Admin Post: July 2018 Challenge: Teen Spirit

[dawn_felagund]

At the end of the month of July, the SWG will turn thirteen, thus officially becoming a teenager. In honor of the SWG's birthday, our challenge this month will focus on adolescence in all its difficult, awkward, and revelatory glory.

This month, challenge participants will create a fanwork about an adolescent character or adolescence. Your prompt will come from a random prompt generator. You can choose a prompt from one, several, or all of the four different categories. Fanworks are due by August 12 in order to receive a stamp. As always, late fanworks are welcome but do not receive stamps.

Click here for the challenge prompt generator!

(Friendly hint from your mods: We do not know how many times you "roll" the prompt generator, so if you get a dud on your first roll, feel free to roll again … and again … and again … till you get a prompt you like.)

July is also the month traditionally reserved for honoring femslash and slash in Tolkien fanworks, so if you want to celebrate LGBTQA+ characters and relationships, we encourage you to use the LGBTQA+ category on the prompt generator. Also, SWG moderator Elleth will once again be co-running Tolkien Femslash Week from July 15 to 22, and we encourage our challenge participants to use TFW prompts in their challenge stories as well. (Follow silmladylove on Tumblr for updates on TFW.)

Also remember that, if you are participating in the Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang and want to use this challenge in your story, then you are permitted an extension to receive a stamp for that story. Simply let us know (in a comment, ask, or email at moderator@silmarillionwritersguild.org) the challenge and prompts you are using. We will add your stamps when the TRSB stories are revealed at the end of August.

Finally, it is super-helpful when we're updating stamp collections if you identify in your story notes which prompts you have used in your fanwork and whether you used prompts from other challenges. (Speaking of stamp collections … they are in the process of being updated and should be completed very soon!)

Comments

[heartofoshun]

I adore this one! I haven't tried my roll yet, however.

[dawn_felagund]

I thought this one might be to your liking! :)

[independence1776]

I played with the generator last night just for grins and giggles... and rolled a prompt that I had to immediately write. So much for getting to bed early!

[dawn_felagund]

Ooh, I'm so curious what you got! I'm glad you found it inspiring (and hope you didn't have too much post-stayed-up-too-late regret ... ;)

[independence1776]

Haha! No, I didn't. The fic's only 275 words long; I'm hoping to get it to a triple drabble.