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I was actually thinking of writing a decent, quality blog entry every day for the next two weeks (excluding graduation-party-heavy weekends). It's nice to see some encouragement. While I guess this doesn't change my goal, I think I might also work on an extended short story within my IDES universe and post it near the end.

 

Bear in mind, you'll have to read and review it when it becomes public. I'll force you to through numerous annoying reminders.

 

Your Honor,

Emperor Kraggh

Was away from home just about all day yesterday, so 0 for that day. Today I decided to make up for it, and, having misread this blog post and assumed 500 words/day was the general goal and not your personal one, aimed for 1000. I wound up at a little over 1400. Not too bad.

Velox and I talked it over and determined that he who laughs first does, indeed, laugh last. Logically it follows that the first object into a tube is the last out because it's at the bottom and therefore cannot be reached without removing the other objects first.

 

On another note, we also determined that it's unfair to ask you guys to write daily for two weeks on such short notice. We sympathize with the probability of schedules that preclude one's ability to do that. Therefore we define the parameters of the challenge as this: because the challenge will be open from the day it began to four weeks thence (June 16th), your challenge is to write a minimum ten days out of twenty-eight. As an extra incentive to those who can write two weeks straight as in the spirit of the challenge, there will be two further points awarded for any and all who accomplish two straight weeks of writing. If you can write diurnally for all four weeks, you will earn yourself one further point in addition, for a total of thirteen points (including the prompt and vocabulary words) that will be quite singular with regard to future challenges. If you can write diurnally for two straight weeks out of these four, you earn twelve points, and ten if you write ten days spaced as you wished across the twenty-eight. There are twenty-five days remaining; plenty of time to manage fourteen days straight, or ten out of all those days. So what are you waiting for? Write!

 

 

A few further details I thought I would specify. First, this challenge closes at 11:59 PM EST, Saturday, the 16th of June; that means that the 19th of May did not qualify as one of the days of this challenge. Instead, the Saturday it ends will qualify. Easier for it to start a day late than end a day earlier.

 

Second, you can meet this challenge with more than one literary piece. For example, you can use two vocabulary words in an epic chapter, one more in a short story inspired by the prompt, and the last in a short story that qualifies for the challenge (which does not apply do this challenge, but will to future challenges). You cannot qualify twice, but you can spread your qualifications across multiple works.

 

Lastly, your writings do not need to be posted on BZPower to qualify. This probably isn't a problem many of us will come across, but I know I personally will beworking, for the most part, on a novel this summer--and therefore will not post my writings here. If you too, in one way or another, can't post your stories here--no worries!

 

Entries for the Flash Fiction Marathon do qualify, in case you wondered.

 

 

From the desk of Nuile: Lunatic Wordsmith

[color: #008000]Entries for the Flash Fiction Marathon do qualify, in case you wondered.[/color]

 

I began reading this entry hoping I could use Flash Fiction Marathon entries. Thanks for clarifying.