Judging will be based on the following:

-Use of prompt

-Plot development/Flow

-Characterization

-Originality

-Grammar

-Bonus

What I won't judge your story on:

-Character choice

-Posters/background/etc

-Description/Foreword

Allow me explain how I judge a story.

I judge mostly on style, on how you use your words and how you convey the feelings of the characters. Something I focus a lot on is the connotative meaning behind a word. Often times, I would read a beautifully written story, only to find one out-of-place word, and I'd spend ten minutes (I'm exaggerating) sitting there, staring at the screen, wondering why the author used that word. Now, something you guys should know is that I really, really, really like metaphors. A story can never have too many metaphors. However, you have to be able to employ them properly and appropriately, and that's the hard part.

Some things I don't focus particularly on are the plot and the grammar. I know, I know, absurd, isn't it? I mean, how can a good story have a bad plot or have bad grammar? 

I'm not saying a story can have a bad plot and bad grammar at the same time and still win first place, unless that's the writer's style, and he/she manages to execute it perfectly. What I'm saying is that a mindblowing, suspenseful plot is not always going to win first place, or at least not to me.  Yes, I adore plot twists, and yes, I love suspense, but I love a good writing style more. You can give me a story describing, I don't know, Sunggyu eating ice cream, and if the writing is crazy good, I might just give you first place, even if the plot itself is nearly nonexistent. But seriously, if you manage to make a piece of writing about Sunggyu eating a piece of art, you deserve first place, oh my god. So, if I had to choose between a story with terrible grammar and an awesome plot, and one with a stupid, cliche plot and amazing writing, I might just pick the latter (because I'm oh-so-in-love with good writing styles). And besides, a good plot is hard to develop in a five thousand word story.

Why do I not judge hard on grammar?

It's because I myself am not that good at grammar, and I can only manage the basics. Also, in my opinion, a story with minor grammar mistakes does not mean it's a bad story. I've read a tear jerking story with quite bad grammar (not to the point where I could hardly understand it, but to the point where I got somewhat annoyed at the verb tenses), but I loved it. Now, I'm not contradicting what I said earlier about the writing style. The reason why I loved the story so much was based heavily on the style. It was clear, innocent, and terribly fluffy. The characters' feelings were so vividly portrayed, even though the story lacked large vocabulary (something else I don't focus on). If you have a few plural/singular errors in the midst of your awesome writing, I will ignore it, LOL. I have huge troubles with those, actually >.>

So yeah, guys, I focus a lot on the writing style. It's a huge chunk of your score.

Even though I don't judge hard on the plot, I am quite strict on the flow of the story and characterization. Yes, I know flow is quite hard to grasp in an one-shot, but hey, it's still important. I'm actually fine with slow-paced stories; it's the sped up ones that get to me (not that I'm saying you should drag out the story as much as possible or anything. As for characterization, if one character happens to show two different personalities in the story, there had better be a good explanation for it.

Okay, so say, writing style is 40%, plot and grammar is 20%, flow and characterization is 30%, the last 10% will be how you've incorporated the prompt in your story.

No, the prompt does not have to be out in the reader's face. It can be stealthily woven in the story, so lightly hinted that you'd have to read and re-read it to finally grasp the relationship. And yes, I'm asking for a paragraph on how your story relates to your prompt because I'm afraid I might not comprehend it properly and judge the stories incorrectly because of that, lol.

Bonus points will be an extra boost to your score if the story really touched me, and you can earn up to five. I did add a bonus point thing in the prompt section, and it is for you to somehow include Louis Tomlinson with a banana. Five points will automatically go to the one that manages to do it in a way that seems the least absurd to me. And since most of the prompts are quite angsty, I am very curious as of how you guys will add it in.

Anyways, I think that's enough useless blabbering on my account. If I think of anything else, I supposed I will add it here. I'm sorry if I sound like an idiot in this chapter, guys. I just wanted to show you what I'll be looking for in your story. :D

ASDFG, I can't wait to read them!

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A/N: Oh god, I hope I don't sound like one of those sophomoric es that I hate. I really. really. really. hope I don't, lol. 

Honestly, I'm quite nervous in giving reviews to the winners ;____; I'm like thinking, "What right do I have?" 

And especially since I frequently complain on reviewers and stuff. I hope I don't become a freakin' hypocrite and make the same mistakes I keep telling others not to make. If I do, I give y'all permission to give me a good, harsh slap in the face.

Anyways, g'night guys! I'm going to go back to writing my HunHan, lol.