Discovery short story competition - discuss

[MartoGuy]

I am curious as to why the "theme" restriction is in place. A 5,000 word piece on a Freelancer related concept should be enough to spark interest. Creating a theme as for example "The first Nomad War and the fighting between Kusari and Rheinland" might appeal to a lessor number of writers than an open theme and word limit only. A good measure of a writers creativity is in selection of a theme for his/her piece. Why would you remove that?

Logan

I don't think it will be so close restricted. You are right, if it is a very restricted topic, the less people are going to write about it. But as someone else in this thread pointed, if there isn't a topic, anyone can just dig up some of his old stories, put on a little make up here and there, and is already ahead of the competition. The topics should be very open, if you ask me. Like: "Horror","Pirates" or "Adventure", you could easily house more types of stories in these categories, and have a more free reign on the actual content then on something very specific like you pointed out.

EDIT: Ninja'd