Oops, sorry, wrong holiday!
But seriously, I had an idea that I want people's help with.
A while back I started posting challenges under the "Writer's Challenge" section of the site. For a little bit, they were going well, with people trying them and (hopefully) having fun with them. Then, like most everything else I do, I slowed down on posting them, and when people stopped doing them I eventually stopped adding new ones altogether.
Well, I'm thinking of trying it again, but this time a bit different.
I'm compiling a list of 64 challenges -- one for each week of the year, and one for each month. As of right now I've got ideas for the twelve monthly challenges, and about 15 weeks worth of challenges as well. My problem is that some of these aren't necessarily all that great, and I could use some help coming up with more ideas.
So, here's the sitch. Do you have a story idea you're not going to pursue, but would like to see attempted by other authors? Perhaps you're a fan of a certain genre that doesn't get published much, or stories of certain lengths or with particular keywords. Let me know, and it would really help me to figure out what would make good challenges. The challenges will run the gamut from very general "write within this label" challenges to highly specific "write a story with such and such as the topic" types.
If you have something, PM me with it and I'll see what I can do! After I get enough challenges, all that will be left is figuring out how to post them where they'll be visible but not take up 64 different postings under the Writer's Challenge forum :P
Melanie E.
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Try a Few of These to see If They're Naughty or Nice
Something that happened to you in junior high that shaped who you are today. What was it and how would you change it if you could?.
Take a news item off the front page of your local newspaper and create a story
Base a story on any famous painting
Take any well-known book and make the protagonist TG to see how it changes the story
Take a dictionary – pick a dozen words at random. Build a story around those words.
Your protagonist has been fully transitioned for years and has forgotten that she ever was anything but a woman, until she meets that one person from her past who makes her question everything
Pretend you’ve been given the chance to go back in time and talk to your ten-year old self.
You’re seventeen and it’s raining so you have nothing to do. You go to your attic and find an old chest full of toys: dolls, tea sets, a Pretty, Pretty Princess game, etc. They’re all new and never been used. You take them down to where your mother is sitting in your living room knitting and ask her about them. She admits she had bought them for you on several of your birthdays but never dared give them to you. You’ve never come out to her.
You go on a perfect vacation. It turns into a nightmare, but in the end is a life changing experience that you’ve needed.
You’re one of ten people who are contacted by a reality TV show. Each of you is given the opportunity to change one physical feature.
You find a phone message on your answering machine that’s obviously a wrong number . . . but is it?
You’ve made the decision to transition and only one thing stands in your way . . . money. What did you do to get it?
A mother is scolding her son for wanting something feminine in a store. For once in your life you step in and speak your mind, which is overheard by a television news reporter who. . . .
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)