Taming the Muse

We had quite a turn out for our first ever monthly challenge! ^_^ And for those who participated, you've got a pretty coming your way.

Congratulations go to alakewood, authoressnebula, ayoub, catw00man, d_fritillary, delilahdraken, guardian_erin, pesha, piksa, tiaordona, tigerstriped86, xocoatldreams, and zippitgood!! Thanks so much for participating, everyone!!

Awards for participating are beneath the cut. Because there are so many, one for each name listed above, I'd have to rank it as not very dial-up safe. If this becomes a problem for too many people, please let me know, and I'll divide them up into separate posts.

( All pretties under here! )

The new challenge is up; feel free to join in if it strikes your muse. Just remember to please tag your posts! ^_^

Congratulations to everyone again!

~Nebula

Hello everyone! *waves*

It’s time for our very first optional monthly challenge!

December’s challenge will be:

1000+ word, original Holiday fiction. This should be a complete story, rather than a part of a larger piece.


You can pick any December holiday you like – Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Boxing day, New Years Eve – whatever. If there’s a holiday in your part of the world that I haven’t mentioned, feel free to use that.

Entries will need to be received by midnight 31 Dec. 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. I think we’re going to try to do banners and a master post at the end of the month for all those who participated.

We picked original fiction because our hope was it would encourage more people to read and hopefully comment. Sometimes that’s hard to do in fandom’s you don’t know. Ditto on fic's part of longer original works that you are unfamiliar with.

You do not have to be a regularly contributing member of the community to participate. This challenge is 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, Holiday-themed short story of 1000 words or more
• It would be posted by the earlier of the two deadlines (midnight Saturday, or midnight on the 31st).

Good luck everyone!

~tamingmods (calypso)