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Writers Unleashed | Season 1
Topic Started: Nov 29 2015, 11:00 PM (24,270 Views)
SnazzyShadeEmily
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They said I wasn't good enough for television. How do you like me now, voices in my head?
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Welcome to The Horror Closet's first, exclusive writing competition: Writers Unleashed™. We’ve been planning this for a long time and we believe we are now finally at a place where we can host it properly!


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In this competition you will be up against both the experienced & beginner creative writers of this forum, week after week, as you complete the challenges and are scored and ranked by the judges (TheCheetahwings and GhettoSpiritMedium) and the final judge and host, (SnazzyShadeEmily).The last writer standing, is the winner. We hope you choose to sign up for Writers Unleashed™ today,and join us for this competition, and to grow as a writer. You don't need to have any experience at all to atleast try, so we hope anyone with atleast a smidge of interest gives it a shot. The challenges will be posted weekly. Round 1 comes this Friday Night, due Thursday, December 10th at 12/11C. Most rounds will be posted Saturday but since it's Round 1, you get an extra day. Use it wisely. Results come every Saturday night starting at 6/5C and running two hours. I'll post the next round shortly after. The round themes will not specify a genre, so feel free to do whichever you want as they will all be graded fairly using the same basic scale. When your entry is complete, PM it to Me/SnazzyShadeEmily, and I'll send it to the others once the deadline has been reached. I hope you all consider joining! Also, please make entries an original work unless stated within the challenge post.


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SnazzyShadeEmily (Host)
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GhettoSpiritMedium
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TheCheetahwings

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1. Matty
2. MasterXPosed
3. TyeSays
4. Cman710
5. Joshua
6. Frame700
7. 100PercentCotton
8. SaviorMouse
9. Sid The Super Bitch
10. Kevin R.
11. Ni-Gunner
12. Zayday Williams
13. TheFinalBoy

14. Belly
15. Shiley740
16. Shawn
SEASON ONE WINNER:
Cman710/Chris



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Round One
Round Two
Round Three
Round Four
Round Five
Round Six

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Round 1 Results
Round 2 Results
Round 3 Results
Round 4 Results
Round 5 Results
Round 6 Results
All Scores Ranked
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SnazzyShadeEmily
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They said I wasn't good enough for television. How do you like me now, voices in my head?
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Kevin 'What's for Lunch?': I really did not expect a casual workplace comedy from this picture, yet you used it very well! The plot was so cute and seemed unsubstantial till the end, but was quite a good read. As with last week, I love the twists you delivered. I honestly didn't expect the retirement or staged part at all, but it added a nice level of substance to make this more than just a quick read through! I honestly think where this lacked had to be dialogue oddly enough. None of it was bad, but some of it comes off a tad awkward to me. If you can sharpen it that more though, this was a very good entry. I don't think this was quite on the level of your first to me, but I thouroughly enjoyed learning about these characters and the plot. Bill and Lacey were really believable, though it confuses me a bit why Bill and Mike are friends, but not distractingly so. I feel like this entry would've been brought to the next level had the plot not felt so random at first, although you really brought it to form with the retirement in the end. Overall, great job once again Kevin! Can't wait to see more of this in Round 3!


Ni-Gunner 'Christmas Past': Well that escalated quickly. I really liked this entry most of the time, although I couldn't help but find it a bit extreme. I feel the circumstances leading to the end were a bit extra and could've been better had that dinner party not felt so mean-spirited, even if that was the intention. I think of the ways to bring Tim to his end, the dinner party wasn't really a solid enough way to bring him there. That said, I really just loved the dialogue here, it really shined. Cassie was actually hilarious, and Richard too even if I hated him (like I expect we were supposed to). I noticed a similar tone here to that of your prior entry, and it's one you do very well, although I hope you end up branching out more with the next few rounds. You did use your picture and very originally, but it didn't feel like the catalyst to the present day plot like it was intended. Had there been more of a connection, I think that would've been just amazing. As it stands, it was a nice relevation for the past, but meant very little to me in the present. Overall, this was a good entry hindered by a few things, but it once again shows your capabilities as a writer.


Jack's 'A Lesson In Shoptology': Jack I am so proud of you! This entry was miles above your last round! Christmas is over and done with these, but yours really was so full of life and fun to read. I loved Lisa so much, you oddly are good at writing her which is weird and unexpected. The dialogue is still a ways away from being what I'd consider good, but it was certainly much better - especially Lisa's. This plot also worked very well, especially to fit the challenge. I think the comedic tone was what made this entry so much better than your last, because you're actually kind of good at comedy. I'm really proud of how much better you've done just in the second week, and hope to see your growth continue. As a sidenote: PLEASE capitalize your I's. It is so annoying to read i, just so annoying. If you can work on your characters that weren't Lisa, deliver consistently good dialogue, and capitalize your i's, you're gonna make it far I think!


Chris' 'The Interrogation': Oh. Wow. Chris that was just actually shocking. I did not see it going this way. I was actually kind of meh on it at first because of the unrealisticness of it all with that interrogation and lack of proffesionalism from Adam, but it makes a lot more sense having read the whole thing. I really enjoy the route you took with your picture a lot, it drove home your entry. It was a very original read, which is honestly very unexpected from you since you're all too used to what seem like the same old plots. I hope you keep this quality going because this is quite easily my favorite plot of the competition so far. Now the entire thing can't live up to that amazing plot, but it was all very well. I still think dialogue is your worst factor because it does somewhat feel typical and could really use some sprucing up to make it feel less cookie-cutter. But aside from that, I really liked this a lot Chris. I guessed it the second you picked that picture you'd do a rape plot, and I was right, but the way you did it turned out much more solid than I expected. Great job!


Matt's 'Penelope's Cowgirl Casanova Party': I honesty found this to be very adorable. Too bad you completely did the challenge wrong, 'cause everything else was a very solid story. I don't know where you found the misconception or maybe it's because you wrote it last minute, but this had nothing to do with your picture. Literally nothing. It's confusing why you ditched your original idea which did for this. But anyways, the rest was solid. I don't think you did interviews as well as you could've, and most felt pointless (not Kim's tho) but they were decent. The overall tone was very fast and fun too, which is something you have achieved well in a couple dh chapters, and you did it well here too. I like the birthday party story and Michael was a really fun character to spend a story with. I also found Kim kinda hilarious. Dialogue was a lot less extra which helped a lot. I hope next time you do the challenge right!


Vincent's 'Death And Funerals': This was certainly better than your last entry! As with last round, your dialogue and tone shone through, but this time they had a nice plot to go with. This was far from a perfect entry, but I thourougly enjoyed it. The family dynamic was good, I could feel the strain between Greta and her children, and her closeness to Stanley. I think you did a good job representing that. The whole read I imagined Sadie as Sarah Paulson and Greta as Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development, pretty good castings if I do say so myself! The plot has been done before, and will be done again, but I do feel your version was nice as you decided not to put a happy ending spin on it. Too often do these stories end with an unrealistic bow to end an otherwise good story, so I'm glad you took the more realistic route. This entry fit the challenge well and I'm glad to see your last entry was a fluke as I had known it was. Can't wait for more of you!
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T'CHALLA OF WAKANDA
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Dec 19 2015, 03:29 PM
Cman710
Dec 19 2015, 03:28 PM
SOOOOOOOOOOOOO NERVOUS.
Chris reminds me of that guy in class who's like "OMG I'M GONNA FAIL" then he gets an A omg
Bai.
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SnazzyShadeEmily
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They said I wasn't good enough for television. How do you like me now, voices in my head?
Phew
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Cman710
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OMG that review though. Thank you so much! I know I took a gamble doing something different but I do want to take this competition as the chance to test out new genres, concepts, and ideas. <3

But ugh, I need to work on the dialogue still I guess. Got to work it out.
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SnazzyShadeEmily
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They said I wasn't good enough for television. How do you like me now, voices in my head?
No prob
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Omg I'm honestly surprised that you liked my entry because I thought it was pretty bad. But hooray thanks!


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shiley740
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"This isn't over...this isn't over by a long shot!"
Currently reading thru the comments myself :hagwink:
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SnazzyShadeEmily
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They said I wasn't good enough for television. How do you like me now, voices in my head?
Im rereading tbh
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MasterXPosed
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Thank you so much for the review! I'm really proud of my entry. Lisa was fun to write just because how crazy she was. She was different from my normal character creations and i'm glad you loved her. I hope i can keep getting stronger with this challenge and get far. And i will fix the I problem lol
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SnazzyShadeEmily
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They said I wasn't good enough for television. How do you like me now, voices in my head?
MasterXPosed
Dec 19 2015, 03:36 PM
Thank you so much for the review! I'm really proud of my entry. Lisa was fun to write just because how crazy she was. She was different from my normal character creations and i'm glad you loved her. I hope i can keep getting stronger with this challenge and get far. And i will fix the I problem lol
No problem :murdermyvagina:
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