Collaborative Writing Project

The Story So Far...

Attention *THE STORY CONTINUES*
Recent email connectivity issues which the submissions rely on have been resolved. Go to
The Story So Far page where the judges have put up another prompt to assist with plot development. You may use the entire prompt and continue with the story or you may use part or none of it.

Have you ever read a Fantasy Romantic Comedy and thought who puts a clumsy Cyclops in a relationship with the Princess Udashika of Helaisissia, the most beautiful and civilized planet in the Kythera Star System? If you think you can weave a better yarn, here’s your chance to precipitately plunge parrying people’s prodigious potential to prevail. In other words, your submission could be the best!

Teens and adults are welcome to compete together to write a 4000 word Fantasy Romantic Comedy short story over an eight week period beginning September 1st and ending on October 31, 2009.  You may submit a new segment every week to continue the story. The completed story will be posted online and printed & distributed free throughout the Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center system.
We are accepting submissions for this week until FridayOctoberr 16, 2009 and the first submission will be posted on Friday, September 11, 2009. After this week we will resume accepting submissions every Wednesday.

Here’s how it works

Story Guidelines

• Click on The Story So Far... to read the story thus far. 
• To add to the story click on the story submission form.
• The story must combine Fantasy(Sci-Fi), Romance and Comedy genres.
• Your submission must go along with past sections and keep the story flowing logically, please.
• There will be 8 sections to the story, one for each week.
• Judges will read all of the submissions, posting the one that most closely follows the current storyline.
• Submissions will be posted online as quickly as possible between Thursday and Saturday of each week.

Submission Rules

• Each weekly submission will be a maximum of 500 words and no less than 400 words.
• We recommend you type up what you want to submit in a word processor and then copy and paste it into the submission form.
• Submissions must be made between Sunday and Wednesday of each week between September 1, 2009 and October 31, 2009.
• The deadline for the week's submissions is Wednesday, September 9th at 6:00 PM
• The editors reserve the right to edit your contribution, and use or not use it, as they see fit.

Submitting Without a Computer

• Come to the library to view a printed version of the story so far.
• Each weekly submission must be hand delivered to any of the CCPL&IC branch libraries information services desks.
• Title page must include the following: name, mailing address, e-mail address(if applicable),
  telephone number.
• Each section should be a maximum of 500 words and no less than 400 words: typed, and double-spaced. (This is about two [2] pages).

The following links are available to learn more about Fantasy Romance and Romantic Comedy.