Contest Focus:
As you may have expected, the focus of this contest is to produce something that makes people get the feels. The lower end of this scale would just be to make some characters have a real sad backstory, or to kill off poor Timmy the orphan. But you're all better than that. The better way to approach this would be to have tragic or bittersweet endings, however the tears don't have to be tethered to the ending.
The most important objective here is to make the reader sympathetic to your characters, as that's the only real way they'll care enough about them to possibly feel for them.
The genre doesn't matter, although for obvious reasons Romance is the easiest target.
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This thread will detail my attempt at completing the above goal. I'll be going for the ultimate goal of having the judges cry their eyes out, so this will definitely be an ambitious story in that regard.
As of now, my story will take place in the same world as The Lost Realm, but it will NOT require reading The Lost Realm. It will be a completely different story with the only similarity being the world in which the story takes place.
In my early stages of planning, I've decided to have the protagonist be a deity of sorts. A female one at that. If this plan is confirmed, then it'll be my first female protagonist, so therein lies my other challenge.
I will attempt to write at least 10k words every week starting the week of April 1st. Until that point I will taking my time planning.
