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The "OK Cupid" Writing Challenge
The holidays have come and gone, New Year’s resolutions have been made…and Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. Some of the greatest stories in literature are about young love, whether it’s young lovers or simply a fresh romance on the horizon. Now it’s your turn.
This month’s challenge is about the race to find someone special for the chilly winter months. Baby, it’s cold outside, but as February 14 draws closer, is Cupid friend or foe? Is his arrow firmly in your heart…or did it sim ... more »
This month’s challenge is about the race to find someone special for the chilly winter months. Baby, it’s cold outside, but as February 14 draws closer, is Cupid friend or foe? Is his arrow firmly in your heart…or did it sim ... more »
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When I posted my story it said I have more words than it does. When I went to revise it the word count listed was correct but when I reposted it was different again. Has anyone else had this problem?
I've tried to submit a chapter, but every time I click on Save Draft or Submit, it doesn't do anything except stare back at me. Everything else works, except for that. Is there something I'm doing wrong?
I'm new here and a bit confused. So all we have to do if we want to be properly entered into this contest is click "Start a New Chapter," write our bit, and click submit? How do they select a winner- by viewcount and community rating? Or by moderator's/OkCupid's choice?
Being new I don't have any connections on here either, so I'd be very grateful if anyone would read mine, "Breath on a Windowpane." It's my first submission and I'd love some feedback. In exchange I'll start giving feedback from the bottom of the chapters on up.
Being new I don't have any connections on here either, so I'd be very grateful if anyone would read mine, "Breath on a Windowpane." It's my first submission and I'd love some feedback. In exchange I'll start giving feedback from the bottom of the chapters on up.
I still haven't heard back about the number of submissions accepted, but this is what they used to post in the challenge rules:
Only one submission per person, please (you can, however, revise up until the deadline).
Most of us took that to mean you could REPLACE a submission with a new work by removing the old (along with your spot, stars, and comments from the list) and posting the new. Some took it to mean that posting multiple entries (usually two or three) for feedback were fine so long as only one per participant remained at the challenge's closing.
As I said, I have no idea if that's how they're still running the challenges or not.
I did, however, remove my previous entry, "Little Things", and would appreciate feedback on "February Falls". :)
Only one submission per person, please (you can, however, revise up until the deadline).
Most of us took that to mean you could REPLACE a submission with a new work by removing the old (along with your spot, stars, and comments from the list) and posting the new. Some took it to mean that posting multiple entries (usually two or three) for feedback were fine so long as only one per participant remained at the challenge's closing.
As I said, I have no idea if that's how they're still running the challenges or not.
I did, however, remove my previous entry, "Little Things", and would appreciate feedback on "February Falls". :)
They used to state in the entry rules for each challenge that only one entry per participant was allowed, and I haven't been around the site for awhile so I don't know if it's changed. I did send a message to the project leader about it, but haven't heard back yet.
I really am enjoying these stories! Could some of you read mine? I'm on the very bottom, I'd really appreciate it!
okie ,, so let it start with a boy who is ditch by a girl :/ poor boy ,, some how his life is changed after years .he got an admission in university . at his first day he is ragged by his senior ,which is normal :) but there he saw someone , someone he wanted actually , someone he wants to talk to , someone he always was searching for .that someone was a cute girl who was his senior .he started an eye contact with that girl ,, the girl also took interst because the boy was cute as well ,, so everything was going very well ,, the girl was actually waiting for the boy to ask her but he never did ,, because the problem with the boy was that when ever he saw that girl he always forgets everything on his mind while talking to his friends,,he was actually getting stucked in front of him..on of the friend of that girl was friend withe boy .. oneday when the boy decided to tell about the whole situation to the girl ,while goingg to the girl he saw that she is sitting with some other boy very close , so the boy was jealous infact very jealous ,, he decided to tell it to one of the girls best friend ,, somehow he told the girl ! he came to know that the girl is commited ,,poor boy was sad because it was happened to him again ,,he sateted a sentence in a mean while which is " second time love hurts even more ".. he was shocked about it when he heard about that girl that she was a very mean ,cruel and lier .and the boy who she was commited with is much more then her,, the heart of this boy is broken ,,but he is not gonna believe it this time ......... to be continued
General:
Love,love,love. Ashley's been dreaming for this all her life. The cutest guy in class proposed to her!The most popular one ever!Officially!She only wishes it were summer,how unromantic it is in winter.No cool dresses,only baggy sweaters. But looking at the cooler side - there's gonna be coffee shop dates.That'll be super-cool.
Plot:
Their first coffee-shop date is an uphill battle!
Character Development:
Girl - unpopular types,awesomely intellectual,intelligent,outgoing,good-looking
Boy- topper yet popular,not snobby,cute
Structure:
Cool at first,all flops at the end! They decide that they're not cool for each other and decide to part ways though as friends.
Tone/Voice:
How we all make selections in our lives ensures the outcome.
Love,love,love. Ashley's been dreaming for this all her life. The cutest guy in class proposed to her!The most popular one ever!Officially!She only wishes it were summer,how unromantic it is in winter.No cool dresses,only baggy sweaters. But looking at the cooler side - there's gonna be coffee shop dates.That'll be super-cool.
Plot:
Their first coffee-shop date is an uphill battle!
Character Development:
Girl - unpopular types,awesomely intellectual,intelligent,outgoing,good-looking
Boy- topper yet popular,not snobby,cute
Structure:
Cool at first,all flops at the end! They decide that they're not cool for each other and decide to part ways though as friends.
Tone/Voice:
How we all make selections in our lives ensures the outcome.
General:
it's almost Christmas time and I felt very nervous( for some unknown reason). I felt the only one without a boyfriend, and all my friends have boyfriends for Christmas. I didn't know I was getting a surprise for Christmas until after a boy in my class moved away. he has my number and we have been friends since second grade and we were now in eighth grade. and you are going to have to see the rest when I get to that chapter. ;)
Character Development:
I am not naming my real name or boyfriends name they will be different and also my friends names they will be excreted out
Tone/Voice:
It kind of gets you down but ends up as a happy ending
it's almost Christmas time and I felt very nervous( for some unknown reason). I felt the only one without a boyfriend, and all my friends have boyfriends for Christmas. I didn't know I was getting a surprise for Christmas until after a boy in my class moved away. he has my number and we have been friends since second grade and we were now in eighth grade. and you are going to have to see the rest when I get to that chapter. ;)
Character Development:
I am not naming my real name or boyfriends name they will be different and also my friends names they will be excreted out
Tone/Voice:
It kind of gets you down but ends up as a happy ending
General:
She wants the attention the the hottest guy in school. She'sin love (or so she thinks)
When, she is asked out, she imediatly says yes.
At the party, she is humiliated. She finds refuge in the school "Bad Boy." Bad Boy has a passion for poetry, reading and singing.
Character Development:
Girl 1- Smart, quiet and shy. Wants to come out of her shell. Easily swayed, tricked and played. Loves reading, writitng and cooking.
Bad Boy- Confident, Loud and thoughtful.
Hottest Guy- Confident, Arrogant, Cocky and Rude
Structure:
The story will come in flashbacks. The girl is grown-up with two kids. Which guy did she choice when she was younger. You'll never guess!
She wants the attention the the hottest guy in school. She'sin love (or so she thinks)
When, she is asked out, she imediatly says yes.
At the party, she is humiliated. She finds refuge in the school "Bad Boy." Bad Boy has a passion for poetry, reading and singing.
Character Development:
Girl 1- Smart, quiet and shy. Wants to come out of her shell. Easily swayed, tricked and played. Loves reading, writitng and cooking.
Bad Boy- Confident, Loud and thoughtful.
Hottest Guy- Confident, Arrogant, Cocky and Rude
Structure:
The story will come in flashbacks. The girl is grown-up with two kids. Which guy did she choice when she was younger. You'll never guess!
Please remember that I've put everything there for a reason. Please read Valentine's Dance.
Push the blue "Start a New Chapter" tab and post your story. If you don't do that, you have not entered the contest nor will you receive feedback and ratings.
I tried to make sense of my wife’s sudden departure. It was hard to compartmentalize this tragic event, but I had all my life ahead of me. This situation put me in a craze of fury that would not let me sleep. I want people to understand this; I rest by her graveside anytime I can. My hope of hopes is that she will pull me under and caress my withered soul. This particular night was no exception, although, the most menacing of thunderclouds was on the horizon…………
Fingers of lightening tapped the darkened landscape as I drove through the gate of Greenway Cemetery. The sky, in its turmoil of boiling electricity, caused the cemetery oaks to shiver in involuntary spasms. In between syncopated flashes of yellow light I noticed something moving amid the gravestones. I halted, “No, It cannot be my wife. This had to be a dream.” I stepped out of the car and she dissolved in a swirl of electric turbulence. The shock of this revelation caused me to temporarily lose sight and grope for a place orient myself. I drove my car towards the shadowy outline of an obelisk that seemed to pierce the gray sky ahead. In another flash of the crackling sky, I heard a great scurrying as if something was awakening from its deadly slumber. I glanced at the obelisk, the trees, and then my car. The dizziness of my anguished heart dropped me to my knees and forced me into an incapacitated trance. As I came to a voice bellowed, “You know what you need to do. You must find it in your heart.” A revelation of sorts stirred open my eyes and showed me what this relationship meant. I hung myself from a giant oak. Finally, I had found my home.
Fingers of lightening tapped the darkened landscape as I drove through the gate of Greenway Cemetery. The sky, in its turmoil of boiling electricity, caused the cemetery oaks to shiver in involuntary spasms. In between syncopated flashes of yellow light I noticed something moving amid the gravestones. I halted, “No, It cannot be my wife. This had to be a dream.” I stepped out of the car and she dissolved in a swirl of electric turbulence. The shock of this revelation caused me to temporarily lose sight and grope for a place orient myself. I drove my car towards the shadowy outline of an obelisk that seemed to pierce the gray sky ahead. In another flash of the crackling sky, I heard a great scurrying as if something was awakening from its deadly slumber. I glanced at the obelisk, the trees, and then my car. The dizziness of my anguished heart dropped me to my knees and forced me into an incapacitated trance. As I came to a voice bellowed, “You know what you need to do. You must find it in your heart.” A revelation of sorts stirred open my eyes and showed me what this relationship meant. I hung myself from a giant oak. Finally, I had found my home.
...he walked around the corner and almost ran her over. Embarrassingly he said excuse me, barely looking up with a slight lack of confidence. He quietly moved into his first college seat. Being the first one in his entire family to go to college he was very proud but had alott of fear and doubt. Being from the other side of the tracks of the Motor city, somehow he didn’t feel he deserved to be at the University.
The columbique professor lumbered into the slighly musty room, as the big hand on the Atomic clock clicked on 12. The instructor outlined the syllabus and had everyone introduce themselves. When they came to Kenner he mentioned that he was getting married in a few days. After brief intros the teacher started immediately with some thought provoking questions.
Hickerman through out a few questions and was mostly receiving rudimentary answers, the type that the students figure is required of them to make points. After a few students spoke their simplistic thoughts and opinions he heard something very different come from directly behind him. The answer and the follow up question was so profound he had to turn around. As he turned around something hit him hard in the chest. It hit him so hard that he that his breathe was taken away. He swallowed hard and his mouth was very dry. Something happened to him at that moment that had never happened to him before. As he looked into her eyes time at stopped. He paused and starred into those hazel green eyes and experienced a feeling that he or no other man had ever felt. At that moment he suddenly understood what the term falling in Love meant. Falling so deeply that he knew he would never recover. But at...
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The columbique professor lumbered into the slighly musty room, as the big hand on the Atomic clock clicked on 12. The instructor outlined the syllabus and had everyone introduce themselves. When they came to Kenner he mentioned that he was getting married in a few days. After brief intros the teacher started immediately with some thought provoking questions.
Hickerman through out a few questions and was mostly receiving rudimentary answers, the type that the students figure is required of them to make points. After a few students spoke their simplistic thoughts and opinions he heard something very different come from directly behind him. The answer and the follow up question was so profound he had to turn around. As he turned around something hit him hard in the chest. It hit him so hard that he that his breathe was taken away. He swallowed hard and his mouth was very dry. Something happened to him at that moment that had never happened to him before. As he looked into her eyes time at stopped. He paused and starred into those hazel green eyes and experienced a feeling that he or no other man had ever felt. At that moment he suddenly understood what the term falling in Love meant. Falling so deeply that he knew he would never recover. But at...
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p.s. my story happened to me =.=
well i changed the names on them
so tell me how u like it
well i changed the names on them
so tell me how u like it
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