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Fan Fiction Challenges: HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE |
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ANNUAL HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE
To read all our Halloween stories online, CLICK HERE.
To access the Halloween Pictures page, CLICK HERE.
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UPDATE OCTOBER 31, 2009: HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE 2009 EDITION NOW CLOSED. READ ALL THE STORIES ONLINE. COME BACK NEXT YEAR FOR THE 2010 EDITION.
HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE, 2009 EDITION
What time exactly? Well, the time to officially launch the Spectrum Headquarters website's annual Halloween Challenge! Believe it or not, this year marks the 8th annual celebration of our most successful and popular Challenge. And we are hoping that, like the seven years before, this year, will still be the success the Halloween Challenge has been up until now. As you know, it's always around this time of year, right in the middle of Summer that the Halloween Challenge is launched. Why? 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... A little bit of story first: here, at Spectrum Headquarters, the Halloween Challenge was the first ever challenge to be offered to fans, and at the same time, it is, most definitely, the favourite of both writers and readers alike, if we are to believe our statistics (closely followed by the Christmas Challenge...) For the last seven years, MANY great stories have been submitted during this challenge, and many of these stories remained, to this day, amongst readers' favourite. And 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 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, again this year, for the official announcement: the 2009 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! 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 this 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. 
The
animation on the right is the same animation used above for this year's
Challenge title art - but free of its title. You can inspire
yourself from this image to come up with a story of your own!