Popular Post Jo Marshall Posted May 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 7, 2022 Welcome to the Writing Challenge 2022! Last year, we had a fantastic run of entries for the challenge, with some smashing stories that really knocked it out of the space park. We had the laughs, we had the tears, and we shared them all with our fellow writers here on our beloved StarBase 118. Taking a prompt and writing something out of the ordinary for us is a great way to burst through the writing block walls and twitch those itchy keyboard fingers into creating a masterpiece. Dig into those realms of plot ideas you've got brewing, drag out the lists of "what if" and try it out! As our winner of last year’s challenge, Lieutenant Commander @Wes Greaves has come up with the prompt for our community this time around... "The texture of their shirt... I'll never forget the way it felt in my hand that day." Doesn't that just punch you in the gut? Themes immediately come to mind of the dramatic and hard hitting development we put our characters through in the course of the mission, in the consequences faced on shore leave. Perhaps your character will go on a journey of self-discovery, or explore themes of finality and endings, retribution and atonement, and perhaps a dash of mortality? Star Trek has often demonstrated that these little, concentrated moments may be at the heart of the human (and alien!) experience. The creativity of this community is in the details. From the eloquent prose and deep emotion to the twists and turns of plot magic, this group truly invites you to boldly go where no one has gone before. Rules & Guidelines: Word count should be a minimum of 300 and a maximum of 3000. One judge will be chosen from each ship to help select the winner. Members are welcome to submit solo stories, or team up with a buddy to submit a collaborative epic, but only one story per person, please! Your submission should be in the format of a short story. Prose, not sim formatting. (See here for examples.) All members are welcome to submit entries for the community to read, but only those from active simmers will be reviewed by the judging panel for the final winner selection. If you want to submit a story but don't want to enter it into the challenge, prefix the forum post with "showcase" and let us read your good stuff! Submissions are, by default, non-canon – if you find a way to shoehorn this into your own backstory, you're free to use it if you wish, but certainly not a requirement. You can create whatever characters make sense for the story. You don't have to use or reference any of your current characters. Rank is not an issue here – write as an Ensign or a Captain, civilian, whatever makes sense for your story! And you're free to use characters you've already written for in sim, but please don't include anyone else's. Submit your story directly into the first post of a new thread. Use the following format for the thread title: [Primary Character Name(s) of author(s)]: "My Story's Interesting Title" Tristan Wolf: "Five Ways to End Your Starfleet Career" All stories must be submitted by Sunday, May 29th at 11:59pm Pacific Time. Good luck! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jo Marshall Posted June 5, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 5, 2022 Our judges have spent the last week deliberating through all the entries and finally revealed that the winner of the Writing Challenge 2022 is... Corliss Fortune, from the USS Gorkon! @Corliss' story "Revelations Hitting Like That Time We Crashed In The Ocean" is a heart-rendering personal log of the Chief Medical Officers onboard the countless starships we conceive and delivers a powerful punch in the feelings. It produces sentiments of rich and lasting characterisation, which, when done correctly, have the impact of a phase torpedo. Well done, Hayley! Our runner-up this year is @Ulasso, the writer behind the Helm, Communications and Operations Officer onboard to USS Oumuamua! They've nabbed the runner-up badge for their story "Fire Flower" a moving tale from the Saurian Ensign, reliving moments of his life prior to joining Starfleet. It's a wonderful story, truly touching, and deserves heaps of praise. Thank you, Ulasso! For this year, we've also got a special mention for @Nathan Richards' entry, A Lifetime Spent In The Final Moments, a clever twist on the prompt and sent shivers racing down spines! Beautifully done! Every contribution to this Writing Challenge has been fantastic, and I cannot thank every one of you enough for the thrills, twists, turns, and memories you've delivered. It's been a tremendous demonstration of the incredible skill available on StarBase 118, as well as the range of brilliance on every ship and station. It's been a pleasure to read them all, and each one deserves recognition. Thank you for contributing your pieces, allowing us inside the worlds of your spotlighted characters, and providing us with a taste of what goes on behind the scenes. You are truly amazing. Thank you again to @Wes Greaves, winner of the 2021 challenge, and provider of the marvellous prompt! The winner, runner-up and judges, are in receipt of one of the following badges! Thank you once more for making this year's challenge so successful and enjoyable! We look forward to seeing even more incredible entries next spring! Please join me in congratulating the winners! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genkos Adea Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 Congratulations all, but especially to @Corliss for her fantastic story! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maz Rodan Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 Well done everyone! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alieth Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 Awesome work @Corliss! Well deserved. Also, well done everyone! Such amazing stories this year! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corliss Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 Awwww yeah 😎 Loved everyone's stories! This was truly an eventful writing contest this year! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samira Neathler Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 YaY, congrats Corliss and well done to all contributors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulasso Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Congratulations @Corliss! Your story was amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Hutch Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Huge congratulations to everyone who took part, and even huger congratulations to the winners! And a big thanks to the judges, too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Scotty Reade Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 Great work all! Congrats @Corliss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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