There's a New Challenge Coming to Section VII

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

It’s called ‘The Once Upon a Time Affair’.


Thank you to mrua7 for adding the finishing touch to the banner.

The prompts will be posted on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of every month. You will then be able to post your stories at any time during the two weeks following the prompt.

The basic premise is a simple one.

The prompt will be a sentence, or a short paragraph, from which you will launch your story. This means that everyone’s stories will start exactly the same way (there are a few qualifications to this, which will be detailed in the rules). Where the story goes from there will be entirely up to you.

As well as the prompt, you will be given a theme to build your story around. The themes will be varied but, sometimes, they will reflect the time of year (for example, prompts near Christmas will probably have a festive theme).

I hope that people will take up this challenge. The writers here in Section VII are so varied in their styles that I envisage many different stories coming from a common beginning.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Look out for the first prompt on Sunday 12th November.

The main rules will be as follows:

-Your story must begin with the exact prompt sentence /paragraph.
Occasionally, there will be customisable parts within the prompt. These will be written in red.

For example –

{Your Choice} means you can decide which character place there. (It may not necessarily be any of the main characters.)

{His/her} can be changed to reflect the gender of your chosen character.

{Name of Place} means you can chose where your story is set.

-Your story must reflect the given theme

-The story must be rooted in the Man from U.N.C.L.E. universe and reflect the time in which it is set.

-Stories can be posted on any day from the prompt day to the last day of posting (inclusive).

-Word Count – Minimum 500, with no maximum.

-Tags - please use once upon a time affair, gen or gen-mature.

-Section VII is a Gen community, so stories should be appropriate, i.e. nothing explicit or overly-graphic. However, there is the Gen-Mature tag for anything containing violence, torture or mild Het. The Map Room should be used for Het stories, but again, nothing overly graphic.

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Comments

[hypatia-66.livejournal.com]

I've found your Short Challenge prompts very good for my imagination, and also as a test for keeping things short and to the point. I look forward to new challenges that might prompt me to plan a longer story, one that allows for digressions (and also means I don't have to wait for inspiration to strike).

Roll on 12th!

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to seeing what different writers will do with the same beginning. I hope this ne challenge continues to inspire. (ps. The Short Affair challenge will still be around too)