A Woman's Sceptre Challenge | April 15 - May 10

[dawn_felagund]

“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
~ Mary Wollstonecraft

This month, we consider the sceptres that women hold: sceptres of beauty in the forms of the pens and brushes that they use to represent their experiences as art, and literal sceptres of power, often wrested from the unwilling, that they use to establish justice for themselves and their sisters.

Each participant will receive a quote from a woman who has advanced the cause of women's rights or participation of women in the arts. Although we are offering this challenge alongside Legendarium Ladies April, your response does not have to be about a female character. (Also--please feel free to use your challenge quote in combination with this month's wonderful Legendarium Ladies April prompts, or write or include a poem as part of Poetry Month!) You may use all or part of your quote in any way that you choose in responding to the challenge. Challenge responses must be posted to the SWG archive by May 10 to be eligible for a stamp.

If you wish to participate in this month's challenge, leave a comment on here or on our Dreamwidth, drop us an ask on our tumblr, or email us at moderator@silmarillionwritersguild.org.>

Comments

[dawn_felagund]

Sure! I went out and found one so that you wouldn't have to be assigned a quote you found. Here you go; I hope it helps!

"A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day."
~ Grandma Moses

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

YES! Thank you, that actually did help.

(And thank you for the extra effort of finding me a surprise quote! *hugs*)

[dawn_felagund]

YAY! I'm glad! I'll admit there was a little pressure there, like if I don't pick a good quote, I'm going to make Lyra's writer's block even worse! :D

*hugs back* You're welcome. It's kind of a buzzkill on the order of eating the birthday dinner you had to cook for yourself to spend all that time finding so many wonderful prompts and then having zero element of surprise. ;) But also, if you ever want to claim one of your prompts (or one of mine, when I rarely manage to come up with some! :) you can sign yourself up on the document.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

The pressure came across worse than it really was. It wasn't proper writer's block, I just didn't know what to do for LLA (like a grown-up in a candy-store! I clearly know I won't be able to digest it all, so I need to make the perfect choice!). In the worst case, I'd have skipped it (and the challenge) and returned to working on TEA. Would have been a bit of a pity but nothing dramatic!

Oh, but that would feel a bit like cheating! The challenge in the challenge is that I can't just pick and choose the prompt I like best. Of course, in this case, being already spoiled for choice, it wouldn't have worked anyway, because I needed someone else to narrow it down. So, thank you again!