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: leaving home

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Yvonne, I love this. I love the immediacy of the first-person narration and the way you have so much in such a short space! It's like peeking in on the closing paragraphs of a folk tale. I'd love to read more.

Re: leaving home

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

oh thanks. i'm surprised it hits so well. i' mso scared it still is clunky. you seem to alwasy getthat when you haven't written for months except i now finally believe for myself that it acutally flowed very well.
it is part of a longer work. i liek how yo usaid it wsa the closign of a folk tale. i want t osetthis in ireland, 19th century i think, and i have to first read a lot of mythology to besure i can make this authentic.
it's acontinuatio nof something from last year's challenge. i first wanted someoen toread that out of her gran's diary but tyhis weekend i jsut snapped those parts and this woman just started to tel lthe story. it's oen of the few tiemssomething literally tells me 'this has to be first person'.
so i don'tk now if your challenge was the flodogate, or the factthat I finally know how to tell this? I plan to use yoru challenge for more by way of explorign stuff. unless iget ideas for the thign i originlly wanted to go for. we'll see.

Re: leaving home

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

You were visited by the muse! I love when that happens.

Re: leaving home

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

apparently I was.
i' mdebatign to give more detaisl at all. i have a tentative title though .adn a main thread that has something to do wit hprecious stones (i will try m ybest not to palantiri or some other kidn of charm).
by the wa yfterwards i checked that zokutou wordcoutner or however it'sspelled. 239 words or so. pheeeews. i coudl have been muc hclearer and still be under the limit. mainly i tried to excersise to mind the ramble while writing and alsot otry notto puttoo much incomplete stuff intaht i woudlnt' be able to explain at once.