Onc2021 Stories

[COMPLETE ON PATREON] In the daytime, Stephanie-Ann is the quiet girl in her grade five classroom, keeping her head down to avoid drawing attention. She passes the hours daydreaming, imagining fabulous worlds and wishing that reality was a little more like her dreams. At night, that changes. A cozy forest frequents Stephanie-Ann's dreamland: a place of her own, free of other people and full of small, magical creatures that love her more than her family's cat does. She has treasured it as her closest-kept secret for years. This year, though, something has begun haunting the Candle Forest. A frightening encounter with it gives Stephanie-Ann her first nightmare in years, but she wakes to a bigger surprise: she accidentally brought a magical creature she rescued into the waking world. The line between the two begins to blur as she tries to get it home again. She might not be the only person in the forest after all. And she might need other people's help to save it. ❖❖❖ Entry in Wattpad's 2021 Open Novella Contest. Shortlisted. Honorable Mention: Stunning Worlds. Complete. Comments and critiques are both welcome and appreciated. I write characters from many different backgrounds, with many different experiences. If you share those traits and find that I have misrepresented anything, please let me know! I am feedback-friendly and here to learn :)

Are you wondering what prompts we've used in past ONCs? You can find them in this book as we gathered all the prompts used in the past installments. You may use these prompts as inspiration for any story you want to write - no credits necessary! Have fun!

When a group of four teenage friends are given a quest in a virtual reality video game to kill a powerful wizard, there's only one thing to do: gather the party and get to slaying. So what if one group member has no idea what they're doing, another has a lawful good god to appease, and the final two are bloodthirsty beyond belief? How hard could banding together and trekking through a monster-filled forest in search of a wizard tower be? ONC 2021 Prompt #59 - "Man I could kill for a good beer," you say. The bartender looks both ways before leaning towards you. "Do you mean that? Because there is someone I would like...disposed of." 1st place (tied) in Pretty in Punk March 2021 Mini Awards 2nd place in the Aeryn Awards 2021 ~ Action/Adventure 3rd place in the Campfire Awards ~ Action/Adventure 3rd place in the Opulence Writer's Awards ~ Action/Adventure Top rankings: 6th in #gamelit 8th in #contestentry 11th in #litrpg 15th in #dnd I don't own any of the images used in the cover, and both were modified. The forest background can be found here: http://www.pngall.com/?p=24469

Where I brainstorm off old and new ONC prompts utilizing various fandom, I'm familiar with to give an idea of how to use prompts during ONC, and figure out the ins and outs of brainstorming for ONC.

⋆☆⋆ ONC 2021 Longlister ⋆☆⋆ #1 on the #Opennovellacontest2021 on December 6, 2021 Gāyathri is a strong willed girl. A survivor. And an orphan. Bruised and broken from the accident which claimed her parents' lives, she is unsure of her future when she learns of the terms of her father's will. She is reluctant to stay with her paternal grandparents, whom she has never seen, but with four weeks to her eighteenth birthday, she is still a minor and has no choice but follow her father's wishes. She plans to stay the required four weeks and then live her life on her terms. Gāyathri is determined to dislike her grandparents and the family she has never met. Armed with a ceramic jar filled with notes that her father scribbled on, she takes comfort from those words, convinced her father is still around to guide her. What she encounters is not what she expected. What she learns, she never imagined. It gradually shreds her assumptions and shatters her preconceived notions. The final truth, albeit a small one, leaves her desolate and desperate. It forces her to reassess everything she has believed. And to make a choice. To accept that her life was a lie and run away from the family she had always wanted to belong to. Or to use the fragments of truth to be the daughter she wanted to be. ❉ Genre: General ❉ Submission for ONC 2021 - based on prompts 30, 33 and 74 ❉ Cover Credit - painting: halfsaree_girl_by_padmakrishna_db410g5 on DeviantArt.

"When saving an endangered species means life and death, sometimes you just need to sit down and have a cup of tea." Out of work and broke, liana accepts a placement on a Xeran ship as a trainee. How hard can it be? The Pay? Well let's just say, no more bargain beans on toast for dinner, ever again. What she doesn't know she's unwittingly signed a contract without reading the small print. And the whole ship is one giant sentient plant with a bad temper. Things are not what they seem, the ship is strangely empty, no one knows what's going on and what's that strange smell from the observation deck? To make things worse, a Pumpkin has stolen her chocolate.

"Music is not the only thing that, Can touch the chords of one's heart." [Timothy Drake] [Started: 02/13/2021] [Completed: 04/17/2021] Cover made by @Purplemist14 *** [ONC 2021 Longlist Qualifier] Written for the Open Novella Contest 2021, this story uses the prompt #86: the school's popular student (Stephanie Brown) and the sports player (Reece Parker) are mistaken to be in a relationship while in reality, they have the most epic friendship.

Dive into this novella as we follow Thanatos, the Greek god of death as he's trapped in 2020. In a desperate bid to get back to his routine, he deploys a young demi-god to set things right. Things are not so simple as Thanatos beings to realise the gravity of his entrapment. You wouldn't want him knocking at your door but fourteen-year-old Giorgio isn't so lucky. When Thanatos comes knocking at his door his world is about to change as he's given his first quest as a demi-god to stop the world from ending. Nothing could go wrong, right?

ONC 2021 In the land of Nodin, an outcast fae is used by nobility in many unsavory ways. His strange looks and bird-like wings deem his blood tainted and him unworthy of the respect paid to true fairy men. Ridiculed and sometimes tortured by royalty, his only solace can be found in the ancient fae female who raised him after being left an orphan, parentage unknown. One day, Mareck, known as Raven in the Royal Court, comes to the aid of a young human witch dying alone in the forest, and is soon plunged into love and all out war, a war that will bring him answers about his parents, a war that will change his station forever.

A girl has to live with her grandma after her parents died. There, she finds out that she is promised to the prince. But when a servant also wants her, things get complicated. Who will she choose and who will leave empty handed? ---------------------------------- "You can't just have me. You have to earn me." ---------------------------------- This book is based on prompt 74. "Thanks to your parent's last will and testament, you find yourself living out in the English countryside with the grandmother you'd never met before and an apparent servant whose only goal is to make you fall in love with them. The problem here is that this grandmother has already promised your hand in marriage to a noble in line for the throne. "

Sandrine is reluctant to take the job as a ghost hunter, despite her ancestral gift. And when she meets her boss and future partners, every fibre of her being tells her to quit-but she needs the money. How hard can it be to dispel the ghost of a bird? Soon, she finds herself fighting the advances of a medieval playboy, targeted by a flock of ectoplasmic ravens, and trying to solve the puzzle of the cottage in the lake. With disaster waiting around the corner, she truly has no time for a budding romance, right? ~ ~ ~ My entry for the open novella contest 2021. Prompts: No 5: There is a terrible drought ravaging the land, but when the waters recede from the local lake/reservoir, they reveal something no one expected to find. No 64. What should have been a simple task for a trio of ghost hunters quickly becomes something for which the term 'Worst Case Scenario' is the mother of all understatement. No 61. I would've lived longer if it weren't for Lorraine. There's only one issue... who's Lorraine? Words according to Wattpad: Chapter 1 - 1495 Chapter 2 - 1455 - milestone 1 reached Chapter 3 - 1469 Chapter 4 - 1552 Chapter 5 - 1563 Chapter 6 - 1620 - milestone 2 reached Chapter 7 - 1564 Chapter 8 - 1700 Chapter 9 - 1637 Chapter 10 - 1797 Chapter 11 - 1605 Chapter 12 - 1561 Chapter 13 - 1690 - milestone 3 reached Chapter 14 - 1842 Chapter 15 - 1762 Epilogue - 233 Total words published: 24545

Set against the political backdrop of a futuristic United Kingdom, Chronosplicer tells the story of a woman given the chance to edit sections of time to make the world a better place, but in doing so neglects the mistakes of the past and is doomed to repeat them.

Alba Rivet is struggling with the aftermath of a car accident. The doctors said that she's a miracle, but she doesn't believe it. What kind of a miracle doesn't remember the last six years of her life? However, she's trying to get everything in order with the help of her best friend, Kayla. Her body is getting stronger, and she has a couple of glimpses of the life she once had. The problem is that one day, she receives a message: Agent 23, you have been activated. Having amnesia never felt worse.

Zaketa presents a carefully crafted mask to the world; one of sharp edges, privilege, and bravado. Only those closest to her, her most loyal guards, know the real Zaketa. And she is so much more than what her warlord father has crafted her to be. In the somewhat distant future, disease and hunger is commonplace. The celebration honoring the King's only daughter's coming of age is to be the event of the decade. It is to be a great leveler of men, a chance to and eat and drink to their heart's content. While her father sees an opportunity building for alliances, Zaketa is disgusted by the idea of being presented as a prize to carefully selected suitors. Masked and flanked by her loyal guard, Zaketa intends to use the opportunity to make an impression on her people and let her father know she'll more than just a tool at his disposal.

Scientists have discovered a 'dark liquid; that is really at the base of the universe's continual expansion. When a team of researchers isolate some of the mysterious dark liquid, the world is forever changed... for better or worse. ... Dr. Nykia Baccus is on the fast track to the top of her field. her team is on the verge of making scientific history. When they manipulate the building blocks of reality the entire structure comes crashing down. Everything she knows and believes come into question as the secrets of creation are laid bare. Can her mind process revelation? Can reality withstand the shifting paradigms? Only time will tell. ******* Open novella Contest (ONC) submission 2021

"I want that fairy tale love at first sight kind of story." Zayan Patel is a romantic at heart who's determined to leave his love life up to fate. Except fate got a bit distracted leaving Zayan with only a one-day memory to cling to. That and the jacket the man he fell for left behind. Kyrell Starr is a realist who doesn't exist. When his band is signed following a performance at a major music festival, Kyrell couldn't be happier. Then he was booted from the group for being "not handsome enough to justify his presence" and the bottom fell out of his world. He dropped his stage name and went into hiding. How much time needs to pass to heal Kyrell's wounds? How long will it take fate to realize it left a story unfinished? ______________________________ Cover image credit to https://www.pexels.com/@ketut-subiyanto Zayan Patel is a support character in an upcoming book. **I've started publishing that story - Can't Let You Go. Check my profile for the link! THANKS!** If you like this story, please follow me to get a notification when that book releases. XOXO

Malise is given one last chance to prove herself, or else, she'll be kicked out of her coven. And the world isn't safe for a witch on her own. Elvira hates witches and her only goal is to find a cure for her sister's magic. But when she gets put on trial for witchcraft herself, it changes everything she thought she knew. Enemies, and yet, they slowly find themselves bewitched by each other. This is my entry for the Open Novella Contest 2021, using the prompt: "On occasion, an accusation of witchcraft has the power to set one on a wonderful, dangerous path."

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Originally for ONC 2021 ------------------------------ To save their family, Eileen will have to put themselves on the line. The task is simple, but complex at the same time- they just have to infiltrate the Academy, where up and coming villains are trained. It would be pretty easy if it weren't for the fact that their hero descent was a huge problem. Eileen thinks it's no big deal, until they attend the Academy. Things were never as simple as they seemed. ------------------------------ Prompts used: Main prompt: #84: This academy isn't a typical boarding school. No, it's where kids train to become villains- if they pass the entrance test, that is. Nobody at the academy knows you're descended from heroes, and that's the way you'd like it to stay. Other prompts: #1: "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villian" -From The Dark Knight. #4: You're a weapon and weapons don't weep.

Two popular teens who hide their difficult family situations can only rely on their friendship to escape from their cruel reality.