FABO Story Has Finished

★ We’re sorry to announce that the FABO authors will not be running any more FABO Story competitions. 

★ This website will go offline in the next few weeks.

★ Thank you for entering our competitions over the last few years. We loved reading your stories. Happy writing!   

850 thoughts on “FABO Story Has Finished”

  1. i’m doing this for school so can you send me an email saying who the winners are when it’s time???

  2. Hi,I love this site it is interesting the first part of the story but i am not quite sure how many words

    1. 500 – but you get disqualified for 550, so somewhere inbetween is all good, I think

  3. I read a comment saying that it was okay for the word limit to be under 550 but now I have just sent it and when I looked at this : https://fabostory.wordpress.com.faqs it said that the number of words had to be under 500. I am unsure what the word count has to be now… but my main point is is it okay to have just over 500 words?

  8. Does it matter if your story is 544 words or is that too long? I really love the freedom and wonder of this marvelous tale!

  9. hi, are the judges looking for a creative story, or can it be just really well written to win?
    thanks

    1. Each competition has a different judge so there is no cross-over between competitions. It’s up to that week’s judge to choose the best story, and they could choose a story written by someone who has won before.

  13. I LOVE Sue Copsey’s story starter! It’s got so many possible story endings!
    Thank-you SO MUCH for Fabo!!

  14. next week can we please be allowed more words
    when first wrote it it was 1145 words
    I find it hard to write short story’s 😦

    1. Hi there. I’m afraid the word limit will stay the same, as it would take too long for the judge to read lots of really long stories.

  15. Hi! I entered my story, it went through and then I realised my email was wrong! I forgot the s. So I went back and entered again with the new email! I hope my old entry deleted! But I am not quite sure.

  16. Hi! I thought I submitted my last story, but it appears not to have entered. What should I do? Is there any way I can still enter?

    1. Hi there. You can enter the current competition by filling in the form. The previous competition closed on Saturday and late entries can’t be accepted.

  17. Hi, I love Fabo! I was just wondering if you could post the new story starter the minute the old one finishes? And also, I would like to say that I would LOVE if you could keep doing new story starters once a week!

  20. This story starter is awesome so so so awesome but I have no clue how to write in present tense can Iwrite in past tense?????? I love this story starter it is so imaginative and allows you to interpret as you please!!!

  21. hi there, I have written my story and submitted it, but then the page reloaded and I am not sure if the story got to you guys, would it be ok if I write my story again and re-sended to make sure I had a entry?

  22. Do I post the story with the story starter or just put in what I wrote?

  23. Apart from being nervous this was GREAT 9/10 rating I really enjoyed this it was a great time writing tanks

  25. hello there my name is rose and i am a lover of cats i loved publishing this and it was super fun! the one thing i didn’t like was when i left to go turn music on or something like that like when i left the website and i come back and everything i wrote was gone otherwise like it!

  28. Does it matter if it is 508 words long? I love this site soooooooooooooooooooo much!!! 🙂

  30. Does it make a difference on how old you are? Like would a 10 year old thatw as great at writing get a better chance that a 13 year old??

    1. We haven’t yet decided whether we will switch back to fortnightly competitions. We will keep them weekly for now and may change it later.

  33. That was such an imaginative story and the author must have put so much work into doing that amazing story starter. I only did around 400 words is that okay or do I have to do 500 exactly?
    Well done to anyone who did this story starter as it really gets your thinking cap stuck on.

  36. hi, thank you so much for the latest story starter. it’s really exciting! I’m just wondering- how did Fabo get it’s name? thanks

  39. Hi, I had enter my story to the competition already done but my laptop restarted and closed all of the tabs. Will my writing still be read by the Judges. I also wrote it in a document.

  41. I LOVE 🥰🥰🥰 Helen Fletcher’s story starter! It’s so good. I love it! Thanks so much for having this set up. It’s a life safer during lockdown.😁😁😁

  47. I accidentally closed the tab with my fabostory, and I don’t have it written anywhere else. Is there a way to get it back, or is it gone forever? Do I have to start again?

      2. We recommend writing your story in Word (or similar) and then copying it into the website. If you refresh the webpage before sending your entry, any information you entered will be lost.

  49. my story had 460 words is that too much under or does it not matter how much under the story is also will there be a new story every week?

      1. Oh no my story is too long! It said that there was a maximum of 550 words but now it says the limit is 500. Can I edit my story to make it 500 words?

      2. 550 words is okay, but no more than that. If you want to edit your story, you can send it through to us again with a note saying you’ve edited it and would like the new version to be the one included in the judging.

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