ADMIN POST: The Documentation Challenge.

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The Documentation Challenge.
This one comes to us from LauraKaye. Write a story that is either in the form of or prominantly features some kind of document (e.g. case report, traffic ticket, personnel evaluation, pizza delivery log, diary or journal, letter, phone bill, deposition or transcript...)

It's Monday by my watch--stories are due next Monday before midnight.

(And while I have your attention--I need more challenges, people! Submit those challenges! Put 'em in the comments, send me an email, buttonhole me at the bar and say, "Ces, ol' buddy, ol' pal--I'm picturing a challenge with a leather harness, an egg time, and a kazoo...." Put all these great minds to work for YOU!)

Comments

[axiom_of_stripe]

how about a tea challenge? drink tea, make tea, bitch about tea, dump hot tea on someone's lap....

or a challenge for passing as something the character isn't (be it sexual orientation, gender, nationality, or something kinkier).

i'd say a poetry challenge, but that might be a last resort -- so very many ways to go so wrong on that one.

or a letter challenge: write a whole story without using the letter 'i'. bet that'd keep people from running so far over the word limit!

a drunk and disorderly challenge might be fun.

what about a porn challenge? the characters must be having sex for the entire duration of the story!

gotta love cough medicine. how come other illnesses don't get such good drugs? there's a question for the ages.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Tea--check! Or we could broaden it to The Coffee, Tea, or Me Challenge. *g* Hee, I like that. The beverage challenge.

Passing is brilliant but tough--it's a very specific kind of fabrication. Hmm. Might blur interestingly with undercover. Passing, undercover, trying to be what you're not, trying to fool somebody...

Poetry, man--I suppose we could broaden it to include lines of poetry--like, that every story has to be prefaced by a few lines of poetry, and maybe named for that poetry. Rather than everyone having to write poetry themselves. Which I frankly fear. (Not least of all my own poetry.)

LOVE the letter challenge--we must do that, absolutely! George Perec wrote a novel using only the letters A-H, so this should be doable, really.

Drunk and disorderly is just a given, too. *g* As is the porn challenge. Done.