I love giving out sbd!! It was fun giving away 15sbd during steemoween.... And in the middle of it I entered a writing prompt competition.... Let me think if I can come up with something deep and worthy of your most generous sponsorship!
Thanks!

I share your pain, fiction was the thing when I joined steemit but now it seems almost dead compared to what it was before. Glad you are doing something about it from your side hopefully I brings out the writers and keeps them

Mike, this is an excellent and generous idea.

I had a go at fiction writing for the first time a couple of weeks ago called with a futurist piece called The Family.  I hoping to continue that as I learn to write fiction.

But that gave me an idea for a contest.  Maybe I could DM you on Discord to discuss if you have a few minutes?

Sounds like a great idea. I was thinking of running one of my own (so I couldn't enter it). My biggest problem is funds - most of what i published in October was 100%SP. 

Most of the sbd I have had was donated to causes. So I am in a building-up mode again re sbd. I was hoping to build a 35sbd pool to administer the contest. I have about 15 now.

Was considering letting potential authors submit and vote on a selection of prompts. That winner would receive 5 sbd and their prompt being used in the contest. 

Then the stories would be on that winning prompt with a prize for 1st(15) 2nd(10) and 3rd(5). Word limit from 750-1500 with a 7 day window? I worry about an open max - don't want to be comparing very short stories to novellas...

I'd love to hear your thoughts. This would be my 1st contest and I think it's a great way for me to give back to the community that has supported me here.

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I love you new frictions very much but I am not very good at writing them.

Here is the link to our latest contest. We have been working our way through the (used to be four but now are apparently seven) Narrative Conflicts. So far we've done Person vs: Person, God, and Self. Our latest is Person vs Society. Each contest awards 20 SBD to the winner and their story is read aloud on air during the next Fictioneers broadcast.

If possible, the author joins us and we discuss what inspired​ the story, etc. We still have Person vs Nature, Supernatural, and Technology, and a 20 SBD donation would cover one round's prize. So please check it out, and maybe even enter. The more, the merrier! 

https://steemit.com/conflictprompt/@jrhughes/fictioneers-writing-contest-20-sbd-prize-man-vs-society

What a great idea and I love that you are supporting others to do this. I am currently doing an Art Contest weekly (which yes I am paying out of pocket for at the moment as it hasn't grown quite enough yet), but maybe down the line, I may use those for fiction contests, it definitely would be interesting and I have thought about it, but so glad that you are offering to help others. I have also noticed a downfall in the amount of fiction contests out there as of late and I do hope it picks back up.

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