Greetings, denizens of Writer's Block. Welcome to the Fifth TV Tropes Writing Contest!

This time around, we have six themes. You will be asked to combine two or more in your entry.

Themes:

• Fairy tales are involved in a meaningful way
• Genre Shift
• Alternate History
• The entire story takes place in one hour
• This exercise
• Second chances

As usual, the rules are:

• One entry per troper.
• Must be original (no fanfics).
• 2000-5000 words. For the sake of consistency, please use this to verify your word count.

Deadline: October 7, midnight Pacific time. If we don't have seven entries by this time, it will be extended in increments of three days until we do.

When your story is complete, upload it to Free Text Host. Do not include your name or list the themes you combined anywhere on the document, as judging is anonymous. PM the URL to me and tell me your themes. When I pass on the entries to the judges, they will get the themes in spoiler text.

Stories will be judged thusly, total of 25 points:

• 5 points: Conventions (spelling and grammar)
• 5 points: Theme (how well you combined the themes into a good story; whether or not your entry is within the required word count of 2000-5000)
• 15 points: The piece as a whole

Judges:

• jewelleddragon
• chihuahua 0
• Kino

Entrants:

• Fallen Legend
• Dealan
• feotakahari
• animemetalhead
• Doktorvan Eurotrash
• USAF 713
• Ralph Crown
• Freezair For A Limited Time
• Mecha Jesus
• Away Laughing
• snowfoxofdeath
• Leradny
• Chubert
• deathjavu
• Rhyme Beat
• Argeus the Paladin
• Manga Maniac
• Saturn
• Boredknight
• pagad
• Specialist 290
• History Maker
• Dae Brayk
• Atom James
• Tera Chimera
• Mild Guy

edited 2nd Oct '11 1:53:38 PM by snowfoxofdeath

First! I want to partocipate

I'm in. Though, as usual, no idea how the hell I'm supposed to fit the theme. Bah.

I don't have an idea yet, but I'll hopefully have something before the contest ends.

Having a literal fairy counts as a fairy tale?

Screw it, I'll try. This should help me get warmed up for NaNoWriMo.

I'll try to give it a shot.

I'm in.

Actually, good point. While I definitely wouldn't say that having a fairy automatically makes it have a Fairy Tale theme (what if it's just another monster called fairy?), I can't think of any criteria about it.

Any help here, Snowfox?

Ohh, see, now we have themes I can work with! I am totally in...

I'm game. What's the prize?

There isn't one. You do get to brag about it to the rest of us, though.

For those of you wondering about fairy tales, Wikipedia is your friend.

Actually, given the nature of fairy tales, depending on what you do with it, you might slip by with less than 2000 words.

So, the fairy tale theme means I have to write a fairy tale.

...why am I surprised?

You don't have to write a fairy tale, just include them in the story in some meaningful way.

I'm in like Flynn!

Do we have a go-between yet?

I might possibly enter this. I love Grimm's fairy tales and have an idea I've been meaning to bounce around.

As aforementioned, I will judge.

I'm up for this. It sounds like fun.

Sign me up. Fairy Tale theme and a short timespan? Yes please!

edited 16th Aug '11 12:59:57 PM by AwayLaughing

What qualifies someone to be a judge?

Edit: or what do you look for in a potential judge?

edited 16th Aug '11 1:43:30 PM by MildGuy

You just have to be willing to read and judge eight entries or so with prejudice. Meaning: Look for the good, but hone onto the bad. If you get a variety of scores, you're good.

I'm considering whatever to enter this time or judge again. Was I a good judge?

edited 16th Aug '11 2:01:37 PM by chihuahua0

^Thank you. I'm also trying to decide which I want to do more.

I thought you were a good judge.

I'm in as a contestant.