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

Quick question, if you're around

[twinsarein.livejournal.com]

I've gotten a last minute idea for a multiple drabble, so this question is related to one I've l already asked. I think I know the answer, but thought I'd be sure. This should be my last question for a while.

If writing a multi-chaptered drabble, and the prompt word is used in the first chapter, is it necessary to use it in all subsequent chapters if it's clear that the venue hasn't changed? Using WatchTower as an example, If a character is in the WatchTower, and it's stated in the first chapter, and then the character clearly doesn't leave the place, is it required to keep using the word in each chapter?

I hope this makes sense.

Re: Quick question, if you're around

[flareonfury.livejournal.com]

You'd have to mention them staying in one spot if you do that.

Also if you're writing a multi-chaptered drabble than the only two of those drabbles count toward the monthly challenge... I forgot to mention that before but I kinda thought that was clear but now I wasn't sure.

Re: Quick question, if you're around

[twinsarein.livejournal.com]

Ollie is going to be moving from room to room in the WatchTower - kitchen, exercise, recreation, observation, control, etc. I can probably work it into each chapter, just in case.

I thought the two drabble limit was for couples only. And trust me, there will not be any chapters with repeated couples in this fic. It's going to be a bit of a free-for-all.

If that is incorrect, then two chapters can be counted toward the monthly challenge, I guess, and they can all o toward the weekly challenge.

Re: Quick question, if you're around

[flareonfury.livejournal.com]

The Two limit drabble is for couples only, but I wasn't sure you if you were going to be writing a multi-chaptered-drabble pairing so its completely fine if two of "chapters" are of the "new pairing". The rest would be toward the weekly challenge unless they too have different pairings.

Re: Quick question, if you're around

[twinsarein.livejournal.com]

Each chapter of the fic will have a different pairing, maybe more than one. Thank you so much for clarifying, and for taking the time to answer so many of my questions. I really appreciate it. I'll try to leave you alone for a while. *g*