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*blows whistle*
Okay! Time for a new prompt. Thank you so much to everyone who wrote for the last challenge. Dis be the masterlist. Read and comment!
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) raedbard wrote The Sun that Lights the Pages [Toby/Andrea, Huck, Molly, PG-13]
soaked_in_stars wrote A History of Lovers, Given and Taken in Ink [Toby/Andrea, Huck, Molly, R]
amy_vic wrote (no subject) [Andy, Matt Skinner, PG-13]
harlowbabe wrote Home Thoughts From Abroad [C.J., Toby, Huck, Molly, G]
* So, new challenge. Sort of a fun mix-n-match one this time. I don't how well this will work out but let's try it anyway! I want you to a) take any three TWW characters (major players to minor guests, anyone you like), b) pick one of these locations: a movie theatre, a train station, a cabin in the woods, c) one of these objects: a key, a cellphone, a pair of spectacles, and d) one these verbs: learn, indulge, mock. Then, use them however you see fit. Let us know which ones you picked at the start of the story, if you like. Have fun seeing what happens. Since this is a fairly complicated challenge (or at least a new and uncertain one!), you have the rest of the month to come up with something. As ever: 500 words minimum and everything else is fair play.
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Title: Home Thoughts From Abroad
Author: Donna
Category: Friendship
Characters: CJ, Toby, Huck, Molly
Pairing: None
Word Count: 794
Rating: General
Summary: Letters from Paris.
Author’s Note: Not mine, do not sue. This came to me at the eleventh hour and it probably shows. The CJ/Toby S7 crap never happened and even though I’m still yet to see the conclusion, my Toby ended up in New York.
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Characters: Andrea Wyatt, Matt Skinner
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: Epistolary
Spoilers: Mr. Willis of Ohio, Take This Sabbath Day
Disclaimer: This is all a work of fiction.
A/N: Thanks to soaked_in_stars for the suggestions/cheerleading.
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Title: A History of Lovers, Given and Taken in Ink
Characters: Andrea Wyatt/Toby Ziegler, brief Huck and Molly
Prompt: Epistolary
Word Count: ~2,560
Rating: r
Summary: Their history was in scraps of paper.
(A History of Lovers, Given and Taken in Ink)
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Title: The Sun that Lights the Pages
Author: raedbard
Pairing: Toby/Andrea
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~2,300
Disclaimer: Not Sorkin, not Wells. Don't sue?
Warnings | Timeline | Spoilers: None | post-series, year 2012 | season 7
A/N: For the 'epistolary narrative' prompt. (I have cheated *slightly*, I'm afraid, as this isn't a story entirely told through letters etc.)
Summary: Toby keeps a notebook; Andy takes a peek.
The Sun that Lights the Pages
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Hi guys, just a note to say that the current prompt will be up until July 5th. So you have another week or so if the mood takes you. :)
Thanks guys.
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Your mod apologises for leaving you stranded with the hurt/comfort prompt for so long! A month is long enough, so we'll get on with another one, yes?
This time what I want you to do is write a story using some kind of epistolary narrative.
The great part about this challenge is how many options you could potentially play about with. Traditionally epistolary narrative involved letters and sometimes diary entries and newspaper clippings (as in Dracula, say) but now we've got email, texts, blogging, IM, Twitter, digital recordings (radio, podcasts), even something like textsfromlastnight. You could pick any of those, or mix up a selection of them, or, if you really want a challenge, try to use every single one.
So, go nuts. As ever: minimum 500 words, no upper limit on word count, no other rules. You've got til the end of the month. Probably. * Last time's masterlist: + thecolourclear wrote My Small Hand Will Be Enough [Molly, Huck, Andrea, C.J., PG-13] + thecolourclear wrote Untitled [Will, C.J., Toby, PG]
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Characters: Will, CJ, Toby, a few others mentioned
Word Count: 574
Summary: As for Toby, he was his own group, watching the room, scanning for something.
Notes: This is a snippet of my much larger Berlin Wall AU fic, a Toby-centric fic that focusses on the staff as part of a resistance movement in East Berlin. This section fit the hurt/comfort prompt, so I thought I would post it. And posting snippets means I'm more likely to actually do the research and finish the thing.
Warnings: character death
( Untitled Berlin Wall Snippet )
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Title: My Small Hand (Will Be Enough)
WC: 1519
Characters: Huck, Molly, Andrea, CJ
Rating: PG-13 for thematics
Summary: It is the only thing Huck knows about his sister right now; she is sad and he does not have the words to comfort her.
Notes: There's some pretty obvious hints of violence
( My Small Hand (Will Be Enough) )
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Hey guys, two things:
+ For the wonderful month of April, we have ourselves a masterlist. \o/! Read and comment, as ever, and thanks so much to everyone who wrote. :)
Masterlist for the Writing in the Second Person Challenge:
raedbard wrote Missing Me One Place Search Another [Toby/Sam, NC-17]
quirkytaverna wrote I Wish You Couldn't Figure Me Out [Sam, Toby, G]
harlowbabe wrote Laura [C.J./Abbey, R]
caitrin wrote Just Come Home [Toby/Andrea, PG] * + It's also time for a new prompt. I thought this time we'd resurrect a fandom staple and try to write something based around the good ol' hurt/comfort theme. You know the kind of thing: X is beaten up/shot at/freezing to death in a cave somewhere and Y provides the comfort. Basically, it's all about vulnerability. Doesn't have to be physical hurt (nor physical comfort). The comfort need not necessarily be accepted, nor generously given -- a bit of theme subversion is always good. But that is your challenge, should you choose to accept it. So, as per the new rule things (such as they are), you have two weeks. (Say, May 16th?) Or thereabouts. I'm not counting too exactly. ;)
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Here's my entry:
Title: Just Come Home
Disclaimer: Alas, these characters are not mine.
Rating: PG
Genre: Angst, stream-of-consciousness, character study
Pairing: Toby/Andi
Timeline: During "Gaza."
Feedback: Yes please!
( When you hear her voice on the phone, you know instantly that it's the best sound you've ever heard in your life. )
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Title: Laura
Author: harlowbabe
Category: Angst
Characters: CJ, Abbey
Pairing: CJ/Abbey
Word Count: c1100
Timeline: Somewhere around ‘The Wake Up Call’, S5
Rating: Mature
Warning: Contains descriptions of nausea
Summary: Some things can never be forgotten
Author’s Note: Not mine, do not sue. I’m pretty sure I screwed this prompt up but never mind. Practice makes perfect. If the name of a character in this story has been mentioned in the series I apologise for slipping up but I couldn’t find any reference to it.
This is my first fic post here so mods please tell me if I need to change anything.
( I’m going to find a corner, and then I’m going to die in it. )
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Title: I Wish You Couldn't Figure Me Out
Author: quirkytaverna
Fandom: The West Wing
Characters/Pairing: Sam, Toby, a little Sam/Toby
Disclaimer: Not mine, no gain, don’t sue please.
Rating/Warning: N/A
Summary: You've been in his office all day, crunch-curled in a chair and writing, knees almost to your chest serving as an impromptu desk. The paper is spidered with your words, and they make more sense on the paper than they did in your mind, which is something more inexplicable than even you can grasp.
A/N: 1,100ish words. Title: Nicest Thing, Kate Nash. For the ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) tww_minis "Write in second person" prompt: Inspired by raedbard
I Wish You Couldn't Figure Me Out @ my LJ
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Title: Missing Me One Place Search Another
Author: raedbard
Pairing: Toby/Sam
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: c. 2,000
Disclaimer: Not Sorkin, not Wells. Don't sue?
Warnings | Timeline | Spoilers: explicit sex | set in the aftermath of 'Somebody's Going to Emergency ... ' | none, bar that episode
A/N: Written for the 'second person narrative' challenge.
Summary: "He's done nothing but lie to me, practically all my life. One lie, but gee it's a big one."
missing me one place search another
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Hey guys.
Two things (well, three):
+ Firstly, my abject apologies for mod fail and not getting a new prompt up until half the month is over!
+ Secondly (and not unrelatedly) I was thinking that a whole month to ponder over these prompts is probably too long (people forget, get bound up in other commitments, etc.) so -- assuming I get over my fail -- my intention is to have a new prompt up every two weeks. As ever, play if you want to -- we'd love to see you. :)
+ Thirdly, new prompt!
A nice simple one this time (hehehe). All I want you to do is write a story in the second person. About anything you like (if you need extra inspiration there's an excellent quote list here but using second person narrative. A technique a bunch of people hate but I think is awesome. ;) So, you have until April 30th.
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Hey, guys.
So, amy_vic and I were talking a little. And we thought that it was maybe time for (another!) change. Nothing too drastic, but really a change in the focus of the prompts from themes to prompts that address the process of writing a little more and occasionally impose some arbitrary limits on what you can and can't do. Because challenges are self-improving, right? ;)
For example, maybe the challenge will be to write your story in the 2nd person, or to play around with the timeline of your narrative (starting at the end, or writing to a specific timeline), or to use a few specified words in your fic, or make use of a familiar fanfic trope. You get the idea.
The way the community itself works will be very much the same: one or other of the mods will post a prompt on the first of the month (or thereabouts) and you will have the rest of that month to come up with a fic that must be at least 500 words long but may be longer by as many words as you wish. You can use any characters you like and any pairings you like etc., but you must write to that month's challenge, as before. It would also be great if people started suggesting challenges they'd like to write for future months.
So, this month's prompt (adapted from contrelamontre):
Alternate endings.
The challenge is to write a story with two endings -- think the Sliding Doors (or Run Lola Run) concept. The story begins in the same way but at some point an event happens that causes a split outcome. Maybe one ending is happy, the other tragic; maybe in the first ending your couple get together, or a story gets leaked, or someone proposes and in the second ending ... something else happens. :) You have until March 31st. Post your stories here or with a link to your own journal. I'll put up a masterlist for this month ahead of the next challenge. Thanks, guys.
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Title: Christmas Traditions
Author: A. Magiluna Stormwriter
Author’s Email: stormwriter@shatterstorm.net
Pairing: Jed/Abbey
Rating: PG
Date: 11-12 January 2009
Word Count: 1230
Written for: tww_minis Secret Santa Exchange 2008
Recipient: melanie_anne
Prompt: tinsel, laughter and something broken
Summary: Jed's thoughts on Bartlet family Christmas traditions.
Spoilers (if any): Post-series. About 4 years post-series, give or take.
Disclaimer: “The West Wing”, the characters and situations depicted are the property of Warner Bros. Television, John Wells Productions, NBC, etc. They are borrowed without permission, but without the intent of infringement. This site is in no way affiliated with "The West Wing", NBC, or any representatives of the actors.
Author’s Notes: So my original idea for this story got… well, it disappeared. And at the last minute, I had to redo the story. Which is okay, because I think this is a much better concept, over all. And this is the very first time I've written from Jed's POV. Very kewl.
Dedication: My muses, for always having another option…
Beta: shatterpath, as usual
"Christmas Traditions" by A. Magiluna Stormwriter The holiday season is never officially underway in the Bartlet household until the tree's up and decorated.
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Title: Noon isn't Happy Hour (but who's counting?)
Rating: G
Characters: CJ, Ainsley
Disclaimer: Still not mine.
A/N: Written for ariestess. This is shorter than I'd like, and possibly less 'shippier than she would have liked, but...well, I did my best.
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thecolourclear wrote Teaching (Or, Sins against the Decalogue) for raedbard {Huck, Sam, Molly, Toby, PG]
raedbard wrote When I was Dazzled by Eternal Things for amy_vic [CJ, Sam, Toby, PG]
amy_vic wrote Noon isn't Happy Hour (but who's counting?) for ariestess
ariestess wrote Christmas Traditions for melanie_anne [Jed/Abbey, PG]
melanie_anne wrote for mcgarrygirl78
mcgarrygirl78 wrote Pheromones and Peruvians for crushing83 [CJ/Leo, PG-13]
crushing83 wrote Lingering in The Past while Looking Toward the Future for thecolourclear [CJ, Toby, PG]
As always, please link your fic to this post, so that we can easily keep the masterlist up to date. And don't forget to thank your writers!
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