Greetings, participants! Hope you all are having writing the entries for Stage 1. You have enough time to brainstorm, draft, and put the best entry forward! With that being said, it's time to reveal the Stage 2 of the July Challenge. A few pointers before:

📌 No new teams will be approved now, deadline has been crossed.
📌 The teams can continue to work on Stage 1 entries, the deadline for closure of all the stages is 5th September.
📌 A team can opt to leave any stage if they wish to, or, they can opt to participate in only one of the three stages. It's not a compulsion for any team to necessarily take part in every stage. However, the team skipping any stage may have lesser chance at grabbing the championship trophy!

STAGE TWO
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[THE ARTISTRY]

You have picked a prompt, wrote the best entry of yours by now, or are on the way ––but what about the 'ornaments'?

In the Stage 2 of July Challenge, we invite you to decorate your stories. Here's how:

A. 📌 Create an attractive story cover and one banner representing team entry for stage 1. The graphics should do justice to the story written.
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B. 📌 Create a character sketch and aesthetic. In minimum 300 words, describe your main character (any one only), highlighting their backstory, strength, weakness, ambition, goal, major blockage in their way, and everything else that the writers can think of. There is no maximum word limit, however, try not to exceed 700 words. Along the same note, the teams are required to make a character aesthetic of the same lead whose sketch has been written.

PUBLISHING GUIDELINES:

🌻 Publish the character sketch and character aesthetic + Story cover & the Banner in one chapter only. The title of the chapter must clearly state EC Contest Stage 2. Both the points (A. & B.) are compulsory to be published.

Ask your questions here 📌

Best of luck to all the teams, you all are doing pretty awesome!