It would be cool to periodically have an unofficial contest ran and judged by a few forumers.
It would work like this:
Every few months or whenever a contest is annonced and everyone who replies to the thread saying they’ll join must complete a qualifying story before the deadline.
Each contest would have a theme or prompt:
I.e.
“The proganist is a world-class chef by day, supervillian by night.”
Or
Write a story with no more than three characters.
Every story must be complete and without errors by the contest deadline. And a panel of judges will read the stories and decide the winner.
The story may not have been started before the contest was announced.
If anyone is interested in the concept or would like to assist, please comment below.
That would be a bad prize tbh. I mean tbh nobody checks recommendations and it’s only for a set period of time while we spend hard work as authors to get a story done. I’d personally prefer writing to win episode’s original contests then.
What i’d suggest is making a badge looking thing so that they can place it on their story cover which indicates their story won etc etc. Then share the story for a week on your instagram like going on a journey through it. That’s only appropriate compared to what episode has to offer, which is a whole shelf to itself and writers payment agreement.
For the advertising everyone involved that has an insta account should do it. You can call it “A week of (winner’s story name)” Of course, there should be second and third places but you can start with only one place as an early go.