July BPC Combined
I’m most excited to bring you this month’s BPC. Eliza, our own professional awesome, soon to be renowned author, has enlisted our help in bringing her a challenge in writing.
Here are the rules:
Your job is to submit a story premise and genre. That’s it!
Eliza will pick her favorite entry and weave us a fictional tale from that subject and in the genre accompanying it.
The person who’s entry is chosen will receive 1,000 blog points. Eliza, as well, will receive 1,000 points for entertaining us with a riveting story.
To make it even easier on you all, I’ll throw in a list of genres to choose from. Can’t ask for more than that, can you?
Romance
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Chick Lit
Suspense
Literary
Young Adult
Historical – World War II
Historical – Western
Historical – Civil War
She is also open to any cross-genres and will take suggestions of others,
but no guarantees.
Your entries are due by the end of Saturday and can be commented directly to this post. Eliza will then make her choice and she will have until the end of next week to write it.
Fun, eh?
Fantasy: In the middle of a town, there is a glass well, and steps that wrap all around
the well. Inside the well is a small wooden whistle that falls from the top, slowly, towards
the bottom. It disappears and then reappears at the top, and falls down again.
No one has been able to touch it, or take it out of the well. No one knows, or remembers,
what the whistle does. Except one.
Okay…if you don’t pick this I’ll write about it LOL!
Historical. Western. 1890. Two guys and their wives heading west to settle a new life.
Honestly, I kept that boring so you don’t pick it. I want to hear Amy’s story.
I say Historical – Civil War. The story should take place around the lives of a family
of 4 young brothers (all maybe under the age of 16) who have been enlisted to fight in the war. The catch is that their father has already been killed in the war and they are afraid to go off and leave their mother alone to tend to the family’s home. Not too original, but
might be good.
Fantasy: In the midst of a summer evening, a writer writes a story provided by someone named Amy.
I know you already said you don’t write horror, but I still stick my by fireworks story. Could be good woven from a mind such as yours. Watch out Dean Koontz! I’m sure Rob could come up with some very creative ways to snuff someone with fireworks – since we’re talking horror and all.
Kim — I used a fireworks dealer as a bad guy and a fireworks store as a badguy joint in Atrocity. But they were Chinese, not West Virginians, and the woman had no chest hair. And it was 1903.
Does that count?
Yes! It most certainly does! The Chinese are not know for their hairy-ness anyway. Although, being that it’s 1903, I bet there is a small amount of hair on them anyway.