Week 1 topic + reminders
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inkstainsReminders:
+ You have just under 24 hours to get your entries in for Collosal. There are currently no entries submitted.
+ Come join the TNT conversation for this week -- how do you provide feedback?
+ Our editors, fantastic specimens they are, have finished their edits! Thank you! If you would like to join the editing team, send a message toazuire or pipisafoat letting them know.
Time now for the Week 1 topic!
Remember that this is Week 1 of a new competition! If you've been eliminated or didn't get in before the deadline, you're welcome to compete anew for this two-week contest.
Your Week 1 topic is...
Gathering Dust
Something that is gathering dust is immobile, forgotten, stagnant. From old books left in attics to memories of times gone by, we sometimes find occasion to stoop down and blow the dust off, take it into our hands, and remember what it's worth. Too often, though, we allow it to continue to stagnate; we leave it on the shelf and glance idly at it sometimes as though to say, "I'd forgotten about that." And forgotten it remains.
Sometimes, removing the dust from an old artifact from our past or from someone else's means discovery. An old diary can mean discovery about our ancestors, or it can mean rediscovery of our younger selves. The study of history is all about blowing off the dust and seeing what lies beneath -- it is sometimes terrible and more often wonderful, but behind it is always the ambition to learn what it could have been if kept alive.
Blow the dust off your muse for our week 1 topic.
Notes: Format refers to whether your entry is fiction, nonfiction, poetry, script, etc; this information, along with the word count, is used when assigning editors. Trigger warnings will be listed with your entry in the polls. Any other authors' notes may go on your entry. Good luck, and happy writing!
Submissions will be due Saturday, July 24 at 5:00pm GMT (12:00pm EST).
+ You have just under 24 hours to get your entries in for Collosal. There are currently no entries submitted.
+ Come join the TNT conversation for this week -- how do you provide feedback?
+ Our editors, fantastic specimens they are, have finished their edits! Thank you! If you would like to join the editing team, send a message to
azuire or pipisafoat letting them know.Time now for the Week 1 topic!
Remember that this is Week 1 of a new competition! If you've been eliminated or didn't get in before the deadline, you're welcome to compete anew for this two-week contest.
Your Week 1 topic is...
Something that is gathering dust is immobile, forgotten, stagnant. From old books left in attics to memories of times gone by, we sometimes find occasion to stoop down and blow the dust off, take it into our hands, and remember what it's worth. Too often, though, we allow it to continue to stagnate; we leave it on the shelf and glance idly at it sometimes as though to say, "I'd forgotten about that." And forgotten it remains.
Sometimes, removing the dust from an old artifact from our past or from someone else's means discovery. An old diary can mean discovery about our ancestors, or it can mean rediscovery of our younger selves. The study of history is all about blowing off the dust and seeing what lies beneath -- it is sometimes terrible and more often wonderful, but behind it is always the ambition to learn what it could have been if kept alive.
Blow the dust off your muse for our week 1 topic.
Poll #3844 Week 1 Submissions
This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5
Link your contest entry here:
Link your FLOG entry here:
List any trigger warnings along with a word count and format here:
Would you like editing on your entry?
Notes: Format refers to whether your entry is fiction, nonfiction, poetry, script, etc; this information, along with the word count, is used when assigning editors. Trigger warnings will be listed with your entry in the polls. Any other authors' notes may go on your entry. Good luck, and happy writing!
Submissions will be due Saturday, July 24 at 5:00pm GMT (12:00pm EST).