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ANNUAL HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE, 2010 EDITION
To read all our Halloween stories online, CLICK HERE.
To access the Halloween Pictures page, 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:
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.
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.
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.
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To read all our Halloween stories online, CLICK HERE.
To access the Halloween Pictures page, CLICK HERE.
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. 
