Writing competitions?

[Creamy Goodness]

Probably won't be doing horror porn. At least not right off the bat. Guidelines would mainly be a deadline (you'd probably have an entire month to prep your story) and word count (I'd start at 3,000 words and possibly increase it as/if the competitions became a regular deal). I always preferred to make a thread for the contest for entries to be posted inside of rather than making individual threads for each story, so that'd probably be included as well. That's about it as far as guidelines go. I'm open to suggestions, as always, but that's pretty much all I had in mind.

As for a theme, I'm not entirely sure. I've always wanted to write a big monster story and I definitely want to experiment in other genres (sci-fi and crime come to mind), but I don't want to switch genres until we get a few horror ones rolling. I'd probably eventually make a list and then either make a poll or see which ones you would all like to do. I don't like planning out the genres too far ahead of time. The contests are meant to be spontaneous. Thinking too long about the theme feels kind of like cheating to me.