Well, hello, hello to one and all! It has been an incredibly (re: unforgiveably) long time since I've posted or been very active with all of you fine and talented folks. Lots of stuff has been going on -- both for me personally and around here, from what I've noticed. Some of it has been for the good. Some of it for the not so good. But it's still a lot of stuff happening, and when lots of stuff starts happening at once things tend to get a little crazy.
So why don't we give all that crazy the bird and have a little fun with a Mini Contest, eh?
I love Mini Contests. I love them because they're a break from the usual affairs, but they can also be challenging as hell. Challenges make me happy, in a gleeful sadomasochistic sort of way. I hope you all like challenges as well, because that's what I'm about to give you.
Several months (or maybe it's closer to a year?) back I'd challenged some of my writer friends to push themselves out of their usual sandbox. Every writer has an area they're more comfortable with, something that they are particularly known for. I don't care how much a writer claims that they have no genre, no particular style, that they morph to fit the story. Every writer has something unique to them, something that defines a work as theirs.
Your challenge this week is to write AGAINST your norm. Break your own rules and boundaries. Experiment with styles, subjects, and techniques outside your comfort zone. And then you will present these entries to the community so that we can go, "Whoa, ______ wrote THIS?!?!"
Sounds easy, right? For some people, this will be. To fix that, and because this is the last contest I'll be hosting and I intend to have fun with it, I am also offering an ADDITIONAL challenge for those willing to take it on. The additional challenge comes in the form of a prompt. And that prompt is:
This prompt MUST be used to START AND END your entry. Meaning, the first and last lines must be this prompt. You may use it as a quote. You may change the tensing and the pronoun, so it can be "she was an anachronism" or whatever, but the rest of it MUST appear in tact. You have no other limitations other than to push yourself. Write something that makes you uncomfortable or at least unusual for you. If you write poetry, try prose, and if you write prose try your hand at poetry. Play with format and punctuation. Basically, try NOT writing like yourself.
Your entries are due by Sunday, June 3rd at 8 PM. A poll will go up and voting will start. The winner of this challenge will get a personalized banner and icon set, made by yours truly.
I'm very excited to see just how far outside the sandbox you all will go. Good luck, and remember: have fun with this, because I'm sure as hell gonna have fun reading what you all come up with. Cheers, folks!
So why don't we give all that crazy the bird and have a little fun with a Mini Contest, eh?
I love Mini Contests. I love them because they're a break from the usual affairs, but they can also be challenging as hell. Challenges make me happy, in a gleeful sadomasochistic sort of way. I hope you all like challenges as well, because that's what I'm about to give you.
Several months (or maybe it's closer to a year?) back I'd challenged some of my writer friends to push themselves out of their usual sandbox. Every writer has an area they're more comfortable with, something that they are particularly known for. I don't care how much a writer claims that they have no genre, no particular style, that they morph to fit the story. Every writer has something unique to them, something that defines a work as theirs.
Your challenge this week is to write AGAINST your norm. Break your own rules and boundaries. Experiment with styles, subjects, and techniques outside your comfort zone. And then you will present these entries to the community so that we can go, "Whoa, ______ wrote THIS?!?!"
Sounds easy, right? For some people, this will be. To fix that, and because this is the last contest I'll be hosting and I intend to have fun with it, I am also offering an ADDITIONAL challenge for those willing to take it on. The additional challenge comes in the form of a prompt. And that prompt is:
I am an anachronism.
This prompt MUST be used to START AND END your entry. Meaning, the first and last lines must be this prompt. You may use it as a quote. You may change the tensing and the pronoun, so it can be "she was an anachronism" or whatever, but the rest of it MUST appear in tact. You have no other limitations other than to push yourself. Write something that makes you uncomfortable or at least unusual for you. If you write poetry, try prose, and if you write prose try your hand at poetry. Play with format and punctuation. Basically, try NOT writing like yourself.
Your entries are due by Sunday, June 3rd at 8 PM. A poll will go up and voting will start. The winner of this challenge will get a personalized banner and icon set, made by yours truly.
I'm very excited to see just how far outside the sandbox you all will go. Good luck, and remember: have fun with this, because I'm sure as hell gonna have fun reading what you all come up with. Cheers, folks!
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