And finally…..

by Kittyinaz | May 11, 2016 | Kittyinaz Writing Challenges

Here is the contest that I spoke about in the Kittyinaz’s Facebook group.

The Soulmate Prompt Challenge.

For those that follow me personally, know I share a lot of stuff on Facebook.  Seriously, tons of stuff.  One of the things I love is the Best of Tumblr.  One of my first betas that I still follow turned me on it, and I share so much of it.

Lately, some of the ladies that have friended me have commented that the ones about soulmates would work for a writing contest.  Many of them were inspired by the prompt, and after talking about it, I decided that I would make it into the next contest.

Except, that it has come very late due to all the issues I have had.

Now, I have changed one of the rules, but I have also explained WHY I enacted this rule to begin with.  I am talking about it being fandoms that I write in.  The reason I did this one is so that the people who take that chance and write, will have readers that are geared towards reading their fics.

However, I figured I would put the WHY and then relax that rule.  If you want to write in another fandom, then please do!  I want this to encourage the muses to get their chosen to put fingers to keyboards and share their amazing talents.   Would I have entered something like this when I started?  Heck yeah!!!

Why?

I am entered with others, in a way no one would know which piece was mine.  They would read and comment on them without knowing if I was a well-known author or if this is my first work.  The fact that ANYONE can enter would make me nervous, but at the same time, as I read the reviews, well it would be hard to not say who I was.

It is also why I am adamant on the rules being followed.  If I ever find someone letting others know WHICH story they entered, I will pull the story.  Now letting others know you ENTERED?  Heck yeah!!! Get it out there!!!  See how many try to guess which is yours!!!  For knowing others and their writing styles, I still guess wrong.  And I am the one making the banners!!!

Yes, I have no idea who is who when I do the banners, in fact, no one BUT Rissa knows who is who.  (And if you can make it easier on her, make sure your story itself doesn’t have your name in it!!!)  She strips out anything that would give it away to me.  That way when I am done, I can ask her who is who.  And even then, (unless I am going on vacation or extenuating circumstances come up) I don’t find out until AFTER the contest is finished.

4Padfoot gives me who wins and at the same time, Rissa gives me who wrote what.

So, you are probably thinking that I am not giving you a lot of time to do this right?  How about until the 15th of JUNE?  That is right, I am giving until the middle of next month to write this.  And I am giving myself time to get the banners done.   I am aiming to have the stories up at the beginning of the month, or earlier if I finish the banners in time.  I will be doing this from now on, giving until the 15th of the next month to get the stories in.

This will mean if you are close to finishing, pop over to Rissa, and let her know.  If you ask, we will discuss and it will be likely you are given an extension, as long as you finish before I post them.  You still have to give me time for the banner, or it will basic and no one deserves that.

So here are the prompts:

Musical Prompt:

Clock Prompt:

Photo Prompt:

Swapping Bodies Prompt:

The main banner up top takes you to the writing contest page that also has the Tumblr post that the prompts are based upon.  It also explains the rules more, that the prompts are not needed to be used word for word.  They are just there to stir the muses.  Please let us know which one(s) inspired your story in your emails.

I look forward to reading them all (a definite perk of all of this!!) and seeing what you inspire me to come up with as a banner.

For those that were looking for a chapter, well, you might get one, for a certain story that you all love.  We will see what time I will have and how I feel.

Writing Contest for April

by Kittyinaz | May 10, 2016 | Kittyinaz Writing Challenges

Yep, you read it right.  I have finally gotten with everyone to get this together.

This is mostly (99.9%) my fail.   Real life jumped in and smacked me around, threw me down some stairs, and stood up at the top of them laughing at me.

I have had everything to losing over 1k of my pictures (all the background pics people. Seriously panicked), my computer kept shutting down as I made the last banner.  No less than 10 times.  Then I couldn’t get back on the computer.  After all that, I was so sick I couldn’t even talk.  To finally have a guest for a week.  Since I am the one who is home, I was asked to take her around.

We even had wires crossed when I was trying to finish up, and just this was bad on my part.

But finally, I am done.

I have given a week for voting.  Please read and comment on these stories.  These authors took a chance to write, and I was thrilled to read them both.  I got to remake a banner so many times, I thinkI can make it in my sleep now.

Also, for those wondering, I have a contest I am working on, and I am going to give myself some time to relax after this last one, then time to make the banners.  No more quick turn-arounds for me to feel as if I failed everyone.

This is one of the ‘fun’ ones.

So off to read the stories, comment to encourage the writers to not give up (And again, I am SOOOO sorry!).  Then VOTE!!!!

See you hopefully tonight or tomorrow.