May 2007 Challenge Bulletin

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Birthdays!

Post your request at the Birthday Cards Forum

May 6th - River Otter: I would enjoy stories about Dol Amroth in any age.

May 25 - Dwimordene: Since I've just off-loaded a story completely populated by OCs, minus some passing references to canon characters, I'm the mood to see more OCs. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is: (1) Write me a drabble that features an OC-canon interaction, or even an entirely OC sidebar snapshot; (2) Go and bug the author of the OC you most enjoy and ask him or her if you can write a drabble featuring their character. Provide a link to their story. Think of it as your pitch to readers to go read that story.

Also, don't forget to create a story for the birthday card workshop. This serves the same purpose as the old HAWriters story and lets others put drabbles they write in an easily accessible location. Enter this story in the challenge for March birthday drabbles, so we have all of these in one place. (There are instructions on how to do all this at the top of each thread in the Birthday Cards Forum; if you need help just ask the Workshop Manager, Gwynnyd.) Any questions, contact Gandalfs Apprentice at:

gandalfs_apprentice(at)comcast(dot)net

If you aren't at your usual computer, you can send GA an email through HASA, too.

New Challenges

One for the hand of Beren

• Seven Deadly Sins
  Envy, Wrath, Lust, Sloth, Gluttony, Pride, and Greed are the Seven Deadly Sins. The challenge is this: Write seven pieces of fiction, one for each of the Seven Deadly Sins, pick 1-3 characters or pairings of your choice, and include the same characters in all seven pieces.
  

Open Challenges

Three rings for the elven kings [Narya [fire], Nenya [water], Vilya [air]]

1. Mortality
   Closes 21 June 07
   Lúthien, Elros and Arwen all decided to become mortal. In what way would their life be changed? How would this change affect the body and mind? Would Beren and Aragorn feel guilty?
   
   
2. When Brothers Are Not So Close
   Closes September 1, 2007
   There are four options:
   
   1. Write the brothers as cool or distant
   2. An argument that needs to be resolved
   3. An AU with an outside force separating the brothers and how it might effect canon
   4. Explore the relationship outside of canon.
   You could include cousins or other people who share a brotherly bond.
   
   
3. New Members 2006 - 2007
   Closes October 29, 2007
   This is a challenge for new members. By definition, a new member is any member who has been a member for fewer than four months or who, at the time of reading this, has written three (3) or fewer Tolkien fanfics.
   Choose one of the following - there are choices from any Age, from "The Hobbit," from "Lord of the Rings," from "The Silmarillion", from "Unfinished Tales", and three choices from the Peter Jackson "Lord of the Rings" - movies.

Keep a New Year's Resolution

• Wander over to the Nugzul pen and adopt one today.
• Review one story weekly.
• Browse the Resources section - the Research Library and more!.
• Leave a comment monthly.

HASA Challenges Team