Prose Contest Announcement

The RHP Prose contest 2021

Rules:
* We do a contest for original prose, written by RHP members. So please contribute only things you have written yourself. All material should be thought of as copyrighted and authors who wish will be attributed to their work. (Those who wish to be anonymous can get that also.
* Language is English.
* Length is no more than 1000 words (excluding the title).
* Topic is "Murder Mystery".
* You can send your entries either via (sometimes multiple) PM to me. Or you can send a file with a reasonable format (txt, rtf, doc, doc, odt, pdf (not secured) ) to Ponderable_Dickens@Yahoo.com. I will try to send receipts. Please contact me if I don't (it has happened that mails were in the SPAM).
* each author can send in up to three contributions. You can always change contributions, send edited versions, or pull back if you want to until I posted the stories.
* The competition ends in six weeks time: 8th of March 17:00 GMT.
* I will create a new thread with the stories, in which can be voted (three votes: 1st, 2nd and 3rd).
* If the story can't be posted on the Forum I will try to identify the reason and streamline accordingly (If you don't want this to happen try posting the story to see if it goes through yourself , don't forget to delete it immediately after the test.)

If something comes up, I will add to this set of rules.

I created this new thread to have things clearer. So please do the banter and conversation in the other thread and only post things of real importance to the Contest here.

@ponderable said
I created this new thread to have things clearer. So please do the banter and conversation in the other thread and only post things of real importance to the Contest here.

So why are the other Prose contest threads up. I thought we were only allowed one thread per subject. Has that changed or just ok for certain people?

-VR

@ponderable said
I created this new thread to have things clearer. So please do the banter and conversation in the other thread and only post things of real importance to the Contest here.

Good thinking.

Is the plan only to have one round of voting this year?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Good thinking.

Is the plan only to have one round of voting this year?

It was in the list of the questions in the original thread which was a bit obscured by various discussions. So please vote (fast) for your preferred option:

@ghost-of-a-duke removed their quoted post

Did you go with the one or two? I think it was because of two that you got tied for first last year right?

-VR

@ghost-of-a-duke removed their quoted post

Thank you for your answer.

-VR

@very-rusty said
So why are the other Prose contest threads up. I thought we were only allowed one thread per subject. Has that changed or just ok for certain people?

-VR

@ponderable said
I created this new thread to have things clearer. So please do the banter and conversation in the other thread and only post things of real importance to the Contest here.

Missed this, did you, Rusty?

Haha

@Ponderable


Thanks, Pondy, and may the deadest corpse win !

@suzianne said

@ponderable said
I created this new thread to have things clearer. So please do the banter and conversation in the other thread and only post things of real importance to the Contest here.

Missed this, did you, Rusty?

You obviously are not paying attention to it Suzie Q.....LOL..... 😛

-VR

@moonbus said
@Ponderable


Thanks, Pondy, and may the deadest corpse win !

I'm looking forward to reading all the entries which I know will be good - how could it go wrong...?

8 March 2021: possible end date for the latest UK lockdown (or easing thereof) and, more importantly, the entry date for the writing competition of the year!