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Welcome to the Heroes Fanfiction Contest!

This community is dedicated to bi-weekly fanfiction challenges for the hit NBC Series, Heroes. Modeled after such clubs as iyfic_contest and ouran_contest, this contest is supposed to challenge people with weekly themes, and award the best fics according to popular vote.

As far as the schedule goes, the drabble and oneshot themes will alternate every two weeks. You will get a theme for drabble that will go on for two weeks, and then alternate with a theme for oneshots the next two weeks. There will never be more than one theme going on during those two weeks. It gives busy people more opportunities to participate.

Drabbles: 500 word count or lower
Oneshots: 500 word count or higher

And the fun part about this is that the winners to the bi-weekly themes get pretty banners to display on their journal, website, or whatever for their hard work.

Interested yet?

Here are the rules:

1) For every two weeks, drabbles for the should be 500 words or less and oneshots should be 500 words or more. THERE IS ONE ENTRY PER PERSON. The entry should be new and original for each challenge.

2) Everything must be LJ-cut! No exceptions! Please don't clutter up people's F-lists. If you do not know how to do an LJ-cut, please see the LJ cut mechanics at the FAQs.

3) All pairings, genres, and ratings are welcome. If you have adult content in your drabble or one-shot, please use a warning in your format when posting. SHIPPING WARS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. Please be kind to your fellow Heroes writers where their tastes are concerned.

4) NO OFFTOPIC POSTS. All pimpings of other Heroes related communities or events on LJ, DeviantART, and any other website is not permissible unless you ask permission of the mod. PLEASE DO NOT advertise any other non-theme related fanfiction here. Let's keep everything pertaining to the themes. If you want to advertise your Heroes fic from outside the community, please do it at heroes_fic or mature_heroes instead.

5) I shouldn't have to remind people of this, but PLEASE let's all act mature and not engage in any drama. Do not harrass, flame, or start a fight with others on pairings, subject matter, or anything else. If you have a problem with someone, come to me. Otherwise, general asshatery will get you banned. We can have fun and give people constructive criticism without being nasty.

6) Constructive Criticism: Comments are STRONGLY encouraged on the drabbles. We're all here to practice our writing and feedback helps in a big way. Constructive criticism is acceptable but do not engage in pointless snark. And don't be surprised if someone gives you friendly concrit about grammar, mechanics and even characterizations. It's probably a good idea to watch out for those things in your entries because some of your fellow writers could have things to say about that. Be courteous as well as helpful!

7) Banners will be given out to the winners of 1st, 2nd and 3rd placement, as well as Mod Choice if we have enough entries. Banners will be created by the mods or any banner maker volunteers.

8) Format your entries as such:

In the Subject line, please put the particular theme and title of your fic. (You do not have to strictly adhere to this format, but please attempt to have something recognizable and similar to it.)

Title:
Rating: all ratings accepted
Genre: all genres included
Pairings or Characters: Please try to give all pairings/characters a chance for reading. All pairings and characters are permissable.
Warnings: adult content, fluff, anything you think may squick others
Summary: Help us out and tell us a little about it.

9) Voting - There is NO voting for yourself, and using multiple accounts and getting your friends/sockpuppets vote so you win will warrant warnings and banning from the community.
ONLY MEMBERS AND WATCHERS CAN VOTE.

10) Themes start Mondays of every week (unless otherwise noted). All entries are due Fridays at midnight and voting polls go up Saturdays. Voting will end Monday nights and winners announced Tuesdays. Banners will be posted the same week the winners are announced.

Your current moderator and back-up banner maker:
paynesgrey

Your co-mods:
rarity, planetgal471

Banner Makers:
paynesgrey
rarity
planetgal471
del_rion

Themes/Winners of the week:

Drabbles:
Challenge One - "Return" - gatheringlight
Challenge Two - "Split" - sabaceanbabe
Challenge Three - "Mistake" - snowpuppies
Challenge Four - "Forever" - wings4music
Challenge Five - "Surprise" - silver_x_cross
Challenge Six - "Vows" - fifmeister
Challenge Seven - "Karma" - paynesgrey
Challenge Eight - "Brutal" - razycrandomgirl
Challenge Nine - "Distance" - paynesgrey
Challenge Ten - "Colors" - cruiscin_lan
Challenge Eleven - "Freedom" - brighteyed_jill
Challenge Twelve - "Occupation" - gatheringlight
Challenge Thirteen - "Reset" - mickey_dear
Challenge Fourteen - "Price" - del_rion
Challenge Fifteen - "Sound" - paynesgrey

Oneshots:
Challenge One - "Right and Wrong" - dealga
Challenge Two - "In the Rain" - thewatchmaker
Challenge Three - "Not to Blame" - TIE: thewatchmaker & wings4music
Challenge Four - "Bad Day" - tiptoe39
Challenge Five - "Parents" - tiptoe39
Challenge Six - "Cravings" - katmillia
Challenge Seven - "Late" - albion1919
Challenge Eight - "Picture" - wings4music & silver_x_cross
Challenge Nine - "Autumn" or "Change" - cruiscin_lan
Challenge Ten - "Biblical" - sarkywoman
Challenge Eleven - "Missing Scene" - del_rion
Challenge Twelve - "Jealousy" - brighteyed_jill
Challenge Thirteen - "Little Things" - del_rion
Challenge Fourteen - "Midnight" - commen_sense
Challenge Fifteen - "Release" - del_rion
Challenge Sixteen - "Psychology"> - ENTER NOW!

Special Challenges:
Challenge One - TBA

Sister Communities and Affiliates:

cheer_and_fly
heroes_het_fic
sylelle_chall
pairechallenge
ouran_contest
heroes_claire
heroes_niki
mature_heroes
josef_elle
prism_perfect


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So what makes us different? We give you banners for winning. Nothing's much sweeter than that!

So please come and join in the challenges!

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