Finish the Story Contest : Format

February 8, 2010
By Lakshmi Rajan

finish-the-story Hi readers, as mentioned earlier, we are formally announcing our FINISH THE STORY Contest. The story of the contest along with the time table will be announced on Wednesday. The format of the contest is given below.

And yes, 3 prizes are up for grabs, thanks to our kind  sponsors!

Format:

Finger-pointing-icon At Cafe GingerChai , a contest story with an incomplete finish will be announced.

Finger-pointing-icon Participants can use their creative liberty to give a finish touch to the story.

Finger-pointing-icon After registering in Cafe GingerChai, Participants should post their entries as a draft from your login dashboard or mail your entries to sip@gingerchai.com

Finger-pointing-icon The entries will be published in Cafe GingerChai once the last date of submission is over. The name of the participants will be hidden and a code allotted to each entries to maintain an unbiased voting pattern.

Finger-pointing-icon All the participants of the competition can vote for the entries. Self-voting is not allowed and such votes won’t be considered.

Finger-pointing-icon One voter can vote for maximum 3 entries.

Finger-pointing-icon Once the voting closes, all the participants having their own blog can post their entries along with the story in their respective blog. (once you post in your blog, we will remove the entry from cafe and add a link to your entry in the cafe) The participants who does not have an own blog will have their entry published under their name in Cafe GingerChai.

Finger-pointing-icon Result of poll will  be declared and 5 finalists will be shortlisted.

Finger-pointing-icon GingerChai Author panel will further shortlist 3 entries out of the 5.

Finger-pointing-icon The winning entry will be selected by C V Murali, the author of the books Dreams die young and Prisoners of hate.

 

Prizes:

First Prize:  A Gift hamper from Prince Textiles.

Second Prize: A CD gift set from Buzzers.

Third Prize: Prisoners of hate novel by C V Murali.

Terms and Conditions:

Will be listed along with the story of the contest.

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9 Responses to “ Finish the Story Contest : Format ”

  1. Usha on February 8, 2010 at 1:46 pm

    YAY!

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  2. mani on February 8, 2010 at 2:03 pm

    no need to yay! read it properly. if gc author panel is the judge then obviously no competition from gc. right? Mean

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    • Usha on February 8, 2010 at 2:16 pm

      LOL…That’s one thing and another thing after reading properly, (was skimming initially Grin ) it says the GC author panel will shortlist 3 from the 5 finalists. So Do we not vote in the beginning?

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  3. mani on February 8, 2010 at 3:09 pm

    read it properly my dear! whats the matter? wandering thoughts(with due apologies to shilpa) or what? st valentines effect? who is it ? who is it? who is it? psst ! mail me… ahem! ok. Only participants vote initially.in the first round Evil Grin

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  4. chatterbox on February 8, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    Sounds pretty interesting….I’d love to give it a try if time will permit Grin
    Can’t wait till Wednesday GrinGrin

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    • Lakshmi Rajan on February 9, 2010 at 9:27 am

      Smile Thanks! Hope you will be able to squeeze in the time for the contest Grin

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  5. Pramathesh B on February 8, 2010 at 4:08 pm

    I need towels very badly. Razz
    I spend a fortune in towels. Razz Razz

    I will definitely try. But, the author of the original story shall not complain about the ending nor shall take any credit about it also.

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    • Lakshmi Rajan on February 9, 2010 at 9:29 am

      Razz ha ha and I can assure you the gift hamper is awesome one worth trying Grin

      Nopes the author won’t be complaining about the ending or shall take any credit about it Cool Let your creative liberty take charge without any worries about it

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  6. Gyanban on February 21, 2010 at 8:24 pm

    any early bird prizes?

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