Character Speak: A Literary Contest is a chance for all you writers to try out something a little different. What you have to do is write a poetry or prose entry from the perspective of any literary character. Let me reiterate that: any LITERARY character. It cannot be a character that originated in a movie, okay?   You're writing AS the character, so this is going to be in first person, okay?

Requirements: There is no minimum or maximum length for the entries. Each member can only submit ONE entry, but you can reserve a post whenever you'd like, and you can edit that post as many time as you'd like from the start of the contest until the end of the contest. For example, if you write something during week one that is perfect, and then in week 3 you want to change it into something different, you are allowed to do that. Whatever is in your post on the last day of the contest is the only thing that is going to be judged. (Oh, and you might want to list somewhere what character you're doing, and from what literary work.)

Judging: I don't quite know how many judges I'm going to have for this contest, but if you want to be a judge, then just PM me with a pretty good reason why you want to be a judge. And if you enter the contest, you can't be a judge. Sorry, but I think that's only fair.

Prizes: There will be a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winner.  The amount of points awarded will be announced once people start donating.

Start date: October 14, 2008
Deadline: November 14, 2008

JUDGES SO FAR:
Barnabas
Orangejoy

Sooooo, get cracking. If you have any questions, just ask.

Post edited at 3:52 pm on Oct. 18, 2008 by iBritt

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Post edited at 7:08 pm on Oct. 14, 2008 by major

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Oh, and if that'd work, no jacking that idea, people. >=(

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Howah. Can it be our interpretation of the character? Or does it have to be the literary character with all the personality traits and characteristics from the work they came from? Like could I do something like the Mad Hatter or something in such a way that you'd still know it was the Mad Hatter, but it'd be a different Mad Hatter? Orrrr could I do a character from a different time period than the literary work took place? Like Hester Prynne before she committed adultery? I'm probably not gonna do that, 'cause I hate The Scarlet Letter, but could I?

Oh, and if that'd work, no jacking that idea, people. >=(

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I think I know what you're talking about.  Your Hester Prynne example - yes, you can do that.  But you can't do what you're doing with the Mad Hatter.

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Just one entry? I wanted to submit 4.

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make it one good one!

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Do not abandon yourselves to despair.
We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Pope John Paul II

This is a great idea.  Too bad I won't have any time to enter.

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"It is the wrong question to ask, and therefore, as one  might expect, has
no right answer." - Hans von Campenhausen

This is the philosophy of my life.

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If I write from the perspective of Dolores Haze, do you think the mods will delete it?

This is a great idea. Too bad I won't have any time to enter.

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oh. but you simply have to enter!

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Do not abandon yourselves to despair.
We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Pope John Paul II

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Ooo. This sounds interesting. I better get to thinking. Can it be a character one of us made up in our writing or does it have to be from a published author? Could it be a character from a comic book like Batman, the Joker, Superman, etc?

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Comic book - yes

Made up character - no. I want others to be sort of familiar with the character, and that's easier if it's already an character from a published author.

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Where do we submit?

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You just make a post in this topic :)

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