Writing Contest 2024/IV - Story submissions

Story Writing Contest, edition 2024-IV

Welcome to the ATF Story Writing Contest, edition 2024-IV.
In this contest, you compete against other writers, for fun, and in order to win bragging rights and everlasting glory.

Please read the FULL rules below.
Entries that don't follow the rules will be disqualified!

IMPORTANT RULE CHANGES THIS ROUND:

• Changed rule: Anonymity is no longer enforced. You can submit anonymously, but it's not required.

In order to participate in the contest, please follow these simple steps:

1. Write a story that complies with all the rules below.
2. Submit your story in one of these ways:

   Post your story on ATF Forum, marking it as a contest entry by adding (contest) to the topic title and linking to this thread at the start of the first post.

   Post your story on ATF Stories, marking it as a contest entry by linking to this post at the start of the first post.

   (For anonymous submission:) Send the story in a private message to the organizer (P.D. Vile). Make sure to apply formatting as you want the story to appear. Specify the title, which subforum to post it in (Loli, Shota, Furry, or Other), what prefix(es) to use, and the correct tags. (Maximum ten tags, including the "contest" tag).

3. Once your story is complete, let me know by posting a link to it here in this thread on ATF Forum, or by sending me a private message on the forum, or by writing on my talk page.
4. Make sure to submit your story before the deadline, which will be the last minute of January 15, 2025, "anywhere on earth": 23:59 AoE.

Please read and understand the following contest rules. Any entry that violates any of these rules will be disqualified for the contest. The writer can of course correct the problem, as long as it's done within the deadline. The contest organizer may, at their discretion, decide to give a writer a short extension to the deadline to fix problems if a story has to be disqualified on the last day. This is not guaranteed, so please submit your story when it's ready. When in doubt, you can always PM the organizer to ask for a ruling if you don't want to share your idea in public.

Contest rules:

1. Contest stories must be your own work, and must be new - that is, not published anywhere else. They must be submitted between the official start of the contest, and the submission deadline. Once the contest ends (i.e., after the results are officially announced), you can repost your story to other sites; until then it has to remain exclusive to ATF.
2. Story length should be at most 20,000 words.

   For purpose of this rule, any opening or closing paragraphs that are clearly not part of the story are excluded. Everything else, including titles, headers, etcetera, is copied to the word counter tool at https://wordcounter.net/ - the number of words displayed there is final.

3. Stories submitted must adhere to a specific writing prompt. Determination whether a story meets this criterium is at the sole discretion of the organizer.
4. This is a story writing contest. Excessive use of images is not permitted. What is and is not "excessive" is at the sole discretion of the contest organizer.
5. Not more than one entry per writer. If you submit an entry and then later submit another story, it will be considered a replacement entry for your original submission.
6. Until the submission deadline, submitted stories can be edited without limitations. However, you MUST inform the organizer of each change, by posting a new reply to this thread or by writing on my talk page.
7. After the submission deadline and until the end of the voting period, writers are not allowed to make any changes, however minor, to their submission. Doing so may result in disqualification.
8. The organizer can at their sole discretion take any action, such as but not limited to advising writers to make changes, disqualifying entries, disqualifying writers, changing the rules, and more, if they feel that this is needed to keep the competition fair and fun for everyone.

   (This rule is specifically intended as a way to deal with unforeseen circumstances, but will also be used to prevent exploitation of loopholes in the rules)

9. All rules and rulings are always open for debate, but the final decision will always be made by the organizer.

And then, most important: the writing prompt, the special assignment, that will be different for each edition. For this edition, the majority has voted for:
Pornography
The filming of a pornographic video or movie must play an important part of the story. (The video or movie can be either a professional or an amateur production).

Once the submission period of three months is over, an open poll will be set up, at the ATF Forum, so that everyone can vote to determine the "Popular Vote" winners. And at the same time, writers of accepted stories are encouraged to vote in their own poll for the "Writers' Choice" awards.

To all those who will enter ... enjoy the writing, may the muses be with you, and good luck!!!!

List of stories submitted so far, and their status:

Accepted stories:

• none yet

Rejected stories:

• none yet

Stories waiting to be verified:

• none yet