[CONTEST OVER] JNC Original Light Novel Contest
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@AuthorMN said in [CONTEST OVER] JNC Original Light Novel Contest:
So this has been bugging me for a while, but while the admins said it was up to us whether or not we include content from the 60k words in the outline, I'm wondering if it's the right move. A part of me feels it's unnecessary, but another part feels it's necessary since starting the outline right where the 60k words ends, in my case about the end of my 1st volume, feels like I'm skipping over said content. Curious to know other's takes on this.
Don't overthink it too much. Do you have the words to spare and think that your outline will be elevated with a brief recap to refocus the judges in the direction of your choosing? If so, go for it. As long as it's brief and written in a way that engages the reader I can't imagine it hurting you.
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@jazzyjeoff damn this is hard. my plot outline + character profiles are now 9k+. adding power system + a little bit of world building info would surely surpass the 10k-words limit lol.
but yeah, thanks for the info.
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@Mugen said in [CONTEST OVER] JNC Original Light Novel Contest:
@jazzyjeoff damn this is hard. my plot outline + character profiles are now 9k+. adding power system + a little bit of world building info would surely surpass the 10k-words limit lol.
but yeah, thanks for the info.
For mine, I suppose that I could delete all of the extras, except for the system of magic—it is not that super-complex, but it is still unique enough that if you are a judge skipping around the story, or on your fifth magical system of the day, it would be good to have a reference bookmarked. And yes, I will use every single word of my 10K allotted!
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Whelp, The House of Black and White, my rewrite of By Honor Bound, is submitted. Word count jumped up to 57K, with another 10K to 20K left for volume one. We'll see how it goes.
Now to see if I can rewrite Lost & Found in a month...
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For those who have submitted works to the contest, did you guys receive a confirmation email?
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@shiratori-keira No, and they didn't send confirmation emails last year either. You can however email JNC to confirm that they got your submission.
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@zwabbit said in [CONTEST OVER] JNC Original Light Novel Contest:
@shiratori-keira No, and they didn't send confirmation emails last year either. You can however email JNC to confirm that they got your submission.
Okay, thanks a lot for the info, I feel much more reassured now. No need to confirm it, I think.
I was just very worried that something went wrong or if I typed my email incorrectly. I'm sure I typed it properly, because I was very careful, and in the meantime, I remembered that I could go to the submit page again and see what the browser auto-fill function suggested to see if there was a typo (and there wasn't). -
So I ultimately decided to not include what was covered in the 1st 60,000 words in the outline. I felt it just took up too many words, words that could be better allocated elsewhere, which is what led to the decision. Thus, it will start with Season 2, even if I decide to include small parts of Season 2 as I managed to have Season 1 end just before 60,000 words, a little over 58,000 to be more exact.
That brings me to a new question, which if has already been answered, please let me know. Anyway, here's the question:
If we decided to dramatically expand the series, as in have it now span say at least 15 seasons instead of just 8, and may no longer have a clear idea on how the series will end, what should we do? If we do have the ending for the series planned, should we put that in regardless of if we can't fit the stuff in between? -
@AuthorMN The answer is going to be, put in whatever you think will win over the judges.
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I decided to restrict my outline to the first arc (three volumes) as it is a natural ending point and I'll be happy if I get there. The main questions in the arc ae resolved, the Big Bad is defeated, the Hero lives, etc.
I do have future arcs planned but, personally, my approach is to break it up into manageable and publishable chunks - especially as we only have 10,000 words total and I want to give them certainty that this has an end point.
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I really didn't want to be that person, but...
I submitted my work about a month ago, since I figured that I wouldn't have time to work on it anymore until much later. However, it seems that in the end, I was able to translate the manuscript into my own language, still this year. Of course, while doing so, I found some more mistakes in the English manuscript, despite all my best efforts to eliminate every single one of them before submission.
I know that submitting my work again will get me in trouble. But I just want to ask if there is a way or if I'll have a chance later on to fix those things before the preview is made available on the site (that is, if I ever pass the 2nd round).
The mistakes are not that critical, but as a perfectionist, of course they bother me a lot.
Wish you all a merry Christmas and good luck to everyone.
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But I just want to ask if there is a way or if I'll have a chance later on to fix those things before the preview is made available on the site
Hi, based on how things went last year. This seems highly unlikely. To the point where I would say the odds are so insignificant as not worth considering.
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@Rahul-Balaggan said in [CONTEST OVER] JNC Original Light Novel Contest:
But I just want to ask if there is a way or if I'll have a chance later on to fix those things before the preview is made available on the site
Hi, based on how things went last year. This seems highly unlikely. To the point where I would say the odds are so insignificant as not worth considering.
Sorry
Okay, the mistakes are not that bad anyway. Either way, it won't even matter much, since I'll surely be eliminated.
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Just making sure, but when submitting for the ongoing category, we put the full word count which includes the manuscript, outline, and characters bios, not just the manuscript, right?
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Should just be the words in the manuscript itself. That being said plenty have entered the full word count. No one will be penalized for that.
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I somehow managed to complete the revision of Lost & Found in under a month. Granted its revision was nowhere as extensive as Black & White, but still, there's about 8K of new prose and probably another 1K of tweaks in the existing prose. God do I feel burned out.
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Is there a confirmation of acceptance for submitting an entry? I just submitted a work, but I can't find anything stating if that submission went through.
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@Ronoken Last year you could request a confirmation—I think by email—but there was nothing automated. I want to say that something was already up in the forums about it for this year—if anyone finds it, please bump it up!
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Man, I hate writing the Plot Outline for the rest of the story.
But that matter aside, I know where the story will be going. I know what will happen exactly to the point where I started writing it down with far too many details, having to scratch many itterations already before I simplified it enough for everything to fit....only to find myself using up all the space in the events further down the line, thinking that I have to explain every little detail that will happen between characters in order for it to make sense and not sound like "And suddenly there are aliens" like a deus ex machina!
Dramatic shifts in works are necessary, but at which point does it just sound ridicoulus to the person judging it, even if it is slowly set up right from the start over multiple hints and themes?
How far into the future do I have to explain where it goes, even if I have a definitive end in mind?
Do I really have to go all the way to the end of the story for the Plot Outline, is it okay to skip details, is it okay for it to maybe sound ridicoulous?I am begging for answers, how should this be approached?
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@AkayaKaito I basically did the outline as if they were synopses for each future volume of the series like you might see on the back of a book or webstore page. I do include the intended conclusion and main pivot point of each volume, but I offer no real details beyond that.
