You sit at your typewriter, hands frozen in fear by the sound of crumpling paper from the darkness behind you. Shadows of broken quills encroach on your sight's periphery but slither out of view when you turn toward them. Summoning your courage, you lash out at the apparitions before they fade, only to awaken in a cold sweat with pencils and pens gripped tight in your clenched fists. You know what this dream foretells: the 2011 Global Writing Contest is upon us!
That's right everybody. It is time again for Blizzard's Global Writing Contest. This year, the lucky winner will get a chance to go to Blizzard's HQ and dine with the team's writers. Not to mention, you get almost every book they have written and signed by the authors. Short stories (2,500 - 7,500 words) of any of their franchises are eligible, although we here would especially like to see a Diablo winner. So, get your pen and paper out (or keyboard) and start writing. Submissions are due by October 15th.
If you would like to submit your work for peer reviews and critiques, please feel free to post your stories in the Fan Fiction section.
For those of you who don't like to write, Blizzard is still taking submissions for their art contest as well.
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Hmm, quite the dilemma. Do I want to start a completely new story or just revise my submission from last year? Obviously I wouldn't come any closer to winning by submitting the same material though, dammit.
Your post states submissions are due in October but the official Blizzard webpage shows "written in English and set in the Warcraft®, StarCraft®, or Diablo® universe by September 28th, 2011,"
Thanks, although I swear it originally said oct 15.
If you read the rules and such, the fine print so to speak, it does, in fact, say that the submissions must be sent by the 15th of October to be eligible. Perhaps it's a good idea to ask them about this. I, by the way, will likely be entering a diablo-themed story. The biggest problem for me, however, will be scaling back the battle detail... one of the rules that can disqualify your entry, apparently, is depicting "overly graphic" scenes. I'm guessing that going into detail about the anatomical effects of a sword slash on a fallen, and the resulting blood splatter, would be considered graphic, and therefore disqualify me.
Of course, I also don't want to even win the grand prize... Last time I flew somewhere to meet devs, I ended up falling on an escalator and cleaving my knee open to the bone.. ended up missing my plane, the meeting and dinner, and getting a two grand hospital bill.. That was about a year ago, when Microsoft was flying me to San Fran to meet with the devs of Age of Empires Online to brainstorm with them about the game. Kinda makes me leery of doing it again.
Hopefully I can write something this year that was better then my crappy story last year
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Just read the winner from 2010, and it was actually really good. Seems like a problem for SC and D fanfic writers would be the less developed worlds they have access to, because Warcraft has such a vast amount of information to draw upon for setting and plot.
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You sit at your typewriter, hands frozen in fear by the sound of crumpling paper from the darkness behind you. Shadows of broken quills encroach on your sight's periphery but slither out of view when you turn toward them. Summoning your courage, you lash out at the apparitions before they fade, only to awaken in a cold sweat with pencils and pens gripped tight in your clenched fists. You know what this dream foretells: the 2011 Global Writing Contest is upon us!
That's right everybody. It is time again for Blizzard's Global Writing Contest. This year, the lucky winner will get a chance to go to Blizzard's HQ and dine with the team's writers. Not to mention, you get almost every book they have written and signed by the authors. Short stories (2,500 - 7,500 words) of any of their franchises are eligible, although we here would especially like to see a Diablo winner. So, get your pen and paper out (or keyboard) and start writing. Submissions are due by October 15th.
If you would like to submit your work for peer reviews and critiques, please feel free to post your stories in the Fan Fiction section.
For those of you who don't like to write, Blizzard is still taking submissions for their art contest as well.
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Thanks, fixed. it;s 2500 - 750.
I know I'll be entering.
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If you read the rules and such, the fine print so to speak, it does, in fact, say that the submissions must be sent by the 15th of October to be eligible. Perhaps it's a good idea to ask them about this. I, by the way, will likely be entering a diablo-themed story. The biggest problem for me, however, will be scaling back the battle detail... one of the rules that can disqualify your entry, apparently, is depicting "overly graphic" scenes. I'm guessing that going into detail about the anatomical effects of a sword slash on a fallen, and the resulting blood splatter, would be considered graphic, and therefore disqualify me.
Of course, I also don't want to even win the grand prize... Last time I flew somewhere to meet devs, I ended up falling on an escalator and cleaving my knee open to the bone.. ended up missing my plane, the meeting and dinner, and getting a two grand hospital bill.. That was about a year ago, when Microsoft was flying me to San Fran to meet with the devs of Age of Empires Online to brainstorm with them about the game. Kinda makes me leery of doing it again.
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This world you can change it
If we could somehow make this
Christmas thing last
By helping a neighbor
Or even a stranger
And to know who needs help
You need only just ask
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