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Challenge #8
The Rules: *please see the site main page for any extra information on rules.*
1. Everyone is allowed to participate.
2. You will have until Saturday to write your piece.
3. IF you write a piece and submit it to me you MUST critique next week. No exceptions.
4. When you've written your piece please PM me a link to it. (And that means here on the FCG. You can't PM links on ff.net... please don't try.)
5. Next week I'll assign everyone who has written a piece someone else's to critique.
6. Have fun!
7. No challenge element is set in stone, but don't bend it TOO much.
8. Can be written for ANY fandom you so choose, so have fun with it!
First:
Pick two lyrics from the following. Make a post in this thread saying which you've chosen. I'll edit the list as frequently as possible and strike through ones that have been used. No two people can choose the same lyrics so be mindful of what has already been chosen and please read posts before yours in case I miss something.
Once you've selected your lyrics use them in writing your story. Please don't ask me how I want you to use them or if what you're doing is okay. As long as you are using them, you're right.
(And yes I'm aware they're abstract.)
3...2...1....Pick!
“It's all worked out, my road is clear.”
[s]“It's in ourselves to rise or fall.”[/s]
[s]“There will be a time for mourning.”[/s]
[s]“You've never seen my face.”[/s]
[s]“To see the secrets so few eyes have seen.”[/s]
[s]“The moments when we smile and those between.”[/s]
[s]“It's knowing what they want that scares me.”
“A picture of true happiness.”[/s]
[s]“And who'd have thought that love could be so good?”[/s]
[s]“How an affair of the heart survives days apart and hurried nights.”[/s]
[s]“I could wait forever for the perfect time and place.”[/s]
[s]“We don't know whose words are true.”[/s]
[s]“One more longing backward glance.”[/s]
[s]“Always half a step behind.”[/s]
[s]“I'm in every kind of trouble.”[/s]
[s]“You can't escape your genes.”[/s]
[s]“Evil's a distinctive smell.”[/s]
[s]“I'm sorry for the things I've said; and the things I forgot to say, too.”[/s]
[s]“We're given paradise but only for a day.”[/s]
[s]“You're all I'll ever want but this I am denied.”[/s]
[s]“How did I throw half a lifetime away?”[/s]
[s]“I learned it a little too late.”[/s]
“Wild ambitions in our sights.”
[s]“May this confession be the start.”[/s]
[s]“And no horizon we shall not pursue.”[/s]
(I'll not post my choices until Monday day to be "fair.")
Okay... now that you've chosen your lyrics you're ready to start writing. So, without further ado I'm going to present you with the rest of the challenge.
1. Must include the phrase “I just don't know.” Or the phrase “Shake it like a polaroid picture.”
2. Must be between 990 and 9,990 words.
3. May be any rating greater than K+ and less than MA.
4. Must involve a fight. Interpret at will (as always).
5. Must involve a secret. (Optional.)
Please make a post in this thread letting the rest of us know which lyrics you're going to write for. You have one week to write your piece so, everyone have fun and start submitting to me as soon as you have something finished!
I won't be accepting any late pieces this time. Sorry if you're used to me letting you finish up at the last minute. Pieces not received by 12 AM EST on Sunday, April 5, 2009 won't be accepted. (Work written by myself included.)
Have fun everybody and thank you! I can't wait to start reading fanfics! And don't forget if you submit one you're required to critique during the week of the 5th!
Thanks gain!
-LLK
1. Everyone is allowed to participate.
2. You will have until Saturday to write your piece.
3. IF you write a piece and submit it to me you MUST critique next week. No exceptions.
4. When you've written your piece please PM me a link to it. (And that means here on the FCG. You can't PM links on ff.net... please don't try.)
5. Next week I'll assign everyone who has written a piece someone else's to critique.
6. Have fun!
7. No challenge element is set in stone, but don't bend it TOO much.
8. Can be written for ANY fandom you so choose, so have fun with it!
First:
Pick two lyrics from the following. Make a post in this thread saying which you've chosen. I'll edit the list as frequently as possible and strike through ones that have been used. No two people can choose the same lyrics so be mindful of what has already been chosen and please read posts before yours in case I miss something.
Once you've selected your lyrics use them in writing your story. Please don't ask me how I want you to use them or if what you're doing is okay. As long as you are using them, you're right.
(And yes I'm aware they're abstract.)
3...2...1....Pick!
“It's all worked out, my road is clear.”
[s]“It's in ourselves to rise or fall.”[/s]
[s]“There will be a time for mourning.”[/s]
[s]“You've never seen my face.”[/s]
[s]“To see the secrets so few eyes have seen.”[/s]
[s]“The moments when we smile and those between.”[/s]
[s]“It's knowing what they want that scares me.”
“A picture of true happiness.”[/s]
[s]“And who'd have thought that love could be so good?”[/s]
[s]“How an affair of the heart survives days apart and hurried nights.”[/s]
[s]“I could wait forever for the perfect time and place.”[/s]
[s]“We don't know whose words are true.”[/s]
[s]“One more longing backward glance.”[/s]
[s]“Always half a step behind.”[/s]
[s]“I'm in every kind of trouble.”[/s]
[s]“You can't escape your genes.”[/s]
[s]“Evil's a distinctive smell.”[/s]
[s]“I'm sorry for the things I've said; and the things I forgot to say, too.”[/s]
[s]“We're given paradise but only for a day.”[/s]
[s]“You're all I'll ever want but this I am denied.”[/s]
[s]“How did I throw half a lifetime away?”[/s]
[s]“I learned it a little too late.”[/s]
“Wild ambitions in our sights.”
[s]“May this confession be the start.”[/s]
[s]“And no horizon we shall not pursue.”[/s]
(I'll not post my choices until Monday day to be "fair.")
Okay... now that you've chosen your lyrics you're ready to start writing. So, without further ado I'm going to present you with the rest of the challenge.
1. Must include the phrase “I just don't know.” Or the phrase “Shake it like a polaroid picture.”
2. Must be between 990 and 9,990 words.
3. May be any rating greater than K+ and less than MA.
4. Must involve a fight. Interpret at will (as always).
5. Must involve a secret. (Optional.)
Please make a post in this thread letting the rest of us know which lyrics you're going to write for. You have one week to write your piece so, everyone have fun and start submitting to me as soon as you have something finished!
I won't be accepting any late pieces this time. Sorry if you're used to me letting you finish up at the last minute. Pieces not received by 12 AM EST on Sunday, April 5, 2009 won't be accepted. (Work written by myself included.)
Have fun everybody and thank you! I can't wait to start reading fanfics! And don't forget if you submit one you're required to critique during the week of the 5th!
Thanks gain!
-LLK
Last edited by lostladyknight on Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:17 pm, edited 9 times in total.
And what of Henry, my Odysseus? Henry is an artist of another sort, a disappearing artist. Our life together in this too-small apartment is punctuated by Henry's small absences.
Can't wait!
