Theme: Hope
Hope for a the future. Hope for the best. Hope for a loved one's success.
Or hope for an enemy's failure. Hope isn't always sunshine and rainbows.
People need to yearn for something, even if it doesn't directly benefit them.. Think about what that means to you.
Elemental drives like hope make for a wide range of explorable possibilities. At least I hope.
Secondary challenge: Acrostic Poem
In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line when taken together spells out a word.
For example:
YOUR SOCKS
OR MY SOCKS
UNDERWEAR?
Don't look at the rest of the letters. Just look at the first letters.
A-ha! It spells YOU.
Reasonably your poems will probably be longer than this though. >_>
Even if it's short, I hope you have fun with the concept.
Submission deadline: Friday, January 5th, 2017 at midnight GMT
Voting deadline: January 8th at midnight GMT
Entry and Voting Rules:
For poets entering:
- You are allowed one entry based on the theme; and an optional second entry, if it meets the secondary objective.
- There are no word counts. Interpret the theme as you wish.
- Poetry must be written during the duration of the thread.
- If you're a brave soul, there is a 'super secret' optional objective: performing the poem. Don't worry - we will only judge your official entry (the written version). Try it out. Poetry Slams are always cool. ;)
- You can vote even if you haven't posted a poem.
- Vote for your three favourite poems [+ HM(s).]. But remember that:
- you can't vote for your self
- you can't pick two poems from the same author
- you can't vote for an entry labelled 'ineligible'
- You cannot win unless you vote.
- The contest runs for two weeks.
- The deadline is on the last Friday. Once the final entry list is up, the voting begins; it finishes at the end of the weekend.
- How we count the votes:
- 1st place is allocated 3 pts; 2nd is allocated 2pts; 3rd is allocated 1pt
- If there is no outright winner, we add half a point to 1st place, so that the person with the most first place votes win. If we still don't have a winner, we then leave it up to the op to decide how to best go about it; or to choose the outright winner
- The winner gets a round of applause. They are then in charge of the new thread. If you can't make a new thread, just ask somebody in the current thread, and they might do it for you.
- This thread is not merely for winning or losing, but for critiquing and improving your own craft.
- We like to keep the finale on the alternative week to its sister thread: the RE creative writing challenge thread. Every so often, we get interrupted, such as during E3, and/or Nanowrimo.
- The archives and the op templates were managed by Bootaaay [username under new management]. And then FelixOrion updated it. Please feel free to thank them both profusely.
- A big thank you to both of them, and everybody else who manages the thread week in and week out. We would be worse off without them.
- Everybody is welcome to enjoy the poetry on offer, or just vote, or just critique.
For winners:
- Well done. Give yourself a pat on the back, eat cake without worry and drink your fill. You have our permission. :)
- You have been added to our lore, but it does not finish there. You get to take the reins of the following thread. Post your thread with this Thread Creation Template. Or ask one of us kindly, and we may oblige to post on your behalf. :)
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