The Goldenlake Drabble Tournament is officially closed! :) Thanks to everyone who participated!

The first issue of Giantkiller, the Tamora Pierce fanzine by Goldenlake, is now officially released!! Featuring an exclusive Q&A with Tamora Pierce herself, and plenty of other awesome stuff!!! :D For those who wish to see it on lj instead of the Goldenlake board, you can also access it at gk_fanzine

Title: Nineteen
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: Numbers
Category: 100 words
Word count: 100 words
Summary: Nineteen is her curse and her absolution

 

 

( Nineteen years old, nineteen days late )

Title: Mirrors
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: Villain
Category: 100 words
Word count: 100 words
Summary: Reflecting on Roger, scrying, and sloppiness

 

 

 

( Roger loves, and hates, mirrors )

 

Title: Character Switch drabbles
Author: Imogen
Rating: PG-13 for innuendo and swearing
Prompt: Switch (#1)
Category: 250 word
Word count: See below
Summary: See below. Drabbles 1 and 3 are GDT entries. Drabble 2 is too long :(


I was really happy when I saw the GDT prompt 'switch.' In December, wottie posted a similar prompt at tammy_drabbles: This week, one character switches sides. Is Alanna fighting for Tusaine? Is Jonathan trying to assassinate Roger, not the other way around? Is Keladry a spy from Scanra? I immediately got all kinds of plot bunnies but didn't have time to write them then, so it seemed like a chance not to be missed when I saw the GDT prompt! Thank you Lan, and thanks to the person who came up with the GDT prompts, for the inspiration.


In Which Alanna is Tusainie (250 words)

In Which Numair is a Carthaki Spy (350 words)

In Which Jonathan is Trying to Kill Roger (250 words)

GOLDENLAKE DRABBLE TOURNAMENT

PROMPTS

The Drabble Prompts for the Goldenlake Drabble Tournament:

 
1.  Switch

The first drabble prompt is “switch”.

Chose a character, an event, a relationship, a decision, or so on – and switch it. It could be as fundamental or as insignificant as you like. Take a good person and make them evil. Take a success and make it a failure. Take lovers and make them enemies. Take a question and change its answer.

Pick something, or someone – and switch it.

 

2. Numbers

The second drabble prompt is “numbers”.

Numbers can represent a lot of things. The time of day something happened. The amount of money you owe someone. The decrease in your fortune. The age of your child. The years that have passed. The lovers you’ve had. The lives you’ve taken.

Pick a number, and explore its hidden meaning.

 

3. Villain

The final drabble prompt is “villain”.

The villains in both Tortall and Emelan are very clear – or are they? Take a villain, and give them shades of grey. Expose something about them.  Did we realise they were bad? What motivates them? What are their weaknesses? Give them some depth and humanity. Maybe we’ll like them – or maybe we’ll fear them even more.

And don’t forget – one person’s hero can be another person’s villain.

 

PLEASE NOTE: Entries CANNOT be submitted before May 1st or after May 31st.

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Just a quick one :)

1. The Drabble Tournament prompts are released tomorrow. Don't forget to sign up for judging if you've been contemplating it.

2.  pierceart (another of our sister communities) is hosting a May fanart drive - details can be found here!

Hey Pierceficcers :)

The Goldenlake Drabble Tournament is almost upon us - April 24th is the release of the Tournament Prompts!

For those of you wanting to practice your drabble skills before then, I suggest the fortnightly Goldenlake Drabble Prompts (now cross posted to fief_goldenlake ).

Goldenlake, the Tamora Pierce message board, opens up officially on Wednesday - I encourage everyone who hasn't joined yet to do so! It now had over 2000 posts!





Stay tuned for more information on the Goldenlake Drabble Tournament in early April :)

Both of these prompts were written for prompt #1 (colour), for the Goldenlake Drabble prompts over at Goldenlake

One:

Title: Blue
Rating: G
Prompt: 1 - Colour
Summary: Cythera remembers. Dedicated toseori , for helping me defeat my Writer's Block.

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( After Jonathan's coronation, Cythera could not... )




Two:

Title: Green Eyes
Rating: G
Prompt: 1 - Colour
Summary: Sometimes bored Princesses wreck marriages. 100 words. Dedicated toubiquitous_girl .

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( The night had been most tedious.  )

The piercefic  mods are deciding on the word limit for the Drabble Tournament and we'd like your opinion.

While we realise a drabble is strictly 100 words, we are happy to take a more open approach and allow up to 250 words, if participants prefer that. Or we can compromise and have two separate categories.

If we have a standard word limit, prizes will be awarded within the prompt categories. If we have two word limits, prizes will be awarded on word limit categories regardless of prompt.


Poll #1372186 Drabble Tournament Word Limits
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Would you prefer the tournament to have:

Somehow this escaped my last post - can the place winners (1st-3rd in Emelan and Tortall) and the Piercefic Award winner all please PM me so we can sort out prizes? Thanks :)

Congratulations to all the winners!! Banners are below, sorted by category, etc, in the same way winners were posted. Graphic heavy. Also if anyone has any issues with the banners, please let me know. :)

( Tortall - 1st, 2nd and 3rd )


( Tortall - Honourable Mentions )


( Emelan - 1st, 2nd and 3rd )


( Special Categories )


( The Piercefic Author Award )