Torchwood LAS. Round One - challenge one.
Here we are at last, ready to start round one. With 11 people taking part, and losing a projected one person a week, we are looking at running until mid/late August.
Theme: In the Dark.
It could be literal darkness - night time, stuck in room without lights, a power cut, or being blindfolded. Or a symbolic one - being kept in the dark about something or the something moving in the dark theme that kept cropping up in the earlier series. The dark could be fun - what a couple of characters get up to in their bedroom when the turn the lights off, or scary, maybe there's something with claws lurking just out of sight. So interpret 'In The Dark' however you wish.
Additional word/object/element: Music.
Live music, recorded music, eerie music with no known source, a book sheet music. Or maybe the rain sounds like music as it falls. Music needs to appear in the fic, even if it's just a throwaway reference.
Maximum Word Count: 400 words. (Because word programs vary in how they count as long as the word count you give me is 400 words or less I'll take your word for it, as long as it's not obviously very over, like it's 500 words. Words in the header don't count towards the total.)
Deadline: 9pm UK/4pm EST Friday the 11th of May.
Any characters, any series, any genre, any pairing or no pairing they're all good.
Submitting your entry:
You can either post it directly into the screened comments on this entry http://torchwood-las.livejournal.com/1507.html or send it to torchwoodlas@gmail.com
When submitting your entry use the following header.
Title If you really can't think of one just put 'Untitled' just so I know I've not messed up on posting it and missed something out.
Author This is so the mod knows whose entries have been received. This will be removed for the anonymous posting.
Word Count anything up to and including 400 words (Words in the header don't count towards the total)
Rating G, PG etc.
Warnings If any. If the answer is none, please write none. The presence of a same sex pairing is not something to warn for.
Skipping this round/any other round.
Everybody taking part starts with one free skip which they can use so that they don't have to write for a round.
If you need to use you skip either post a comment here or email to torchwoodlas@gmail.com to say you are using a skip for the round.
The deadline for using a skip is the same as if you were submitting a fic.
Skips can be earned for winning a round, and built up to a maximum of three. Skips can't be used when we only have four people left - so the last two rounds.
Any other information:
Because we will be having anonymous voting on the stories please don't post them anywhere until after the voting has finished, and it's been revealed who wrote what.
Stories don't need to be beta'd. If you do use a beta the 'don't vote for yourself' applies to both the writer and beta reader of the fic.
Please don't tell people which story is yours and ask them to vote for it. Telling people there's stories to vote on without saying which is your is good though, more readers/votes means more feedback for everybody.
I will let writers know when I've received their story. If you haven't heard in 24 hours or a couple of hours if it's on the deadline day I've not received it and could you send it again.
Any questions ask on this post and I'll try to answer them.
(I will put up the post for and about voting at the same time the story post goes up, which will be on Saturday the 12th of May.)
Theme: In the Dark.
It could be literal darkness - night time, stuck in room without lights, a power cut, or being blindfolded. Or a symbolic one - being kept in the dark about something or the something moving in the dark theme that kept cropping up in the earlier series. The dark could be fun - what a couple of characters get up to in their bedroom when the turn the lights off, or scary, maybe there's something with claws lurking just out of sight. So interpret 'In The Dark' however you wish.
Additional word/object/element: Music.
Live music, recorded music, eerie music with no known source, a book sheet music. Or maybe the rain sounds like music as it falls. Music needs to appear in the fic, even if it's just a throwaway reference.
Maximum Word Count: 400 words. (Because word programs vary in how they count as long as the word count you give me is 400 words or less I'll take your word for it, as long as it's not obviously very over, like it's 500 words. Words in the header don't count towards the total.)
Deadline: 9pm UK/4pm EST Friday the 11th of May.
Any characters, any series, any genre, any pairing or no pairing they're all good.
Submitting your entry:
You can either post it directly into the screened comments on this entry http://torchwood-las.livejournal.com/1507.html or send it to torchwoodlas@gmail.com
When submitting your entry use the following header.
Title If you really can't think of one just put 'Untitled' just so I know I've not messed up on posting it and missed something out.
Author This is so the mod knows whose entries have been received. This will be removed for the anonymous posting.
Word Count anything up to and including 400 words (Words in the header don't count towards the total)
Rating G, PG etc.
Warnings If any. If the answer is none, please write none. The presence of a same sex pairing is not something to warn for.
Skipping this round/any other round.
Everybody taking part starts with one free skip which they can use so that they don't have to write for a round.
If you need to use you skip either post a comment here or email to torchwoodlas@gmail.com to say you are using a skip for the round.
The deadline for using a skip is the same as if you were submitting a fic.
Skips can be earned for winning a round, and built up to a maximum of three. Skips can't be used when we only have four people left - so the last two rounds.
Any other information:
Because we will be having anonymous voting on the stories please don't post them anywhere until after the voting has finished, and it's been revealed who wrote what.
Stories don't need to be beta'd. If you do use a beta the 'don't vote for yourself' applies to both the writer and beta reader of the fic.
Please don't tell people which story is yours and ask them to vote for it. Telling people there's stories to vote on without saying which is your is good though, more readers/votes means more feedback for everybody.
I will let writers know when I've received their story. If you haven't heard in 24 hours or a couple of hours if it's on the deadline day I've not received it and could you send it again.
Any questions ask on this post and I'll try to answer them.
(I will put up the post for and about voting at the same time the story post goes up, which will be on Saturday the 12th of May.)