We're going to make fic prompt contests a regular thing. (In addition to whatever other contests we have running.)
I'll post the new prompt around the end of the month. You have until the 17th to PM me your entries. (That is, until midnight US Eastern time, the night of the 16th.)
New rule: We're going to bimonthly. I'll post the next prompt sometime in the next few days. You'll have approximately 6 weeks to write. So until the Ides of March (the 15th).
Enter as many times as you'd like. People will have until the end of the month to vote. Winner gets bragging rights. And maybe a prize.
If you have any suggestions for prompts, please PM me. I could always use more ideas.
Voting has closed, and the winner is... LIESMITH! Congratulations on another win!
Participation has been low, both from authors and readers. I'm wondering whether people want to keep going. Is there interest in having another contest? If not, I'll close up shop. Fun while it lasted.
Stories and voting thread will be posted to
The Writers Corner. (You can also find past stories there.)
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Here's a list of suggested prompts. We'll vote each cycle for which one to use next. Please do add to it if you have any ideas.
Superheroes.
Under The Sea.
Pulp
Steampunk
Modern-Day Urban Fantasy
A "Friends" style spin-off
Winter Holiday
TV show adaptation
History Book: Write what future historians of Thuntworld would write in the history books about some or all of the events in Goblins.
How We Got Here: Write a backstory of one of the characters, of some event that we know happened, but hasn't been shown "on screen" (For example, "How Klik got in the cage" or "Biscuit's run through the dungeon crawl we found him in") - Try to stick to one that's unlikely to be a major plot point, like "How Kore got cursed" for example.
Entries and voting threads will be posted
in the Fanfic subforum.
Latest winner is:
LIESMITH
Past prompts:
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SCIENCE FICTION
Goblins in the future! Goblins in space! Goblins with ray guns!
No more of this magic and fantasy stuff. Now goblins are aliens and the Axe of Prissan is a nanite-filled tesseract and Kore is a
Manhunter robot!
Or something like that. Or maybe something completely different. You decide! And tell us the story!
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Your prompt for January is Noir style. If you're not familiar with that, here are the
Wikipediea and
TV Tropes articles on the style.
The central character is typically (though not always) a perpetually financially broke detective who wears a trench coat and fedora. The detective usually narrates the story in the first person and uses a lot of colorful similes to describe things. ("The city at night was as dark and dirty as ____, and twice as dangerous..." "She had legs like ____..." "I was drunk as a___..." - Sorry, too tired to fill in the blanks just now, but hopefully you get the idea.)
You may play around with the style. Add in twists as you see fit. You can make it a steampunk noir. Or sci-fi noir (think Blade Runner). Or comic noir (Dick Tracey). Or whatever else tickles your muse.
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The prompt for September is unlikely romances. Write a story featuring an unlikely pairing. You can be silly and crazy or entirely serious. Throw together an odd couple and let hijinks ensue, write the tragic story that brought two very different characters together, or anything in between. MinMax and Kin? That was pretty unlikely when the two first met, but Thunt made it work. What pairing will you give us?
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The prompt for August is point of divergence. The story as we know it has happened as we've seen it... up to a point. But then one thing changes. Instead of standing up to Kore, Chief runs. One Eye survives the raid. The elves come around the bend in time to witness a goblin healing their child. The Shield of Wonder turns someone else into the talking wall. Duv never loses her wing. Something happens differently, and the story changes.
Tell us about it. Write the new story. It can be as long or as short as it needs to be. It can start at the point of divergence and follow the timeline from there, or it can start in the future and fill in the backstory later (perhaps even keeping us guessing as to what changed until the very end). Whatever works.
