Introducing the brand new ‘Short Affair’ Challenge

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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.