Hypnosis Story Contest (Guidelines and Prizes) Version 2
14 years ago
Feel free to forward questions to http://www.formspring.me/zsisron
Hello there everyone! Thank you for expressing interest in doing this contest! :) Anyway! It’s time to throw another hypnosis story contest! :D
Divisions
There will be only one division this time, so stories can be either adult or clean.
Awards
Unlike last time we have a set few artists that will be drawing prizes for the contest (one piece per artist). So first place would get first choice, second place would get second choice… all the way down to the runner up who would get a piece drawn by the available artist.
Prizes:
This time a few artists provide a couple of choices in what you get.
DoDeDo
doe – A choice of a deluxe one character piece (Deluxe comes with the arist drawing four alternate sketches and then colouring the one of your choice) or a budget two character piece (Artist will only provide one sketch to be coloured with only one major change. Suggestions about poses cannot be as specific as the deluxe) - Artist may be drawing two prizes.
Twinkle-sez – One character coloured piece with simple background or two character inked piece with simple background.
spelunkersal – Two character inked piece or 1 character coloured piece- May or may not include background, information will be provided after contest has ended.
ooSarovakoo – Two character piece with simple background (Will also be coloured) - He will be choosing his own winner from the contest.
Headvoices – Two character inked piece or 1 character coloured piece- Examples can be found on his FA account, www.furaffinity.net/user/headvoices .
Nokemy – Two character coloured piece.
Tokifuji – Black and White Inked and toned comic with up to three characters. (You can add more characters to this for 25USD)
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This list is subject to change, though changes will be notified via journal entries. Some artists may take a couple or so months to finish the commission depending on worload. This information will be given to the winners so they can choose their prize with the best information possible. Each artist is only drawing one prize for the contest unless indicated otherwise.
Guidelines
-Hypnotism is a required main subject and must be used within story.
-The story should be long enough you can properly work out an induction/conditioning. around 5k or more is generally recommended but not required.
-The subject or one of the subjects must be a dragon, scaly, dinosaur, avian, bat, equine, bovine, orc, foodog, or pig/boar. (I dunno, been liking them lately), simian/primate, or cervine. (since they sorta count as draconic) of any gender. (In other words, at least one of those species should be getting hypnotized. There is no set gender so feel free to write about a female dragon,, male dragon, male dinosaur, herm avian/gryphon, etc.)
-There is no set sexual orientation or genders for any characters (as mentioned above). So you are free to write a gay, lesbian, bisexual, hetero story. You will not be penalized or rewarded (given extra credit) for choosing any orientation over the other in either category.
-Unlike last year, there will not be separate divisions. There’ll only be one division. So feel free to write either an adult or clean story.
-Stories created before the day this journal was implemented do not count. Unless the story was written specifically for this contest and someone notified me before I officially announced the contest.
-You may write in any style you wish, be it first person, third person, etc.
-Again, if you win, any rules the artists already have in place about commissions still apply. So if you want something that the artist wouldn’t otherwise draw for an actual commission you’ll hafta think up something else.
Species List
Made a list of the species so that people could see them in an orderly fashion. One of the characters that is getting HYPNOTIZED must be one of these listed species:
Any sort of scaly.
Avians/gryphons
Insectoids
Dinosaur
Dragon (Gargoyles fall under this clause... they seem to be fairly draconic!)
Foodog/Fudog (I blame Airu)
Simian/Primate
Orc (Hey, sometimes they can be cute…ish!)
Bat
Equine
Bovine
Cervine
Pig/Boar
Not Allowed Fetishes
-A list of fetishes that are not allowed in the story:
-Copious Gore (A bit of bleeding/biting is alright, but when you start gettin' into wounds, lacerations, etc, that's where the line is drawn.)
-Death/Undeath – I fear undead! D:
-Watersports (Urination/Defectation, etc.)
-Extreme/True Vore – (Vore that ends in excrements or death.)
-More may be added when the need arises.
Deadline
The deadline for the contest will be December15th, with judging taking place for the next week or two following this. Any entries after December15th will be disregarded unless specific arrangements are made. (Though this will be by a case-by-case basis and you’ll need to contact me if you think you may go a day or two over the deadline). The deadline may or may not be pushed back depending on the number of people needing such.
Judging
Most of the judging will be done by me, but I may employ other judges to help in reviewing stories and helping to come to decision.. Stories will be judged by the use of hypnosis, grammar, pacing, story development, use of description, and a few others.
Submitting Stories
-While you may post your stories on your page please send a copy of the story to my e-mail: zsisroncontestentries[at]gmail.com That way I can make sure I have a copy of your story. As well each entrant is allowed to submit a maximum of two stories.
- A limit of two stories per person.
Additional Information
-You are free to use one of your characters in your story but be aware I may not know anything about your character. It would be wise to expand on them a bit and not presume I'll go through all of your references to understand your character. (Takes a lot of time if there will be a lot of submissions! :/)
-Fanfiction is allowed if you feel more secure in that area, but one of the characters getting hypnotized still must fall under the set criteria of the species list.
-Please do not use any of my characters in a story (you can refer to them offhand, but having them as a subject or hypnotist is not allowed).
-You are free to use whatever method of hypnosis or mind control that you wish for the contest, be it classical, ocular, magical, drug-induced, brainwashing, or any others that you might create yourself.
-Generally try to write a story as long as you wish, if you feel you can expand more on the story, characters, hypnotic induction, or certain scenes more and that it'd improve the story altogether, then do so. There is no set limit on a story’s length.
-As /I said each person is limited to up to two story entries.
-With TF I require the end transformation to be one of the species…. But the original species can be one that isn’t listed. So long as they end up transformed as one of the listed species (this only applies if the story will involve TF)
-Remember, one of the requirements is that one of the characters getting hypnotized has to be from the provided species list. I need to remind people since last time there were four entries that had to be disregarded because they did not involve one of the listed species getting hypnotized.
If you have any questions feel free to comment or note me. I hope you all enjoy and I'll look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with. :) This semester is only a semi-busy one (I’m a science major so most of my work comes from studies… though I’m doing labwork on the side at a nearby medical school for payment and the chance to put the stuff on my resume)
Previous contest: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1444697/ Also has a list of the stories entered!
Thanks for any interest. I appreciate it!
Entries so far:












Maybe it's just undead Patrick Swayze though; the other ghost in the subway wasn't so hot...
Also, no word limit. I dunno, was toying with having one... thing is I actually enjoy both short stories and really long ones. Both have their ups and downs.
Anyways, thanks for replying to my questions, it's a real help - I'll see about making a journal entry for this, to get more people into it - and thanks for hosting it in the first place Zsisron.
But yeah, so long as it was still in progress before the contest started and wasn't finished until after it was announced (So since it's still a WIP it'll be okay!)
And glad to! It's nice to see so many stories and there's that delight in seeing people happy about getting a picture. <: And sometimes they'll write a small story for the picture... <3 Which makes it even more awesome!
Anyway, was playing a game whenI answere dthat so let me clarify.
Gore's sortof a sensitive thing. It's more that I'm not wanting to see mutilation or somone's life snuffed out to be replaced by the undead life of being a zombie (vampire's are okay because they don't disturb me as much). If the gore is kept to only combat scenes... and the story doesn't include trying to portray eroticism with gore I guess it'd be okay.
As for series... I'll allow it but if you submit a series as a whole 'entry' I may hafta require that you involve hypnosis in more than half of the chapters.
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This story will have hypnosis... right?
And I want to know, whom was the top on the dracolich sex?
Read it when I was like a freshman. XD
another part of me likes it, just because it totally sounds like something a dracolich would do.
All like, "Oh, pompise gold dragon, think you're the strongest of the goodies, I'll show ya!" *riiiiip* "Oh, I'm sorry, did you want that arm? You can have it back!" *cram*
About how much of a story are you expecting? I ask this, so that I can be as concise/descriptive as the situation calls for. I wouldn't want to go for 2 pages, embellishing whenever possible, when what you want is a single-page story that's very direct and to the point. Not to mention, that, if I REALLY decide to embellish, I could go on for pages upon pages.... Though, I'm sure you would completely lose interest by then...
either way...
Though I got a story sent in for the contest once that had 54k words... it was a long read but it was an awesome one! <3
You say two stories per person but I'm confused about something....does that mean like if I give you two, one can be like 2nd place and the other can be 8th place or is it like both stories have to be excellent to get 1st place or something else?
You can only win once... but having two might mean one may win over the other (even if they are similiar writing styles... one might have an idea that someone says... 'man! This is totally awesome! <:)
Those lion/dog hybrid thingies.
I really wish I could do an insectoid. That would be entertaining - especially something with stereotypical bugeyes. No biggie.
For what they will/won't draw you can take a look at their commission info page journal!. :) (Doe's is currently a wIP with her info so I'll put a link to that up later.)
I wanna refresh you something if you let me, mouths ago, I asked to you and
Yes, it would be fine.
There's no rules disallowing any of the winners of last year's contest from entering, right? I'm DPDragon... The one that wrote that Embodiment of Power story.
And yeah, I remember yours. Hehe, woo feral dragons getting zonked! :)
Not certain if I could fit such a scene in the story idea I have in mind, though... was thinking of going more modern day with a supernatural/mystery theme to it. Never tried writing that type of story, so I'm a little uncertain how to structure it best. Guess I'll have fun figuring it out?
I might make a shorter story, though, as a second contest submission that involves more feral dragons. It was an alternate idea from last year's story contest that I scrapped, but since you brought it up I might just revive it for fun.
Longest story entry for that contest! 54k words. <:
May or may not end up pushing back the deadline of the contest, depending on how busy classes have me (since I'd rather review them during a time I'm not super busy.)
is there a limit to how BIG it can be? ^^; or is it just the bare minimum that's the requirement?
I've known Sar long enough though to know a bit about hypnosis so I'll give it a try~ why not?
And yep, he likes hypnosis like a southerner likes his grits! ... Unless he doesn't like grits! <:
What are your preferred formats? Do you want plain text or would something more complex be accepted? I'm particularly thinking along the lines of something like a PDF.
Linked to the question above, would spot illustrations be allowed as part of the story, or should only the text be submitted?
Would it be allowed for a story to be released in chapters and then submitted as such or would it need to be reformatted into a single story before submission?
Sure, spot illustrations are allowed.
A story could be released in chapters so long as hypnosis is a theme in at least one or more of the chapters and as long as the entire story is finished before the deadline.
sounds like a great contest idea, I will see what I can do!
thank you :D!
I think the community here is creative enough to avoid them the majority of the time, which, in fact, is why I'm here! OCs are awesome! As an author, it's also good to consider the significance of using licensed characters: people familiar with them may gain some additional understanding of their background/motives, but those who are not are often left very confused by the implications made, which they'd have no way of knowing about.
I haven't played pokemon, but if you're sure that most people here have (zsisron seems to have!), then I guess the storytelling part isn't much of an issue. Good luck with the story!
I'll definitely try to come up with something, I haven't written a story in ages.
I think you might like it. ;)
Many thanks.
You want people to write you free fetish stories with your preferred kinks and species as characters, so that other people can draw them stuff depending on which stories you liked the most?
ಠ_ಠ
I hope you're at least paying the artists.
Plus, Zsisron commissions a LOT of stuff. That's probably a good part of why the artists who volunteered did so. He's always letting people in on his commissions for pretty good prices (sometimes even for free), so I think he's... maybe not entitled, but justified.
I think the stories are great too; it's just harder to take them all in, because of the time required to read. Contests like these help to bring the spotlight on emerging authors, and really give them a chance to put out their names, as well as familiarizing everyone with the "must-read" big guys out there! It's pretty win-win all around.
Wishing everyone good luck!
And while you're on it, might as well complain about all lotto competitions... Gain millions, reward only a fraction of it to the winners.
Point is, every competition around, either on FA or not, requires rules, guidelines. The writers wants to get something out of it if they win, and the contest holder also wants to get something out of it, if its that way, which is fully fair. ...And these are the rules on this competition. Why argue with it? Logically, everyone knows what you're saying, but it isn't unbalanced. They enter the contest at their own wanton, wanting to test their writing skills against others, be a part of something, or just do it for fun, knowing that there's only a few prize slots.
You're questioning the basis of all competitions around, dude :P
On top of that you can go ask each contestant that won last time if they received their art, and i can tell you it wasn't art based of their stories, the winners got to choose what they want drawn. Also i can assure you he paid for each prize.
Also, I am getting the uneasy feeling that having a hardcore story based entry compared to a more erotic entry would actually work against me.
Your thoughts?
Though im curious what do you mean by hardcore? more story driven then sex based ?
My only worry is that I fall out of the actual specification because my story is too off beat.
I hope that helped...
But time will tell...
Not to sound harsh but you can't beat the competittion if you don't size up the contenders.
"Le sigh. Le mew."
Hmm. Now I'm sort of wanting to write another, but lacking the inspiration. Ho-hum.
http://www.sofurry.com/page/281936/user
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6432032/ Here's the link to my post, so you know the title. X3
"I never ate a boy I didn't like" xD
Don't remember if I responded Z but I'll be slapping something together for this :) It could be mucho fun.
Uhm :o the prizes will contain the characters from the story or 2 of our choice :o?
Now for submitting the entries, do I need to post said entry on FA or just send you the copy. Personally not large on putting adult work on my page if ends up being so.
Also with TF involved with Hypnosis, I understand need to at least end up with certain species. Can gender bending be included with transformations? Thanks.
Yeah. Gender-bending is alright.
Also, you mention you are a science major. What is your major? I was planning on including some real-life characters that people in the field might know. One of them is named Jose Delgado, the other Andrew Salter; Great and very dark authors and psychologists to make the villain/hypnotist in the story. I actually had the pleasure to interview one of them: Textbook for villain!
I sometimes see others stories, and usually they turn into something like pure blood-and-guts-violence. I always saw the worst form of punishment as being something of what you would least expect; Mind-numbing order. It would be something like One Flew Over the Cuccoos Nest with the nurse, or Nineteen Eighty-Four, when they manage to crush the main character's love for his woman without any blood or gore. Just a mindless orderly schedule, enforced without any real punisments, is to me the worst type of hell. But how will Tommy escape?
As for Studio Ghibli, check them out! They're a hugely popular movie studio in Japan, somewhat equivalent to Disney (Disney actually publishes their movies in North America). They often have content of a much more serious matter than Disney movies though, so even though the characters are bright and acceptable for children, the stories can be appreciated by adults. Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away were their biggest hits in the US. "Grave of the Fireflies" is a very well known, very sad story they made about post-war Japan. It was considered so depressing, that for a long time it was never shown in Japan unless something bright and cheery was included immediately after as part of the show!
Also, have a drink. Watch Nineteen EightyFour. Its free on google videos. It is stuff like that that can really send a very powerful message. Just be sure to have a drink; It starts out slow.... But I think parts of it that are more dark humor;
O'Brien: "Did you watch the prisoner executions today on the telescreens?"
Winston (with a look of depression and apathy): "No. Busy at assembly line for the war effort."
O'Brien: "Well, what do you plan to do about it?"
Winston: "Ill read it in the papers."
O'Brien: "Quite an inadequate substitute, comrade!" [noticing his government issued food] "Doubleplusgood, this is! You know.... I dont think there's a single piece of of meat in this stew!" [in a happy voice with a grin] "Long live Big Brother."
Zeke, Ludy, Barry, etc. Its where I got my icon from (my profile pic).
And the amount of hypnosis and what kind is up to you. So long as a theme or variety of hypnosis/mind control is utilized for the story as one of the major themes it'll qualify. (As well if the character going under is one of the species from the species list. :) )
It's suggested a story at least attempt to be above 5k words. Other than that no real maximum.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6609402/
(also emailed)
Does this suffice?
Are Pokemon allowed as species (I can make that just being a generic species for the purpose of this story, though), and, most importantly, since undeath is bad, do spirits fall under that umbrella?
Spirits are alright.
But alright, finally got myself a foundation for my story. I'll be getting to writing soon, then! Hope I can make it in time. XD
Thanks!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6776300
and/or
http://www.sofurry.com/page/301600/
Thanks again for hosting such an interesting contest. I've had a lot of fun with it.
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http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7078671/
It's called The Order, and it's gay erotica about a tegu lizard who gets inducted into a secret order of hypnotic enslavement.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7109767/
Hope you enjoy!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7111925/
Thanks again for hosting such a fun contest.
Here's the link to my story for anyone who's interested in it.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7106208
I had a lot of fun writing this story and it is my first foray into writing hypnosis, so hopefully i did good job.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7115929/
SO LIKE WE'RE JUST SUPPOSED TO SLAP THIS LINK UP WHEREVER WE FEEL LIKE RIGHT
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WOW sleep deprivation. k k thx
So here : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7115507