Fan Fiction Challenges: HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE    

 

 

UPDATES: JULY 25, 2010:  HALLOWEEN FAN FICTION WRITING CHALLENGE, 2010 EDITION:  NOW LAUNCHED.  SEE INFORMATION TO HOW TO PARTICIPATE!

 

 

ANNUAL HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE, 2010 EDITION

 

 

To read all our Halloween stories online, CLICK HERE.

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UPDATE JULY 25,  2010: 

HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE 2010 EDITION NOW LAUNCHED!

 

 

HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE, 2010 EDITION

 

This is the middle of the summer, and this is time again to welcome you to the launching of...

(Drum roll...)

The Spectrum Headquarters website's Annual Halloween Challenge!

This is the 2010 Edition of this Fan Fiction Writing Challenge, in which we invite YOU to participate, by writing and submitting your own story to the website.  Any writer, whether already established on this website, newcomers or totally unknown, can join in the celebration.   

Why do we always launch an HALLOWEEN Challenge right in the middle of the Summer? Well, because we want to give you as much time as possible to dream up and write the story you'd like to submit! It is even possible that a few of you have already started...  

Started in 2002, the Halloween Challenge was the first ever challenge to be offered to fans. Straight from the beginning, this Challenge became, without a doubt, the  favourite of both writers and readers alike (closely followed by the Christmas Challenge...)  For the last eight years,  MANY great stories have been submitted during this challenge, and many of these stories remained, to this day, amongst readers' favourite.  Some of these stories can even be said to have achieved the rank of 'classics', amongst all the stories to be presented on this website.

These stories presented during the Halloween Challenge star your favourite Spectrum characters - Captain Scarlet and all the others! -  and put them in adventures that range from faeric, to fantastic,  strange, completely weird, even wicked and  totally horrific...   Every kind of  fantasy is permitted, every twisted little  idea can be put into a story  during the Halloween Challenge, and characters can even die,  definitely or turned into Mysterons, as you can see by yourselves, from tales presented in the past years.  All is fair game during the Halloween Challenge! The only limit is your imagination, however sick it may be....

Additionally, there is the possibility for people to also present special pictures during the Halloween Challenge, either to go with a story - or as a stand-alone presentation.  See below for more information on that.

And now, for the official announcement:  the 2010 Halloween Challenge is now  launched, and you are, again invited to participate in great number!  The Spectrum Headquarters website offers you yet again the chance  to write yet another story of the same eerie trade as described above!  So to your pen and keyboard, evil, sick and tortured minds, and start writing! 

There's plenty of fun to have for everyone, and so, you are all  invited to this yearly treat or trick event!  

The same rules as for the previous years apply, to participate to the Challenge. So if you are a regular, you know what they're all about.  For  those of you who are new, and wish to try this challenge (come on, we DARE you!)  you'll find below the rules you have to follow in order to participate!  

This is the NINTH EDITION of this Fan Favourite Challenge. We are all hoping that for this new edition, still many stories will be submitted to us and that again, it will be success it always was!  And that can only be achieved is MANY OF YOU participate!

TO PARTICIPATE:

On the basis that 'Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons', with its eerie atmosphere, would make a perfect subject for Halloween-theme stories, to participate to this challenge, you have to write a Captain Scarlet/Halloween story, that would be posted on the Spectrum Headquarters site.  

So writers, and would-be-writers, those who had written one or more than one story in the past, and those who are simply waiting for that elusive plot idea to write your own Scarlet story, here's again your chance to enter the challenge!  All brand-new Captain Scarlet stories will have this in common that they will share an Halloween  and/or horror/fantastic theme.  

Interested people can contact the webmaster at spectrum_hq@hotmail.com or scarlet1bishop@hotmail.com to announce their  project, or to submit their story, or for further information, if needed be. 

 

RULES:

  • The story could be related to the Halloween holiday itself, but it is not an absolute requirement.  It could also be related to one of the many subjects found in horror or fantastic tales generally, often associated with Halloween, but should keep true and faithful to the Captain Scarlet mythos, either from the Original Captain Scarlet series, or the New Captain Scarlet series.

  • It could be as short as one page, or as long as you wish.  

  • You can write your story alone, or team up with another writer.

  • Slash stories will not be accepted

  • Horror-fic handled with taste are okay.  That means, for example, that you can kill canon characters, turn them bad, or do all sorts of evil to them, without  risks of reprisals!

  • 'Imaginary stories' and 'Multiverse stories' are accepted (including 'What if', crossovers, Elseworld-types stories, parallel universes, etc.), without any needed relation to any Halloween theme.

  • Accepted will be one-shot stories, or two or three-parts maximum.  If more than one part, note that, to avoid an unfinished story,  all the parts should be completed before posting.  Contact the webmaster for more information.

  • The stories will only be accessible from October First onwards.  Depending on how many stories I received, one or more stories will be posted each week,  and  October 31 will marked the last day an Halloween story will be posted, although they STILL will be accessible after that - It's just that the project will be then finished.  

  • The limited date to send your submission would be around October 25, to give time to prepare it for the site.

  • Check our Submission Guidelines before submitting your story. Take note that the use of beta-reader is not required, but recommended.  Contact the webmaster for information.  Please take beta-reading time into consideration when you submit your story! 

Remember, the information you can find on the Spectrum Headquarters website are there to help you write your story with better accuracy of the Scarlet mythos and backgrounds.  Feel free to consult it! 

So if you have a project  for an Halloween story, contact the webmaster  at scarlet1bishop@hotmail.com et tell us about it.  All the announcements will be added to a list on the HALLOWEEN STORIES PAGE.  Check it often to know what stories are coming our way in October!

A SPECIAL NOTE: Multi-parts stories ,  or stories out of theme, that will come along during the challenge won't be refused,  but they will not be considered part of this project.  It will be fun to see how many people out there will came up with demented, crazy, thrilling and even scary stories all at once.   

Remember that the End Credits Challenge, the Challenge of Five, and the Multiverse Challenge are year-long event, contrary to the Halloween Challenge (and in its time, the Christmas Challenge).  Which means that  whenever you want, you can send a story to answer those  other challenges.   

 

INSPIRATIONAL PICS:

In lack of ideas?  Looking for inspiration?  Maybe we can provide some kind of a kick-start!

During the previous years, many pictures and animations have been created to illustrate the Halloween page, or have been submitted during the Halloween Challenge.   Most of these illustrations are "stand alone" and have not been attached to any story at all.  So, if ever you need it, you can use any of them as inspiration for your own story.  You can even use more than one pictures if you want!

Take note that you have no obligation whatsoever to specifically base your Halloween story on any of this pictures.  They're simply offered as a complement for those of you who might need or want some inspiration.  Stories can be short or long, and you can elaborate all you want. It's for you to decide.

Just click on the thumbnails below for a larger view of the picture.

 

DRAWINGS, PICTURES, MONTAGES, ETC.

In addition to the writing challenge, you can also contribute drawings or pictures  - to be put with your story if you are a writer, or as a stand-alone artist rendition of an Halloween/Captain Scarlet action scene, that will then be put on the HALLOWEEN PICS page.  I know there are talented people out there in the artistic field, and your contribution would make a nice addition to this project.

Accepted for this project  will be original drawings, paintings, pictures, montages, collages, even one line comic strips that will all be sharing the same Halloween/Captain Scarlet theme. I hope a lot of you  will be able to participate again , and will have the time to write and submit a story of your own.  You will  have until October to submit a fanfic - or more than one, if you feel inspired! -   for this special celebration.

 

To read all our Halloween stories online, CLICK HERE.

To access the Halloween Pictures page, CLICK HERE.

 

 

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