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Question of the day part 7
Carter-Orange:
--- Quote from: mare on September 17, 2012, 02:06:10 PM ---I still don't remember the one I had originally planned on asking but here's a different one:
Do you enjopy writing challenge stories? If you do what has been your favorite challenge to compete in so far and do you have any ideas for upcoming challenges?
If you don't enjoy writing them, why not? What's wrong with you? Are you like a total doofus or something? lmao ;)
Do you read other people's challenge stories? And how do you feel yours compares to the others you have read? If you've read these stories have you left reviews for them?
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I love the challenges and have taken part in quite a few. I think my favourite one to write was The Man With Two Brains as I was laughing as I wrote it.
I always read the challenge stories too, it's interesting to see someone else's take on the challenge. I always leave a review for the stories I read.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Carter-Orange on September 17, 2012, 03:49:37 PM ---I'm going to go with Song For The Undead. I clicked on it because I liked the summary, it looked really interesting. I would usually read this kind of thing, but at the time it was first posted, we didn't know it was going to be about zombies as the banner and the story name was something different. I thought it was going to be something like Survivors (A BBC show about a flu epidemic which wiped out most of the world), but it was so much more!
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Thanks, Steph! We wanted to keep the zombie thing a secret in the beginning because we didn't want that to turn anyone off to it. Mind you, this was before The Walking Dead and the recent resurgence of zombie stuff! I watched Survivors on On Demand sometime early in the writing of Undead - even without zombies, it was great inspiration!
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on September 17, 2012, 02:06:10 PM ---Do you enjopy writing challenge stories? If you do what has been your favorite challenge to compete in so far and do you have any ideas for upcoming challenges?
If you don't enjoy writing them, why not? What's wrong with you? Are you like a total doofus or something? lmao ;)
Do you read other people's challenge stories? And how do you feel yours compares to the others you have read? If you've read these stories have you left reviews for them?
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I'm not a big fan of challenges that seem really random, the kind that are like, "Write a comedic mystery about Howie that contains the following things: 1) a missing article of clothing, 2) a platypus, and 3) someone shouting "Cheesedoodles!" Must be under 3000 words." I'm just like, "...Why?" I don't like to write stories that don't have a point, nor do I like to write stories that I'm not emotionally invested in. If the challenge doesn't inspire an idea that I really care about taking the time to write, I don't do it.
That said, I do enjoy the challenges that really take me out of my comfort zone. Two of my favorites have been the April Fool's challenges - the 2008 one where we had to write a story that was something we'd never write and post it under an alter ego, and this year's challenge where we had to pick one of the ridiculous premises to turn into a serious story. I really got into the killer monkeys from outer space idea! LOL I felt like those challenges got me to write outside the box, rather than to force my writing into the dimensions of the box built by the challenge-issuer.
Another one I enjoyed was the August 2008 one where we got to issue personal challenges to each other. Rose challenged me to write a gory horror story (which, at the time, was a genre I hadn't really written), and I had a ton of fun writing it and living up to my avatar! LOL I would love to do that kind of personal challenge again.
I don't read all of the challenge stories, but I read some. I review the ones I read. Usually if I write a challenge story, I will read the others for that challenge. If the challenge doesn't interest me, I'm less likely to read the submissions, although sometimes I will read them if they're by my favorite authors or if they just sound interesting.
RokofAges75:
Another thought about challenges - I am more likely to participate in challenges when I'm either between projects or blocked/uninspired and in need of an excuse to not update my current projects. I did more challenges in 2008 than in any other year because that was the lull between finishing BMS and starting Undead. Since then, I've always had at least one novel I'd rather spend my writing time working on.
Sakabelle:
I am a total challenge whore, I admit it lol. That's where like 90% of my one-shots have come from. I do them here and I do them on 1DFF and I just like...love them lol. I think there's something really fun about getting a basic idea and having to form it into a story. And actually, the only two stories I won/got runner up awards for were challenge entries.
Answering that question of which was my favourite is tough! Every time I think I've decided I remember some other challenge and then change my mind lol. But I think it's a tie between the one where we had to write about the boys on the bed, and the April Fool's one where we all wrote those ridiculous stories. Those were so fun and the entries were all so entertaining! I usually do try to read all of the other challenge entries, and if I do I leave a review. I like to see other people's takes on the same basic idea. I don't really compare them though, cause it's not really like it's a competition or anything.
Although on 1DFF the challenges are actually competitions, but I don't read the other entries because you basically can write anything. Everyone's are so radically different. You basically get assigned a song and a boy and go to town. They're not as fun as the ones we do here.
Anyway long story short, I have this addiction to challenges.
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