When he opened the door, he could not believe who was standing there before him. Every Jovian child knew the stories. But could it really be James 315 standing there?

to be continued...

By the way, we have two stories (in English) written by native German speakers and two by a native Spanish speaker. How's that for guts and fearless fiction writing?

Question:
What is the rule on profanity ?
I have a part of my story where there are insults flying around.
Considering that most of us (playing EVE) are adults, but that there are possibly still kids reading our stories should I:

1. Remove the insults and try to find a better way to convey the story
2. Censor the insults. Replace them with *
3. Keep the insults the way they are

I don't know the answer, but as the rules don't mention it and the contest it's not organized by CCP themselves, I guessed that the stories were not bound by PG-13, neither by themes nor language.

Anyway, be careful with insults; they rarely are missed and too often they are regretted...

Question:
What is the rule on profanity ?
I have a part of my story where there are insults flying around.
Considering that most of us (playing EVE) are adults, but that there are possibly still kids reading our stories should I:

1. Remove the insults and try to find a better way to convey the story
2. Censor the insults. Replace them with *
3. Keep the insults the way they are

The only rules should be: do NOT write wall of text! I saw to many of those entries and it sux.

Apologies for my wall of text, if you read my edit on my first post it does state I tried breaking it up with indents and such but Eve-O forums doesnt let me.

That being said... Books are usually massive walls are texts... It is in sence a short story competition, so walls of texts are kinda to be expected no?

Anywho, last day to get your stories in!!! Lets have the ante upped! The more in this competition the better the challange

Captain Vollel Yyx had led a full life, or at least as full a life as possible for a Caldari Navy Officer. He had worked his way up the ranks, eventually making it to Captain Rank 2 only a few months ago. This new appointment came with the command of his own vessel and an extensive array of new technology and training. He could name every ship he had ever served on, from frigates to cruisers, which was to be expected of every naval officer. And after sixty two years of service, that was a lot of vessels.
Yyx stood on the balcony of his quarters looking out onto the hanger where his ship sat. A Condor. It was perfect; newly built for him to fly in training and in the very mission he was about to undertake. There was no crew compliment to accompany the ship however, there was no need for them. Not any more.
One ship. One crew member.
Before now, these ships used to have a full crew compliment right down to the engineers. No more. The Captain of the ship would take on the role of everyone through an invention kept classified to the masses and only given to the Caldari. Only those involved with this new invention knew of the background to this amazing technology; by that, it was meant that they only knew where it had come from. They did not fully understand how the technology worked, nor were they told.
GÇ£Captain,GÇ¥ A relatively short but stocky man spoke from behind him, GÇ£Orders just come in. I am to escort you to your ship.GÇ¥ He sprung up a salute to which the Captain returned.
GÇ£Lead onGǪ thenGǪ Lieutenant.GÇ¥ YyxGÇÖs voice came out cracked with a pang of nervousness. He immediately cleared his throat. This time it came out crisp and clear, with a sense of command. GÇ£Lead onGÇ¥.

Captain Vollel Yyx had led a full life, or at least as full a life as possible for a Caldari Navy Officer. He had worked his way up the ranks, eventually making it to Captain Rank 2 only a few months ago. This new appointment came with the command of his own vessel and an extensive array of new technology and training. He could name every ship he had ever served on, from frigates to cruisers, which was to be expected of every naval officer. And after sixty two years of service, that was a lot of vessels.

Yyx stood on the balcony of his quarters looking out onto the hanger where his ship sat. A Condor. It was perfect; newly built for him to fly in training and in the very mission he was about to undertake. There was no crew compliment to accompany the ship however, there was no need for them. Not any more.

One ship. One crew member.

Before now, these ships used to have a full crew compliment right down to the engineers. No more. The Captain of the ship would take on the role of everyone through an invention kept classified to the masses and only given to the Caldari. Only those involved with this new invention knew of the background to this amazing technology; by that, it was meant that they only knew where it had come from. They did not fully understand how the technology worked, nor were they told.

GÇ£Captain,GÇ¥ A relatively short but stocky man spoke from behind him, GÇ£Orders just come in. I am to escort you to your ship.GÇ¥ He sprung up a salute to which the Captain returned.

GÇ£Lead onGǪ thenGǪ Lieutenant.GÇ¥ YyxGÇÖs voice came out cracked with a pang of nervousness. He immediately cleared his throat. This time it came out crisp and clear, with a sense of command. GÇ£Lead onGÇ¥.

This is a wall of text:



This is a readable text:

Pretty sure books don't have a line between every single paragraph.

And if you cant read 20 lines that don't have a lines space between nearly every sentence then you need help in my opinion

Edit: I started off initially with a gap between everything like you just put in the "readable" part, and it actually nearly doubled my pages and made it look terrible.

In MS word, where I originally wrote it, everything was indented and it was edited much better, next time I am going to be using a site I can indent on however.

Second Edit: For reference: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (page picked at random)

I'm not going to discuss blatancies. Actually, it is in my selfish interest that your submission is a PITA to read.

44 entries so far-- let's see how many come in during the final 24 hours.

PITA? Go on you're gonna have to explain what PITA stands for... I googled it but all it said was "do you mean PETA?"...

Edit: Actually never mind, found it... Pain in the ass...

But not being funny but if you can't read 5000 words on a full screen monitor without a lines gap in between nearly every other sentence, you must have real issues reading a book... ?

I feel like a bit of a **** saying that, but that's kinda how it comes across

I will just say that, as indentation is not a web standard, internet texts use blank lines to provide paragraph breaks. A text without, or with too few, paragraph breaks it's called a "wall of text" in internet slang.

What's funny is that you keenly provide paragraph breaks on your posts, but can't be bothered to do the same with your story...

There we go, submission period done! We got a fair load of last minute entries-- well done there writers. We seem to have an interface interaction fail cascade on the contest entries page. In other words, the links to the 8000 Suns category entries got deleted. :/ It's OK, we can rebuild them. Stronker. Faster. Better than before.

Watch the contest page for updates on judging, etc., etc. Well done all!

How's the recovery going? I saw some of the links come back.

Do you need anything from the entrants?

Any time frame on when the winners will be announced?

"I hate waiting!" - Inigo Montoya.