Daylily Tales - 2013
Announcing a Fun Writing Contest for Daylily Lovers
Sharon is joining Char and Juli in sponsoring a fun
Daylily Related Contest!!!!
All you have to do is ENTER for a chance to WIN!
There will be THREE winners, chosen by YOUR votes!
FIRST PLACE:
150 ACORNS !
SECOND PLACE:
100 ACORNS !
THIRD PLACE:
50 ACORNS !
Description: This contest is open to all ATP members and here's the general idea:
Write a short story using names of daylilies found in the ATP database or the AHS database as the primary text of your story. Our theme is Holidays, and you choose which holiday to write about and what daylily names you want to fit into it.
(Please keep in mind that ATP is a family oriented site.)
Here are the rules:
• Each person is allowed to submit ONE story. Your story should be approximately 150 to 500 words.
• Choose a holiday, then choose the names of daylilies appropriate to that holiday.
• Use registered names of daylilies to tell your story. Daylily names must be found in the ATP or AHS database.
• Use all capital letters for the names of the daylilies.
• Make sure your story has a title for people to use when voting.
• Your story must be submitted in secret by Tree-mail to daylily, Char, or Sharon no later than midnight September 30, 2013
Here is how we will post the stories and you will vote for the winner:
• Your story will be copied and pasted to a separate thread, just as you wrote it (with no editing) on October 1, 2013 and will be posted anonymously by one of the three of us.
• After we finish posting the stories, we will announce that voting can begin. All members of ATP are invited to select your 3 favorite stories and you can vote for them by sending a tree-mail to Char, Sharon or daylily listing the stories by their titles. Vote for the stories you enjoy most.
• Only vote for your three favorite stories.
• Voting will close at midnight on October 5, 2013. We will count votes on the 6th, and announce the winner on October 7, 2013.
• The story with the most votes will be the winner. The story with the second most votes will be 2nd place etc. In case of a tie, the story that uses the most daylily names will win. If you use the same daylily name multiple times in your story, it will only count once in a tiebreaker.
To verify the names you are using and to help you find names to use in your story....
Here is a link to the ATP daylily specific database
The Daylilies Database
Here is a link to the AHS database
http://www.daylilies.org/Dayli...
This should be lots of fun - we have a great group of creative people!
Lots of daylilies have names that can be fit into Halloween, Christmas, Easter, even Veteran's Day theme - so get those creative fingers typing and lets have some fun with DAYLILY NAMES!!!
