Weekly Wattpad Contests

Contest #36: Slices of Life

Slices of Life - Short Story Contest

Hello there! You must be that Great Author in the sky we've been expecting. Please, take a seat. Make yourself at home. Can I get you anything? A cup of tea, perhaps, or a cookie? No?

What about a slice of cake? Fantastic! It's rhubarb, this one. Here you go.

So, here's what the higher-ups at TimberWoolf Industries have sent me. It's a memo on a contest they're running.

From what I gather, it's a bit like a cake. They want you to bake a delicious, beautiful cake with sprinkles and all the good stuff, then take a really, really thin slice and send it in to us.

'Slice of Life' stories are small, tiny pieces of a character's life. Sometimes they have no clear plots or problems, and they hardly ever have definitive endings. Yet, they are just a small taste of much bigger, grander things.

What you have to do is find a very beautiful, interesting story that you want to tell, about a very beautiful, interesting character, then write a very delicious little piece that just has a hint of the grander taste. It helps to think critically about the world the character lives in, and the effect that has on the boring, mundane and tedious tasks the character has to do.

Then write about it, hinting at that underlying story.

A short piece is usually perfect. Here are some recommended ingredients:

- 500 words should do (measure with the heart)

- A dash of excitement (not too much, it overpowers the taste)

- 1 Character (2 if you're feeling especially creative)

- A cup of a finely aged world building (the older the world, the better)

- Bake for a week weeks, until it's reached a nice temperature of 3 March 2019.

As a hint, the Directors up on top this corporate ladder really like the taste of bittersweet, powerful languages, and appreciate a sprinkle of symbolism and expectation subversion.

You good? Yeah, great. I'll take that, don't worry.

Be sure to post your entry marked with a "SliceOfLife" tag, so we can find it in all the mail. I'll tell ya right now, this mailroom's a mess. George down there has been struggling for weeks to get our copier to work.

You might also just want to fill out this entry form, when you get the time. That way we'd know to be expecting you.

Alright, I think that's it. Any questions? No? Okay then, I thank you for your time and due consideration. Here, I'll show you out.

If you have any additional questions, please feel free to call, or contact me on my direct mail at . I usually respond. Mostly.

Good then. I'll look forward to your entry! Enjoy your Day!

VERY IMPORTANT: HOW TO ENTER A VALID ENTRY

In order to ensure that your submission for this week's chapter of Weekly Wattpad Contests is valid, please follow the steps below:

(1) Write your entry and make sure that it meet the guidelines or requirements for the contest.

(2) Publish it in a book under your Wattpad account. It can be a book dedicated to your entries, a chapter in one of your existing books or just a book with that single entry.

(3) Add "This is my entry for Contest  Weekly Wattpad Contest #36" before you write your entry. Make sure Contests is tagged and the contest #number is correct. Note that this does not have to be the title of your published chapter or work, simply just a text input before the introduction of your contest entry as an additional safety measure. In addition to all of this, tag it with the age 'Slices of Life'.

(4) Comment in the comment section of this chapter and state where your entry was published in your profile and the title of it book it is in.

(5) Share the love by voting, commenting and encouraging friends and fellow competitors!

What does the winner get?

Apart from the fact that as a writer you can brag about winning a freaking Weekly Wattpad Contest, the winner will also get a follow from Contests as well as a shoutout in the next chapter, in addition to that, a detailed review as to why your entry was successful will also be published and if you have any works of your own, that will also be read and commented on.

Hope you enjoy and may the best writer win!