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[Silver Night]

Check it out here: Silver's Second Annual Fiction Contest!

Win one of seven prizes, including a pirate faction battleship with a 300m isk fitting stipend!

If you want to post your story on Backstage, please use the Eve Fiction section, and create a new thread for each story.

To recap the rules:

• Stories should be no more than 3000 words. This year this rule will be strictly enforced, as there were over 100 entries last year.
• One entry per person.
• New (previously unpublished) fiction only.
• Fiction must be set in the Eve universe.
• Stories cannot include your character (the one you play the game with).
• Stories cannot center around a pod pilot. They can be mentioned, or involved, but your protagonist(s) should not be one.
• Story needs to be within the bounds of Eve PF (Canon). If you aren't sure about something, I suggest asking - the 'OOC' channel in-game would be a good place to start. If you aren't familiar with the PF, there is plenty on this site in the backstory section. Tip: Due to my personal preferences I would suggest not leaning heavily on anything from the TEA Eve novel.
• Please post a link to your story in this thread, but not the full story. A short 'teaser' is okay. Post the body of the story elsewhere: It's own thread on the official forum is fine. I can also recommend Blogger or Backstage. You can post it elsewhere, but I may decline to click on links I find shady. Get in touch via eve-mail if you have an issue with where to post.
• All decisions by me in regards to the contest are final. There is no appeal. Don't feel I've been fair to you? I will try to be fair, but in the end, Eve isn't fair. Value it as a learning experience.
• Contest will run for 3 weeks, starting at the time stamp on this post.
• Rules subject to change.
• Prizes will be contracted in Jita in the week following the close of the contest. Contracts will be set to two weeks, assigned to the character who submitted the story. I know, Jita. Deal with it.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask in this thread.

[Valdezi]

I am going to be all over this like a powerful moss.

[Milo Caman]

God Yes.

[Shintoko Akahoshi]

Interesting set of rules, especially the "no including your character" and "can't center around a pod pilot" ones. Overheating Shin's Modified Fountain Pen now...

[Morwen Lagann]

Overheating Shin's Modified Fountain Pen now...

* Morwen Lagann steals the pen and blames Alta and Katashi!

I'll see if I can put something together this time around.

[Jan Kesler]

I think I shall participate, though I'm not the Leo Tolstoy of the Eve community...

[Altantsetseg Naranbaatar]

* Morwen Lagann steals the pen and blames Alta and Katashi!

Hey!  I did no such thing!

This sounds like a lot of fun!  I'm definitely in!

[Mizhara]

Overheating Shin's Modified Fountain Pen now...

* Morwen Lagann steals the pen and blames Alta and Katashi!

I'll see if I can put something together this time around.

*whistles innocently while drawing all kinds of pretty things on Morwen's face*

Going to see if I can't cobble something together, but I have to admit I'm not enough of a writer to properly squeeze something in below 3k Words. The last Fiction Contest did little but show how insanely good some of the writers in Eve are. Made the ego one'd collected from competing with WoW players fiction wise pop like a balloon.

Can't wait to read the entries though.

[Senn Typhos]

If I can avoid repeating my typical pattern of writing a piece, deciding I hate the disgusting failure it's become, deleting it, and starting over, I might submit summin'.

Big if, though. ._.

[Kybernetes Moros]

Something similar myself, though another likely outcome is my saying 'this is awful, but fuckit, it can get submitted', fortunately. Well, for myself, anyway. >>

[Silver Night]

I just added a 100m isk fitting stipend to the 3 second place prizes (choice of Empire faction BSs).

[Cmdr Baxter]

I'm going to submit my piece this weekend. If I can finally figure out whether a guy running through the desert is such a hot idea. (Pun intended.) 

[DosTuMai]

I'd love to enter, but don't know where to begin. That and I can't post it on the EVE-O forums until I reactivate an account.

[Silver Night]

Well, you've still got almost two weeks. 

[Silver Night]

So, small update: Top 3 winners will now get 1 year subscriptions to EON, and winning stories may be published in EON if they pass CCP vetting.  Get writing folks.

Edit: If you want your story considered for publication, probably best to make sure it's over 1400 words (but still under the 3k maximum in the rules). Zapatero informs me that that is generally the lowest they go (two pages or so).