Fanfiction Challenge

[Cerise]

Cool I might Enter then

[~Amy~]

Just so I know what I'm doing, is it all discription with no dialogue or focusing on discription and sort of avoiding dialogue?

I'm easily confused, lol.

[Skykat]

My understanding of this is that you're essentially challenging us to write a descriptive piece of writing in 500 hundred words. I'm assuming we can describe anything home and away related so a place, a feeling, an event, an emotion? Do I have that right?

I think this is a great challenge. Reminds me of a time at school when we had to do a piece of travel writing and everyone wrote about their summer holidays but I went down to the river mersey and looked over the water at the liverpool skyline and wrote about that as if I was coming home on a ferry down the mersey. I just described the skyline and I remember getting fantastic marks on it because it was all description when everyone else just related their holiday memories. This challenge kind of reminds me of that. It's a fantastic challenge, hopefully I'll be able to enter.

Amy my understanding is that it should be purely a piece of descriptive writing and therefore dialogue wouldn't really be necessary unless it really added something to the description.

I could be wrong though and I'd like Jess to confirm I'm on the right lines before I start writing anything...

[~Amy~]

Amy my understanding is that it should be purely a piece of descriptive writing and therefore dialogue wouldn't really be necessary unless it really added something to the description.

Thanks Kat

[sevenpuddings]

While I'd really love to see descriptive pieces that would be more of an inner monologue, I don't want to disclude dialogue completely. Some of the most beautiful descriptions came come through discussions between people, so I don't want you to think you can't include it. Perhaps, simply more minimal than in other challenges.

Other than that, I think everyone completely gets what the challenge is about, so thats great! I can't wait to see what kind of entries we get!

Also, any thoughts on how to decide on who hosts the next one? Maybe I could pull a name (of people who haven't hosted before, to give them a chance) out of a hat!

[Cerise]

Well if you cant figure out who I wouldnt mind hosting

[~Amy~]

Any ideas on how to start it; I normally start with a conversation

[Skykat]

I still think we should let people offer to host it and keep a list of names who've offered and each time a competition ends we just go to the next name on the list. I can pin it to your initial thread in this topic and just keep editing it.

That way everybody will get a fair go, they can host the challenge if they want to rather than being reliant on winning a competition or a draw. Also it'll stop the same people hosting repeatedly. People who've already hosted can still offer it'll just give others a fair shot aswell. Also people don't necessarily have to enter the challenge to host, lots of people have good ideas but aren't writers or don't feel confident enough to enter.

I also don't see any reason why it couldn't be up to the hoster to decide whether the challenge is a competition or reviews only. If the hoster wants to run it as a competition I don't see why this should be prevented and the winner can still be for recognition but the hoster won't be the winner but the next name on the list.

...if that makes any sense at all...

[-Jade-]

I tried to make a list, one oen volunteered...But yea, I like the idea of the host choosing whether it's a competition or just reviews, I think that would sort out the problem.

[sevenpuddings]

I do like the idea of giving each person who hosts the choice of whether its simply a challenge or competition, but then keeping the hosting rights on a list.

I guess that calls for anyone who wishes to host to comment here, just as ZoeMCallister has already done. Kat or I can edit the first post with a list, and we'll simply follow that down, giving everyone a chance to host

jack/martha - You can start with a conversation. Or maybe someone overhearing a conversation... down at the beach, walking along a pathway, sitting in a park, or the diner or surfclub, or even in their own house. And then go from there.