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#NewWritingContest - From every day routine, an art

How would you explain the instructions to get out of bed every morning in an artistic and fun way? What words would you use? What resources would you add? Something so simple, but at the same time so complex. This is the moment when we want to exploit everyone's creativity. Therefore, we have opened the new contest of the month, which is called "From every day routine, an art". The mission is to write a short story - of 400 words maximum- with instructions on how to get out of bed each morning in a original way. The most creative and humorous text will be the winner.

This contest has been inspired by the famous writer Julio Cortázar who wrote: "Instructions on how to climb a staircase" in a very artistic way. If you need an example for your participation, you can read his work here.

Start date: March 15, 019

Fecha de cierre: April 10, 2019

How does the contest work?

1. You must write a short story with instructions on how to get out of bed every morning and publish it on your Inkspired profile. Make sure that the story is written in a creative and fun way, and that it contains a maximum of 400 words.

2. Once published, you can edit it until deadline.

3. The story must be published as a Short Story within the Humor category.

4. You must tag your story with the hashtag #Humor in the hashtags section.

5. The story must have a title, a proper cover and a brief description.

6. It must be unpublished and exclusive of Inkspired during the time of the contest

7. Once the contest is over, the story must remain published on the platform for a minimum of 6 months.

8. The contest will have a single winner. This will be announced from the third week of April.

9. The jury will be comprised by the editorial team of Inkspired, which includes Jackeline Vargas -Content Manager and Gin Les, leading ambassador. The winner's selection will be based on the creativity of the story, the writing style and the author's humor. Grammar will also be taken into account, as well as the respective fulfillment of the contest rules.

10. A minimum of 20 participants is required for the contest to be official.

11. To get additional points, just upload and share your story in one of your Social Networks (Instagram or Facebook) and tag us @getinkspired.

Terms of the contest

1. People from any part of the world can participate, but the story must be written in English.

2. The story must contain a maximum of 400 words, and be published in the Humor category.

3. The story must be your own, we do not accept any kind of plagiarism and there may be legal action if this is violated.

4. The story must be exclusive for the duration of the contest.

5. If you are not a current user of Inkspired and want to participate, you just have to register. It's free!

6. The story should have general instructions on how to get out of bed each morning, however, the instructions to use will be chosen from every author's point of view.

7. The story must have the hashtag #Humor in the hashtags section. In addition, it must have a title, a cover and a brief description of the work.

8. This time you can participate with a maximum of 3 stories per author.

9. Anyone who spam will be disqualified.

10. The terms of the contest must be fulfilled. No work that exceeds this term will be accepted.

11. Stories can be edited only during the contest term. Once closed, no changes will be accepted.

12. Once the winners are announced, they should write to [email protected] to coordinate the delivery of the prizes. If the winner is not pronounced within 15 days, the prize will be awarded to the second place.

13. You do not need to participate from the first day, you can do it whenever you want while the contest is open.

14. Participation in this contest means that the user knows and accepts the bases thereof.

1. We also have contests in other languages ​​-Spanish and Portuguese-, you can see them in the contests section of each language.

AWARDS

BEST STORY

First place: An audio story with winner text narrated by one of our staff, similar to what Cortázar did with his. In addition, the story will be featured for 3 weeks on our homepage and will also be promoted in our networks.

How to publish a story in Inkspired?

1. Go to www.getinkspired.com

2. Register as a user (if you are not already), you can do it manually or via Facebook

3. Click on CREATE A STORY

4. Choose the type of story you wish to publish, in the case of the contest it would be: SHORT STORY

5. Write the title of your story and the category (in this case it would be HUMOR). The title can be edited later if you wish.

6. Write your story as a single chapter.

7. Once written click on 'save' and then 'close and go to the profile of the story'.

8. Here you can add the hashtag #Humor, the description, the cover and the language.

9. Then you will have to go down to where the title of your chapter or story is to click on the publication status button that says 'Draft' and change it to 'Published'.

10. You can see a video tutorial on how to post here: https://getinkspired.com/faq/