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October 12, 2008 Link to this post
HBOFFPotW - and a Writing Charity Drive
Phædrus has posted the most recent Fan Fiction Pick of the Week - and offered an astoundingly generous challenge. For each of the top 10 stories submitted to the HBO Fan Fiction section that meets his guidelines ("Top 10" will be judged by him) before November 7, 2008, he will contribute $80 to one of two childrens' hospitals - Childrens' National Medical, in Washington, DC, or to John Hopkins Childrens' Hospital in Baltimore, MD. (If the winner doesn't have a preference, Phædrus will pick.) The guidelines are pretty simple:
- The fiction must meet all normal Fan Fiction submission rules
- Entries must have 'HBOFF: You're Doing it Write' at the top or bottom
- The entry must be at least 1500 words long (this is higher than the normal 750 word limit); no poems, unless the poem is 1500+ words long
- The submitter must be registered at the HBO Fan Fiction forum by November 7, 2008
- The submitter need not have submitted any stories in the past
- One submissions per person
If you can meet all of these requirements, get to writing, and help Phædrus spend $800 for two worthy causes - Child's Play, and the continued health of the HBO Fan Fiction collection! Update, 13 October: Phædrus has updated the rules - the ones listed now are valid as of noon UTC on 13 October - please make sure you've fulfilled the NEW regs, rather than the original ones. The total pool has increased, thanks to the generosity of others in the Fan Fiction Community. (Louis Wu 20:31:13 UTC)
