Rhapsodist Writing Contest #6 – The Key
Rhapsodist Writing Contest #6 – The Key
The sixth challenge of the Rhapsodist Writing Contest is to write a piece about waking one morning gripping a mysterious key in your hand tightly. How did you get this key? Where did I come from? What do you do with it?
For some inspiration, please check out the YouTube clip below from the movie Paycheck starring Ben Affleck. In this YouTube clip, Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) recently had all memories from the past two years wiped after successfully reverse-engineering a piece of technology for a company which employed him. When he retrieves his personal items, he receives an envelope filled with items he claims are not his, yet prove a pivotal plot-point during the film.
Contest Rules
The contest will run through Sunday, September 24, 2017, 11:59 PM UTC. A prize of 10 SBDs is up for grabs to the winner and a 5 SBD prize for the runner-up. I will be the judging this sixth contest and the rules of the contest are:
- All entries must be 500 words or less.
- Limit one entry.
- Vote and Resteem this post.
- Please post your entry on your own blog and use the hashtag #rhapsodist.
- Please paste a link to your published blog post contest entry in the comment thread below.
- The contest will end Sunday, September 24, 2017, 11:59 PM UTC.
- The contest winners will be announced on Wednesday, September 27, 2017.
Good luck to all the participating authors. I look forward to reading some incredible flash fiction.
What is the Rhapsodist Writing Contest?
After judging two Artquest challenges, I found myself actively looking to bring a challenge of my own to the Steemit community. During my most recent interview with @kennyskitchen, we were discussing how we both missed the fiction and chapter books which used to be very actively published here on Steemit. Unfortunately, as Steemit grew, long-form chapter books generally did not do well.
It led me to look towards developing a writing challenge which would focus on flash fiction instead of long-form fiction and non-fiction. But I wanted the emphasis to be on stretching the creativity of the participating authors and challenging them to develop some incredible, unique content which will diversify the content pool on Steemit.
Hi. This is my entry. Thanks for having this platform.
https://steemit.com/rhapsodist/@perennial/rhapsodist-writing-contest-6-the-key
@perennial I see you have not yet upvoted this contest post and not yet resteemed it. Your contest entry is attached to the comment thread.
Unfortunately, I cannot accept your entry into the Rhapsodist Writing Challenge #6 until all the requirements have been met. Please upvote and resteem the Rhapsodist Writing Challenge #6 contest announcement before September 24, 2017 11:59 PM UTC, or I will be unable to include this entry for consideration.
Sir u must be mistaken. I have upvoted. I checked again and i confirm that it has been upvoted and resteem. Pls tell me what else i can do to comply. I dont want to be disqualified because of this. I cannot upvote what i had already voted.
@perennial I see you have upvoted this contest post and resteemed it. Your contest entry is also attached to the comment thread.
Congratulations, your entry has been accepted for the Rhapsodist Writing Challenge #6. Thank you for participating in this contest and good luck.
This is an awesome contest....might I just recommend to post another post about contest 6. Your last contest post is about 5 a few hours ago. I got confused and wrote a whole story for 5 lol...gave me content to post none the less...here is my link for 6
https://steemit.com/rhadsodist/@martinn1017/the-chosen-one-rhapsodist-6-the-key-entry
@martinn1017 I see you have not yet upvoted this contest post and not yet resteemed it. Your contest entry is attached to the comment thread.
Unfortunately, I cannot accept your entry into the Rhapsodist Writing Challenge #6 until all the requirements have been met. Please upvote and resteem the Rhapsodist Writing Challenge #6 contest announcement before September 24, 2017 11:59 PM UTC, or I will be unable to include this entry for consideration.
Thanks for pointing out that I missed that.
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Congratulations, your entry has been accepted for the Rhapsodist Writing Challenge #6. Thank you for participating in this contest and good luck.
I'm always looking forward to your contest @lpfaust! The themes that you create gives me a great opportunity to work my brain juices. Here's my piece for this week's contest. https://steemit.com/rhapsodist/@kayelee/rhapsodist-writing-contest-6-lost
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Congratulations, your entry has been accepted for the Rhapsodist Writing Challenge #6. Thank you for participating in this contest and good luck.
My entry this week is a short poem with around 181 words. Hope i made sense
https://steemit.com/rhapsodist/@troynamps/rhapsodist-writing-contest-6-the-key-my-entry
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Congratulations, your entry has been accepted for the Rhapsodist Writing Challenge #6. Thank you for participating in this contest and good luck.
Oo i hope someone writes a thriller :)
Gonna give it a go :)
https://steemit.com/rhapsodist/@zoef/rhapsodist-the-key-by-zoef
@zoef I see you have not yet upvoted this contest post and not yet resteemed it. Your contest entry is attached to the comment thread.
Unfortunately, I cannot accept your entry into the Rhapsodist Writing Challenge #6 until all the requirements have been met. Please upvote and resteem the Rhapsodist Writing Challenge #6 contest announcement before September 24, 2017 11:59 PM UTC, or I will be unable to include this entry for consideration.
Ah my bad, resteemed and upvoted. I tought i did but must have forgotten in the heat of the writing :)
@zoef I see you have upvoted this contest post and resteemed it. Your contest entry is also attached to the comment thread.
Congratulations, your entry has been accepted for the Rhapsodist Writing Challenge #6. Thank you for participating in this contest and good luck.
Thank you for this challenge @lpfaust! This is my first time to join a writing contest and I'm so excited about it. Good luck to all of us :) Here's my take on the theme: https://steemit.com/rhapsodist/@lyxng/edge-of-reality-an-original-short-story-for-the-rhapsodist-writing-contest-6
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Congratulations, your entry has been accepted for the Rhapsodist Writing Challenge #6. Thank you for participating in this contest and good luck.
Thanks!!
Upvoted and resteemed and now I'm busy scratching my head. Hope to bring up a good story line
@lpfaust - oh my goodness, contest #6 started. Lovely work Sir. Therefore, I wish to ReSteem your post.
+W+ [UpVoted & ReSteemed]
amigo #resteemia at your service
continuously 6th time. impressive work & 100% support from my side guaranteed @lpfaust
ReSteemia
'UpVoted ReSteemed Commented'
@resteemia I appreciate the support you are providing for the contest and its participants. Many thanks.
Great going on awesome to see the participants trying out their best :)
@blazing the entries have been getting stronger and the number of participants for each contest have gradually been increasing as well. It's very cool to see it growing.