Challenges
This last October, I participated in a writing challenge – Novel in a Day. The idea being that if you have a collection of writers, with the general plot can write one chapter and have it match up with the other chapters to create the contents of a book in 18 hours (the other 6 hours are for putting the chapters together into an actual book.
Other than the fact that you are required to write a chapter, you know nothing about the story until you receive your packet at 0:00 GMT and I mean nothing. Genera, characters, overall story, what part of the story you’re writing.
At 0:00 you receive a packet with the characters, the genre, the time frame, and what you need to have happen in your chapter. Where in the story your chapter takes place, how the book beings or ends, how many chapters… that is still a mystery.
Who the other writers are and what/how they’re going to write… that is all up in the air until the novel is complete and the links are posted.
It is chaos, it is tension and it is a blast. (and it happens once, sometimes twice, a year (they have done special editions) so there’s time to forget all the stress and sleeplessness involved.
In the end, you’re left with a sense of achievement. You faced the challenge and survived. (and it’s a lot less dangerous than climbing a mountain) 😉
Today’s prompt – Facing the unknown, and achieving the unobtainable.
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