Christmas Challenge 2007

by **chrisbishop** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:53 pm

The Halloween Challenge is finished! I want to thank everyone who contributed to it, everyone who encouraged us, and everyone who read this year's stories! 11 stories were posted this year, so the Challenge is yet another success.

Now, it's time for the Christmas Challenge - always following in the footsteps of the Halloween Challenge - and you are also invited to participate to this annual event. It's the 6th consecutive year the Challenge is presented, and more than that, this year also celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons TV series. So, will you participate and celebrate with us, by presenting a fanfic story of your own - or another project that can also be posted on our Christmas Pictures page?

See the page for more details about the rules and conditions of the Christmas Challenge!

http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/christmas.htm

by **Marion** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:47 pm

You're a hard task-master, Colonel Chris.

Let's hope the festive season brings out the inspiration fairies in droves and we get plenty of new stories to read over the holiday period... after all, there's never anything on TV so we'll all need something to do O-beer-O

Now, where did I put my thinking cap ;-$

Oh, and can anyone tell me how to get more than 24 hours out of a day? :wink:

by **Skybase Girl** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 7:56 pm

Oh yes ! The forty-eight hour day ! It would be great if you didn't get tired. I used to wish I was like Mrs Thatcher and could fire on all cylinders on four hours sleep a night. ( Have to admit, that's the only reason I wanted to be like Mrs Thatcher ).

Of course, if we won the lottery and could stay at home writing all day, we wouldn't complain !

Website · by **Sage** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:32 pm

I already saw the banner, very nice

I'm still working on my epic (27,000 words and counting), so that should hopefully be done on time. I'll probably do a set of drabbles too. Will have to pass on doing pictures though.

Christmas fics are always fun, I'm looking forward to reading everyone elses.

by **Serena Lewis** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:05 pm

My fic is coming along...considerably slowly, but I hope (and wish, and pray etc) that it will be done on time! It has to be done, I have to enter, now I've got a teeny bit more confidence!!

xx

by **Carrie** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:43 pm

Christmas already????? (shock_0)

That reminds me...better go do some shopping...
I shall endeavour to do my bit for the challenge, in whatever shape or form.....

by **Marion** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 6:41 pm

'Shapes'? 'Forms'? I sense another calendar on the horizon! [go-1-go]

I so hope I'm right!
Go Carrie!

I am sort of writing 3 stories at the moment - with luck one of them might even be ready by the deadlines. :wink:

Slightly hampered by being decorated round as I sit typing though... ((()))

Website · by **Sage** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 1:22 pm

Oh I do hope so too

Such a shame Feburary is the shortest month, but then there's always August.

Well yes you never know. Virginia Wolfe was right, writers do need a room of their own. Probably without tinsel.

by **Captain Indigo** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:36 pm

Sage wrote:Such a shame Feburary is the shortest month,

Thankfully, there's an extra day in it this year :-D

by **MMK** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:52 pm

Sage wrote:Well yes you never know. Virginia Wolfe was right, writers do need a room of their own. Probably without tinsel.

My little 'hideout' is my room

or the corner that my dads pc is in

Website · by **Sage** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:38 pm

Oh yes I have my room too; with desk, Sid the laptop and my stack of CS books.

Captain Indigo wrote:
Sage wrote:Such a shame Feburary is the shortest month,

Thankfully, there's an extra day in it this year

So there is, well I'll have to make best use of it then.

by **Marion** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:01 am

Sage (and Indigo) wrote:

Sage wrote:
Such a shame Feburary is the shortest month,
Thankfully, there's an extra day in it this year
So there is, well I'll have to make best use of it then.

Best use of the extra day, eh? Isn't there a tradition that the extra day in a leap year is the one time the woman can propose to the man? ;-$

I just thought it might be a useful way for all those Angels who are getting tired of waiting to be asked, to bring their man up to the mark... :->

Scarlet had better make sure he keeps out of Rhapsody's way, for a start...

by **Skybase Girl** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:55 pm

Oh, I see a Valentine Challenge on the horizon !

( OK, it's a little belated, but still....)

by **Marion** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:48 am

There were a few 'unofficial' Valentine Day stories a few years ago - although it was never an official challenge. The die-hard romantics amongst us can never resist an opportunity, it seems!

Here's a few of them (probably not an exhaustive list...) By Sage Harper:
http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/that_was_you.htm
http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/it_never_woulda_worked_out_anyway.htm
Mine:
http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/say_it_with_flowers.htm
http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/that_s_entertainment.htm
http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/face_of_a_pretty_girl.htm
http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/sojourn.htm
ad nauseam... :wink:

Website · by **Sage** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:51 pm

Very true

I've done another valentine fic, posted on my writing journal, more fluffy with a side of cynical than romantic though ...
http://erehwon6.livejournal.com/19053.html