S&S Invitational: Heart-Pounding Action Edition

in Scholar and Scribe3 months ago (edited)

🕺 Welcome to the Scholar and Scribe Invitational 🕺

The Invitational is our bi-weekly, super-duper, writing contest. It is where we match quills and draw blood all for the sake of the craft. We all know a 'friendly' competition never hurts anyone, much, especially when it can be used as a platform to improve your writing. 🙌


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We are returning to our old arrangement of Genre + Theme for our prompt structure. We are still experimenting and seeing what works to produce the best writing contest on Hive.

The contest duration is much shorter now also, please check the deadline date carefully.

Thank you for your continuous feedback! Your support is what makes this competition possible.


🧐 Rules of Engagement 🧐

  • Entries must adhere to the genre AND thematic prompt;
  • Entries must be between 500 and 1500 words.
    Note: this does not include any intro/footer text.
  • You must post your entry in Scholar and Scribe and use the #scholarandscribe tag;
  • Deadline for submission is Monday, 9th of September (23.59, GMT + 01);
  • All languages are welcome but MUST include an English translation;
  • Link your entry in the comment section below; ⏬

🤑 Prizes and Goodies 🤑

The winners will be announced in two weeks. Winners of what? An astute question. The prizes are as follows:

🥇 Gold: 2 HSBI, 300 Ecency points, 50 SCHOLAR, 3 SCRIBE
🥈 Silver: 1 HSBI, 200 Ecency points4, 40 SCHOLAR, 2 SCRIBE
🥉 Bronze: 100 Ecency points, 30 SCHOLAR, 1 SCRIBE
🎖️ Runner(s) Up: Valuable goodies!

IN ADDITION- Each participant will get a modest review of their work from the modding team. With the additional opportunity of getting an in-depth critical review if they so choose. 🙂

🤺 Prompt 🤺

The story you submit MUST adhere to the following prompts:

🎥 Genre: Action
🎨 Theme: Contemporary

WHAT THIS PROMPT IS: Heart-pounding, fast-paced action set in current times or near about. Modern weaponry and sensibilities.

WHAT THIS PROMPT ISN'T: The setting must not be any form of fantasy, sci-fi, steam-punk, cyberpunk, etc.

May the odds - and your creative energy - be ever in your favor!

We'd like to give out a big shout-out and thank you to Ecency for sponsoring this contest! 🤗

A big thank you to @melinda010100 as well for the seamless communication.

Check out the Ecency front-end and/or mobile app for more information on how to use your points.

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Thank you for the tag 🙏🏿

This should be a good one.

I'm glad you think so! We look forward to reading your story. 🙂

Hope I can squeeze it in. Getting ready to go on vacation and tons to do.

I hope so too. Have a swell time!

Thanks for the tag.

Thank you for the tag.

Thank you for the tag

Muchas gracias por la invitación
Saludos 🌻

Thanks for the invitation. I'm already sharpening my pencil to start writing.

Happy day!

Alright, move now.
Great idea.

This is an interesting prompt and at the same time challenging.

Thanks for the invitation, friends

We continue with the dynamics, it seems wonderful to me, friends. I think the theme of this occasion is excellent, something about police comes to my mind, we'll see what happens. Haha.

We keep reading!

Excellent day.

Awesome prompt ! I had fun with this one 😁

Hopefully setting it in the UK in the year 2025 is close enough to contemporary to count. It's a bit dystopian, because that's the United Kingdom we're now living in, but I couldn't resist adding a strong element of satire in as an extra sub-genre....

https://peakd.com/hive-199275/@alonicus/enforcing-online-safety-2025-style-scholar-and-scribe-invitational

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Hello everyone.

I leave you the participation of Rincón Poético, I hope you like it

https://peakd.com/hive-199275/@rinconpoetico7/ss-invitational-heartpounding-action-edition-buch-enes-j18