Thank You...

[in_the_blue]

...everyone who participated in this third writing challenge. Look for another around the 17th of July.

[bows to you all]

And to respond publicly to just one comment: no, I don't make up the themes for the challenge with any specific character in mind. Usually I'm just sitting around minding my own business and an idea pops into my head, and I post it and I have no idea which of the people invading my brain's real estate will decide to respond to the challenge.

Just to reiterate: everybody is welcome to do the challenges. You don't have to roleplay with me, you don't have to roleplay anywhere. You can do one or ten; you can invite your friends; you can use them however you want. In case you don't know me or know my writing, know now that I do these extremely short fic challenges as a challenge to myself as well as to everybody else. It's hard to tell a story in 300 words or less. It's hard to convey a sense of personality and circumstance. Yet month after month, we have beautifully-written short short pieces that do just that. I applaud all of you.

And you know what? If you think of something after the fact -- after the challenge has officially closed -- I'm not going to tell you that it's too late to post it. I know as well as anybody that inspiration strikes when it strikes, and it can't be forced.

So again, thank you all, and we'll see you around for the 4th one in July.

Comments

[livii.livejournal.com]

Thank you for running it - I'd wanted to participate each time, but only managed to write something this time. Still, each time it got me thinking about possibilities and I like that. :)

Hopefully next time I'll have an idea again!

[ravensnape.livejournal.com]

JUly 17th?! Are you nuts? Do you really think any of us will be able to string a single thought together other then WOW, I just read six hundred and some odd pages of HBP. If this book is like last time we will be too busy picking up our jaws, or greaving the loss of a character while threatening to stop writing our own WIPs because they are now so out of cannon that it is pointless to continue. Write? Right! Go the week before, girl, with something about antisapation or excitement or fear or longing or I don;t know...ask sff_corgi... write on how to kill an author for killing your favorite character off.... No spell check, no grammer fix. Tired and going to bed. *blah*

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Psst, luv. Not everyone's in the HP fandom.

As always, people are free to either participate or not. I don't want to let JK Rowling dictate any more of my life than she already does.

Of course, I might forget about it completely. You never know.

[janeylou.livejournal.com]

Psst, luv. Not everyone's in the HP fandom.

[ravensnape.livejournal.com]

Sush! You will burst the bubble of the delusional voice in my head.

Not everyone reads Harry Potter...humph!
Snape doesn't have a daughter and the idea of him reproducing makes one ill...double humph! If she's well written, and the plot well thought out, then Snape having a daughter is a believable storyline...and Raven is WELL WRITTEN !!!!

*see, the voice is now awake*

[enelya-oronar.livejournal.com]

*seconds this thought*

[parke-matru.livejournal.com]

I always want to participate, but then forget my mun journal exists for a week or so and random insanity happens . . . but the fic I posted for Snow's milliversary started life as a response to the challenge and mutated from there, maintaining no resemblance to the original intent.