Forum:Short story / serial contest

Newspaper-style short story serial. The idea is actually Karo's, but since he can't get on here I am proposing it. As I see it, we could have either:

A: contest. Users would write and then submit their works. The highest voted one (or ones, depending) would get a small place on the Main Page ala Featured Sith. If we choose contest, we can also set requirements for the works (i.e., start a story contest to bridge the gap between books 1 and 2 of The Gonk Crusades, or we ask for a story about Canderous Ordo's adventures, etc).

B: annual stories. In this case, a set of regular Darthipedia users would write stories annually and they would be released like The Gonk Crusades in installments to accompany current events.

I should note the possibility of implementing both, so that we can have an official series of stories that accompany the cast of The Gonk Crusades and a contest by users that can cover other subjects (Canderous Ordo's run for Mandalore, or the *real* battle of Endor, for example). We can implement one of them first if we want, see how it goes and then start the other. I think the overall idea is worth looking into, and we can hammer out a final form on the COB. Master GumpLord of Poodoo 23:16, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Sounds promising. It would have to be very precisely defined, however. We should throw this out at the next CoB and see what sorts of ideas are generated, then turn it into a Hyperbaric Chamber topic to refine it into something manageable.  Gonk  ( Gonk! ) 21:53, 16 October 2008 (UTC)