Rules and Submission Information
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Submissions will be accepted from April 14 12:00 AM PST to June 14 11:59 PM PST.
Entry's ratings must correspond to the appropriate equivalent for the entry’s website (e.g. MA, PG-13, R).
Pairings: All couples are acceptable so long as they are tastefully done and well written. Pedophilic pairings and incest pairings are NOT acceptable. Any story found to violate this criteria will be ruled ineligible.
Collaborations are acceptable.
UNLimited entries per author or collaboration group. We want as much great quality Emmett fic as you can throw at us.
Entries will be accepted from FanFiction.net (FFn), LiveJournal (LJ), Twilighted (T’ed), and The Writers Coffee Shop Library (TWCS). Please note that we will not be able to add entries submitted via sites other than FFn to the C2. We will however ensure that ALL non FFn entries are listed on the contest profile on FFn and on the contest blog. We will send out a daily round up of ALL entries via the subscribe feature on the Blog as well as listing them on the Blog and Tweeting notices.
Entries must be between 2,500 and 10,000 words. The official word count will be assessed during the validation process via copy/paste of the entry (excluding header and AN) into Word 2007. Additionally, searches will be done across the four sites mentioned above to certify that the one shot is indeed original and not part of any work completed by the author previously. If at any time an author is identified to have pre-existing work, the one shot will be disqualified.
One-shots may not be expanded until the contest is over.
Amendment 05.12.10Outtakes/Side Shots of current/complete Twilight Fiction are acceptable. Must be within the word limit and other guidelines of the competition.
Submitting an Entry
Submissions will be accepted via PM at the contest profile on FFn or through Email. Must contain the link to your posted one shot and will only be added to our contest C2 or approved list once validated.
All entries must use a “Me and Mr McCarty” Contest header, which is below. (Example in italics)
“The Me and Mr McCarty” One-Shot Contest
Title: Moving Clouds and Swaying Grass
Summary: She broke his heart and from then on he closed himself away. Just what will it mean for Emmett when she returns and is not the girl he knew before?
Pen name: Miztrezboo
Primary Players: Emmett/Bella
Rating: M
Word Count: 3753
Beta'd by: Ilsuocantante & LightStarDusting
Disclaimer: All copyrights, trademarked items, or recognizable characters, plots, etc. mentioned herein belong to their respective owners. No copying or reproduction of this work is permitted without their express written authorization.
To see other entries in the “Me and Mr McCarty” contest, please visit the C2: http://www.fanfiction.net/community/Me_Mr_McCarty_Contest_Entries/80509/
and/or the official List of Entries Page on the contest blog. http://meandmrmccarty.blogspot.com/p/approved-entries-list.html
Special thanks to the Indies First Time Writer contest for sharing their contest framework with us.
Entries will be validated for quality grammar/punctuation and rules compliance when the entry is submitted. After an entry has been validated, if submitted via FFn, it will be added to the "ME AND MR MCCARTY" C2. Authors will be PMed or emailed when their entries have been validated. If an entry is disqualified, the author will be PMed and may modify and resubmit the entry by the submission deadline, if the author so chooses.
We encourage any author with need for a beta to check out PROJECT TEAM BETA.
Categorization of Entries
All Entries will be broken into two master groupings: Rated M and Rated T or Below.
If at the time of voting, we have more than 30 entries under the master category, secondary categories will be created to group the entries. For example, if 40 entries are received, 15 being AU, 20 being AH, and 5 canon, they will distribute that way. If we see more than 75 entries, additional groupings may be announced, based on types of entries received.
Voting
After the submission deadline has passed, there will be an open/public voting round featuring all validated entries.
Open Voting will run from June 15 12:00 AM PST to June 29 11:59 PM PST.
In addition to Open Voting, there will be a Judges’ Selection round. The judges will assess all submitted entries, with a top three and individual favourites to be decided on.
Announcements
All publicly voted winners and Judges Selection will be announced 9am PST on July 7, on The Fictionators website as well as the contest blog.
Individual winners/place getters will also be PM'd or emailed with notification.
