[center][b]Writer of the Month #2 Guidelines[/b][/center]

[b]Theme:[/b] Despair
[b]Explained:[/b] The main focus of the story is despair, in any fashion.

[b]Components:[/b]
● The despair is caused by an event that the despairing character had no control over.
● The despair is caused by first world problems (remote is on the other side of the room, no milk for your cereal, etc).
● A character inflicts or causes despair rather than feeling it personally. 
● The story reaches some sort of happy or positive conclusion for the protagonist.
● The story is not set in the modern day.

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[u]Flash Fiction Entry Rules[/u]
● [b]Components:[/b] 1 required, use of more allowed.
● [b]Word Minimum:[/b] 0
● [b]Word Maximum:[/b] 1,500
● [b]The PM Title Must Be:[/b] WOTM #2 Entry: Flash Fiction

[u]Short Story Entry Rules[/u]
● [b]Components:[/b] 2 required, use of more allowed.
● [b]Word Minimum:[/b] 1,000 (100 if poem)
● [b]Word Maximum:[/b] 3,500
● [b]The PM Title Must Be:[/b] WOTM #2 Entry: Short Story

[u]General Rules[/u]
● [b]Submissions Due By:[/b] April 23rd, 2014, 11:59 PM PST
● [b]Send all entries via PM to the WOTM account.[/b]
● [b]All Submission PMs Must Include:[/b] Your entry (provided titles will be used as hider titles) and a list of which components you used.
● No resubmitting entries or sending in multiple entries.
● If you have any questions about the contest or the current theme, feel free to ask in the thread. However, if it pertains to your ideas for an entry which would compromise the anonymity of your entry, please instead direct the question via PM to the WOTM account or one of the managers.
● Your entry must be something made specifically for this contest, not something you've written in the past that happens to fit the components.
● Plagiarism will not be tolerated. If plagiarism is proven, you will be publicly disqualified and banned from all future WOTM contests. Fan fiction is not necessarily plagiarism and is allowed, but you must note in your entry PM that it is fan fiction and what existing piece of fiction it is based on.
● All site-wide rules (no trolling, no flaming, no spamming, etc.) apply to WOTM threads as well, and any transgressors will be reported and dealt with accordingly.

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[i]This contest brought to you by the Writer of the Month Contest Managers:[/i] Brovo, Kaga, and Jorick