Calling All Writers (CAW) #27

Co-hosted by @ejls & @ahorsewithnoname

There's a lot going on in this opening post, so, please be patient and read through all of it. Thank you! And yes, this is the real post, no April Fools nonsense!

Welcome
Welcome to the CAW 27 Writing Competition. CAW stands for Calling All Writers, an open writing competition started a number of years ago by veteran writer and 7-time CAW winner ejls. Since that first competition, hundreds of stories have been entered into the fray and a wide range of winners have been chosen by voters over the years, including a number of first time entrants.

Rules
There are some fairly basic rules to follow, and then a couple that are specific to this particular CAW that break the basic rules about contact. The basic rules are:

1. This is an anonymous writing competition. This means that when you submit your story, you will send it via email or PM to the Host (details will be posted later) who will then post it under the CAW SOP account along with all of the other entries. Do NOT post your story yourself.

2. You are allowed to post that you will be taking part, but you are NOT allowed to indicate which story is yours, what you will be writing about, etc., in any post or private message. This means you cannot publicly or private campaign for your story or for votes. If that comes to light, your story will be removed. The only exceptions are sending your story to a proofreader, which is HIGHLY encouraged, and the special CAW #27 specific rules (see below).

3. Your story needs to conform to site rules, that is, no underaged stories. ​

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS regarding these rules or CAW #27 in general, send a PM to @ahorsewithnoname or @ejls along with the CAW SOP account and it will be answered. DO NOT post your questions in this thread if your question may give away what story you will be writing!

CAW #27 Specific Rules
Our theme for this competition is Deja Vu: The Sequel. What do we mean? Over the course of the 26 previous CAWs, hundreds and hundreds of stories have been submitted by dozens and dozens of authors. CAW #27 will have you revisiting some of those stories.

Your challenge: Pick a story from a previous CAW, and write a sequel to it!

It can be one of your own stories that you submitted, but, it doesn't have to be one of your stories. It can be ANY CAW story (assuming that CAW story meets the rules requirements for not having underage characters, etc), at least for most of you (see below for specifics). Think about that. You read a really great CAW story, but you wanted to know MORE! Well, here's your opportunity to not just know more, but to write the sequel!

When you submit your story, at the top of it, indicate what story yours is based upon, and the name of the author, like this:

The Name of Your Story
by your name

Based on "The name of the CAW story you based yours upon" by the name of the author.

IMPORTANT RULE FOR PREVIOUS CAW WINNERS!
If you are a previous CAW winner, you may NOT write a sequel to one of your own previously submitted stories. You must pick a story from a non-CAW winning author. We're doing this to help level the playing field. It's easier to write a sequel to your own story, so, we wanna' push you a little bit harder.

Let's spell this out in exact detail, because it gets a little more complex when it involves partners.

1. If you have never won a CAW and you are writing by yourself, you may pick ANY previous CAW entry (including entries that won a CAW) and write a sequel to it.

2. If you have previously won a CAW and you are writing by yourself, you may pick any previous CAW entry EXCEPT those previously submitted by you (whether alone or in a partnership), whether they won or not.

3. If you have never won a CAW and you team up with a previous CAW winner, your sequel may NOT be based on a story by the previous CAW winner.

4. If you have won a CAW and partner with another CAW winner, your sequel may not be based on a story previously entered by either of you.​

Writing Deadline
Obviously this is going to require some research, so we are setting the writing deadline at NOON on Saturday, June 4th. This gives you the entire months of April and May to research and develop your story or stories.

Each writer may be a part of two stories, either individually or in a partnership.

SPECIAL CONTACT RULE...
We understand that you may need to contact the author of the story that you wish to write about for a copy of that story, especially since some stories in previous CAWs contain broken links due to technical issues when the site changed platforms. THIS IS ALLOWED. Further, whether you need help in getting a copy of the story or not, we encourage you to contact the previous author. You may ask for advice, write to clarify something, whatever. The only thing the previous author should NOT do is help you actually write the sequel, unless he/she is going to be your official partner.

Summary

1. You must write a sequel to a previous CAW entry.
2. You can contact the author via PM to get a copy of it, but we encourage you to try and find it online first. (Google is your friend, more so than this site's internal search engine!)
3. You have until NOON on June 4th to submit your finished story. We'll start accepting stories closer to the deadline. Maintain your anonymity throughout the competition!
4. You may enter twice: two by you, one by you and one with a partner, or two with partners.
5. Identify the story you are writing about and its author at the top of your submission.​

Good luck and good writing! We hope that this brings back some of the great entries that we have seen over the past half-dozen or more years! We hope that you have fun with this theme, and perhaps make a new friend along the way!

 

This sounds familiar.

It also gives me plenty of time to write, I thought I wasn't going to have time.

I've already published a couple of sequels, I'm going to have to think of something new.

 

Okay, found an error in the above opening post...

WRONG: If you are a previous CAW winner, you may NOT write a sequel to one of your own previously submitted stories. You must pick a story from a non-CAW winning author.

RIGHT: If you are a previous CAW winner, you may NOT write a sequel to one of your own previously submitted stories. You must pick a story from a non-CAW winning author.

Sorry, got myself confused there a bit. Been a helluva' day posting, lol! Wish I could blame it on alcohol...nope!

 

Okay, let me get this straight.

Since I won before, I can choose any previous CAW entry but my own, while a previous non-winner can choose any entry from the earlier 26 CAWs. The Challenge is to find a story we enjoy and write a sequel.

That's a pretty simple, straightforward theme. Hell, some of the hardest work has already been done by someone else. We don't have to develop our own setting or characters. We just pick up where the last writer left off.

Cool!

Now to read.

 

I think it's a wonderful theme. Those of us who have already won a CAW do have a slight handicap, but that doesn't mean we are disadvantaged - we simply have to pick up on someone else's idea and expand upon it. I have already had a look through previous entries and have picked one I wish to expand upon (subject to my receiving approval from the original author of that story).

I hope that all the authors who participated in the recent (excellent) KAW VI will enter, as well as many others. Let's hope we have a record entry of grand tales.

Good luck to one and each!

 

I hope no one finds this challenge the least little bit frightening. There are so many stories out there that are worth a revisit. Good luck to everyone!

 

Boom! Called it a week ago!

 

I don't see it as much of a handicap. Let's say, for the sake of argument, there have been 300 CAW stories over the years (probably more). I participated in most competitions, which means my 20-ish entries are off limits to me. Big deal. 280 or more possible starting points are enough. For others, it's free range on everything.

If someone can't find an idea to start from in this CAW, I question how much they want to enter.

Good job, e & a.

 

Just wondering if contacting said previous CAW story's author will have bearing on voting ?!
As the author you will know who's writing the sequel so it won't strictly be anonymous anymore .
Also it could affect your voting couldn't it ? Though obviously I'm not that I'm saying it would

Sounds like a good theme though . Can't wait. Nice one guys and a good amount of time too .

I hope there are lots of entrants , and hopefully there'll be some missing authors returning .

Good luck Authors on your marks
Luvs xx

 

One clarification. Noon in which time zone is the deadline?

(Especially important with Horse's demonstrated facility with timezones recently.)

 

Aren't all the stories from the first 15 or so CAWs lost to the sands of time? I mean I could write a sequel to a story that no one has seen because it was before the update and the old stories are gone.

 

Many of the early CAW stories are on the Sex Stories site. While searching is hard, it can be done. As ahorsewithnoname pointed out, Google can help. Also, if the writer is still active here, we're allowed to write to them and ask for a copy of the story if we can't find it otherwise.

 

If the story is unobtainable then it presumably off limits, unless it can be represented in some way. As far as I know, all the stories that still comply with the current rules (and have not been deleted by their authors) are still available, even if the links to them are broken.

 

Remember that the first CAWs had the stories posted to the Sex Stories Site, but some of us still have them saved.

 

ok a (possibly) stupid question. If an author has made a series of a CAW story they did is it off limits? I made 3 of my 5 CAWs into series as a matter of fact am still writing on 2 of them. Just wanted to ask.

 

caw 22 was the first one post forum wipe, in caw 14 I was the only one (and most likely the last person to ever) to have their entry only on the story site and not in the forum.

Maybe encourage writers to repost previous caw entries in the forums. So others can enjoy, reenjoy, experience for the first time. Or just get inspired by. it's a shame to have some of those great lost stories remain lost.

 

Question to cawsop (if you ever get into the account) are kaws included or the tainted cawss?

 

Pars, that's a really interesting question because you already wrote a sequel. It would involve you writing something totally different than what you already wrote. @ahorsewithnoname should also offer his opinion.

Redlust, CAW stories only. And hopefully the writers have their old stories saved, if they didn't post them on the other site. I waited until it was fixed and posted them at a later date.

 

Well! I miss a day around here and this all comes out!

I am going to have a lot of reading to do, though there is a story that may have sparked an idea already. Some Irish whiskey and I better think about it over the weekend.

 

A few clarifications and pointers...

1. @JayneyRedd - doesn't say in the rules that you need permission. Of course, that's courteous of you to ask!

2. Pars - If you already wrote a sequel, then what you'd need to do is write a sequel of a sequel, or a sequel of a sequel's sequel, or...you get the idea. The problem with that might be that unless someone went back and read every chapter, they probably wouldn't find Chapter "X" all that understandable, and I don't think it's reasonable to ask readers to go read a bunch of extra stuff. They might feel inclined to re-read the referring CAW story, if there's a link made available, but that might even be a bit of a stretch.

With that in mind, authors, when you go to write your story, you might want to consider a paragraph or two summary of the story upon which you are writing the sequel to help clarify your story. Food for thought.

3. Google can be your friend. It's not perfect, however, if you are having a tough time finding stories, especially older ones, and you've checked this forum, and you've checked SexStories.com, you can go to Google and do a search like this:

Calling All Writers site:forum.xnxx.com

or

CAW ___ site:forum.xnxx.com (put a number in place of the ___ )

4. For any authors that have created a thread of their stories, especially if it contains ones that we entered into a CAW, please post the link in this thread. Here's a link to most all of my stories as an example:

https://forum.xnxx.com/threads/ahorsewithnoname-many-of-my-stories-in-one-thread.349710/

I encourage writers to create a thread like this for their stories...if you do, post it here and we'll periodically repost them to give potential authors easy access.