I truly do have my eye on the prize, for the essay competition. If it does well I'll be turning it into a novel and if that novel does well it'll lead to a 4 book Saga. I honestly feel like the title of the essay was made just for little old me, I couldn't have wished for a better title in fact.
It's your choice, as to genre, I suppose, but we have a strong preference for submissions that might be classified as “non-fiction”. I've heard young people these past years using the word “novel” in, well, novel ways, and you might be doing that here, but just to be clear: it is unlikely that any winning submission to the EPC would be of such a sort that it could be turned into anything that might correctly be called a “novel”. The Hinternet is engaged in other projects that seek to blur the lines between genres, for instance our upcoming August summer school on Scholarly Fabulation. But this is not one of those.
Thank you for taking the time to reply it's very much appreciated, and you have my attention. I've already been working on this for an extraordinary amount of time long before the competition arose. Can I ask, do you think an essay can take the form of a short story? Almost specifically comma perhaps a dialogue between two parties?
Anything’s possible — if it contains an original, implementable idea for fostering global peace, then in principle it could be written in blank verse, Alexandrine couplets, or any number of other ways. A priori, however, we expect that the winner will have written an essay in standard argumentative non-fiction prose.
Thank you Justin, this is clarifying and very helpful.
The piece I’m working on is fiction in form but philosophical in intent.
When I mentioned a novel, it wasn’t a comment on genre so much as gravity. Indeed, the underlying ideas will go forward regardless, but this competition feels like the right crucible to test whether they resonate. I’ll make sure the work stands on its own terms as an essay, even if the form is a little off-axis.
As the project puts it:
Peace may be the absence of conflict,
but perpetual peace is the art of surviving our own immaturity,
I truly do have my eye on the prize, for the essay competition. If it does well I'll be turning it into a novel and if that novel does well it'll lead to a 4 book Saga. I honestly feel like the title of the essay was made just for little old me, I couldn't have wished for a better title in fact.
It's your choice, as to genre, I suppose, but we have a strong preference for submissions that might be classified as “non-fiction”. I've heard young people these past years using the word “novel” in, well, novel ways, and you might be doing that here, but just to be clear: it is unlikely that any winning submission to the EPC would be of such a sort that it could be turned into anything that might correctly be called a “novel”. The Hinternet is engaged in other projects that seek to blur the lines between genres, for instance our upcoming August summer school on Scholarly Fabulation. But this is not one of those.
Thank you for taking the time to reply it's very much appreciated, and you have my attention. I've already been working on this for an extraordinary amount of time long before the competition arose. Can I ask, do you think an essay can take the form of a short story? Almost specifically comma perhaps a dialogue between two parties?
Anything’s possible — if it contains an original, implementable idea for fostering global peace, then in principle it could be written in blank verse, Alexandrine couplets, or any number of other ways. A priori, however, we expect that the winner will have written an essay in standard argumentative non-fiction prose.
Thank you Justin, this is clarifying and very helpful.
The piece I’m working on is fiction in form but philosophical in intent.
When I mentioned a novel, it wasn’t a comment on genre so much as gravity. Indeed, the underlying ideas will go forward regardless, but this competition feels like the right crucible to test whether they resonate. I’ll make sure the work stands on its own terms as an essay, even if the form is a little off-axis.
As the project puts it:
Peace may be the absence of conflict,
but perpetual peace is the art of surviving our own immaturity,
long enough to outgrow it.
— The Prime Labyrinth
Thanks again for the guidance.