"FLEXIBILITY: IT'S ALL ABOUT TRYING DIFFERENT STYLES AND POSITIONS"
Congratulations to all of you who have made it to the first round! With the Diabolical opening its door for almost a hundred of contenders, with the Auditions being a Freestyle round, with the participants down to the top 40 ranking- the competition is definitely going to become tougher. As part of the different qualifications that make a good writer that we have indicated in the introduction of the contest, we are going to challenge your FLEXIBILITY for this round. Are you capable of trying out different things? Are you willing to step out of your comfort zone? The surprise of trying out different styles and positions would absolutely give you a glimpse of what may heaven looks like... or just in discovering and exploring what you are capable of.
"The Crafting of Tales is a powerful art capable of changing the minds an entire generation. Tell your Tale... Master the Craft."
For the first round, we would like to introduce you to a Philippine based game called "Talecraft".
Talecraft is a Philippine based story-telling card game developed by Ria Lu. It aims to promote the creation of stories by means of randomly picked cards that decide the key elements of the author's narrative. It is currently being published by Komikasi Enterprise.
The aim of Talecraft is to create stories based on cards. Some see it as a creative tool. Others treat it as a game. But Talecraft is an art: one with the purpose of taking its participants on a journey to the recesses of imagination, to see lands where rules are bent, and to meet people who steal our hearts.
Talecraft provides the different Genres and Archetypes as cards. Since the setting is dependent on the genre of the story, Talecraft leaves the creation of the time and place to the imagination of the player. For the plot, Talecraft uses the Key cards, where a player may either be given plots, or keywords that would govern the story. A player of Talecraft has to create a story using the cards he had picked. The limit the picked cards set to a player prompts the use of the player's resourcefulness; and the need to fit all the cards into a story stretches his imagination. (talecraft.org)
HOW TO (FORE)PLAY:
To play the game, the cards must first be arranged into three stacks: The Genre stack, the Archetype stack, and the Key stack. The cards are facing down.
First, each player must pick ONE card each from the Genre Stack. That card will determine what genre the player's story has to be. Next, each player must take TWO cards each from the Archetype Stack. The first card will be their main protagonist, and the second card will be their main antagonist. Third, the players must pick ONE card each from the Theme Stack that would serve as the main theme of their story. Next, the players must pick THREE cards each from the Keyword Stack which the player must integrate as a major factor or an important item in the story. (http://talecraft.komikasi.com/)
MECHANICS:
1. Sumulat ng isang one shot story na mayroong minimum of 1,500 and maximum of 2,000 words (MS Word count).
2. HINDI maaari ang collaboration. Isang storya, isang manunulat.
3. BAWAL ang emoticons. Hangga't maaari ay maging pormal sa pagsulat.
4. Ang ipapasang entry ay DAPAT Filipino, English o Taglish lamang.
5. Ang ipapasang entry ay DAPAT naka-.docx lamang. Ipasa sa gmail namin (diabolicalwriters) (Ayaw mag-'at', please do'n ipasa ha)
Format
Subject: Title/Username/Genre
Body: Chosen Numbers
Example: Ipasok Mo Pa Beybeh/pabebegirl/Romance
Genre: #1, Archetype: #5 & #14, Theme: #7 Keywords: #15, #4, #20
6. Deadline: June 30, 2015 11:59 PM.
7. The scoring will follow the simple average system.
8. Criteria:
Content (Plot, Characterization, Writing Style, etc.) - 35%
Adherence to the Requirements (Genre, Archetypes, Theme, Elements) - 35%
Organization/Clarity (Pacing, Transition) - 20%
Technicalities (Grammar, Syntax) - 10%
TOTAL: 100%
NOTES:
*Sabay-sabay ang pag-post ng entries kinabukasan ng deadline.
*HINDI sasabihin ang manunulat sa likod ng entries.
*HINDI dapat ipagsabi kahit kanino. (Walang thrill kung pinapakita ang mga madalas dapat tinatago.)
"Kung mas flexible ka, mas wide ang tsansa mong makapasok."
- The Kambal
