Good evening and Happy New Year, everyone!
Today Fyn and I have decided to begin something that we have seen done in several other fandoms: a prompt challenge. This is an interesting and fun way to encourage creative writing in a manner that often leads to unexpected and surprising results. Here is how it works:
1) Each month Fyn and I will alternate in proposing a prompt for potential stories in the Land Before time universe. This may be a plot detail that would need to be in the story, or it could be a piece of dialogue that must be used, or it could even simply be a plot idea. As soon as the prompt is posted there will be a one month period in which participants may write and submit a story or poem in response to the prompt.
2) If you wish to participate please place a copy of your resulting story or poem for the challenge on both the Gang of Five fanfiction section and on fanfiction.net. In an author’s note in your story mention that this is a response to a prompt challenge and mention that prompt. The only length requirement on stories is that they need to be at least 1000 words or, in the case of poems, 500 words.
3) PM me with links to
both the Gang of Five and the fanfiction.net copies of your story. I will then add a link to the prompt masterlist in this topic.
DO NOT post your story to this topic – we are trying to keep this topic as uncluttered as possible. 4) After the month is complete there will be a vote between the participants on which story (you cannot vote for yourself) was the best prompt response. The voting will take place in
the voting topic. The winner will gain the ëprize’ of making Fyn and I write a Land Before time story based upon a prompt of their choice. The usual rules for fanfictions on the forum will apply to those prompts, however, so no smut, extreme violence, etc.
It is my hope that this exercise will result in the inspiration of many good stories from the exceptional authors we have on the forum. I truly think that the creative side of this fandom is where it really shines, and I look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with.
The first prompt will soon be posted in the
The Prompt masterlist topic. If you have any questions about this challenge, the rules, or any prompts please mention them in this topic – as it is meant for discussion. The Prompt Masterlist topic will only have the monthly prompts and links to any stories and
the voting topic will only be for voting at the end of each monthly prompt.
Concerning song ficsSongs can be submitted as poetry, but to prevent abuse and ensure originality a few conditions must be obeyed:
1) They must be original works, that is to say they should not be based on existing music.
2) They still need to adhere to a poetic formula. Obviously this is pretty loose, since poems can take many forms, but essentially it needs to be visually organized like a song (lines, stanzas, etc clearly defined).
