Admin Post: November/December Challenge: 30-Day Character Study

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During this challenge, you will choose one character whom you want to study deeply and complete prompts and activities designed around developing a deeper understanding of that character. Prompts aren't only writing, and one does not have to complete them all. You may complete one prompt or all thirty--all participants will receive a creator stamp, regardless of how many prompts they complete. (There will be special stamps for those who complete higher numbers of prompts.) You may complete the prompts in any order. Some prompts include additional questions to spur your thinking on a topic. You do not need to answer all--or any!--of these questions in order to satisfy the prompt.

Due Dates

Participants have two months, until 10 January 2018, to complete challenge prompts for a stamp. You will have an additional week, until January 17, to report your progress, if you want a stamp for this challenge. Once your progress is completed, comment here (or here), send us an ask, or email us with the number of prompts you completed. (Make sure you let us know your SWG username, if it is not obvious from your username or email address.)

How to Report Your Progress

When reporting your progress at the end of the challenge, please let us know

1) the number of prompts you completed by the due date and

2) which of the following formats you attempted: creative writing, nonfiction/meta, art (graphic or traditional), and multimedia (podfic, video, infographic, etc).

How to Post Your Responses (if you want to)

Because this is a study, you may not want to share all (or any!) of your responses. Given that, you do not have to post your prompt responses publicly, although you are welcome to do so if you want, and there is a 30-Day Character Study option on the archive challenge list. Please see below for instructions on how to post challenge material that is not meant to be regarded as a finished, stand-alone fanwork.

Stamps will be awarded on the honor system, since not all fanworks will be publicly available. As always, we trust participants' judgment to know if a response satisfies a prompt.

Finished fanworks meant to be read/viewed as stand-alone pieces are welcome to be posted as separate stories on the archive.

If you want to publicly share challenge pieces that are not finished fanworks, you should create a single story on the archive for flash writing, sketches, notes, research, links lists, and other material that you develop during the challenge. Do not post each of these items as a separate story. You may also share this content on our Dreamwidth or LiveJournal, or post a link there to the tag where you are collecting your challenge responses.

( The Prompts )