Relief. Summer brings with it some pretty tremendous heat and sweaty, sticky situations that can leave us all feeling the burn. Write about how you can cool down during the summer season in the form of a poem, short story, or fic, and make sure to tag us in your creations!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
I wrote this quick little ficlet for the @writingfeedbacknetwork September challenge! Just a short GaaLee fic about eating the summer’s last peaches. Enjoy!
Celebration! The summer holidays are here and the daily grind isn’t nearly as crushing with the gorgeous warmth of the summer months. We’re challenging you all to write a short story, poem, or fan fiction (the word limit is up to you!) about Celebrations that could take place in the summer. Imagine the cooling summer breezes, the beach bbqs, and the road trips that can take place! Let your mind run free and post your work by July 23rd!
To celebrate, we are challenging everyone to write a drabble/one-shot/whatever you want to call it any where from 100-1000 words in length. It can be any fandom OR original work. It can be prose or poetry! Anything goes!
Post a link to your work or tag us by September 27!
This week, we are challenging you to make a post of seven recommendations involving your favorite characters! Your recommendations don’t have to be specifically revolving around this character, they just have to include it in some fashion. Anything goes!
Once you have collected your seven recommendations, make a tumblr post and tag us in it so we can reblog your recs! Make sure to make your post by November 10!
Below, check out the rules and restrictions.
You must list the title and the author.
You must link to the work.
You must write a short blurb (at least 20 words) explaining why you picked it. Kind of like a bonus comment.
You must have left a comment/review on the work! You can use the same comment on your rec post, if you like.
You may rec published novels/poems; link to a Goodreads page (or other site, like a bookseller).
You may recommend one (1) fic that you personally wrote. This is not required, but you may do it.
You may recommend one (1) fic from the Writing Feedback Network challenge collections. Again, this is not required, but you may do it.
You must include relevant warnings and ratings in your post.
As usual, fanfiction, poetry, and original work are all acceptable submissions!
This week, we are challenging you to leave one really long review on a story. We would like you to aim for at least 300 words! This can be a tumblr reblog, a comment on AO3, a review posted on Goodreads, or really anything! Once you’ve completed it, post a link to the work you reviewed and tag us so we can all check them out!
Some tips:
aim for longer stories! The longer the wordcount on the story, the easier it will be to write a long review!
feel free to quote the story to up the wordcount! Try to do more than just quoting the story, but it definitely counts :)
analyze analyze analyze! The more you put your thoughts and responses into the comment, the longer it will be, and the more special it will feel to the author who receives the comment.
Hello and Happy August! Congratulations on making it this far :)
It’s hard to believe the first six months of the year are over (and then some), but here we are! To celebrate, we want to celebrate you, and all the other writers out there, just a little late ;)
So we have this dual challenge for you. You don’t have to do both parts, but if you can, we would love to see both posts from you!
For the first post, we’re challenging you to make a masterlist of everything you wrote between April and June of 2018, whether you published it or not. If you can, link it! If you don’t want to link it, that’s okay, too. But tell us what you’ve accomplished, so we can tell everyone else how awesome you are! Organize it how you like, by month, by fandom, by pairing, etc, and include the info you like! If you tag us, we’ll reblog you! (examples: https://writingfeedbacknetwork.tumblr.com/tagged/fic-roundup)
For the second post, we’re challenging you to make a recommendation post of the best stuff you read between April and June of 2018! Your recs don’t have to have been published this year; you only have to have read it in these three months. Organize it anyway you like, just make sure to tag us so we can reblog you! Rules for the recommendations are below the cut. (examples: https://writingfeedbacknetwork.tumblr.com/tagged/fic-rec-challenge)
Rules:
You must list the title and the author.
You must link to the work.
You must write a short blurb (at least 20 words) explaining why you picked it. Kind of like a bonus comment.
You may rec published novels/poems; link to a Goodreads page (or other site, like a bookseller).
You must include relevant warnings and ratings in your post.
As usual, fanfiction, poetry, and original work are all acceptable submissions!
This week, we are challenging you to leave one really long review on a story. We would like you to aim for at least 300 words! This can be a tumblr reblog, a comment on AO3, a review posted on Goodreads, or really anything! Once you've completed it, post a link to the work you reviewed and tag us so we can all check them out!
Some tips:
aim for longer stories! The longer the wordcount on the story, the easier it will be to write a long review!
feel free to quote the story to up the wordcount! Try to do more than just quoting the story, but it definitely counts :)
analyze analyze analyze! The more you put your thoughts and responses into the comment, the longer it will be, and the more special it will feel to the author who receives the comment.