I'll take the other thing.

[in_the_blue]

I miss the days when I used to host writing challenges right here in this very journal.

So. Now that the seventh Harry Potter book has been written... I think it's time for a different kind of writing challenge. I used to host the short-short ficlets, 300 words or less, open fandom.

Today, I'm going OC. And that doesn't stand for Orange County: it stands for original character.

Ready? 3, 2, 1, let's... get inspired to write original fiction, folks. The theme for the challenge is change: take 500 words to introduce an original character and demonstrate some measure of change for him, for her, for it.

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Rules:

• Fandom: original only


• Word count: 500 or less


• Main theme: change


• Ratings: No restrictions.


• Duration: Challenge opens now (August 30) and closes at 11:59 p.m. in whatever time zone you inhabit on Wednesday, September 5.

Post your ficlets as comments to this entry. Feel free to do as few or as many as you want, and if you see one you really like, be sure to leave a review or a comment. Remember, original fic only. I'll crack my knuckles and get going as soon as I get a few hours' sleep.

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NOTE: All ficlets in comments here are the property of their respective writers. Consider them copywritten with all rights reserved. If you want to quote, copy, or redistribute, please get the author's permission first. Otherwise, I'll have to lock this down. Thanks.

Comments

Re: 506 words: Original.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

See? Shelle (no "seashell" pun intended), you are so good at this kind of thing. It's only 506 words and you already gave us a past and an uncertain present -- what is this relationship like? what's the marriage like? do they have anything at all in common? -- and a future. I don't care that there aren't names and I don't care that we don't know more than we do about the circumstances of their lives. Write it. Write more of it.

Re: 506 words: Original.

[shellebelle93.livejournal.com]

*beams* I'll have to. Now they're in my head.

Thanks *so* much, from the bottom of my heart. ;)

Re: 506 words: Original.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

You know, if you haven't read The Time Traveler's Wife yet, I think you'd really love it. Stylistically, this made me think of that work.

(And I really liked that book for the most part.)

Re: 506 words: Original.

[shellebelle93.livejournal.com]

Thanks G! I'll have to try that book out. ;)