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Author Topic: new anonymous challenge maybe... lol  (Read 39722 times)

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new anonymous challenge maybe... lol
« on: July 10, 2014, 07:40:19 PM »

Your challenge is to write a short story inspired by the lyrics of one of the following Track #2 BSB songs:

Anywhere for You
Quit Playing Games
As Long As You Love Me
I Want it That Way
Shape of My Heart
Everybody
Just Want You to Know
Everything But Mine
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You can interpret the song as literally or as loosely as you like.  Your story doesn't necessarily have to fit with the whole song, but should work with at least one lyric.

This is an anonymous challenge, which means you won't reveal what you wrote until the end of the challenge.  After all entries are submitted, we'll turn this into a game where we try to guess who wrote what story and what song it was based on (I thought the last part would make for a fun extra challenge!).  That means you should not submit your entry under your own username, and you should not use any lyrics from the song in the title, summary, or text of the story.  If you really like songfics and want to go back and add those things in after the challenge is over, that's fine.  You can also add your own username as a co-author after the challenge is over if you want your story listed under your name.

For the challenge, you will post your story under the challenges account Mare created last year.

Username: challenges
Password: acbsb


You can also use this account to review other people's submissions.  This will make it possible to give feedback without either revealing that you didn't write that story or reviewing yourself to try to fool people.

The last day to submit a story will be Saturday, August 16.  That gives you one month.  We will start the guessing part of it on Sunday, August 17th - more information to follow on that.

Hopefully that makes sense.  Let me know if you have any questions!
« Last Edit: July 19, 2014, 09:58:52 PM by mare »
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Re: new anonymous challenge maybe... lol
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2014, 07:56:05 PM »

Sounds good.  Thanks for starting a thread for this!
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Re: new anonymous challenge maybe... lol
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2014, 08:23:08 PM »

Yuppers! We'll just have to see how many people actually do something.

I'm very used to the whole "ooh great idea I'm in..." followed by *crickets* lol
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Re: new anonymous challenge maybe... lol
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2014, 09:12:41 PM »

So only photos from like shoots and stuff pretty much? I will have to look on my computer and see what i have lol. Any good picture i see i try to save never know when i will need it lol
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Re: new anonymous challenge maybe... lol
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2014, 09:14:38 PM »

Yup!
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Re: new anonymous challenge maybe... lol
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2014, 12:01:12 AM »

I like this idea but my phone doesn't let me view photos on the forum for some reason. I'll still try to participate though.
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Re: new anonymous challenge maybe... lol
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2014, 02:53:35 PM »

Yup, this is going just as I expected lol
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Re: new anonymous challenge maybe... lol
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2014, 03:37:22 PM »

LOL I dunno about the whole picture challenge idea; that is not really my thing, so I don't know what kind of pictures to look for.  Nothing really speaks to me.
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Re: new anonymous challenge maybe... lol
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2014, 03:49:58 PM »

Lol sorry I've been a lol busier. I was tossing around thoughts when I said pictures, it could be anything really. I haven't had time to look for photos anyway.
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Re: new anonymous challenge maybe... lol
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2014, 04:05:52 PM »

Well the thread is here for whenever anyone feels inspired to do anything lol

I am not feeling a picture challenge either. I think we'd do better with a theme like last time.

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Re: new anonymous challenge maybe... lol
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2014, 04:08:00 PM »

I just modified the first post.
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Re: new anonymous challenge maybe... lol
« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2014, 04:20:15 PM »

Yeah, that sounds better.
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Re: new anonymous challenge maybe... lol
« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2014, 05:53:19 PM »

This is not the same idea, but this whole Nick & Knight tragedy gave me an idea for another challenge.  What about some kind of crossover challenge, where you take one of your own characters (Backstreet Boy or original) and someone else's character from another story and write them in a situation together?  Kinda like how some TV shows have crossover events... ER and Third Watch comes to mind; they started a storyline on an episode of ER and finished it on an episode of Third Watch.  Would anyone be interested in doing something like that?
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Re: new anonymous challenge maybe... lol
« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2014, 05:57:42 PM »

I like that idea, like every time they introduce a new spin off of CSI or NCIS lol
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Re: new anonymous challenge maybe... lol
« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2014, 07:27:48 PM »

Sounds good but not sure I'd be into it.

Maybe I just don't understand it. So, do you mean like if I take Nick from one of my stories and Howie from one of yours?  Type deals?
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