Anyone Doing the Book Contest?

Just curious to know who all here is submitting something for the book contest. Man, I never realized how hard it is telling a story in just 500 words!? That's like 1/18th of my chapters lol. Anywho, we should see if we can share a bit of our stories here once they decide a winner. Not sure if they'll want us sharing them publicly now, but maybe we can at least share what topic we wrote on or a little synopsis.

 

I am a terrible writer.

 

That's okay. Just say you're doing it on purpose as your version of Vogon Poetry.

 

I don't know what a Vogon is.

 

NOOO! I don't want to be screaming my head off when I read (or hear) it.

 

I submitted! It was difficult for me to decide which of the short stories knocking around in my head would be best to submit, but I finally went with one written from the perspective of my main Starbound character (boring, I know). It's just so hard to resist the desire to make your author-surrogate-character (semi) canon.

 

I submitted two: a pirate story and a short poem. I personally love the word limit! It's a fun challenge to create a story that can be told in 500 words or less

 

I didn't even know about this.

I just whipped one up in the last 45 minutes and submitted.

 

I entered one. I don't think it'll win though. It's not my best work.

 

Yeah, me either, but I kept thinking about it like an in-game Codex.
I tried to keep it in the same typical vein.

To be quite honest my original story was exactly 500 words, but then I went through and revised it and it popped up to about 700. This micro story was actually quite good. Just enough space to get in all pertinent information and add a bit of narrative flair to fill it with personality and racial nuances. Then I had to edit it back down to 500 and I was kind of disappointed with the final result.

Curious how many submissions there actually were. We could simply win by default! That's what I'm banking on.

 

Would be cool if they (or we) post them after they choose a winner.

 

Yeah, mine was exactly 500 at first too. Then it became around 650. I had to edit/take out so much stuff...
As for how many submissions there were, Mollygos said it was over 200.

I might post mine once the contest is over. I hope other people post theirs. I want to see what everybody entered! Ok, maybe not all 200, but some of them.

 

Yeah, if I don't win, I'll post it in the fan section and link it in this thread.

 

Did.