Monthly Challenge: May

[flareonfury.livejournal.com]

The Monthly Challenge was chosen by you members to be added to the site and I'm finally entering it.... so hopefully its successful. If not, well, I probably won't bother.

Anyway the GENERAL rules for the MONTHLY CHALLENGE is that you: (it will be added to the rules/guidelines post)

1) Follow the Prompt's guidelines.
2) Tag it with "monthly: [month] [year]"    - example would be monthly: april 2010
3) It starts with the FIRST prompt challenge each month and ends with the LAST prompt challenge.
4) Monthly Challenges are ALWAYS optional.
5) You can write as many Monthly Challenge Prompts you want... so if you just want to write one, go ahead! However to win this challenge you must have the MOST monthly challenge drabbles.

Questions on the monthly challenge would go HERE.

Now for THIS month's challenge!

This challenge is for you to write NEW/DIFFERENT pairings than you USUALLY/HAVE WRITTEN for SV100.
EXAMPLE: So if you have written ONLY Chloe/Oliver and Clark/Lois for past prompts - you can't write those pairings again for this challenge. You would have to use pairings you haven't written for in SV100.
This is a GREAT challenge if you've always wanted to write a Jor-El/Bart or Lana/Martha or some other pairing... but never did.
 

To answer some questions I know you might have for this challenge:
 

Q : What if I've written _a_/_b_ before, but I've never written _a_/_b_ for this community, can I still write _a_/_b_ for the MC?
A : Yes! :) I'm just trying to mix the drabbles up than just having the same pairings over and over. ;-)

Q : Does the pairing have to be romantic?
A :  Yes it does, or at least only one character must be attracted to the one other.

Q : What if I don't exactly ship any other pairings than the ones I usually write for SV100?
A : That's actually kinda sad since I have probably more than 10 pairings I ship in SV - you should be proud that you've limited yourself - it probably drives you less crazy. BUT ANYWAY.... Either write ANY pairings you're sorta interested in, ignore this challenge, or try to think of a pairing no one else has written about [or at least to your knowledge].

Q : If I write one _b_/_c_ drabble and one  _c_/_a_ drabble for the "Red" prompt, would I still be able to write _c_/_a_ for the next prompt after "Red"?
A : I'm limiting it to only TWO drabbles max for each different/new pairing for the May's Monthly Challenge you write. So after writing another  _c_/_a, you would have to write some other pairing.

If you have any more questions, comment below!

Comments

[twinsarein.livejournal.com]

Hey there. Another question about this different pairing challenge. I wrote something like seven different pairings for this challenge so far. May I use those pairs again this month, or do I have to pick only brand new pairings for Watchtower and whatever the last weekly prompt of the month will be?

Also, a question I've been meaning to ask for a while - when I first started the prompt word actually had to be used in the 100 words. Is that still the case? I ask, because the phrase under the prompt posts says something like, "can be a word used, a place visited, or an idea expressed."

The phrase 'idea expressed' made me think the word doesn't have to be in their. Like I could say JLA Headquarters, instead. Anyway, I've been wanting clarification on that for quite a while. Thanks.

[flareonfury.livejournal.com]

First question - as long as you only used the pairing once you use it again. HOWEVER, if you used the pairing twice than you can not use it again.

Second question - "can be a word used, a place visited, or an idea expressed" just something I saw at another challenge community and I have used since the beginning. Generally I think its meant to explain how you can use the word/prompt sometimes like the word "kiss". As long as its VERY clear someone got done kissing or thinking about kissing someone its an "idea expressed", a "place visited" would be something like a building/shop titled "Ginger Kissed" or something along those lines like a kissing booth, while you can just use the word "kiss".

Yes JLA HQ would be considered alright to use because the current prompt is Watchtower, which I consider is Ollie & Chloe's team members - Justice League - headquarters and Chloe's current home, not say Hawkman's team which is JSA.

[twinsarein.livejournal.com]

Hmm, sorry to ask a question you had answered in the original post. I don't know how I missed that information.

Thanks for taking the time to answer it anyway, as well as the others I had. I really appreciate it.