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WRITING CONTEST
First Line Fiction’s Inaugural Cash Contest
Writers — start your pens! The prompt is here!
You’ve patiently waited for the prompt since the contest announcement, so without further delay, here it is.
“When she began her search for the truth, she couldn’t have imagined the rabbit hole it would send her down.”
While I would love to keep contest submissions entirely anonymous, that’s just not possible; however, transparency in the scoring process is.
The table below displays how I will evaluate your stories. Contest entries will be listed by title only, with no author attached. I can’t remember what I wrote a week ago or what I went to retrieve from the basement once I got down there, so chances of me recalling who wrote what are slim — it’s as close to a blindfold as we’re going to get.
Grammar, self-explanatory. Scores 1–5.
Flow. Scores 1–3. This refers to how easy your story reads. Do you have varying paragraph and sentence lengths? Is your dialogue clear as to the…