EVE Fiction

Capsuleers of New Eden (and perspective writers)

It is my absolute pleasure to inform you that Telegram Sam has done it again! The return of the Pod and Pilot Fiction Contest for 2013. You can find the rules for the upcoming contest at https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=284381&p=2 or at his website, located at http://hullabalutions.blogspot.com.

(although, why he posted the original post in GD is beyond me.....)

In a nutshell...

Pod and Pilot Fiction Contest is a contest for perspective writers to tell tales of New Eden in three Catagories.

Eight Thousand Suns in New Eden
These stories carry the best prizes but are the toughest since they require the tale to be told adhering to the canon of Eve Online. You cannot use ingame character, corporation or alliance names. It must be set within the New Eden milieu as laid out within the prime EVE fiction.

A Day In The Life
True, mostly true or completely made up events from the New Eden or Dust 514 landscape. In game character names CAN be used along with corporations, alliances or "player driven content" events. This catagory is much more fluid (and you are allowed to take potshots at the canon).

Other Things Just Make You Swear And Curse
A brand new catagory for the 2013 contest! For those of you that DONT think EVE/Dust is Srs Bzns! Stories here should be Eve/Dust related but have humor! Whether knee slapping or Sly-n-Dry, humor is the main component.

Did you see I mentioned prizes?

Oh yea, there will be prizes! Somer Blink and the High Drag podcast have contributed (so far) 101 PLEX!!
(yea, Somer had to show us up....) You can see the break down of prizes on the above linked sites. If you would like to donate prizes to this endeavor, contact Telegram Sam. He'll know how to distribute them properly.

Judging?
There will be judges. CCP Eterne and CCP Falcon (two experienced EVE writers) along with CSM Member Mike Azariah and Telegram Sam himself will be the crew of judges you will need to impress! (I hear that Mr. Azariah is looking for more bounties.....coincidence?)

Go to the sites. Read the rules. Take up your writing utensils and write write write!!

Deadline for submissions is November 10, 2013 at 2359 game time.

Clock is ticking folks! Now.........go!

(where did I put that #2 pencil???)

Excellent! We had a lot of first-time writers enter last year, and all of them had excellent ideas and most had good, smooth writing. You're already ahead of the curve.

I'm still in the brainstorming stage....

I did that last year but writing in 8K suns is tough.

With all the family stuff going on, I'm having issues staying focused long enough to come up with a story.

Would love to read it and would have to translate it as my Deutsch is very rusty.

However, I would never submit it as my own.

Thanks for the entry Kira.

And thanks for spreading the word about the contest Random! Still 3.5 weeks to write, guys.

Google's blogger.com is quick and easy to use. Anybody have any other recommendations?

If you can, post the story as text instead of an image, so we can copy and paste the text and do a word count. (Have to make sure stories aren't over 5000 words). I suppose an image on imgur would work, if it's in PDF format. I can convert that to text. Last year most people posted to a blog site like wordpress or blogger, or a free website builder like webnode.com.

Pastebin sounds like it could work.
Blogger.com is having tech issues, so I can't update the story entries page. Will be fixed soon hopefully.

Edit: Story entries page is up with a temporary fix. Six new works are linked there, for your reading pleasure.

The entries so far are here. For your reading pleasure or inspiration for your writing.