The 'Make it Work!' Contest

The 'Make it Work!' Contest is a contest of collaborations – in real life and on the page. The purpose of this contest is to collaborate with your peers to create a story the deals with collaborating. During this time of year, we are all reminded to put aside our differences and this contest is to remind us all of that and to hopefully promote it into the new year.

Rules
- Stories must have at least two authors and at most four. LOOKING FOR A CO-AUTHOR? We've set up a form that you can fill out and a spreadsheet that you can view to find people to work with. Links are in the profile.
- Stories must follow this simple plot: the two main characters have some kind of conflict and must work together to reach the desired end result.
- This contest is anonymous therefore the authors of the stories MUST remain anonymous until voting is complete and the winners have been announced.
- Stories must be between 5,000 and 20,000 words in length.
- Stories must be a one-shot, meaning that the story is contained within one body of text and/or one chapter. Stories may be continued after the contest is complete and the winners have been announced.
- All stories must be rated M, but DO NOT have to contain any smut/lemons/limes, although they are allowed.

Deadlines
- Stories may be submitted beginning December 1, 2009.
- Stories must be submitted by 11:59 pm EST on January 14, 2010 to be considered for voting.

Submitting
- All stories should be attached in an e-mail as a Word Document (doc/docx format) sent to w2tcontest(at)gmail(dot)com.
- All stories should be beta'd ahead of time. We ask this so that all authors are on a level playing field and that no one loses votes due to mistakes in their story.
- Each story should include the following header…

The 'Make it Work!' Contest
Title:
Pennames:
Main Characters:
Summary:

Voting
- Voting will begin on January 16, 2010 and will last until 11:59 pm EST on January 23, 2010.
- The vote will be a public poll posted to this profile.
- Any solicitation of votes or failure to keep the authors of a story anonymous will result in immediate disqualification for those involved.

Winners
- 1st place will receive the two (2) tickets to see 'Eclipse' in June 2010 (or an item of equal value).
- 2nd place will receive the 'New Moon' Soundtrack via iTunes (or an item of equal value).
- 3rd place will receive a 'Twilight' related poster (or an item of equal value).
- All prizes will be awarded to each author individually; in other words, the winners will NOT have to split the prizes.
- Each winner will receive special banners and will be featured in a special post at the words2transpire LiveJournal community.
- Special acknowledgements will be awarded by the hosts (dorkfish04, famouslyso, taragiraffe) after the voting is complete.