A Challenge for a Winter's Night - Thursday December 30, 2010

       These people know their Jingle Bells. Check 'em out:

NightCometh (B)

littlemissweirdness (C)

BubblysLife (B)

endlesssummer128 (C)
 
       Happy Holidays my Lords and Ladies! Kweeny here, writing from the Winter Palace; it's so damn cold that I'm starting to feel like a regular old Ice Queen! I hope you are all keeping warm in whatever ways you know best, or for you southern folk -- well you all just suck. Enough with the stories of going to the beach and enjoying the warm weather, ok!? Thank you.

       Now then -- they say that this is the most wonderful time of the year. Well I want you to prove it, and we have a few challenges with which you may do so:

Challenge A
       Let's be materialistic for a moment. What is the best present you've ever received? No, it doesn't have to be material and it doesn't have to be a Christmas present. But tell us about it. Who gave it to you? Why was it so wonderful? If it was a thing, do you still have and use it today?

Challenge B
       A good ol' list for this one. Give us your top ten reasons why this is the most wonderful time of the year. Do it however you like, in words or pictures or stories or songs or poems or...

Challenge C
       Write a bit of poetry or prose describing your favorite memory (or wish) from the season. Take some liberties with this one. Enjoy!


Just copy and paste the code below into your weblog to link back to this site!
It should come out looking exactly like the picture above. Tutorial here.



You must:
  • Have your entry set to public.
  • Link to either this site or the blog ring.
  • Come back to this site to let me know that you have posted for this challenge. I will then link to your entry. Rec your entry. Leave you eProps.
  • Have your entry done by December 31st.
  • Have fun

Happy writing! Be sure to check out everyone's entries. I'm sure they appreciate your feedback.

Posted 12/30/2010 at 11:18 AM

7 Comments

Mine is finished!  Challenge B

Posted 12/15/2010 at 11:34 AM by NightCometh

I"m hopefully I'll accomplish this mission my Kween has set forth for myself and others of the court . ~peaceful holiday season to you

Posted 12/15/2010 at 5:41 PM by peacenow

Not too late, I hope!  Here

Posted 12/25/2010 at 5:47 AM by endlesssummer128

MERRY CHRISTMAS....smile
I will be back next month with my own computer (I hope)

Posted 12/25/2010 at 11:36 AM by m_elmer_48
Posted 12/19/2010 at 3:16 AM by BubblysLife

Did it =) 

Posted 12/17/2010 at 9:22 PM by littlemissweirdness

Overcoming obstacles. - Friday December 10, 2010


       Free your mind -- check out what these participants had to say:

Zeal4living

BubblysLife

BubblysLife (II)

peacenow

XxXDarknessismyonlyescapeXxX

moss_icon

       Several years ago Kweeny became fascinated by this relatively new sport called Parkour, also called free running. No! Hardly for myself. It's just fun to watch. Anyway, the purist definition calls it "the physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle within one's path by adapting one's movements to the environment" (from Wikipedia). If you've ever watched a traceur (a parkour participant) in action, you know how efficient, graceful, and frankly awesome their movements can be. (If you haven't witnessed the sport we highly recommend doing a quick YouTube search to check it out.)

       The same principle of efficiently overcoming obstacles can be applied to several things, but we find it highly useful in a writing exercise called "free writing." No, it's probably not going to be quite as acrobatic as free running, and like any exercise you only get better with practice, but it can be used as a warm-up or as a tool to help overcome writer's block. The results can be quite interesting, sometimes even impressive. You just put pen to paper, or fingers to keys, and go. So in that vein, our challenge this month, from a suggestion by silkenbutterfly, is this:

       Set a timer for five minutes. Put your fingers to the keyboard and write exactly what you are thinking. Don't make yourself start out on a topic, just go. Keep your fingers moving for the whole five minutes and see what comes out. Don't edit, don't polish. Except for maybe some of the inevitable typos. Just open your mind and let it flow out. Five minutes. Have fun!

parkour

Just copy and paste the code below into your weblog to link back to this site!
It should come out looking exactly like the picture above. Tutorial here.



You must:
  • Have your entry set to public.
  • Link to either this site or the blog ring.
  • Come back to this site to let me know that you have posted for this challenge. I will then link to your entry. Rec your entry. Leave you eProps.
  • Have your entry done by December 14th for Prime Time Action, but I'll keep linking posts through the 31st.
  • Have fun

Happy writing! Be sure to check out everyone's entries. I'm sure they appreciate your feedback.

Posted 12/10/2010 at 3:4 PM

7 Comments

This I can do! Not tonight - there is a football game on TV too close to my vicinity. But this shall be done, your highness. I know I'm somewhat sporadic but I wish we could get this blog ring back up to it's former level. I think about that sometimes.... I still have my lady of the court on the side of my blog. I met a few people on here I still comment. Anyway... that was almost free writing right there - me just typing my thoughts. peace 

Posted 11/20/2010 at 8:21 PM by peacenow
Posted 11/21/2010 at 6:0 AM by Zeal4living
Posted 11/22/2010 at 10:2 PM by BubblysLife

At last everything came together for me to have 5 minutes - untired, undisturbed, with no extra noise or people. My post is here -> Five Minutes. peace always

Posted 12/4/2010 at 4:17 PM by peacenow

Parkour is awesome and I'm not someone who can watch something without preferring to be the one doing it! Unfortunately I have a hard time imagining how one starts. I mean no matter how much you build up to it there will always be a first time for you to bounce up parallel walls and, well, how many times do you have to break your legs before you stop breaking your legs? I really don't mind if that's what it takes. I'd just like to know my leg-breaking was gonna get me somewhere!

Free writing, on the other hand, I can do without the risk of broken limbs. So I might well take up a challenge of yours for once

Posted 12/5/2010 at 6:26 AM by moss_icon

So, I did the post, but there is a small problem. I don't have the picture on it. My Edit HTML button has vanished, so I couldn't post it with the picture. But here's the link. Please forgive the non-use of the picture your Kweenlyness. It wasn't my fault they took away my edit HTML button.

http://xxxdarknessismyonlyescapexxx.xanga.com/728508579/glynda-newtonia-cunningham/
Posted 12/4/2010 at 11:42 PM by XxXDarknessismyonlyescapeXxX

I did another because I felt the first one was lame....this one isnt' much better. HERE

Posted 11/23/2010 at 9:16 AM by BubblysLife