FAWCker
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As the Earth Day story contest is getting ready to close its doors to submissions, I figured it wouldn't be a bad idea to start organizing the next FAWC.
For anyone who does not know, FAWC stands for Friendly Anonymous Writing Challenge. The idea is for writers to come up with an original erotic story based around a similar theme. Those stories are then posted under this user name (thus the "anonymous" part) and a winner (for lack of a better term -- this is just a friendly competition, after all) is chosen according to the standard Lit voting system. There are no real prizes given for FAWC.
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FAWC 4 The Music: song selections. Authors in this challenge may select one of the following four songs -- or even more than one, if you're ambitious -- around which to base a story. The story does not have to be a literal interpretation of the lyrics; however you find inspiration for the story is up to you.
The songs are:
Tomorrow We'll See by Sting. Lyrics
Midnight Train to Georgia by Gladys Knight & the Pips. Lyrics
Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast from Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance." Lyrics
Written In Rock by Rick Springfield. Lyrics
These songs were chosen arbitrarily, but I think they represent a broad range of musical styles and story elements. But there is also plenty of interpretation room within each song.
PLEASE DON'T TELL ANYONE WHICH SONG YOU HAVE CHOSEN!
The challenge begins today, Sunday, April 13, 2014. All stories must be submitted to FAWCker by Midnight, CST, on Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Please submit the story with the following format.
Formatting: Please, for the sake of unity and my sanity, have all stories formatted in Verdana, 12-point font, with no paragraph indents and hard returns between paragraphs. Basically, it should look almost exactly the way it will appear on Lit.
Please use a series of four asterisks (* * * *) to delineate scene transitions. Example:
Text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
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Text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
The idea behind this is to not make it readily apparent, based on a particular author's formatting style, who wrote what.
Please include the following note at the beginning of your story:
(Author's note: This story is an entry into FAWC (Friendly Anonymous Writing Challenge), a collaborative competition among Lit authors. FAWC is not an official contest sponsored by Literotica, and there are no prizes given to the winner. This FAWC was based around the theme of music, with four songs given to choose from. The song that inspired this story was [insert song name and artist here])
Also, after this disclaimer but before the body of the story, include up to nine story tags. One of the tags will already be "FAWC" so I will only need nine more for your story.
Send the story as a .doc or .odt file.
So, to sum up:
Challenge Begins: Sunday, April 13
Challenge Ends: Wednesday, May 7 at midnight
Formatting: Verdana, 12-point font, .doc or .odt file
When you are ready to send your submission, send me or slyc_willie a PM and I will give you the email address.
Any other questions as they are addressed in the thread will be updated here.
Let's have some FAWCking fun!
For anyone who does not know, FAWC stands for Friendly Anonymous Writing Challenge. The idea is for writers to come up with an original erotic story based around a similar theme. Those stories are then posted under this user name (thus the "anonymous" part) and a winner (for lack of a better term -- this is just a friendly competition, after all) is chosen according to the standard Lit voting system. There are no real prizes given for FAWC.
* * * *
FAWC 4 The Music: song selections. Authors in this challenge may select one of the following four songs -- or even more than one, if you're ambitious -- around which to base a story. The story does not have to be a literal interpretation of the lyrics; however you find inspiration for the story is up to you.
The songs are:
Tomorrow We'll See by Sting. Lyrics
Midnight Train to Georgia by Gladys Knight & the Pips. Lyrics
Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast from Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance." Lyrics
Written In Rock by Rick Springfield. Lyrics
These songs were chosen arbitrarily, but I think they represent a broad range of musical styles and story elements. But there is also plenty of interpretation room within each song.
PLEASE DON'T TELL ANYONE WHICH SONG YOU HAVE CHOSEN!
The challenge begins today, Sunday, April 13, 2014. All stories must be submitted to FAWCker by Midnight, CST, on Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Please submit the story with the following format.
Formatting: Please, for the sake of unity and my sanity, have all stories formatted in Verdana, 12-point font, with no paragraph indents and hard returns between paragraphs. Basically, it should look almost exactly the way it will appear on Lit.
Please use a series of four asterisks (* * * *) to delineate scene transitions. Example:
Text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
* * * *
Text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
The idea behind this is to not make it readily apparent, based on a particular author's formatting style, who wrote what.
Please include the following note at the beginning of your story:
(Author's note: This story is an entry into FAWC (Friendly Anonymous Writing Challenge), a collaborative competition among Lit authors. FAWC is not an official contest sponsored by Literotica, and there are no prizes given to the winner. This FAWC was based around the theme of music, with four songs given to choose from. The song that inspired this story was [insert song name and artist here])
Also, after this disclaimer but before the body of the story, include up to nine story tags. One of the tags will already be "FAWC" so I will only need nine more for your story.
Send the story as a .doc or .odt file.
So, to sum up:
Challenge Begins: Sunday, April 13
Challenge Ends: Wednesday, May 7 at midnight
Formatting: Verdana, 12-point font, .doc or .odt file
When you are ready to send your submission, send me or slyc_willie a PM and I will give you the email address.
Any other questions as they are addressed in the thread will be updated here.
Let's have some FAWCking fun!
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, really I wouldn't. 
