Authors "Mashed for Cash" in StoryMash's First Collaborative Writing Contest of 2008!
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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Continuing with awarding cash prizes $510 was won in StoryMash's second creative writing contestFor our second creative writing contest there were over 568 competing chapters, published by 236 authors, and a total of 1,970 users reading and voting. More than doubling the participation of our first contest! Thanks to everyone in our writing community who participated and made the second StoryMash creative writing contest another awesome success! Here is how the contest worked:Chapters that were self-published between Jan 1, 2008 and Feb 20, 2008 23:59:59 UTC and continued any existing StoryMash chapter were eligible. |
The Winners!
Join us in congratulating the winners of the second 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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4.5/5.0 - published Feb 18, 2008 - 11 comments - start of story (preview)
I wish to thank imadj for naming the character of my first story. Without it I would never have been inspired to write this continuation, which flowed as easily to the page as my first inception of the tale.
Thanks imadj, I hope you enjoy it.
~X~
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4.4/5.0 - published Feb 06, 2008 - 3 comments - start of story
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4.3/5.0 - published Feb 19, 2008 - no comments - start of story
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4.3/5.0 - published Feb 07, 2008 - 2 comments - start of story
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4.3/5.0 - published Jan 29, 2008 - 4 comments - start of story (preview)
Am I the prize of the battle?
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4.3/5.0 - published Feb 20, 2008 - 12 comments - start of story
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4.3/5.0 - published Feb 09, 2008 - 5 comments - start of story
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4.2/5.0 - published Jan 22, 2008 - 5 comments - start of story
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4.2/5.0 - published Feb 11, 2008 - 1 comment - start of story
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4.1/5.0 - published Feb 08, 2008 - 1 comment - start of story
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4.1/5.0 - published Feb 18, 2008 - 1 comment - start of story
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4.1/5.0 - published Jan 12, 2008 - 1 comment - start of story
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4.1/5.0 - published Feb 20, 2008 - no comments - start of story
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4.1/5.0 - published Feb 17, 2008 - 3 comments - start of story (preview)
I'm sure this wasn't the author's original intent.... I basically finished out what I see as a "character sketch". And yeah, it has a little social statement. I usually don't use a lot of crude language, but I think the character here necessitates
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4.1/5.0 - published Feb 16, 2008 - no comments - start of story
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4.1/5.0 - published Jan 30, 2008 - 1 comment - start of story
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4.0/5.0 - published Feb 06, 2008 - 6 comments - start of story
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4.0/5.0 - published Jan 22, 2008 - 2 comments - start of story
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4.0/5.0 - published Feb 01, 2008 - 2 comments - start of story
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4.0/5.0 - published Jan 26, 2008 - 1 comment - start of story
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