User blog:Aaronbill3/Spring Fanon Con Overall Writing Contest 2018 ~ Results!

It's day three of Spring Fanon Con 2018, and that means it is time for the Overall Writing Competition! This time hosted by me, Aaron! This would also be my first time hosting a Competition for Fanon Con, so here goes nothing!

Just as a reminder for anyone that has forgotten, this competition is based purely on the winners of the previous two writing competitions- effectively a 'best of the best'-type deal. Both entries are winners, but one winner is a bigger winner than the other winner. Simple.

Second Place
This entry is clever, a bit obvious in places, but still clever. It justifies anxieties in a way that genuinely made me go 'huh' the first time I read it. Definitely not a bad entry, I just didn't like it as much as...

First Place
A unique concept, middling execution, but propped up with good ideas and sets itself up nicely. The writing itself is questionable in places; The word 'axe' is misspelled both times, there are some places where words are repeated in weird ways, the fact that the inhuman alien queen (which I pictured as a mixture between a and Beth's Mytholog) has a 'prominent chest'...

This story is definitely carried further by the ideas it conveys rather than how it conveys them, which I guess would be the opposite of how I feel about Brandon's entry. From a technical standpoint Brandon's is the better written of the two, But if I were turned away by good ideas executed poorly I wouldn't be a member of the Ben 10 fandom, now would I?

Oh and this entry would still have come first if I'd won the Creative Writing Comp, cos I ain't about to put myself in first place and look like a vain tool.

Closing
That wraps up the writing contests for this season's Fanon Con! I hope you guys enjoyed reading these entries as much as I did! Stick around for tomorrow's art competition where me and CaT forgot to tell people they were allowed to submit a short explanation of their work along with their piece due to the potentially confusing nature of the art the subject would have allowed! Such fun!