PJO/HOO Writing Competition

Update 5: Tips and Tricks for Full Points

HELLO THERE, FINAL PARTICIPANTS. FIRST OF ALL, YOU SHOULD ALL BE VERY PROUD. CONGRATULATIONS FOR MAKING IT TO THE FINAL THREE. YOU HAVE WON NO MATTER WHAT.

This final prompt is just for me to finalize rankings and be sure the best author gets first place. With that in mind, I want to give you all a fair background, especially since most of the time I get asked what each participant can agree on. Here are some tips and tricks to get full points for each category.

Grammar: I AM SUCH A NITPICKER. If I see one error, you automatically go down to 9/10. Relatively, every three mistakes will dock another point. Literally check your writing five times for misspellings, (un)needed capitalization, punctuation, etc. Grammarly is pretty helpful as well. Something important to remember- if you are referring to one almighty being, that is God. If you are offering to one of the multiple powerful deities, that is a god.

Plotline: Usually, the average score I give for this is an 8. If you wrote an easy to follow story with an introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and conclusion, you will get that 8. Adding in extra writing styles like flashbacks or forwards will help you receive extra points. With this in mind, don't overuse them. One or two is plenty, especially taking the average length of your submissions into account.

Creativity: This is a category I score with two things in mind: one- did I like it? and two- was it something I've seen before? The basis for a run of the mill story that I didn't necessarily love or hate and wasn't unique gets between a 6 and an 8, depending on how basic it was. If I like the story you will get more points. If you use a unique AU you will get more points. If you use an unexpected ship you will get more points (this will be an easy aspect for this prompt). Make something you've always wanted to read but never found.

Time Limit: POST. YOUR. ONESHOT. BEFORE. WEDNESDAY. FINISHES. THAT'S IT. Typically, you are all pretty good with this, and I understand that things happen and this competition isn't your number one priority. Still, I'm giving you over a week to write this one-shot, and you will have yourself an easy 10/10 if you post it on time.

You will recieve a "Prompt 5 Total" which is all four of those categories added together. This is not what you will be ranked on, nor what you have been ranked on (minus week 1). All of your previous totals will be added together and you will receive a final "Combined Total". The person with the highest "Combined Total" will win, not the highest "Prompt 5 Total".

(That's why our friend HESTIA--SHIP has been in first place the whole time. Yes, her writing is amazing, but scoring highly in the beginning has heightened her chance of staying in first. Now that you all have similar scores, though, things are about to get interesting... XD)

If you have any questions that weren't answered, comment them here --->

Hopefully, this was helpful :)