Authors "Mashed for Cash" in StoryMash's First Creative Writing Contest Ever!
StoryMash, the future of collaborative fiction. And the future has cash prizes! To reward the authors and amateur writers of our creative writing community and encourage collaborative writing StoryMash holds periodic creative writing contests. This was one such contest.
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To celebrate StoryMash.com going live we held a creative writing contest with over $500 in prizesFor our first creative writing contest there were over 260 competing chapters, published by 119 new authors, and a total of 670 users reading and voting. Thanks to everyone in our writing community who participated and made our first StoryMash creative writing contest an awesome success! Here is how the contest worked:Chapters that were published between Nov 1, 2007 and Dec 20, 2007 at 23:59:59 UTC were eligible. The contest voting ended Dec 21, 2007 at 23:59:59 GMT. |
The Winners!
Join us in congratulating the winners of the first StoryMash writing contest! If you are a winning author, please update your StoryMash preferences with your payment details so we can deliver your prize money.
First Place $300
Second Place $150
Third Place $60
The Runner Ups
Thanks to all the talented authors of our creative writing community that submited contest entries. Many are excellent examples of creative writing, check them out.
Note: The ranking of the chapters reflects their current ranking which may be different than the rank they had when the writing contest ended.
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3.5/5.0 - published Nov 05, 2007 - 3 comments (preview)
Grace Savage is a working girl with wanderlust who ventured from grotto to taverna to Greek isle, never settling down like her college friends because she never wanted to merely settle. The story opens with her latest break up.
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3.4/5.0 - published Dec 20, 2007 - no comments - start of story
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3.4/5.0 - published Dec 18, 2007 - 2 comments - start of story
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3.4/5.0 - published Dec 16, 2007 - 1 comment
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3.4/5.0 - published Dec 11, 2007 - 1 comment
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3.4/5.0 - published Dec 04, 2007 - no comments
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3.4/5.0 - published Nov 24, 2007 - no comments - start of story
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3.4/5.0 - published Nov 18, 2007 - no comments - start of story
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3.4/5.0 - published Nov 17, 2007 - no comments - start of story
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3.4/5.0 - published Nov 12, 2007 - no comments - start of story
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3.3/5.0 - published Dec 13, 2007 - 3 comments - start of story
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3.3/5.0 - published Dec 17, 2007 - 3 comments
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3.3/5.0 - published Dec 03, 2007 - no comments - start of story
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3.3/5.0 - published Dec 02, 2007 - no comments (preview)
Mr. Splashy Pants Christmas Special - Chapter 1 - this is the beginning of a very serious adult drama, about a whale named "Mr Splashy Pants", even tho his friends call him Hugo.
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3.3/5.0 - published Nov 24, 2007 - no comments
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3.3/5.0 - published Dec 17, 2007 - 4 comments
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3.3/5.0 - published Dec 20, 2007 - 1 comment
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3.3/5.0 - published Dec 18, 2007 - 1 comment (preview)
When she grew old, the what had been began to melt into the what was. She went away with her husband to a warmer place for reasons she was just beginning to understand.
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