March Challenge

[tamingmods.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone! *waves*

It’s time for our March monthly challenge!

1000+ word Simile challenge. This should be a complete story, rather than a part of a larger piece, however, it can be original or fan fiction.




This month, you choose a simile and that will be the title and theme of your piece. For Example: if you chose the simile 'As Right as Rain' this would be the title of the piece, and you could write about a woman who is finally coming to grips with the loss of a loved one. Or perhaps she has escaped a terrible situation and ends up in a field during a downpour and suddenly feels euphoric and uplifted by her freedom. Other than the title, you don't have to include the simile in your piece.



Entries will need to be received by midnight 31 March. at GMT -12. We’ll issue a closed post as we do with the weekly prompts.

When you post your entry, please tag it for the challenge.

You do not have to be a regularly contributing member of the community to participate. This challenge is optional and open to everyone.

You are allowed to use the monthly challenge in conjunction with any of the weekly prompts this month as long as you follow all the requirements for both. So, for this month, you would:

• Include the weekly prompt in your story
• It would be a stand-alone, short story of 1000 words or more with a simile as the title, and the same simile used as the theme of the piece
• It would be posted by the earlier of the two deadlines (midnight Saturday, or midnight on the 31st).

Good luck everyone!

~tamingmods (calypso)

Comments

[alakewood.livejournal.com]

Two questions: 1) Does the simile we use have to be a common/cliched one, or can it be a made-up one? And, 2) Does the simile/title have to encompass the whole story, or can it just be part of it?

[nondenomifan.livejournal.com]

May we also post the monthly challenge independently of the weekly prompts; that is to say, without posting an entry for a weekly prompt?