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Zirdland's $1,000 Novel Competition
Zirdland's $1,000 Novel Competition
Details
Presented by: Joel
Start date: Aug 7, 2008
Mailing address:
PO Box 3318
Oakton, VA 22124
United States
Phone: 703-867-5635
Fax: 703-830-0053
E-mail: Click here
Web site: Click here
Contact: Joel Ratner, Director
Description
Novel Competition to be judged by the Arc Angel Story Analysis System at Zirdland.com - NO entry fee.
Writers who have completed an unpublished (or self-published) novel can compete in the Zirdland Novel Competition for a $1,000 prize. The contest opened on August 8th - to coincide with the Olympics. While the athletes battle it out in Beijing, writers may enter their manuscripts for a chance at the grand prize. To enter yours, visit: http://www.zirdland.com There is NO entry fee. You maintain all your rights to the work. No strings. Take the cash and go back to writing.
As far as we know, this is the first writing contest to be solely judged by computer. Our Arc Angel Story Analysis program scans a novel, script, poem, or article and generates an in-depth guidance summary - helping you understand where your work needs editing to make it attractive to the market. It goes beneath the words and digs into the sub-text, looking for contextual meaning then graphs the emotions of your characters as the story unfolds, charts out the character arcs, displays gaps in the plot-line, shows climaxes, vectored sub-plots, paragraph level "luminosity" and thematic continuity.
The patents were filed just months ago, and we want to give the Arc Angel a good workout before we offer the tool to our members. The competition is FREE to unpublished writers and we're hoping to discover one very well-written novel.
Competition standings can be tracked minute-to-minute with a downloadable desktop widget available on the competition entry page.
Deadlines and Fees
| Description | Date | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Prize Awarded | Oct 9, 2008 | - |
Awards
$1,000 prize to the writer of the best unpublished novel as scored by the Zirdland Arc Angel
Formats
Interactive Media ,Screenplay - Feature
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Detective, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Musical, Mystery, Myth, Political, Romance, Science Fiction, Thriller, War, Western
Rules
(see site)
Announcements
Results will be announced on ZirdNEWS.com
Discussion
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