October Challenge

Hey, writing people...I changed the settings on our blog to have new posts emailed to each person. We're allowed 10 email addresses and right now there are 10 of us, so it seemed like a good idea. If there are more people that want to join...well, I'll have to get back to you on that. But right now we have some writing to do! OK, so I heard back from enough people that it seems the fairy tale idea doesn't sound too horrible, so let's begin with a challenge for the month of October: you are hereby assigned to create a fairy-tale character!

Now, that can mean creating an entirely new story where this character can reside or you can take a "supporting cast" character from an existing fairy tale and fluff them up, make them into the starring role, or at least give them some more depth than is usually done. Just to give you an example, I plan to be doing a Cinderella story based on the point of view of the wicked stepmother, so I'll probably spend October creating a character sketch and putting her into a few scenes where the reader sees the events unfolding from her point of view. I have no idea if I can make it work, but I think it's worth a shot. Feel free to steal my idea but I really would much rather read what other people come up with because other people's creative ideas make me all warm and tingly inside.

So let the month of October begin! (Just a few days early) and lets say we get these done sometime before Halloween. You know you'll be too busy the last few days of the month so the sooner the better. And feel free to post any thoughts, questions, or writing samples on the blog in the meantime. If anyone has any great writing sites or quotes feel free to post those as well, or pass them on to me and I'll compile them on the sidebar. If I see anything particularly inspiring I may make a few posts this month. So if you're too busy sorting through the weight loss offers and get-rich-quick-schemes in your inboxes and you'd rather not receive these posts by email just let me know and I'll take you off. You'll remain an author (able to post) on here, you just won't be automatically emailed whenever someone posts something to the blog. Hope that made sense. It's almost 11:30pm and there have been fireworks going off all night here from Muslims getting excited to end Ramadan (wow, a really loud one just went off that literally almost made me jump off the couch) and my brain is full of the Ugly Betty re-runs I've been watching all night so I really should go to bed. Can't wait to read your stuff!