So things have been a little quiet around here, in terms of the Challenge, but there’re two reasons for that. First of all, every time I’ve sat down to write over the last two weeks I’ve been working on my book. If you’ve ever tried to do anything like write a book, you’ll understand that […]
I know, I know, it’s late again. I have a legitimate excuse this time. On Monday, I wasn’t able to get all the restrictions on account of work stuff, and then yesterday, I forgot. I didn’t say it was a good excuse. Title: The Man Who Had No End of Garden Fence Troubles Premise: So, […]
I can’t say I’m liking the new premise restriction. I’ll stick it out for the next three weeks, just in case this last week won’t be the standard, but at this point, I doubt it will last longer than that. Title: The Idea Nexus Premise: A group of friends on a 9 day cruise notice the […]
I have decided to trial a slightly altered version of the challenge by changing the genre restriction into a premise restriction. It is exactly what it says on the box, it outlines the premise that the story will then have to be based around. I don’t know if it will work perfectly – it might […]
About time, huh? Couldn’t agree more. Actually, this challenge (I can hardly call it this week’s challenge) has me thinking about possibly changing the format. I’m still not 100% on it, so keep tuned for the next round of restrictions which will go up on Monday and explain the change (if it happens). But I will […]
Yeah yeah yeah, I know. I have been super, super busy this week (keep an eye out for a few words on at least one of the things I did), so I haven’t had a chance to do this until now. So here are this week’s somewhat belated restrictions: Title: Game Of Gnomes Genre: Romantic Comedy Dialogue: “I can’t […]
It’s here, finally, and it’s short. That’s all I have to say about that really. Title: Two Miles Later Genre: Thriller Dialogue: “911, what is your emergency?! Oh, it’s you …” Technical: You should write the story from the perspective of someone watching a camera feed and relaying instructions. Stay tuned for next week’s restrictions tomorrow. Hopefully this one […]
Is it just me or have the restrictions each week generally complemented each other quite well? Maybe it’s evidence that there is a secret psychic network that all people are connected to. Or maybe they’ll always complement each other because there’s a finite limit to the human imagination that means things will always connect on […]
First off, if you haven’t read The Window Cleaner, go now and do that. I’ll wait. As I said in the intro to The Window Cleaner, the story wrote itself. What I mean by that is a bit complicated, but I’ll try to explain. As a side note, I was also going to drone on about […]
What’s this? The new challenge story? On a Thursday? Yeah, how about that, huh? Well, I actually managed to not leave writing the story until the last minute this time (yay me). Plus it practically wrote itself, but I’ve a few things I want to say about writing it so I’m going to explain what I […]