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Spring Thaw Challenge!!!
Like the initial Northen News challenge, this is a fic and art challenge based on actual headlines from CBC Northern News! Use the headline as the central theme of your story or as a jumping off point. THEN, as soon as you finish with one prompt, you can come right back and grab another! Read on for more!
Here's how to play!
1. Behind the cut tag are 50 headlines from cbcnorthernnews. Comment below to sign up and claim one, and that headline is yours!
2. Each prompt can be claimed ONCE BY A WRITER AND ONCE BY AN ARTIST!! Please check the most recent comments to make sure the prompt you want hasn't just been taken. Thank you!
3. No minimum word limit! No restrictions on genre, content, or rating! Gen, het, slash, femslash -- any pairing or moresome -- any rating! Crossovers welcome!
4. Write and post your story!! You can post here - or post a link back to your journal. You can then claim another prompt and do it all over again, as many times as you like!
5. Artists! You're free to make fan art, wallpapers, icons, vids, etc. Whatever strikes your fancy!
6. Okay! Get ready to grab a prompt and sign up! Please comment below using the following form to claim your prompt. (Note: you must specify fic or art.)
name: mergatrude
fic or art: fic
prompt: 31. Moose becomes mayor of Churchill!
The challenge closes on 30 June 2008.
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1. Mounties among northerners remembered on workers' day of mourning
2. Police car hit, damaged in downtown Yellowknife chase
3. N.W.T. commission to rule on sexually charged music in workplace
4. Scientists find 17 living relatives of 'iceman' discovered in B.C. glacier
5. Blizzard forces suspension of search for missing Sanikiluaq hunter
6. Nunavut woman charged with arson in Yellowknife townhouse blaze
7. Yellowknife soccer victories rekindle territorial dispute
8. Yellowknife teen pulled out of snowbank
9. Inuvik school works on revamping outdated library - primroseburrows, fic
10. Emotions run high at Cambridge Bay meeting on alcohol
11. Northerners urged to conserve energy to avoid outages
12. Sew, don't gamble, suggests Arviat seamstress
13. Ice fog, deep freeze lead to Whitehorse fender-benders
14. Lengthy process ahead for Inuit truth panel: commissioner
15. Bombardier probes 2 snow-machine explosions in Labrador
16. N.W.T. hockey officials consider drug tests for players - jadelennox, fic
17. Anchorage's 'running of the reindeer' a charging success: organizers
18. Destruction Bay residents keep eyes, cameras out for cougars
19. RCMP probe Taser incident involving girl in Inuvik jail
20. Balmy spell nixes Haines Junction sled-dog races
21. Scientists to test space suits, rovers on Nunavut's Mars-like crater - akamine_chan, fic
22. Cambridge Bay reels in national fishing show
23. Inuvik mayor introduces anti-idling bylaw
24. Innu kids facing foster care crisis: chief - alex51324 - fic
25. Rankin Inlet connects with cellphone service
26. Iqaluit hunters worried by wounded polar bear
27. 25th Yukon Quest underway after bumpy start - clear_as_blood, art
28. RCMP's 'relationship' with gunman may have ended standoff: Norman Wells mayor - keerawa, fic
29. Sachs Harbour finally set to get RCMP detachment
30. New routes for Tlicho winter road considered
31. Early morning earthquake shakes Yukoners awake
32. Old shipping crates reborn as Taloyoak garbage bins
33. Inuvik animal officer's dismissal fires up residents
34. Carvings missing after Kugluktuk hamlet office break-in
35. Inuit truth commission begins hearings on sled-dog deaths
36. Aussie adventurers to try again with Victoria Island trek
37. Marsh Lake residents make plans to fight floods
38. N.W.T. seeks independent review of caribou counts
39. N.W.T.'s only reindeer herd is missing - aingeal8c, fic
40. Outdated charts of Arctic waters could threaten ship safety: expert - isiscolo, art
41. Inuit seek 1949 plane crash victims in Manitoba community
42. New RCMP policy to increase workload in the North
43. Canadian satellite set to keep an eye on Arctic
44. Wandering fox scares kids at Inuvik elementary school
45. NFB doc puts Western Arctic radio station in the spotlight - akite, fic
46. Watson Lake pet owners warned of roaming wolf pack
47. New batch of dead ravens worry Iqaluit wildlife officers
48. Neighbours complain youth unsupervised at group homes
49. Most complaints against Nunavut RCMP resolved through talks, police say
50. Old mining claim could be clue in missing prospector search