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Fan Fiction Challenges: HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE |
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CAPTAIN SCARLET and the MYSTERONS UNOFFICIAL WEBSITE by Chris Bishop |
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To read all our Halloween stories online, CLICK HERE.
To access the Halloween Pictures page, CLICK HERE.
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Happy Halloween!
Due to a technical difficulty, the last postings for the Halloween Challenge is a bit late! However, we do intend to complete the Challenge, as we always do each year! This is the 10th Anniversary of the website, after all, and we do not want to break what has now become a tradition!
So, here's for you the last postings for this year's Halloween Challenge:
With eight postings this year, the Halloween Challenge is officially closed for this year! We wish to thank all participants for their collaboration. Writers, beta-readers, readers, visitors - the Halloween Challenge is a success every year, because of you!
Stay tuned, because in a very short while, the Christmas Challenge will begin!
Fifth week of the Halloween Challenge is here. With only a few days to go, here's the posting for this week-end:
No time left now to offer new stories, but we still will accept pictures if you have them! Contact us with your projects at spectrum_hq@hotmail.com.
A last post is scheduled for October 31st. Be here!
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There is now a little more than one week left before the end of the challenge, but if you want to participate, you still can. The last deadline to submit your story is Thursday, October 27. We're allowing two additional days this year, hoping that people will contact us with new stories! After that, it will be too late! However, pictures can still be sent up to October 30. So, make haste, people, and contact us with your projects at spectrum_hq@hotmail.com.
Next post will be during the upcoming week!
THE FINAL MYSTERON MESSAGE,
by Caroline Smith.
A possible ending to the War of Nerves.
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HALLOWEEN
and MULTIVERSE story.
THE
SCULPTOR, by Caroline Smith. When her car breaks down in a thunderstorm,
Symphony seeks help from an isolated house...
HALLOWEEN
story.
Originally
posted
October 17, 2004.
The Halloween Challenge is still in
full swing, but for it to be a success, we need stories! There are other
postings coming, but for you who are still wondering if you could or shoud
submit a story, there is still some time left!
The Halloween Challenge finishes on October 31st. You can contact the
webmaster with your project by writing at
spectrum_hq@hotmail.com.
You have until October 25 to present your story. Allow some time for
beta-reading, if you require or ask for it!
You can also present pictures of
your own creation for the Challenge: montages, animation, wallpapers,
comic strips... The limit if you imagination! The same themes apply
for images as for stories!
Participate in great number - and
be back soon for our next posting!
UPDATE OCTOBER 11, 2011:
This is our second week of posting for the Halloween Challenge this year, and this time we have a New Captain Scarlet story to offer you!
As you can see, stories from both series - 'Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons' and 'New Captain Scarlet' - are accepted for this fan fiction challenge, and we invite you to participate and submit your own story.
There is still some time left: The Halloween Challenge finishes on October 31st. You can contact the webmaster with your project by writing at spectrum_hq@hotmail.com. You have until October 25 to present your story. Allow some time for beta-reading, if you require or ask for it!
Participate in great number - and be back next week for our next posting!
UPDATE OCTOBER 3rd, 2011: FIRST STORIES FOR THE HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE 2011 EDITION!
It's starting NOW! The 2011 Edition for the Spectrum Headquarters' website Halloween Fan Fiction Challenge now proudly presents its FIRST stories to come online! As as for every year, we are starting with a bang!
This week we present a brand-new story (of course!) and our traditional reposted story - the choice of which is motivated, as this is the first story its author ever presented to this website, the first of many, and it so happens that it is a Halloween story as well!
So let us begin now, for everyone to enjoy!
So, good reading everyone - and like every year, be sure to turn in next week for upcoming submissions!
UPDATE JULY 15, 2011: HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE, 2011 EDITION NOW LAUNCHED!
The time for what? Well, for the Spectrum Headquarters website's Annual Halloween Challenge, of course! And guess what - as this is the 10th year's anniversary of the website, this is also the 10th edition of our Halloween Challenge! That's right, the Halloween Challenge was the FIRST ever challenger to be offered to Captain Scarlet fans of all ages, and to fanfic writers who wish to write their own story of their favourite hero (or heroes, if you wish to include the other characters from the series!) So do I have to present the Halloween Challenge still? Of course, because every year, we have new fans and visitors joining us who want to know about this and who may participate! The Halloween Challenge is a Fan Fiction Writing Challenge, in which YOU, the fans, the visitors, the authors or would-be authors, are invited to participate, by writing and submitting your own story and submitting it to the website. Any writer, whether already established on this website, or known by his or her works in other websites or fanzines, newcomers or totally unknown, can join in the celebration. Why do we always launch an HALLOWEEN Challenge right in the middle of July? Well, because we want to give you as much time as you might need to dream up and write the story you'd like to submit! It is even possible that a few of you have already started... And who knows, you might have MORE than one story to offer! Started in 2002, the Halloween Challenge became, straight from the beginning, and without a single doubt, the favourite of both writers and readers alike (closely followed by the Christmas Challenge.). For the last TEN 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, Captain Blue, the Angels, and all the others - and put them in adventures that range from fric, 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 also 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 2011 Edition of the 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 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 welcomed to this yearly treat or trick event! The same rules as for the previous years apply of course, in order 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 for the first time (come on, we DARE you!) you'll find below the rules you have to follow in order to participate! This is the TENTH EDITION of this Fan Favourite Challenge. We are all hoping that for this special milestone, still many stories will be submitted to us and that again, it will be success it always was! And that can only be achieved if 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 is 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! 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. 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. As the Halloween Challenge is expected to be a busy time for the collaborators of this website, these stories might be posted only after October 31, when the Challenge is completed. 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 27 to submit your masterpiece(s).
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On the basis that
'Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons', with its eerie atmosphere, would make
a perfect subject for Halloween-themed stories, to participate to this
challenge, you have to write a Captain Scarlet/Halloween story, that would be posted on
the Spectrum Headquarters website. 
To read all our Halloween stories online, CLICK HERE.
To access the Halloween Pictures page, CLICK HERE.
