| Author | LWM official short story contest (support topic) |
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for Obergon:
I didn't get the beginning, were the stars bright or was it dark with no moon? |
| Both. The stars seemed exceptionally bright because it was a night lacking a moon. That is what I was going for. |
| Well, if the sky is clear enough for you to see the stars you should be able to see the moon :D |
you should be able to see the moon :D
Do you ever heard about "New Moon". |
I imagined it being in a forest so the trees covered the moon :).
But I couldn't imagine It was a perfect darkness to hide in along with those bright stars and I didn't know what does deep velvety darkness mean. |
lol.. just noticed this short story contest... and it is over a year old!
I read all posted content, there are two stories which i actually enjoyed reading.
(after reading fantasy novels, for about 15 years, i am not satisfied that easily anymore ;-)
some tips for all creative minds:
-A short story should be intruiging from the beginning until the end (a very good long story may have a few boring parts sometimes, a short story may not)
The story can be exciting, funny, thrilling, mystical, dark, or cheerful... as long as the reader MUST finish reading before anyting else.
-When you need to explain the background of your characters, try to let their actions/words/thoughts/situation/surroundings + the readers imagination do that. Try to avoid narrator comments, unless the narrator takes part in the story somehow.
-Do not bring too many characters and scenes, it is a SHORT story, do not try to make it epic, that is extremely difficult.
Now show me work even better than what is already here and i will be happy to donate some gold to the pricefund. |
| We need more things like these!! |
https://www.lordswm.com/forum_messages.php?tid=2226159
So i ended up reading some of them having nothing else to do.. but i did not understand the story in post 5.. What the hell is that language..Can somebody explain? haha |
for virtual_vitrea:
Something about a cloudy sky and some crows that died in a hailstorm ...that's all I understood lol |
This was fun, but worf went afk from PMs.. :|
I asked him about it, and he said he was busy in RL... |
I asked him about it, and he said he was busy in RL...
When did you ask him? Atleast we could get him to make one statement about this? not that i care much but this was his responsibility. |
I asked him last week :(
He was silent for a day and replied about it in a sarcastic tone. |
Ajith, thank you for bringing this topic back to life.
I am a huge fan of fantasy stories.
If anybody will revive/restart/continue this competition... and more, even better stories will be posted... i would be happy to donate heavily to the pricefund.
Maybe the time limit for posting stories should be much longer than 2 months.
I read all entries again.
A lot of good efforts, i enjoyed reading.
To me, 2 stories stand out as they are, very good in different ways:
1 very well written in nice English (the knight, the witch and the well, by Lord Syrian)
No doubt, this is a good story, worth of being published in an actual book.
1 written in poor English, but in extremely good fantasy style (the crows, by A1000.)
Just try to read 1 sentence and take a few seconds to let your mind paint a picture, then proceed to the next.
This story is really, really good at awakening your imagination.
I am not sure whether this is original work though, it reminds me very much of a Surinam story about crows in a tree.
I would love to see a new story in a similar style. |
| yes, I just love reading stories, especially fan fiction depicting lordswm stories =) |
