This week, try writing in a different style. Choose a memorable author and imitate him or her to give your usual fics a different flavor. Go for Faulkner or Joyce's stream-of-consciousness, Dahl's matter-of-fact fantastics, or maybe Turgenev's sardonically detailed prose. Mix it up, take a chance and do something completely different from your normal style!

Because this requires a little extra thought, take 70 minutes to write something grand.

Remember, contrelamontre is for slash, ame_soeur is for het and gen.

Let's talk about dreams. The ones you had as a child or the ones you want right now or even the ones that you've never told a single soul but dream of them nightly. Tell me your dreams and how they can come true.

You've got 75 minutes for this challenge.

Remember, contrelamontre is for slash, ame_soeur is for het and gen.

We all know the type. The one that plans weeks in advance and you're left wishing you could be them. So this week, write about spontanity and what it can bring about, good or bad. From an unexpected rain shower to a blind date that brings you the person you've been looking for, write about it.

You've got 55 minutes for this challenge.

Remember, contrelamontre is for slash, ame_soeur is for het and gen.

I'm busy helping a friend move, so remodelling and renovations are on my mind. Let's work that into a challenge this week. Think about remodelling something - a house, or a relationship, whatever - and work your story around that. Things always need changing, but people aren't always receptive to necessary change. Plenty of fodder for stories.

You've got a full 60 minutes for this challenge.

Remember, contrelamontre is for slash, ame_soeur is for het and gen.

Your challenge this week is ... combine a bunny, an egg, and a basket into your story. It's Easter, after all.

You get 75 minutes this week.

And remember contrelamontre is for slash, ame_soeur is for het and gen.

So this week talk about preparation and how you go about it. Extensive review, last minute cramming, weird strategies, and everything inbetween. Explore how your character gets to that point where they feel confident going into whatever they're doing.

You have 89 minutes.

And remember contrelamontre is for slash, ame_soeur is for het and gen.

This week's challenge, in honor of my liver and this Tuesday, must focus around alcohol. You can choose to do this, but I want the main focus to be the drink.

And, in case you need some time to find your poison inspiration, you get 49 minutes this week!

And remember contrelamontre is for slash, ame_soeur is for het and gen.

Your challenge this week is miscommunication. Somehow, some way, your characters miscommunicated. Write about how this happened, what the consequences were, or simply how it was resolved.

Think fast, because this week you only get 27 minutes.

Remember, contrelamontre is for slash, ame_souer is for het and gen.

Drugs

One (or both) of your characters are drugged up. Cold medicine, pain killers after an injury, or recreational drug use, whatever works.

65 minutes

contrelamontre

ame_soeur

We've all failed at something. Talk about it for this week.

You have 20 minutes.

And remember contrelamontre is for slash, ame_soeur is for het and gen.

This week's challenge is to find a work with "heart" in the title, then write your own story around that title. For example Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, or Edgar Allen Poe's "Tell-tale Heart". Use the title as inspiration, then write it out. You can do poems, movies, books, songs ... anything as long as heart is in the title.

And because this is a two step challenge, you get 70 minutes.

GOOD LUCK!

And remember contrelamontre is for slash, ame_soeur is for het and gen.

Title: Tea and Comfort
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Time Taken: 35 mins.