S&S Invitational: Fantasy Edition

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🕺 Welcome to the Scholar and Scribe Invitational 🕺

The Invitational is our bi-weekly, super-duper, writing contest. It is where we match quills and draw blood all for the sake of the craft. We all know a 'friendly' competition never hurts anyone, much, especially when it can be used as a platform to improve your writing. 🙌

🥳 Last Invitational Winners 🥳

🥇 Gold: 50 SCHOLAR, 3 SCRIBE, 2 HSBI, 300 Ecency points
@alonicus - The Girl On The Wall

He stood and followed the man to the dig site a hundred yards away. A small cluster of local archaeology students stood around waiting for Mike. He was no older than them, but they looked up to him as Professor Jackson's assistant. When he'd graduated from Oxford with honours the previous year, his tutors had said he was the most promising archaeology student they'd taught in many years.


🥈 Silver: 40 SCHOLAR, 2 SCRIBE, 1 HSBI, 200 Ecency points
@popurri - Encuentro en Tritón

That moon was so different and yet so similar to what I knew. It sounds like a contradiction, but I felt that somehow I had been here before my boots hit the ground, if you can call the gelatinous, blue-colored mass that covers the surface of Triton, the moon of the planet Neptune.


🥉 Bronze: 30 SCHOLAR, 1 SCRIBE, 100 Ecency points
@rinconpoetico7 - Love without race or color

In an old cabin in the middle of the Amazon jungle, Laura Smith, a Canadian photographer, 1.73 meters tall, white as a cloud, blonde hair like ripe wheat, and that beautiful pair of intensely blue eyes, who loved to explore animal life in their natural habitat in the mountains, had arrived with a group of tourists but decided to detach from them and stay alone in that old cabin, offered by the tour company that had contacted.

🧐 Rules of Engagement 🧐

  • Entries must adhere to the genre AND thematic prompt;
  • Entries must be between 750 and 1500 words.
    Note: this does not include any intro/footer text.
  • You must post your entry in Scholar and Scribe and use the #scholarandscribe tag;
  • Deadline for submission is Wednesday, 31st of July (23.59, GMT + 01);
  • All languages are welcome but MUST include an English translation;
  • Link your entry in the comment section below; ⏬

🤑 Prizes and Goodies 🤑

The winners will be announced in two weeks. Winners of what? An astute question. The prizes are as follows:

🥇 Gold: 50 SCHOLAR, 3 SCRIBE, 2 HSBI, 300 Ecency points
🥈 Silver: 40 SCHOLAR, 2 SCRIBE, 1 HSBI, 200 Ecency points
🥉 Bronze: 30 SCHOLAR, 1 SCRIBE, 100 Ecency points
🎖️ Runner(s) Up: 15 SCHOLAR, other goodies

IN ADDITION- Each participant will get a modest review of their work from the modding team. With the additional opportunity of getting an in-depth critical review if they so choose. 🙂

🤺 Genre Prompt 🤺

The story you submit MUST adhere to the following prompts:

🎥 Genre: Fantasy

Let us see who can write the most fantastical story. There are many different types of fantasy (from urban to epic) and each is as valuable as the next. Show us your unique take on this classic genre - as long as the fantastical elements are there, we gucci. 😇

May the odds - and your creative energy - be ever in your favor!

We'd like to give out a big shout-out and thank you to Ecency for sponsoring this contest! 🤗

A big thank you to @melinda010100 as well for the seamless communication.

Check out the Ecency front-end and/or mobile app for more information on how to use your points.

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Thank you for highlighting our story, we are very happy to be in the top three. I would like to congratulate the other winners, keep writing guys.

I love fantasy we will be sharing a story for this new announcement.

Greetings @grocko!

Can't wait to read your entry!

Congratulations to the winners.
Thank you dear @kemmyb for the invitation !LUV !LADY

Thanks for the congratulations and the invitation.

You're very kind @kemmyb

Happy weekend.

Congratulations to the winners and thanks for the mention

Thank you @kemmyb 🌼

Not an official entry, but here is some fantasy!

https://peakd.com/hive-199275/@dibblers.dabs/hideaway

Looking forward to lots of fantastic entries!

What are you doing here. 👀

Writing fantasy of course....

beware the troll under the fifth comment bridge. He has beady eyes, but if you feed him enough !PIZZA, he'll let you pass in peace.

Good man.

It's not meant to be an entry, just getting the juices flowing again and posting it where the fantasy is at so it can find friends XD

Well done everyone! You might just have convinced me to pursue some romance of my own! Thank you for sharing your work with the community.

As always thank you @grocko for your hard work on the Invitational <3

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@kemmyb does the heavy lifting, I'm just the poster boy. 😇

You both do great work, but if you insist I can go back and edit my comment hahaha

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Thank you so much for picking me as a winner - I feel totally honoured and humbled !

I should try and stretch myself out of the comfort zone more often 😀

Yeee boiiii.

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Muchas gracias por seleccionar mi relato. Felicitaciones @alonicus y @rinconpoetico7
Saludos @grocko

Sorry it was not possible for me to publish it before yesterday. Anyway, here is my entry.

https://peakd.com/hive-199275/@popurri/cori-y-el-alma-de-los-jovenes-muertos-espeng