Challenges

Season 22

Theme 1000 (1) Procrastination

Good morning Alphas,

It is my privilege to introduce you to the first theme 1000 for Season 22. These themes are relatively new to this group. We started them last season and they were successful and enjoyed by the group, so they have been continued into this season. As you are aware from the notes that Ros has kindly provided, these differ from the Open Page in that all of us in this challenge write on a common theme.

The choice of genre is yours as well as your writing style, so it could be a poem, short story, extract from a longer piece, diary entry, monologue, news item, blog, a letter (or series of letters) – anything goes. It does give you the opportunity to write to your strongest or favourite style.

The 1000 word is a maximum. You can write a shorter piece if you wish, but not a longer one. If writing a shorter piece, bear in mind that at least three people will need material to comment on and marks are awarded as with the other challenges.

The theme for this time: –

Procrastination

How you interpret the theme is up to you – literally or laterally, but other Alpha members must be able to recognise the theme in your work.

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Challenge 2

Write a story (prose) of no more than 300 words ( excluding title) starting with someone, (be it in the first or third person) hearing a bang coming from another room .

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Challenge 1

Please write a piece of 300 words maximum, not including the title, inspired by the photo below. It could be fiction, non-fiction, a poem, a radio play: anything goes. (Please choose any photo if you are looking at this on the web)

1st place Martin with 18 marks, 2nd place Ros with 14 marks, 3rd place Fanny with 9 marks

Leaderboard after challenge 1

Martin – 4 marks
Ros – 3 marks
Fanny – 2 marks
Almost everyone else on 1 mark each