Introducing the brand new ‘Short Affair’ Challenge

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

Last week I posted a short story to Section VII which was prompted by a random word plucked from the dictionary. I was having difficulty in finding theme for new stories and happened to glance at the dictionary, which is permanently stationed on my desk. I opened it at a random page, closed my eyes, and pointed. It gave me the word ‘key’. I had initially intended to start my own short story series until mrua7 suggested I could get everyone involved. She ran it past glennagirl and a new challenge was born.

Here’s how it will work:-

Every Monday, I will pluck two words from the dictionary and offer them both as prompts. I will also choose a random colour. This will be done using one of my multisided dice. Each number will have a colour assigned to it. You will then have the choice of which word to use, in addition to the colour, to build your story around. For example, if the words were key and window and the colour was red, your story would be based on either key/red or window/red. Don’t worry about those prompts, as they are only examples.

Stories will be due the following Monday. This will give you a week to come up with something.
This will be a short story challenge with fics coming it at between 300 and 1000 words. I will be posting the first prompts on Monday October 6th, with the first stories being due on October 13th.

I would like to thank mrua7 for the absolutely wonderful banner she has provided for this challenge. It matches me perfectly.

I look forward to taking part in this challenge with you.

Comments

[avery11.livejournal.com]

This is a terrific idea for a challenge! Now if RL will only cooperate...

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

RL does have an annoying habit of getting in the way of things.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Kick RL in the butt, and thumb your nose at it. Write on! Welcome to the challenge world of Section VII.

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm quite excited about the prospect :-)

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

It may (or may not) get off to a slow start but like all things on Section VII, it takes time to build. I'm sure it will to well as it a good challenge.

This Sounds Interesting.

[alynwa.livejournal.com]

I will try it.

Re: This Sounds Interesting.

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

Yay :-)

I'm really looking forward to the first stories, but will have to wait two whole weeks. I'm like a kid waiting for Christmas.

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

This should be fun, and the banner is perfect.
This idea reminds a little of the story about how George Harrison wrote While My Guitar Gently Weeps. It has something to do with what he read in the I Ching (I think), taking a word or phrase and building something around it. Anyway, he opened a book and saw the words "gently weeps" and a classic was born.
I look forward to similar results ;)

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

George Harrison was infinitely more creative than I could ever hope to be :D

There seems to be interest in this challenge so, hopefully, it should do well. Eventually, anyway.

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

I recall now that you are a George fan :D I don't know if you ever read this story...
The Raga Affair:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6231805/1/The-Raga-Affair-parts-1-2

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

I haven't read that one yet. There are so many stories I have still to catch up on. The plus side to that is, it will be a while before I run out of things to read :-)

I shall read it tomorrow (at least, I will try). Right now, I'm still writing for today's picfic challenge. I've written all of three sentences.

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm on a similar schedule today: not done. Carry on, we have until midnight.