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I was thinking it would be fun to have a contest for the Creative Stuff board.

Anyone have any thoughts on that??

Writing contest. ;)

How about a writing with illustrations contest?

I was really thinking a more general contest, so everyone who had a creative side could join in...

Sounds good, but how general?

Anything that would fit in that board,  written, drawn, etc, that has not been posted before.

I agree with Blade. I think a writing contest will do better.

Why??

Well, since drawing has many limitations, such as quality of your scanner.

When did we ever count the quality of scanner or camera??

You may not want to here my thoughts, since I messed up the last few with my adolescent behaviour, however a writing contest would put the wise and more apt at writing in the forefront, blade, not mentioning any names. I still think we should hash this over a bit, I suggest a poem contest coupled with a creation you already have. This would encourage members to look deep into their greatest creation and then simply write a cool poem to go along with it.

BTW, that wasn't my idea, it was a taken from what I just read, I just did the math.

How kind to not mention any names. =P Unless, that literally was directed at me, in which case it's probably about my idea in general, and I totally misunderstood that part there. xD

Anyway; a poem contest linked to a creation might work; but what about those who don't have any creations on here, or they were lost at some point or another, for some reason?

Oh well, I was just poking fun at the fact that you are indeed a great writer and would have an obvious advantage over us if that was the sole intent of the contest

My main goal in this was to get ALL types of creative works a chance at the same time.
A plain old "Lets get creative" contest.
Anything that fit in the creative corner would qualify.
I do not understand the objections to this.

Legodac: That's what I was thinking, and trying to poke fun at. =P

MsRR: I don't have any real objections; but the thing there might be that it's too broad of a focus for a contest; I mean, you could have drawing, painting, building, writing, song creating, video making, poems; all at once... The only thing that may have made Lionytai go 'hmm...' about it, is that without any themes to it at all, it might not be obvious what to enter. Even if it doesn't seem like that would be a problem to others. ;)

We could have a theme of sorts.. I guess.. but I WANT it to be broad.

Make me smile or think.

Not only you don't know what to enter, it's also harder to judge.

OK.. forget it, I won't hold a contest if it is so hard for everybody!

It's not hard for me; I was just expressing my translation of what Lionytai meant; which he actually backed up in that post. =P

If I'm guessing correctly, I'm thinking the reasoning behind Lionytai's thoughts, is that such a wide limit of 'please me', means that any and all judges who want to judge it, would be divided, unless some utterly spectacular creation was submitted that got every single judge to agree on what should win. That could be avoided if it used a 'voting' process for the judges similar to some 'keep or let go' situations on reality shows, of course.

Again, none of this is my opinion. Would I like a writing contest? Sure; I'm not good at drawing, and I'll admit that; I can't write songs(... Or, well, maybe more 'I can't think of ways to finish songs'), MOCs are possible, but would not have any colour scheme at all; and so on, so written stuff would ironically be my only way of keeping up with awesome photoshoppers or the like.(Especially when you consider I once hated to write stuff, long before I joined forums. =P) However; does that mean I want to be selfish and have one particular entry limitation because of that? No; because I want the challenge; and in a way, this would allow that to happen.

One thing I would consider though... This is an untested idea, but has the potential to be very cool...

What about a Choose Your Own Adventure? Might not truly work, as everyone would be able to easily see the entire storyline without having to actually choose, and there'd be a lot of in-topic links; but it might be interesting. And if not as a contest, as an actual event of sorts, since we haven't had anything big happen recently, and it hasn't even been attempted on here before.

Both of you have sound points. A broad contest with a theme allows many people to enter in a variety of ways (written, drawn, modeled etc), however it will be a bit harder to judge, because of how different the entries can be.
That being said, I think a broad ranged contest in the Creative Board area is fair game for everyone, and allows more people to enter.

An obvious idea would be a Valentine's contest based around Valentine's Day / Love. Anything that fits into this category is fair game, in any sort of creative entry (love poem, sculpture, MOC, drawing, song etc).

I actually think that might be a good idea. Keep the wide amount of ways to enter; but at least test if the idea in general will work, with an obvious theme for February. What say you, MsRR? Would that be a good way to gauge if something like this would work, without the possibility of devolving into controlled chaos by way of 'but wait, what are we supposed to do? You say do anything, but really, what should I do?', even if I doubt that would happen because of this topic.

A Valentines day contest would be fun... but not what I had in mind at all.  And since Valentines day is my least favorite holiday, I would not be excited about judging it.  But I can see where it would be a successful contest.

And yes, ZLS... er Host, A broad contest with a theme allows many people to enter in a variety of ways (written, drawn, modeled etc) is exactly what I had in mind...

But I had not really thought of multiple judges... it was going to be either single judge or vote.
 
The whole idea was for people to express something that they had rolling around inside.. not for me/us to tell them what it should be.

IF I had to name it I guess I would have called it "Make something for Grandma"  lol..  or even better"Surprise Me"  Yes, that's it..

"Surprise Me"

I have no interest in a contest where the idea is born in  me and someone else executes it.  Knowing what is inside the box can ruin the joy of opening the gift....

And yes, it could be an event of sorts rather than a contest, since no one who brings forth tangible fruit from a thought or idea ever truly looses.

This was really just a suggestion, as Valentine's is coming up soon. I don't really enjoy it either, but it was the first idea I had.

Didn't even think of this really. However, when I said judge, I didn't really have a panel of judges in mind, but rather individuals voting would have a somewhat harder (and possibly biased) time 'judging' other's work based on how it is presented. However, the broad theme and broad spectrum of ways to present 'art' calls to many more people, so I'me excited to see how others will react to this sort of event/contest.
 
Although a broad contest/event is good, without some sort of guidelines entries will be all over the place (maybe this is what you want). Actually, now that I understand your point of view, having lots of entries just put forth their best work without a general theme in mind would be cool and interesting to look at.

You once said that Lego was your life, don't despair MsRR, and don't mind me

We are all here to have fun and help each other, criteria for your next contest.

Perhaps the best thing we can all say right now to MsRR, is, bring it on, we are in!!

You have heard the ideas you asked for, now give us a contest we won't soon forget...

Thank you! At least one person gets it!

This. I'm ready to enter some sort of contest. I have almost a week of nothing else to do, currently...

I am ready to go forward with the contest.

The submissions must make the reader smile.. for any reason.
ANY submission that fits in the "Creative" forum is eligible.
You MAY make more than one submission.

Questions..
1. How much time do we need??

2. Judge/judges or vote??

Do existing things count? And I'm guessing they need to be, you know, finished? =P

I am thinking new stuff..

A chapter of a larger work previously unpublished would be both new and finished.

Did you have something specific in mind?

1. That's what I thought. =P

2. So, if I, say, put up a chapter of one of my current stories, it'd be considered new, then?

3. Maybe, maybe not. I'm still deciding. If I need to, I can probably write up something just for this. =)

Major annoyance, though: I might have something good shortly; but I literally have no way to have it get uploaded. xD Unless... Maybe if I handle this slightly differently, but use this as a test... Hmm...

2. As long as no on has ever seen it before.

2. Perfect. Now I have a ton of options to choose from, then. >=D

lol.

Why would you have issues uploading??

Because I have no way for what I just drew to be saved to an image: It's not on paper, nor a typical drawing program. =/

Is it on your comp??
If so.

hit print screen
open paint or gimp or whatever
paste
crop
save

No; it's swapnote on my 3DS. Which is the reason I can't upload, as it has no option to save the images to the SD card. Have a really good title logo for DoaH, too, which I was gonna use. =P

Can you send it to someone who has SD capability?

That's the thing; I don't believe Swapnote does have the potential to save notes to an SD; otherwise I'd do it in a heartbeat, if not your suggestion than myself. I can continue to look, but that'll be tomorrow or so.

can you save a received note to sd?

I don't think you can; but I can test that later. it's entirely possible it does; I haven't really been messing around with it much. xD Today's only the first time I actually started to experiment with it. >>'

The 3DS seriously needs a dedicated drawing app like Flipnote, though. =/

1: To the end of February?

2: Up to you, but I don't think multiple judges is good, as then either the judging is biased or extra judges can't enter the contest...

Yes it does.

Till the end of Feb will be less than 20 days if I get it posted this weekend. If everyone thinks that works.. I am good with it.

As for judging, maybe a poll is best??
HOWEVER.. if we have a poll, there will be NO more than a week to vote. If everyone knows it's coming then there is no reason to take 2 weeks to vote.

Yeah, not this time. We advertise in advance. Maybe the first week of March, but definitely not two weeks for voting.

Guys, you'll need to make sure to set up a certain criteria that is fair to ALL types of creative genres. For example, you can have the contestants make a drawing AND do a short story? OR the contestant can do a long story and not do a drawing.

The criteria is already set...
Was just waiting for consensus on timing.