S&S Invitational: June Edition

🕺 Welcome to the Scholar and Scribe Invitational 🕺

The Invitational is our bi-weekly, super-duper, writing contest. It is where we match quills and draw blood all for the sake of the craft. We all know a 'friendly' competition never hurts anyone, much, especially when it can be used as a platform to improve your writing. 🙌

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🧹 HOUSEKEEPING 🧹

• Apologies for the lack of activity of late. Had some real-life issues to take care of and couldn't really commit to Hive much. But I'm back and have big plans. Both for this contest and for this amazing community.
• We are changing the format slightly. From this edition on we will no longer require a mix of genre/theme. For now, we will only stick with a prompt genre and see how we evolve from there.

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🥳 Last Invitational Winners 🥳

🥇 Gold: 50 SCHOLAR, 3 SCRIBE, 2 HSBI, 300 Ecency points
@popurri - Tres días para cambiar

Just another day in my life, monotonous, meaningless and extremely boring. It needed a spark to ignite it. I walk to work like every day, it's raining and I'm carrying my black umbrella.

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🥈 Silver: 40 SCHOLAR, 2 SCRIBE, 1 HSBI, 200 Ecency points
@bipolar95 - The prankster

Once, he pranked his elder brother Caleb with a fake account clearance details that Caleb narrowly survived a heart attack because he thought his bank account has been hacked and all his money made away with.

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🥉 Bronze: 30 SCHOLAR, 1 SCRIBE, 100 Ecency points
@loveth97 - Justice for the bullied

McClain fondly called MC by his friends and family was parked outside Travis, his best friend's house. He dialed Travis's number excitedly, anxious to share his news with him.

🧐 Rules of Engagement 🧐

• Entries must adhere to the genre AND thematic prompt;
• Entries must be between 750 and 1500 words.
  Note: this does not include any intro/footer text.
• You must post your entry in Scholar and Scribe and use the #scholarandscribe tag;
• Deadline for submission is Wednesday, 12th of June (23.59, GMT + 01);
• All languages are welcome but MUST include an English translation;
• Link your entry in the comment section below; ⏬

🤑 Prizes and Goodies 🤑

The winners will be announced in two weeks. Winners of what? An astute question. The prizes are as follows:

🥇 Gold: 50 SCHOLAR, 3 SCRIBE, 2 HSBI, 300 Ecency points
🥈 Silver: 40 SCHOLAR, 2 SCRIBE, 1 HSBI, 200 Ecency points
🥉 Bronze: 30 SCHOLAR, 1 SCRIBE, 100 Ecency points
🎖️ Runner(s) Up: 15 SCHOLAR, other goodies

IN ADDITION- Each participant will get a modest review of their work from the modding team. With the additional opportunity of getting an in-depth critical review if they so choose. 🙂

🤺 Genre Prompt 🤺

The story you submit MUST adhere to the following prompts:

🎥 Genre: ACTION

We're starting things off simple with this one. The action genre is a staple of fiction and it comes in many shapes and sizes. How you choose to present your action story is up to you. Whether you decide to throw in some romance or make it more like a body-cop type of story, does not really matter for the prompt. What's important is that you make the best action story you can!

May the odds - and your creative energy - be ever in your favor!

We'd like to give out a big shout-out and thank you to Ecency for sponsoring this contest! 🤗

A big thank you to @melinda010100 as well for the seamless communication.

Check out the Ecency front-end and/or mobile app for more information on how to use your points.

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Scholar and Scribe is a creative writing community founded in the forges of Hive's passionate Pizza Guild. It sets itself apart from some of the other writing groups on Hive with its unique dual-token system.

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