Announcing a CONTEST!!

CHANNEL YOUR INNER LOVECRAFT!  In honor of Halloween, I'm going to hold a contest.  Also it's to reward all my blog pals for putting up with the massive TMI (too much information) about my surgery and dieting woes, lol. 

WE'RE GOING TO BE WRITING HORROR. 500 to 1,000ish words of spec fic horror, poetry or prose, humorous or creepy.  (You can go over 1,000 words, but please not by too much.) And no slasher horror pretty pretty please.  

AND YOU GUYS GET TO VOTE ON THE WINNER.  We'll have voting on the entries after it's all over.  I might even submit something, but if I should luck out and win I'll give the prize to the runner up. 

DEADLINE is October 31st, naturally. 

SUBMISSIONS.  Send your submission to me in the body of an email, single spaced.  Addy: writtenwyrdd (at) earthlink.net.  Heading should read "Chthulu contest submission."  Be sure and include the name you want me to use on the post.  I won't be naming individuals during the voting round, but at the announcements round.  MORE THAN ONE SUBMISSION IS ALLOWED, BUT SEND THEM SEPARATELY.  (Please keep it to two, though.  We don't want to stack the deck.) 

PLEASE REPOST AND SPREAD THE WORD.  I WOULD LIKE AT LEAST TWENTY ENTRIES TO MAKE THIS MORE FUN!  And because the prize is cool.  It's this cute, cuddly Chthulu.* 

 

And, if we get more than 20 entries, I'll also be offering another prize to the runner up: a copy of "On Her Majesty's Occult  Service," by Charles Stross, which contains both The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue...two of my favorite books in one volume.  Geek humor and Lovecraftian horror.  Priceless!

*You can thank FairyHedgeHog for the prize idea.  She mentioned cuddly Chthulu, and I was inspired. 

And for those of you who don't know what Chthulu is, it's a monster from Lovecraftian horror, and apparently (according to the PSA the other day) quite popular with the ladies.

Comments

[pacatrue]

that's a prize that's hard to beat. I can think of one better prize, but I dare not speak its name.

[Adam Heine]

You weren't kidding. That is a cool prize. I've never written horror before, but maybe it's time to try...

[charles gramlich]

Cool. I will probably go for this. I may be doing my halloween horror this year but I've got a bunch of crap to finish first.

[fairyhedgehog]

That's a great prize. I don't know if I can write horror.

[writtenwyrdd]

You can probably manage it. Just think of your worst day ever and add monsters, lol.

[fairyhedgehog]

Rofl. I'll give it a go!

[Carolyn Crane]

Cool! I added it to my post. Nice prize!!

[Tyhitia]

I write horror. I might give it a whirl. :-)

[writtenwyrdd]

Thanks!

[writtenwyrdd]

Oh I hope you do. The more the merrier.

[laughingwolf]

unless another computer goes TU, i'll take a whack at it, d ;) lol

[Barbara/myth maker]

Cool contest. Don't think I'll join, but I look forward to reading.

[Kara]

What a wicked cool idea, thanks to Tyhitia for sending me over here! Good luck all horror halloweeners! Write to the death!

[merry]

Hi WrittenWyrdd,

Thanks for the heads up letting me know! I think I can come up with something for this. I actually have an old short that I've revised some - but it's thriller.... does this have to have monsters of the supernatural variety, or are the human variety scary enough?

[Sarah Laurenson]

Horror? Hm. Horror?

I can write it, but it'll give me nightmares. :0

[writtenwyrdd]

Well, I wanted speculative fiction, but if you want to submit something else, go ahead. (I just really don't want to read slasher horror. Saw IX, even on paper, isn't my cup o' java.)

[writtenwyrdd]

Just showing up to read and vote is great! Thanks for stopping by.

[writtenwyrdd]

I hope you want to participate, too, Kara. Thanks for stopping by.

[Candace]

I've sent a story. I really want that cuddly Cthulhu, but I pass on the runner up prize. I already have both the Atrocity Archives and the Jennifer Morgue. Bob Howard is my favorite secret agent! heh

[mckoala]

Mm, I like my horror. Just not sure about the time thing right now. I'll read 'em even if I don't enter!

[writtenwyrdd]

Candace, I'm glad you like Stross as much as I do. And I did receive your entry.

Tell you what: If I have over 20 entries, I'll offer a cuddly Cthulu to the runner up too (because I couldnt' resist and ordered two, so there's a spare.)

[writtenwyrdd]

I hope you find time to dash something off, even if it isn't your best work. The more the merrier. But I'm glad you'll be reading and voting!

[Sylvia]

I love this advice!

I'm glad you pointed me over, I've fallen behind on my reading, lately!

I'll see what I come up with.

[writtenwyrdd]

Yay! *claps madly*

[Stewart Sternberg]

As a writer of Lovecraftian fiction, I think I'll send you something ... it will be fun. Thanks

[Lynnette Labelle]

Fun contest, but horror's not really my thing. Good luck with the contest.

Lynnette Labelle
http://lynnettelabelle.blogspot.com

[writtenwyrdd]

Yay! And thanks for stopping by, Stewart!

[writtenwyrdd]

That's fine. You never know when someone might be inspired to write something different. And thanks for stopping by!

[writtenwyrdd]

Speak, Paca, Speak! Good doggie, er, human.

[writtenwyrdd]

Looking forward to it, Charles.

[writtenwyrdd]

Yay!

[Mista Jaycee]

I can dig it!

[writtenwyrdd]

I'm glad, and I hope you enter something. Thanks for stopping by!

[Ello]

I'm so brain dead and tired that I don't think I can enter any contests. so sad. But I will enjoy reading all the entries!!!!

[fairyhedgehog]

I've written an entry but I'm still editing it. I needed a major rewrite of part of it due to a beta reader's comments!

[writtenwyrdd]

*patty-pat hand clapping* Yay!

[Dhes of Yuggoth]

Dee-licious! As the year begins to die and the shadows grow long, I feel that marvelous dark urge pressing me more strongly once again to take up my pen, spill a little purple ink upon the page and add to my little portfolio of terrors. Though, admittedly, I need to do that more often, regardless.

[writtenwyrdd]

Yes, not writing enough is a common complaint! I look forward to your entry.

[Dhes of Yuggoth]

[wink] Oh, I've got mine in. [evil grin]

[Sylvia]

Attempt Number One: failed completely

Attempt Number Two: too long

Wish me luck for tomorrow!

[writtenwyrdd]

To quote Yoda, "Do not try, do." Or something like that. If attempt 2 isn't too too long, just trim a bit and submit. My (very bad) submission to my own contest is awful. Really. Awful. But I had fun with it, and that was the POINT. :)