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Spring 2022 Short Workshop

09 Apr 2022 09:25 #73658 by Woodclaw
Spring 2022 Short Workshop was created by Woodclaw
As some of you already know, a new workshop starts today.

Spring.Heat.It's that time of the year when you start to feel a bit more relaxed.And we all start dreaming of going on vacation. Maybe just for a few days and just relax in the sun.Well, it's not just us.Sometimes, even superpowered people need to cool down and take it easy...Or maybe they have to be there to prevent a disaster... or cause one.Whatever the case, let's take a big dive and see what happens when we have:"A Supergirl at the Beach"A 2000 words short-format workshop to celebrate spring.Here we got the rules:
  • Each entry MUST work around the theme.
  • No entry can be longer than 2,000 words (give or take a few).
  • All characters must be over the age of 18.
  • SWM reserves the right to withhold and/or disqualify submitted entries based on their sole discretion of the content.
  • Entries must be received no later than April 29th, 2022 at 11:59 pm GMT.
The workshop start toda, to you all, happy writing!For any further question you can ask the Admin staff via PM or post in this thread.
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11 Apr 2022 17:54 - 11 Apr 2022 17:55 #73672 by Woodclaw
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 Great News Everyone:
Our friend Robolord123 offered to make a custom illustration for the winning story.
If this doesnt' wet your appetite to write, I honestly don't know what will.
 
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14 Apr 2022 08:42 #73708 by Woodclaw
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A little side note for all the writers: pleasa add a little tag [Spring 2022 workshop] to your entries' title, so that I can sort them more easily.
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15 Apr 2022 05:43 #73711 by Woody
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Hey guys I need some help if anyone can: I've got a boat in my story on fire that either needs to sink or blow up. How could an inexperienced heroine cause that?
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15 Apr 2022 09:53 - 15 Apr 2022 11:32 #73712 by Monty
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Hey guys I need some help if anyone can: I've got a boat in my story on fire that either needs to sink or blow up. How could an inexperienced heroine cause that?
She could be blowing out the ship's flames from her position on the beach. Unfortunately, her superbreath of extinguishing air overturns the vessel, flipping the large boat over from port to starboard side.
Alternatively, she could be on board the cruiser and determines the best way would be be to push the stricken ship downwards into the water. She can swim to the shore just fine after her powerful push, but either way, her immediate reactions won't bode well for the panicking passengers.
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15 Apr 2022 15:37 #73715 by slim36
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Her superbreath creates a tsunami wave that puts out the fire but swamps or overturns the ship.   Very distressing for passengers still evacuating,  and also a problem for any non enclosed lifeboats.   A future cleanup disaster as the fuel oil continues to leak and might continue burning.
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15 Apr 2022 18:16 #73716 by Monty
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Her superbreath creates a tsunami wave that puts out the fire but swamps or overturns the ship.   Very distressing for passengers still evacuating,  and also a problem for any non enclosed lifeboats.   A future cleanup disaster as the fuel oil continues to leak and might continue burning.
Her backward wave in creating her Super Tsunami will lead to devastating results hundreds of miles from her intended target. Her short, innocent breath duly has an impact across the ocean after knocking the large ferry boat over. Rising and rising, her astronomical output causes waves to rise hundreds of feet into the air miles away from her 'intended' innocent spot on the beach.
It is only later, in seeing the devastation she has caused across the ocean she decides, 'Oops, I better get out of here!'
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16 Apr 2022 03:25 #73720 by ace191
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As a long time boat owner, I would have the rookie supergirl “scan” the boat looking for whatever like drugs, guns or other contraband but she screws up and accidentally releases some heat vision and hits the gas tank in front of The engine. The tank blows up and starts a fire as well as create a hole in the bottom of the hull.
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16 Apr 2022 16:19 #73721 by slim36
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Trying to gently blow out the flames her breath goes across the tank opening pressurizing the fuel and creating a cloud of fuel aerosol - just like the fuel air bombs that do that on purpose.     she succeeds in rapidly burning off the fuel as an aerosol, but the fireball and pressure wave could be vastly more destructive unless she can rapidly inhale the explosive cloud and cough up the liquid fuel into a tank.               Can she figure it out and avoid the "oops"?
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25 Apr 2022 09:29 #73856 by Woodclaw
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For all the potential participant, I have to remind you all that the final term to submit the entries is this Friday.
The entries will go online on Sunday as usual, so after submitting there is still a 24 hours period to tweak and correct.
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25 Apr 2022 18:20 #73860 by algae2k
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I am also available to proofread.
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25 Apr 2022 18:37 #73861 by YAGS
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I know this will come as a complete surprise, but I just want to announce that I will not be entering this workshop. Gotta keep up my 13 year streak, after all.

Maybe the Halloween workshop. If we could get the rules on that quickly (if there's going to be a word limit or something), I could maybe get started in the next couple of weeks to have it done by October.
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25 Apr 2022 18:58 #73862 by Rjjt456
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I know this will come as a complete surprise, but I just want to announce that I will not be entering this workshop. Gotta keep up my 13 year streak, after all.

Maybe the Halloween workshop. If we could get the rules on that quickly (if there's going to be a word limit or something), I could maybe get started in the next couple of weeks to have it done by October.
 
Currently, we don't have any plans on restricting the word count, and it will most likely just be something like: Write a Halloween story where Superwomen are featured. You know, what you could expect

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25 Apr 2022 23:44 #73867 by Woody
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Thanks to everyone who gave me boat sinking ideas. I've cobbled together something resembling a story. Good luck to everyone involved

Woody
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27 Apr 2022 20:22 #73912 by Dumano1r
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Hello all,

I know I am but an infrequent contributor, but the supergirl on the beach thing reminded me of a story I had long thought about writing. Hopefully I have uploaded it correctly, apologies to the librarian if I have gotten it wrong...
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27 Apr 2022 20:39 #73913 by Rjjt456
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Hello all,

I know I am but an infrequent contributor, but the supergirl on the beach thing reminded me of a story I had long thought about writing. Hopefully I have uploaded it correctly, apologies to the librarian if I have gotten it wrong...
 
If you have tried tagging it, and followed the steps as well as you can, then hopefully it should be fine. In any case, Woodclaw always takes a look at submissions before uploading them. 
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27 Apr 2022 20:58 #73914 by Dumano1r
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Cool, thanks. I did try to follow the submission guidelines, so hopefully it's safely there!
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27 Apr 2022 23:34 #73915 by AUphoric
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I just added my entry. It also happens to have a sinking boat and a fire, but they're unrelated problems. Unrelated, that is, except that the same troublemaker's involved with both of them and a few other ways to ruin everyone else's day at the beach.
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27 Apr 2022 23:35 #73916 by Woodclaw
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Cool, thanks. I did try to follow the submission guidelines, so hopefully it's safely there!
What's the title?
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28 Apr 2022 05:17 #73921 by ace191
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I thought it was limited to 2000 words.
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28 Apr 2022 06:02 #73922 by Rjjt456
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I thought it was limited to 2000 words.
 
It is 

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28 Apr 2022 13:54 #73926 by Woodclaw
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A little update.
Currently we have workshop entries from the following users:
  • Woody
  • Gincognito
  • Robo (a.k.a. Robolord123)
  • Loamlife
  • Wizalex
  • Dumano1r
  • Andy_H
  • AUphoric
If someone has problems uploading theri story, please contact me via private message.
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29 Apr 2022 17:58 #73955 by Woodclaw
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Three more entries are on.

I'd like to rmind you all that there are few more hours to submit and all of tomorrow to tweak and make last minute adjustsments.
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01 May 2022 00:57 #73981 by Woodclaw
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Well,
the entries are in and we can officially say this workshop is already a success:
we got
13 new stories!!!

Thank you to all the participants, the voting pool will go online within the next 48 hours or so.
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01 May 2022 15:48 #73986 by Sarge395
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Looking forward to reading the stories.  I will send a Supergirl costume medium size to the winner if they wish it and pay the full shipping.  
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