Live, Laugh & Love Books discussion

Topic: Halloween
Write a story about Halloween. It doesn't have to be horror, just so long as it involves Halloween.


Genre: Any (But no fanfiction.)


Length: Unpublished, COMPLETE short story of 7500 words or less. Please edit your story to the best of your ability.
I do not consider stories posted to GoodReads or FictionPress to be published. Contact me if you have any questions about other websites. Generally, if you were paid for it, it's published. Otherwise, it will depend on the website. Obviously, if it's for sell somewhere, it's published, so don't send me questions about amazon or smashwords or the like.


Deadline: 17 October 2014
Judging Period: 18 October - 30 October
Winners Announced: 31 October
Time frames subject to change depending on number of entries. Any updates will be posted here.

If anyone would like to assist me in judging, please send me a PM. Just keep in mind, if you are a judge, you can not enter!


Prizes: Prizes do not have to be redeemed right away.
First Place: Comprehensive editing of up to twenty pages of any manuscript.
Second Place: Line editing of up to ten pages of any manuscript.
Third Place: Line editing of up to five pages of any manuscript.
Everyone: Feedback on the story. What works, what doesn't. Any particular areas that need improvement. You can opt out of this part if you don't want my honest (and potentially tactless) opinion.
Please Note: I reserve the right to not award all prizes. For instance, if there are only three entries and one of them hasn't been edited, I will only award first and second place. I will still give feedback on the third story.

Depending on the number of entrants, I may divide the judging into two age groups.


Submission Guidelines:
- Create a new topic in the Writing Contest Entries folder, using your story's title as the topic title.
- Copy your story into one (or more) posts.
- Close the topic to new posts to prevent outsiders influencing the judge's decision. You may still edit your posts until the deadline. PM me (or another mod) if you can't/don't know how to close the topic and I'll take care of it. (Which will include deleting any comments from others that may appear before the topic was closed.)


I think that's everything. Please let me know below if anything needs to be clarified or if I missed something.

Please note that the word limit has been raised for this contest to 7500.

Only the mods can close topics I think because I couldn't when to tried to close mine.

Iesha (In east shade house at...) wrote: "Only the mods can close topics I think because I couldn't when to tried to close mine."

Okay. Interesting... *shrugs*

So just let me or another mod know when you've finished so the topic can be closed.

definitely doing this one too!

Cool. ^_^

Is this over?

Yeah. The deadline was two days ago. No one entered. :(

Oh, darn, I was going to enter, been pretty busy/sick though. :(

Yeah, stuff happens.