One judge is a member of the Castle fandom, and part of the fanfic community, who will judge on Castle-related criteria. The Receiver will then copy and paste your story on to our three judges, who will read and critique your fics by completing judging forms.Ĭompleted judging forms will be sent to the organiser, who will tally up the marks on the form, finalize results, and announce and notify winners. Should you correct the reason it was declined (word count problems fixed for example), you may resubmit the same story before the final acceptance date. If your fic is declined from the contest you will be told why. You submit your story via email to our Receiver, who will send you a reply, either “Accepted” or “Declined”. In 1000 words you need to have a tight one-shot that stands on its own.įinally, keep in mind that we are critiquing your writing ability, and how well you know the Castle characters. =>And finally on strength of story telling. =>Your story will also be judged on originality, and on your use of metaphors, similes, and alliteration. Stylistic changes in POV (from 1st to 3rd, for example) or tense (from past to present, for example) must be clear as to why the changes occur. =>Dialogue, how well it flows, and the strength of the voices (as you’re writing, ask yourself: Does this sound like Castle? Does this sound like Beckett?, etc.) =>How well the characters are written, and how true they are to those on the show. =>Correct use of spelling, punctuation, capitalization (nb: You may use either US or UK spelling). Stories will be judged on the following criteria: The text of the fic itself will be copy and pasted to our three judges, so it is very important you include no other information, as this slows us down and may result in your story being disqualified. You write what you want to write about.Ĭompleted stories are to be e-mailed to: type your PenName, and the title of the story, into the subject line - ONLY.ĭo NOT include any distinguishing information about yourself in the body of your e-mail, only the fic itself should be presented here. Any submissions after this will not be accepted.Īll ratings and genres are accepted there is no criteria as to what you can submit, no prompts, no required pieces of text, no theme. =>The final date to submit is December 1st 2014 at 9PM EST. =>You must submit your fic from the e-mail address you want your prize e-mailed to, should you be one of our winners. Due to our judges we can only accept one language for this contest, at this time.
=>Your story must include at least 30 words of dialogue.
=>Your story must include recognizable Castle characters. Entries longer than 1000 words will not be accepted. =>Submitted stories must not exceed 1000 words. The Winter Hiatus Contest runs from Nov 1st - Dec 1st for the writing and submitting of your piece. Welcome to the last of two Castle Hiatus Fanfiction Writing Contests of the year.
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