Some information on Neverland's Contests:

Some information on Neverland's Contests:

Every few months a new contest. Dates will be set.

The theme will be chosen by the last season's winner author. They'll choose the subject they want and if new rules should be applied for the season in question. The seasons will be numbered [Season 01, Season 02...].

There will be dates for sending, publishing and voting. We'll let you know about the dates when the time comes, but basically it should be like that:

Four months for submitting the story, then the following, the fifth month, will be set for knowing the contestants and furthermore, voting. The final day for submiting a story is the 10th [from the fifth month]; afterwards we'll talke time to script the stories, publish them and just then start the voting, probably before the 20th day. The voting time might run for about 10 days, and when its closed, the winner must be announced. As soon as we have an answer from the author who won the season about a theme for the next one, it'll be published too.

There are some rules that should be applied for all the seasons.

The size of the story. As it's over four months you'll have to write, then it's more than enough to write more than only a few pages. But, there's no size limit anymore, you can write what you manage and submit it to us up to the final date, just as long as the story contains all the requested for the season.

As you must already know, here in Neverland we revise all the stories before publishing them. And the same goes for the submitions for the contest, we'll script and revise them; obviously with all duo respect to the writers, we won't change anything from your story, just correct grammer error, expression errors. But, even if we are going to do it, you should revise your own fic first hand indeed before submiting it; it surely won't do you harm to re-read what you just wrote.

Only one story per author. Submit it to neverland.fics@gmail.com with the subject 'Contest Season__' [input the current season, 1, 2, 3...]. Also, it's no different from any other submited story, so, the rules for 'Submit a Story' in the 'Fan' page also applies for the contest. Who's paired with who [names please], a teaser, a rating, original 'Lifer or not, etc. - All this information is required, so please let us know.

Obs: A suggestion, do not write about an especific 'Lifer, for Original 'Lifer Story, for the contest. People like to read the stories with them and their faves, so if you write about Shane, for example, it may limit the story for Shane fans and maybe lower your chances for people to read and, therefore, vote. However, it's only a suggestion, what you write or not is up to you.

For the winners who'll pick a theme, we ask them not to choose the theme based on TV shows. People have different taste and not everyone watches the same things on the telly. The themes must reach everyone, and not being limited.

Also, no songfics. The main reason for that is that songfics are usually too small, with 3 or 4 pages, because mostly people write less of the story and the song lyrics occupy the most of the pages. So, if you want to choose a song to be theme, that’s ok, so the person can write a story based on it, but not a songfic the way we have it. The main thing must be the story, not the lyrics from the song. [I hope it makes sense, lol] - And also because of the Challenge, which may have songs as a theme sometimes.



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