Carly <carly-san@geocities.com> wrote:

   Currently, myself and three other very talented people are running a
fanfiction contest that is held on Animecon.com.  We are looking for a
few good authors to submit some of their stories to us for jusdging were
they can win PRIZES yes that's right.  Here are a few rules for
submission:

1. NO lemon/Hentai allowed (sorry nto even scented)
2. ANY genre can be submit (except hentai)
3. At the moment, one fic will be picked by all four authors (this will
change in the near future hopefully)
4. Stories must be submitted to ALL judges.

Please forgive my saying so, but this strikes me as a very poor way to
run a contest.

Other than the "no lemons" restriction, you haven't specified anything
about the kind of stories you're looking for -- not even what
manga/anime series they can be based on. You also haven't told us what
the stories will be judged on.

I suggest you reconsider what you're doing. Pick a theme for the contest
-- e.g. sweetest romance, funniest comedy, fic that best showcases a
certain character -- anything that gives us authors (not to mention your
judges) an idea of what you're looking for.

Also, I advise you to set a size limit on submissions. I expect your
judges will appreciate not having to read through 5 MB of fic.


Gary Kleppe
http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics