Stories and Questions - Moderated

[Aegis]

This thread is for readers to post story requests or questions, along with how much you're willing to pay. Readers should post a first and second prize, so that a writer knows that they'll almost certainly get something, besides the devtome earnings. The pledge can be in any cryptocurrency that is traded on vircurex.

Writers who want to make extra money should look over this thread and see if there's something that they want to write about or answer.

A good format for a story request is the following:

Story: ?
Minimum Length: X,000 words
First Prize: ?
Second Prize: ?

Scenario: ?

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[Unthinkingbit]

Story: Secession
Minimum Length: 5,000 words
First Prize: 2,000,000 devcoins
Second Prize: 1,000,000 devcoins

Scenario: A group of freedom fanatics buys an island and then secedes! There's at least a hundred of em, the island has enough farmland to support them, they have lots of guns, and they have good communication equipment including cellphones and at least one satellite phone and one ham radio transmitter.


Edit: The prizes were doubled from their original 1,000,000 and 500,000.

Ranlo has been awarded the first prize:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=252709.msg2694084#msg2694084

the 1,000,000 devcoin second prize remains.

[ranlo]

Story: Secession
Minimum Length: 5,000 words
First Prize: 1,000,000 devcoins
Second Prize: 500,000 devcoins

Scenario: A group of freedom fanatics buys an island and then secedes! There's at least a hundred of em, the island has enough farmland to support them, they have lots of guns, and they have good communication equipment including cellphones and at least one satellite phone and one ham radio transmitter.

Tagging this to keep up with the thread, but also there needs to be timers set on each request. For example, a few days or a couple weeks, so that there is a known end date.

[Unthinkingbit]

Story: Secession
Minimum Length: 5,000 words
First Prize: 1,000,000 devcoins
Second Prize: 500,000 devcoins
..

Tagging this to keep up with the thread, but also there needs to be timers set on each request. For example, a few days or a couple weeks, so that there is a known end date.

My request does not have an end date, Edd wrote that he started drafting something:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=240540.msg2600204#msg2600204

but I haven't heard anything else since. People can add an end date if they want.

[ranlo]

Story: Secession
Minimum Length: 5,000 words
First Prize: 1,000,000 devcoins
Second Prize: 500,000 devcoins
..

Tagging this to keep up with the thread, but also there needs to be timers set on each request. For example, a few days or a couple weeks, so that there is a known end date.

My request does not have an end date, Edd wrote that he started drafting something:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=240540.msg2600204#msg2600204

but I haven't heard anything else since. People can add an end date if they want.

Got ya. Going to see what I can do about this and I will hopefully have it finished tomorrow!

[ranlo]

Story: Secession
Minimum Length: 5,000 words
First Prize: 2,000,000 devcoins
Second Prize: 1,000,000 devcoins

Scenario: A group of freedom fanatics buys an island and then secedes! There's at least a hundred of em, the island has enough farmland to support them, they have lots of guns, and they have good communication equipment including cellphones and at least one satellite phone and one ham radio transmitter.


Edit: The prizes were doubled from their original 1,000,000 and 500,000.

Posting on this thread too. Sent an email: finished my story, .

http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=freedom_kills

Hits on all requests there.

[Unthinkingbit]

..
Posting on this thread too. Sent an email: finished my story, .

http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=freedom_kills

Hits on all requests there.

Congratulations to Ranlo, who gets first prize for Freedom Kills:
http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=freedom_kills

The second prize of one million devcoins remains.

[ranlo]

..
Posting on this thread too. Sent an email: finished my story, .

http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=freedom_kills

Hits on all requests there.

Congratulations to Ranlo, who gets first prize for Freedom Kills:
http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=freedom_kills

The second prize of one million devcoins remains.

Thanks!

I'm up for other requests/bounties as well! Hopefully it's not an issue to post this here but I'm also looking for other writing jobs (I accept BTC, DVC, DGC, MNC, FTC, WDC, LTC, PXC and NVC). If anyone's interested, toss me a PM and we'll go from there!

[xan_The_Dragon]

nice

[wiser]

Congratulations Ranlo!

I hope lots of people post story ideas here :-)

[barwizi]

i'll give it a try.

[ranlo]

Congratulations Ranlo!

I hope lots of people post story ideas here :-)

Thanks! Beware if you read it... it's got a horrible, horrible ending, o.o...

[barwizi]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=254105.0

it's gonna be a mini-novel so it'll take time to write. If people like the idea, i'll continue.

[hotcoldcoin]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=254105.0

it's gonna be a mini-novel so it'll take time to write. If people like the idea, i'll continue.

Nothing against the writing, but please do not spam with extra threads like that.   If you want to post excerpts of your writing, then do it here on this thread.

[barwizi]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=254105.0

it's gonna be a mini-novel so it'll take time to write. If people like the idea, i'll continue.

Nothing against the writing, but please do not spam with extra threads like that.   If you want to post excerpts of your writing, then do it here on this thread.

problem is if i post a chapter, and then post another in a day or two, the posts get separated by comments. I thought it would be cleaner to have a separate post that i can edit, adding more work than having cut-off chapters that members will have to search for amongst all the comments.

[ranlo]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=254105.0

it's gonna be a mini-novel so it'll take time to write. If people like the idea, i'll continue.

Nothing against the writing, but please do not spam with extra threads like that.   If you want to post excerpts of your writing, then do it here on this thread.

problem is if i post a chapter, and then post another in a day or two, the posts get separated by comments. I thought it would be cleaner to have a separate post that i can edit, adding more work than having cut-off chapters that members will have to search for amongst all the comments.

This is why you create temp replies. Ex. "Reserved for Chapter 2" and on. So if you're going to have 10 chapters, create 9 replies (for chapters 2-10) that way you can lock them in prior to comments.

[wiser]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=254105.0

it's gonna be a mini-novel so it'll take time to write. If people like the idea, i'll continue.

Nothing against the writing, but please do not spam with extra threads like that.   If you want to post excerpts of your writing, then do it here on this thread.

problem is if i post a chapter, and then post another in a day or two, the posts get separated by comments. I thought it would be cleaner to have a separate post that i can edit, adding more work than having cut-off chapters that members will have to search for amongst all the comments.

This is why you create temp replies. Ex. "Reserved for Chapter 2" and on. So if you're going to have 10 chapters, create 9 replies (for chapters 2-10) that way you can lock them in prior to comments.

Why not just stick it on the Devtome in the first place?  You can do a separate page for each chapter.  Then in a thread like this, simply post a link to the chapter you want feedback on, and people can go and read it on the Devtome.