digitalpress
04-28-2007, 09:40 AM
CONTEST COMPLETE as of October 1st, 2007. I'll be reading through all of these over the next month and winners will be chosen by Halloween. However, I won't announce the winning entries until the book is ready to go. It's been slow going but progress is being made and this will be worth a purchase even if you own the last edition (7)!
GREAT job, folks. Judging is going to be tougher than ever this time!
Original message follows.
Here we go again! With each incarnation of the DP Collector's Guide we select a dozen or so tales of gaming lore from our community.
It works like this. You post a non-fictional account of some gaming moment, memory, event, or recollection. This post should be in essay form (we will help with the editing) and most importantly should be as ENTERTAINING as possible. It doesn't necessarily have to be funny - but intrigue makes for good reading, good reading makes for contest winners.
Oh, about the winners. There's not a whole lot with regards to prizes for this recurring contest. We'll choose our favorites, and those stories will appear in the upcoming CLASSIC Collector's Guide. You get published, your name in bright lights (assuming you read the book in bright lights). And you get a free book.
BASIC RULES:
- The first rule of LORE Contest is, we all talk about LORE Contest. This forum provides your canvas AND your support. Post your story in your own thread in this forum.
- Feel free to critique the essays in this forum but PLEASE be constructive and remember that if you can't say something nice it's better to say nothing at all.
- Remember your subject matter. This book covers everything from the dawn of gaming up to and including the NES system. Don't post an essay about your early days with your Sega Genesis because it's outside of our scope. For a complete list of systems covered in this book, see THIS (http://www.digitpress.com/dpg_plug_classic.htm) page from our last edition.
- Your story can be as long as you'd like but in the past we've always preferred stories that take up less than a full page in 10pt text.
- Grammar, spelling, editing all count but we will assist. It just gets you points if the thing is written well because that means it reads well right out of the gate.
- We ask that your story be truthful. You can embellish, of course, but wild unbelieveable stories are usually cast aside.
- Contest will close on July 31st so you've got a solid month to get it together. Remember that you can EDIT in this forum, so feel free to update and tweak as you see fit. On July 31st everything gets locked down.
Oh, one final bit of assistance here. We've got some past winners online so you can get an idea about what we're looking for both in terms of content and essay size:
http://www.digitpress.com/archives/arc00069.htm
Best of luck to all and feel free to post any comments or questions right here.
GREAT job, folks. Judging is going to be tougher than ever this time!
Original message follows.
Here we go again! With each incarnation of the DP Collector's Guide we select a dozen or so tales of gaming lore from our community.
It works like this. You post a non-fictional account of some gaming moment, memory, event, or recollection. This post should be in essay form (we will help with the editing) and most importantly should be as ENTERTAINING as possible. It doesn't necessarily have to be funny - but intrigue makes for good reading, good reading makes for contest winners.
Oh, about the winners. There's not a whole lot with regards to prizes for this recurring contest. We'll choose our favorites, and those stories will appear in the upcoming CLASSIC Collector's Guide. You get published, your name in bright lights (assuming you read the book in bright lights). And you get a free book.
BASIC RULES:
- The first rule of LORE Contest is, we all talk about LORE Contest. This forum provides your canvas AND your support. Post your story in your own thread in this forum.
- Feel free to critique the essays in this forum but PLEASE be constructive and remember that if you can't say something nice it's better to say nothing at all.
- Remember your subject matter. This book covers everything from the dawn of gaming up to and including the NES system. Don't post an essay about your early days with your Sega Genesis because it's outside of our scope. For a complete list of systems covered in this book, see THIS (http://www.digitpress.com/dpg_plug_classic.htm) page from our last edition.
- Your story can be as long as you'd like but in the past we've always preferred stories that take up less than a full page in 10pt text.
- Grammar, spelling, editing all count but we will assist. It just gets you points if the thing is written well because that means it reads well right out of the gate.
- We ask that your story be truthful. You can embellish, of course, but wild unbelieveable stories are usually cast aside.
- Contest will close on July 31st so you've got a solid month to get it together. Remember that you can EDIT in this forum, so feel free to update and tweak as you see fit. On July 31st everything gets locked down.
Oh, one final bit of assistance here. We've got some past winners online so you can get an idea about what we're looking for both in terms of content and essay size:
http://www.digitpress.com/archives/arc00069.htm
Best of luck to all and feel free to post any comments or questions right here.