Young Writers Society

Revision Contest!

With your hosts, @Vil and @Stringbean!

Had someone dig up one of your ancient, cringe-worthy works recently? Worried it might happen more often? Then this contest is for you!

What This Contest Is For
This contest has been designed to help YWS users become more comfortable with revising their works by bribing them with points encouraging them to work as a group to revise their oldest produts of imagination and love.

Who Can Do It and How To Enter
Anyone that has posted at least 10 works may participate.

1. Revise one of your 10 oldest works and post it separately.
2. Link the original and the revised work here.

When Is It Due
All entries are due by October 31, 2020 at midnight Eastern Standard Time.

Prizes

First Place
400 Points

Second Place
300 points

Third Place
200 Points

Hi! This contest looks really cool, but I have a quick question about it - do you want the revised works to be published as completely new works, or are you looking for the original work to be edited?

...Actually, I have one more question.

What are the submitted entries being judged based on? Is the goal to see how much the works have improved, or just to see the quality of the works in general?

Magebird wrote:Hi! This contest looks really cool, but I have a quick question about it - do you want the revised works to be published as completely new works, or are you looking for the original work to be edited?

...Actually, I have one more question.

What are the submitted entries being judged based on? Is the goal to see how much the works have improved, or just to see the quality of the works in general?

Excellent questions! Whoops, I knew I'd forgotten something!

Regarding your first question-- yes, we'd prefer that revised works be published separately.

As for your second-- yes. We'd like to examine both improvement and overall quality so as to determine our winners.

The Lighthouse

The Lighthouse (Revised)

Here we go!

Sure, I'll do it.

Original: Sick Pet Turtles

Revised: Turtle

Here you go!

The Raffle Published 9/12/2009
The Castle (1) Published 10/28/2020

I gave into temptation and revised one of my first works! I had unpublished almost everything I wrote before 2018, so it took a little bit of detective work.

The Case of the Necromancer-For-Hire: Chapter 1 - Published September 26th, 2015

Necromancer-for-Hire [Chapter 1] - Published October 28th, 2020

This is the story I came onto the weight to share. 1 page is one step of the heroes journey. I was gonna write it with a friend but then they dropped out, and I felt lonely, cuz I have never really received feedback on a work. So I posted the beginning of the story on here!
Here it is in its original form: To Know: Part One, Steps 1-4
Not my best work, but a cool project
And here is the revised version: To Know: Part One
I actually split the original thing into two pieces when I revised it I don't know if this is against the rules but here is the second part:To Know: Part Two

Thank you to all of our participants for being so very patient!

What? Forget about it? We-- uh-- how dare you make such an accusation!

In third place, we had @GrandWild with The Lighthouse!

In second place, we had @Elinor with The Castle/The Raffle

In first place, we had @Magebird with Necromancer for Hire!

All points will be handed out soon; spend them wisely c: