Contest thoughts
by veilwar
I am thinking of running a contest. I am wondering what you, the reader, would most like to see as prizes.
Here are some thoughts I had:
- Be a red shirt – get included in the story and killed, gruesomely. (And thanks to reader Charles Stewart, I can make your death gruesome and even more medically accurate.)
- A special short story – with one of the characters, but involving things that didn’t make it into the final narrative; or alternatively a story with new characters involving events outside Lewis’ story.
- Behind the scenes – get the poop on what’s happening behind the scenes.
Any other suggestions? Bear in mind that I am allocating approximately a $0.00 budget for this so don’t expect brand new iPad 2’s or anything. Time, I will invest. Just not money.
Update: I unaccountably, an unforgivably, named my source of information on trauma as Charles Williams, not Charles Stewart. My apologies and it now reads correctly.
I like the idea of a red shirt “Choose your own death”. The winner picks a pre-selected death, circumstances, and the characters final moral state.
Then you write it.
E.g. – Choose one
1) Decapitation + airborn goblin sword + during cowardly retreat
2) Disembowelment + eaten by sharp goblin teeth + bravely fighting to the end trying to gouge out it’s eyes with you thumb
3) Heart attack + visual terror of true nature of wizards + mind melting
4) Friendly fire while dressed in goblin garb + trying to save a soldier/comrade + righteous fury