twitching violently. Then, out of nowhere, the beast exploded. Purple blood sprayed all over the room. And I was next too. I saw all the people on the ship getting onto X-357. I saw my loved ones moving there too. I saw- -darkness. And that was all.
There is mine. Making the voting thread now.
Drag- Rocketman
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Re: Writing Competition #1
killer8529 Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:31 pm
just a notice i putt both the next two rounds in order since i wont be on for who nows how long so hear
my poem
round three plz read the introdution to any chronicals of pern books by Anne McCaffrey
my poem
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- Dust to dust
Ashes to ashes
The life of one for the many
Is a sacrifice I am willing to take
I fly through wars I fly through dust
The dust of my enemies the dust of my friends
I ride the wind I ride the waves
I ride the rivers when they run
I ride the dragons that clear the land
I fly above the cloudy night
With dragons on high though out the sky
Even though dragons are my life
I still think back to a time
Where I did not sit adragon back
I sat at home and dreamed
While waiting for the rain
round three plz read the introdution to any chronicals of pern books by Anne McCaffrey
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The world of Pern in my eyes
The dragons of gold
The dragons of bonze
The dragons of green, blue and brown
The colours of dragons
Oh what a sight they are to see
They spin they twirl they fly high above me
Today is the day the eggs will hatch
Holders come here to Benden Weyr
To see the dragons hatch today
The excitement, the joy, the fun of it all
For me today I hope to meet a dragon
Not of gold not of bronze not of green but blue
I think there the greatest of all the colours
I sit here and think where I would be without F’nor
He found me, he saved me, from the fear of thread
He picked me up from the ground, and took me apon dragon wings
Now I hope to see the day where a dragon looks to me
One day I hope to ride the wind
On top a dragon with sprits on high
I sit here in my shell waiting for my time to come
I wait for months I wait for days let’s just wait one more hour
When the time has come I will burst from my shell
And claim my rider, I shall do from those who are around me
Will my life be long, will it be short
Will I be respected, or will I be rejected
The life my rider has lived will change forever
Her life will be so beautiful so full so grand
But me a blue that’s who I am
Even thought I am not brown or gold or bronze,
My rider will have no other.
killer8529- Checkmate
Drag- Rocketman
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Re: Writing Competition #1
Damxge Wed Feb 01, 2012 1:59 am
Alright guys!
Looks like Killer has already finished his work, so just up to everyone else now. Since there's only two of you, once you finish your work, we won't have to wait for a deadline.
So write your poem, and when you've both submitted, the new voting can begin.
Voting on the stories will close in one week (the seventh of February) your poems must be submitted by then.
Looks like Killer has already finished his work, so just up to everyone else now. Since there's only two of you, once you finish your work, we won't have to wait for a deadline.
So write your poem, and when you've both submitted, the new voting can begin.
Voting on the stories will close in one week (the seventh of February) your poems must be submitted by then.
Damxge- Rook
Re: Writing Competition #1
LordTomyh Wed Feb 01, 2012 2:11 am
My Poem
- Spoiler:
- A young girl wandered the street, a tender thing of just three.
A tiny thing walking the streets, no higher than my knee
She walked the roads barefoot, dirty and cold.
Her clothes filthy rags, her mother’s purse empty of gold
Alone she wandered the streets, calling for her mother
For her the drunken and poor do not bother
Drowning their sorrows in their drink
As around them the shadows slink
The young girl stopped and fell to her knees, eyes full of tears
Hey shouts filling the air, piercing my ears
All life was ignorant to her pain, lost in their inner dreams
Her cries falling on deaf ears, her tears running in streams
Suddenly she looked upon me, looming over her like a shadow
Hey eyes a tear stained emerald, fiery and aglow.
I saw in her face a future, bright as a star
An angel flung from heaven, this worlds young savoir.
I held out my white gloved hand, seeking to save this young flower
To protect her and to watch her grow brighter
Gently she laid her pale hand in my snow white palm
And I took her away from the shadows, to the light so calm.
LordTomyh- Rook
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Re: Writing Competition #1
Drag Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:08 am
Pedophile! :sadnerd:
Nah, just joking. That was sick
I hate poems
Nah, just joking. That was sick
I hate poems
Drag- Rocketman
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Re: Writing Competition #1
LordTomyh Wed Feb 01, 2012 1:04 pm
Thanks ... that's actually going to be a lead up to a story about the Tutores Latet set in the modern age Melbourne. Main character is the young girl now aged 18 and her two companions. The Ancient one is going to be a side character on a sort of vacation from the Tutores Latet and No one knows who he is. and Thomas Cox is know part of the Council running the order 
And i use to hate Poetry but now I'm starting to get into it ... I'm even taking Poetry as an Elective for my Uni Course
And i use to hate Poetry but now I'm starting to get into it ... I'm even taking Poetry as an Elective for my Uni Course
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Re: Writing Competition #1
Damxge Thu Feb 02, 2012 10:51 am
My, my, very nice. And great for it to be part of your Tutores story
Damxge- Rook
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