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you're right, it was not the purpose, just wanted your opinion. I just don't see how it can be done in scienceforum easily.. I'll think about that,

IThat's basically what i've done on a draft board. Can you take a quick look there : LINK REMOVED thanks Ophiolite

not only flavour, centered idea. i mean, scientist are basically writers, but they are used to write with a really strict and specific language, wording.. I wanna try to provide a "sandbox" place for scientist to have fun writing, still on science, but with more fictions

Indeed, short story would be the best option, to avoid too long delays. And for the subject, each contest would be based on a published scientific paper, A good possibility would be suggestion of papers by members. sounds clearer ?

Hi, i'm occasionally crawling in the forum, but i just registered to have an opinion about my morning's shower idea I, as a phD, read a lot of papers and write also a lot of lines, always focused on mine scientific interest. Sadly, i lack spare time to write down other things, even if it's something i would really enjoy. Some years ago, i spent some time on writing and produced 2-3 novels ; what a great satisfaction So basically, my idea would be a novel contest, for scientist, based on published results. One paper would be selected for a contest, and each applicant would have a predefined time to submit a novel or short text. After that, other members could tell their favorite, and one novel would be selected as a best-in-class. Nothing to win, except some pleasure. What do you think ? I'm thinking of putting that as a forum, allowing some user interactions too.. ? [EDIT: typos]