August 2007 Challenge Bulletin

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Birthdays!

August 4 - Anglachel wrote: My husband and I bought an 80+ year old house earlier this year and are in the middle of renovating it, so buildings are on my mind. Big ones and small ones. Grand capitals on high hills and humble Hobbit holes beneath. Places that are new and places that are old. Write something about a place, preferably a single building. It can be in any era, any location, and told from any perspective. Tell me something about that place - a start, an end, a swift event, the slow passage of time. Bring that place to life.

Post your request at the Birthday Cards Forum

Also, don't forget to create a story for the birthday card workshop. This lets others put drabbles they write in an easily accessible location. Enter your story in the challenge for AUGUST drabbles. All birthday stories will also now be listed in a master playlist. There are instructions on how to do all this at the top of each thread in the Birthday Cards Forum; if you need help just ask the Workshop Manager, Gwynnyd.

New Challenges

A Quickie

• Hide and Seek
  Write a story, drabble, or poem, about a character trying to find something or someone (or keep it hidden). The thing in question can be an actual object or person, or it can be a secret that some characters might want to expose. You can write a drabble, poem, or story, up to 1,000 words.
  
  The challenge closes on August 6th.

Open Challenges

Two for two kingdoms in exile [Gondor and Arnor]

1. When Brothers Are Not So Close
   Closes September 1, 2007
   There are four options:
   
   1. Write the brothers as cool or distant
   2. An argument that needs to be resolved
   3. An AU with an outside force separating the brothers and how it might effect canon
   4. Explore the relationship outside of canon.
   You could include cousins or other people who share a brotherly bond.
   
   
2. New Members 2006 - 2007
   Closes October 29, 2007
   This is a challenge for new members. By definition, a new member is any member who has been a member for fewer than four months or who, at the time of reading this, has written three (3) or fewer Tolkien fanfics.
   Choose one of the following - there are choices from any Age, from "The Hobbit," from "Lord of the Rings," from "The Silmarillion", from "Unfinished Tales", and three choices from the Peter Jackson "Lord of the Rings" - movies.

Keep a New Year's Resolution

• Wander over to the Nugzul pen and adopt one today.
• Review one story weekly.
• Browse the Resources section - the Research Library and more!.
• Leave a comment monthly.

HASA Challenges Team