Are we allowed to submit new chapters from a current novel on Tapas? I have a sci-fi novel and I've been putting out new episodes on a mostly weekly basis. I've got a lot of story to share and would love to enter it.
Good luck! I think I'll be entering, too, but I have no confidence in my writing. I don't think anyone does 
Still, let's do our best!!!
This is great! I've been needing cash like no tomorrow, plus I'd love to meet and talk with more readers. I just came up with a story idea a couple days ago, but I was thinking of making it into a comic. Either I'll use that one or one of the stories I postponed hiding on my computer.
I am not on the staff, but the rules regarding this seems clear enough.
also...
Tapas is specifically looking for fresh material. I was planning at one point to write a fan-fiction story with permission directly from the creator of the setting. I backed away from even that because it might be considered in the grey area of what Tapas considers "original". When dealing with a contest, you have to remember that you will be competing against others who are working entirely within the rules and will feel very salty if they lose to someone who they might consider cheating.
I guess that nothing is stopping you from going ahead and participating the way you want in the community project and using the hashtag, but I doubt you would be considered as a serious contestant if you continue a story which was started and published before the beginning of the contest.
Quick question! Would a novel based on a concept I’d been planning for a comic be permitted for the Writer’s Camp? The comic in question only has about 2-ish real chapters up and little to no plot development as of yet. Thanks!
Great question! While technically the novel version of your story would be new, because the comic already exists, it would technically be an adaptation of another work rather than an original work, meaning your novel would not qualify for the contest. If you really want to submit to the contest, you will have to submit another story. However, if you want to participate in the community aspects of Writers Camp and still work on that story without officially submitting it, that's totally fine!
So the light novel version of a manga currently being posted to Tapas does not count, even though the light novel covers 2x more story than what the manga does?
If the answer is "no", color us disappointed. A shame that this was not specified on Feb 23.
When the rules say that each episode/chapter has to be at least 500 words, is it talking about the word count in the tapastic publishing section?
I think it has to be at least 500 words in the Word program or where else you're writing the story because the publishing section go by character count not word count. So far, the episodes I'm posting have been about 500+ words in Office but 4,000+ to 5,000 characters in Tapas. My recent post was 1,418 words in Word but 7,758 characters in Tapas.
Hope that helps.
It does! I'm just not sure, the reason why i'm asking is because I want to put up a prologue, but it's only 93 words...So if I put that up it won't officially count as one of the ten episodes....I'm really hoping that is not against the rules
My guess would be that a prologue would be alright, as long as you still upload ten other episodes of 500+ words!
Thank you so much!
@serena I need to ask you about the placement of the '#firstwriterscamp' tag.
Does we need to put the (#) before the firstwriterscamp or not? Since when I tried to search it (both with [#] and didn't), the two didn't shows some stories from the one with (#) and vice versa.
@GoldenPlume You're right, it's something we should have been more clear about in the contest rules. Since this is our first Writers Camp, we're still working out the kinks. This may be a rule we change in the future, but at least for this first contest, the novel being original and not an adaptation of a work in another medium is going to be a requirement.
@Harmony-S-S You're free to post a prologue, so long as, like @Chroma said, you make sure you're fulfilling all the other requirements as well!
@InZanity We are looking for submissions that are either novels or novels in progress.
@reik So long as that novel hasn't been published previously, you can definitely submit an English-language version!
@silverraven0 I talked to the team and it looks like our search system currently does not support the use of hashtags, so it only shows the first page of results. When you tag your series, use "firstwriterscamp" instead of "#firstwriterscamp" to make sure it shows up in search results.
