this should be almost the final version..
Hoist the colors, proud storytellers!
What's boiling in the bananafish kitchen (the news!)
(check here the link). Let's all thank Rowan for his support and I strongly recommend you all to check his poetry and prose as he's an excellent and prolific author!@raj808 is keeping sustaining our community and wanted to talk about the contest during his Whaleshares Monday Night Curation Show - Literary Contest
We are going through a crypto-winter, and keeping the contest's pot level is becoming challenging. The rewards are shrinking but the requirements for getting 1 SBI are always the same (however I'm partially helped by the STEEM liquidity). I will do everything possible to keep running it but your support is very much appreciated! Most of all, I hope that we can start coming here for the community (and I know that this is already the attitude of many of you!) and not only for a chance of a reward.
Talking about this.. a toast to @calluna who offered to the contest not one but two steem!! This is amazing Cal and it will allow us to maintain a 4 SBI shares pot even for the next edition! And it's not over: Calluna is going to be next special guest storywriter for the 18th edition.. prepare, storytellers, prepare.
Also, @marcoriccardi got voted by curie! Congratulations my friend, I'm so happy to see your quality work aknowledged :-D
Thanks to an @anixio's idea, I created a comment section where we can vote our favorite story: one vote please (no weighted D100 or equations for voting please, I know it's not easy). This helped a lot, thanks anix.
The 500 words limit: the rules here are a) finish the story; b) before the deadline. That's it. Nothing else is a rule but an advice and a spontaneous crowd's decision to make this experience the best possible. The 500 words limit will be considered as a criterion of judgment? Yes but it's surely not the primary one. No, I don't want debates (not that we had one, so far) or I'll turn dogmatic, make it become a strict rule with the result of a useless restrictment in consideration of the community's scope. You always know that what counts more here is the originality of an idea and quality doesn't always need quantity ;-)
.. and I had to be brief..pheww..
Alright, let's cut the chatter, brave storytellers, the winners of the 5 @steembasicincome shares are:
@theironfelix: by popular acclamation, the best contribution in this 17th edition. An accurate and original witnessing of those mysterious events. We all have been impressed by his lexicon's choice. The man is indeed a skillful wordsmith!
@gwilberiol: another clever narrative solution. Originality at its best with an epistolary exchange and a completely mind-twisting perspective. Read this to have an idea of the highest level of content in little space.
@raj808: it's like that. His fiction is excellent and I do have to give him the 2 SBI. He was able to give birth to one of the most realistic battle scenes I have read since a long time, not only on steemit. His lyricism in the details, the historical accuracy, the different perspectives concerning the two armies facing each other.. Selecting the best story is surely not a science, but this is the winner.
@oivas, @wonderwop, @marcoriccardi, @flyynkiwi (ROFLMAO!), @anixio, @calluna, @opiman, @lennstar0de, @neiraurdaneta, @giddyupngo, @edgarirebeca, @alisabelsilva, @sofiapaola: you all did great and the reward is 0.03 SBD each! Keep pushing your creativity to new horizons, not just for the rewards but for being part of this amazing and evolving group of writers!
.. see you all next Wednesday with another story and a rich pot of 4 @steembasicincome shares + the SBD payout!
For those that want to join the fun, here is how this contest works:
2. You finish it with your own post or a comment in the comment section. A limit of 500 words is recommended.
3. YOU WIN! 4 @steembasicincome shares to the writers with the best ending + Wednesday's post SBD PAYOUT between all the participants who won't get one of the 4 shares
It's so simple and, most of all, we'll enjoy our fiction ideas!
Nothing is mandatory here, but voting and resteeming is highly appreciated!
What's next?
Click here for the discord chatThe @greetersguild, a place where to learn and grow together!
Can I get you to put your contest writing posts in the pifc (payitforward) #contest-writing room
Of course, I'm a big fan of your contest.. altough I have to be focalised here.. give me a banner of the pif and I'll add it permanently to give you some visibility.
Thanks that would be great
Week 18 is out, thanks for your support and you're invited to write with us, of course. I inserted the banner, if you could embed a clickable link to your contest would be perfect.
Thanks
The contest changes every week and the best way to keep up ist through the Pay it Forward discord
https://discord.gg/3VQVnZw
Done, from tomorrow edition ✌️
Congratulations 👏 to all the winners, and we're all winners. Thank you @f3nix
That's the spirit Bruni! Tip!
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Hi @wonderwop! You have received 0.1 SBD tip from @f3nix!This will be a very busy week for me, I hope to find the time for participating to the @calluna story! I'm really expecting that!
Congrats to the winners!!!
Even if the pot goes smaller until we see crypto summer it won't change a thing. I really believe that most, if not all, writers will remain in the contest during the winter times as well!
We're here to try our pen and inspire each other with good writing. That's the spirit my friend, tip!
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Hi @anixio! You have received 0.1 SBD tip from @f3nix!I’ve only been here a few weeks, but I already feel like the quality of the stories is getting better and better. Oiling up my two typing fingers for the next one!
You rock man! The contest has a big contribution thanks to your amazing stories, I mean it.. last one was basically at the same level of gwilberiol's..
These competitions are really a great way for us to improve our writing. We will all get a lot better from this
Wow, thanks so much and congrats to everyone who has taken part for writing such great endings to such a great beginning from @cyemela. I'm looking forward to the next round :-)
Calluna prepared one of those conoctions we like 😉
I finally got done with everything and can finally see this. And yay! I got highlighted!
Well deserved, Ironfelix the bard.
:^D
Thanks again @f3nix. Really enjoyed the opportunity to guest write the intro this week. Looking forward to next week and beyond.
I say that we made a kick-ass party here! Your fiction idea was a success Cyrus, thanks!
You don't know what I regretted not participating in this week, @f3nix. I hope that the work will give me a little bit of air to be able to accompany you in this next one. Congratulations to all the winners and to you for maintaining the level of this contest. A hug
Yes I noticed your absence, dear friend 😉 but don't worry and don't stress yourself, you know that it's always a pleasure to read you and have you writing with us!
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excellent I'm waiting for tomorrow to see what story you're going to surprise us with @f3nix tomorrow, this contest is a success you hit with this project of fiction stories you're a genius