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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3.7/5.0 - published Feb 03, 2008 - 5 comments - start of story
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3.7/5.0 - published Feb 15, 2008 - 2 comments - start of story
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3.7/5.0 - published Feb 09, 2008 - 1 comment - start of story
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3.7/5.0 - published Jan 31, 2008 - no comments - start of story
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3.7/5.0 - published Jan 30, 2008 - no comments - start of story
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3.7/5.0 - published Jan 26, 2008 - no comments - start of story
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3.7/5.0 - published Jan 18, 2008 - 1 comment - start of story
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3.7/5.0 - published Jan 17, 2008 - no comments - start of story
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3.7/5.0 - published Jan 16, 2008 - no comments - start of story
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3.6/5.0 - published Feb 14, 2008 - no comments - start of story
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3.6/5.0 - published Feb 09, 2008 - no comments - start of story (preview)
This captured my imagination.
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3.6/5.0 - published Jan 03, 2008 - 2 comments - start of story (preview)
Sara opened her stinging eyes to darkness. Her body drenched in sweat. Nauseated from the smell of Jack Daniel's on her father's breath. Tense and laying in the fetal position, she looked around
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3.6/5.0 - published Jan 23, 2008 - 3 comments - start of story
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3.6/5.0 - published Feb 17, 2008 - 1 comment - start of story (preview)
A twisted version, part 2 perhaps, to a look at true beauty.
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3.6/5.0 - published Jan 29, 2008 - 4 comments - start of story
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3.6/5.0 - published Jan 28, 2008 - 1 comment - start of story
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3.6/5.0 - published Feb 14, 2008 - 2 comments - start of story
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3.6/5.0 - published Feb 04, 2008 - no comments - start of story
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3.6/5.0 - published Feb 16, 2008 - no comments - start of story
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3.6/5.0 - published Jan 18, 2008 - 2 comments - start of story (preview)
I decided to go ahead and continue this story even though there doesn't seem to be much interest the second chapter rated better than the first, so here is my last attempt.
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