Complete Challenges 3 - feel free to pick one up again!

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Hello,

For the second time, welcome to the Picture The Story Challenge.
I decided not to change anything, so:

For Artists:
1. Draw a picture. HG/SS (partially at least)is a must. Note that your entries
from the previous challenge edition can be used once again if you *didn't* get
any answers and still want to give your picture a try!
2. Post it to the special folder in Photos section, called PictureTheStory
Challenge. You can post more than one picture, of course. Mark it as a second edition entry;
3. Wait patiently...

For Writers:
1. Check for pictures in the PictureTheStory Challenge folder, Photos section;
2. Write a story that will describe/tell the tale of your chosen picture/s. Don't make it too long, it's a picture - remember? No limit in number of the
stories you can write and post;
3. Post your story in txt/html format to the Challenge folder in Files section.

All entries will be displayed, with your consent, of course, on the special page at
http://www.eccentrix.com/members/picturethestory/
once the Challenge No. 2 is closed, as the first edition's entries are. That
means you can delete them when I have them saved safely onto my disc (I will
inform you on the list).

Have fun!
Silene

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Well, it can't be too complicated.
If you're an artist, make a picture.
If you're a writer, write a story which matches one of pictures made for challenge.

1. Pictures shall be posted to the folder Photos/PictureTheStory Challenge,
2. Don't make them too big, for the group's space saving sake,
3. They should be HG/SS, of course, or at least hinting the possibility...

4. Stories can be posted here,
5. Don't make them too long - it's a picture!
6. And try to tell the tale of the chosen picture...Write which one you choose!

Have fun,
Silene

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Polylove.

Fate made Severus be trapped at Harry Potter’s body,at the same time Potter lies unconscious in the hospital wing.
While he adjust to his new life, he start seeing Hermione in an entirely new way, and so does she. Not knowing that she is falling for Professor Snape.
Once Severus return to his body he don’t know which path to take and Hermione realized that something really odd happened with Harry.



Requirements:


1.    It must start at Hermione´s seven year.
2.    Albus should oppose to any relation between H/S.
3.    Legimens must be use somehow.
4.    Only the staff must know about the body switch.
5.    Extra bonus for any of this:
a.    Rita Skeeter meddling in everybody affairs.
b.    Snape at the Dursley´s.
c.    The phrase: Wow, that’s Freudian!.
6.    Use  any POV you like, any style you prefer. Make it romance, humor, angst, fluff, whatever you want.
7.    Any rate. Any length.

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The Pretty Woman Challenge
Ends September 24 (my birthday, grin)

Julia Roberts and Richard Gere captivated our hearts in the movie “Pretty Woman”, the story of a prostitute who captures the heart of a jaded, millionaire.  The fairy tale quality of this story had endured.

However the original script for “Pretty Woman” was not a fairy tale, but a dark parody that was meant to show the darkness in the life of a prostitute.  It was thrown out and reworked.  Sex sells, but it sells better if it is done with humor and a happy ending.

The challenge is to tell Hermione’s and Severus’ story based on the movie “Pretty Woman”.  The synopsis basically is that Hermione is a prostitute, how she came to this will be up to your creativity.  Severus of course is the man that enters her life, for better or for the worse, and pays her to stay with him for a time posing as his companion.

How this plays out is up to you.  Stick to the movie if you so desire or write the script towards the original idea behind “Pretty Woman.”

Of course this wouldn’t be a challenge but a plot bunny without some guidelines.
Include in the story three of the following scenes,
-A more experienced prostitute giving Hermione tips
-A pimp trying to get Hermione to let him or her control her ‘business’
-An acquaintance of Severus’ trying to get Hermione to sleep with him or her
-A formal occasion that leaves Hermione feeling very embarrassed
-A brooding Severus and a piano

Also include three of the following statements,
-“I have never treated you like a prostitute.”(Severus)  …”You just did.” (Hermione)
-“What’s your dream? Everyone has dreams.”
-“Slippery little devils.”
-“It’s hard to let go of something of such beauty.”
-“He’s not really my uncle.” (Hermione says this in reference to Severus)
-“Baby, I am going to love you so good, you’ll never let me go.”
-“This baby corners like it’s on rails.”
-“Bloody, fucking Cinderella”

(I know all the quotes are not exact to the movie, but it is as close as I can remember right now.)
Happy ending? That is up to you and was there really a happy ending in “Pretty Woman”?

Have fun
Andrian

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The Prophecy Challenge

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This challenge is fairly open ended in its requirements. There are no specific words or phrases to be included.

The challenge response must include the following ideas/plot details.

Prophecy
History of the Death Eaters (or their equivalent) prior to Voldemort and the suggestion that Voldemort used these older structures to organise his followers
Any time span from Hermione’s seventh year onwards
Wizarding prejudice in any form you want
Time Turner
 
Rating:  Any and all ratings

Length: One shot or chaptered, but the first two chapters must be uploaded by the 31st October 2003.

Closes: All Hallows Eve Oct 31st

An aside: The ancient Celts believed that Samhain was he most auspicious time for seeing into the future; that the past and future were divided by a curtain (or veil), that was at this time, the most transparent. Samhain usually translates as the modern Halloween or All Hallows Eve.

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Trinity Black’s The Proposal Challenge

    Well, as everyone in their right mind seems to know Severus and Hermione are destined for each other. Which, eventually, is likely to end up with them getting married, and living happily ever after.

The challenge

·        A one shot fic in which Severus proposes to Hermione – it can be fluffy or humorous, even angst if it works.

·        Severus must take Hermione on a muggle date after seeing it somewhere that that is ‘the best thing to do’.

·        Severus must bottle out of it at least once – without Hermione realizing.

·        The line ‘The sensible voice in her head came and told her to stop talking to herself’ must be included.

·        Severus says ‘That’s all folks’ (it doesn’t have to be in the cartoon style)

·        Kissing in the rain (action or song)

… and include one of the following…

·        “You’re spoiling me, what have you done wrong?”

·        “I think that plant is looking at you funny”

·        Severus getting a drink thrown over his head.

·        “Sod this, I’m going back to just shagging you senseless.”

The challenge-y bits

The deadline is the 18th of January. Entries can be any rating. When posting the challenge say it is a response to WIKKT The Proposal challenge.

Email me if you have any queries

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Psycho Snape challenge

Okay, I posted a couple of challenges that were evidently to complicated and misunderstood. This one in particular was based on a novel/movie that no one other than the people in America have read/seen. (My inner Snape is lifting his eyebrow sarcastically) So I decided to dumb it down a bit.

These are the basic plot twists-

-Snape has split personalities but doesn't know it.

-Hermione falls for Snapes other personality, but she doesn't know it's a different personality.

-The real Snape eventually falls for her as well.

-Snape's alter ego creates something that causes a major occurrence

-Snape realizes his alter ego is causing all the problems but is unable to stop him.

These are things that should happen-

-Snape gets in a fist fight

-Hermione gets laid

-The hogwarts students develop a new respect for Snape

Things to be said (These are and/or)-

"You got some fucked up friends."

"No I do not own a cornflower blue tie."

"I hear Lithium is good."

"Your sheets are April Fresh."

Put all links and stories in challenge folder, be sure to add all the mandatory information, the challenge end date is

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We always make Severus out to be this complicated, misunderstood man….

What if he wasn’t?

THE CHALLENGE:
The Plot:
Hermione discovers that the true Snape, is almost just how he seems. Severus discovers that Hermione isn’t that pushy know-it-all either..

Can be as long or short as you want. Any rating, they can end up together or not….
It’s up to you!!

Details:
Hermione (for a reason you must come up with) feels the need to discover the “real Prof. Snape”. She believes he is a complex man and deeply hurting, only to discover he…isn’t.
Through it all, he sees the “real” Miss Granger and both are surprised with who they really are.
SO what happens?  What are they really like?  There personalities can be anything BUT what they typically are:
Hermione may not be a bossy, know-it-all secretly wanting and/or wishing to fit in, or an abused child striving for perfection
Snape may not be an emotionally scared man who pushes people away for fear of hurting others.
You must come up with something else!!

This is the main reason for this challenge, because many of the FanFictions I read they are exactly like that. Lets see something different people!!  Other then that, GO WILD!!
Double points if you work in some Draco/Ginny, Draco/Ron, AND/OR Albus/Minerva

Must include One of the following quotes
“You had me at hello,”  -Jerry Maguire
“You really are a Fat Bastard” -Goldmember
“Your acceptance is nether wanted or required”

Teacher A:
“Don’t think of it as failing, think of it as your grades going in a different direction, that your work is held up to a different standard, that …”
Teacher B:
“Uh  (Teacher A), I think (s)he gets what you are trying to say, and it’s not helping.”

Ends April 11, 2003!!!

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THE REGENCY CHALLENGE

Brought to you by Susanna/pigwidgeon37

Dear WIKTTers,

Starch your bonnets and sharpen those quills—time to enter the Regency Challenge.

These are the rules:

1)  Main Characters:

At least four of these six characters have to appear in the story; it's up to you which HP character you choose to play the part. And of course you can make up as many others as you want.

-         The Dark, Brooding Hero: Preferably rich, aristocratic (maybe a duke or a marquis?), well-mannered and well-dressed. But oh-so-unapproachable…

-         The Charming, Witty Heroine: make her a wealthy heiress, the fifth daughter of a bankrupt but noble family, an orphan who discovers she’s in reality the great-granddaughter of Louis XV. Whatever you want.

-         The Dashing Rival: handsome, slightly shady, a gambler and ladies’ man, maybe with connections to the more unsavoury elements of 19th century English society? Or maybe not so bad after all?

-         The Scheming, Evil Woman: beautiful but rotten to the core, or disfigured by an ugly scar? Whatever the reason, she harbours a deep, deep grudge against one of the other protagonists… Enemies of the Heir, beware!

-         The Innocent: Perhaps she's the Dark Hero’s younger sister or ward? The heroine’s best friend? Innocent victim of the dashing rival? Trembling partner in crime of the evil woman, blackmailed into collaboration because she has a dark secret?

-         The Benevolent Elderly Relative ( or maybe employer, if the Heroine is a governess?) Old and wise and always ready to listen to the woes of the young. Rich or poor? Maybe there's a testament or a hidden treasure?

2) Try to use at least one—ideally as many as you can—of the following phrases:

-         “By Jove, I swear I never saw a more finely sculpted profile!”

-         one of the main characters has to call another character (of your choice) “Mon Enfant”—whether the other likes it or not is up to you

-         “Aye, I’ll fence with you, rogue!”

-         “It may interest you that I am not accustomed to being spoken to in this fashion by my servants.”

-         “He’s a boorish cub, with the soul of a farmer.”

-         “Impossible, dear child, you cannot go without a chaperon!”

3) Our protagonists should appear at some fashionable event, like a ball, a rout, a Morning Ride at Hyde Park, an evening at the opera…

4)  Although it seems obvious that Snape and Hermione should be the Hero and Heroine, you don't have to choose those roles for them. Just make sure they’re together happily at the end.

5) You’re free to choose whichever form you like best: one-shot, series of vignettes, multi-chaptered, epistolary novel, diary. Plus, you have the choice between writing a serious story (à la Georgette Heyer) or a parody in the Mills & Boon style (Barbara Cartland would be a highly recommended role model for the latter).

Not usually a fan of OOC-ness, I’d say that it's pretty unavoidable here (especially if you’re crazy enough to attribute the role of Dashing Rival to Snape). Anyway, as this is my challenge, OOC-ness will be pardoned if it’s well-done and funny.

Enjoy yourselves, ladies. You’ve got until 15 November 2003 to post your entry, or at least the first chapter.

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How To Write A Regency Romance
by Cynthia Marienthal
 
A Regency romance is not simply a short historical romance that happens to be set in the early half of the 19th century. Regency romances are a world all of their own.

The actual "Regency" occurred between1811 and 1820, however sometimes the word "Regency" is applied to a book taking place slightly earlier, perhaps 1805 or so. The only paperback publishers that still publish Regencies that I am aware of are Signet and Zebra.

Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer are icons of this genre. Catherine Coulter, Mary Jo Putney, Edith Layton and Mary Balogh all wrote Regencies before branching out into the large historical market and beyond. Emily Hendrickson still writes them.

A Regency is relatively short, though longer than a category. A Regency will run approximately 75,000 words. Despite the short length, the Regency is not just a category novel with long skirts and high hats.

A Regency is generally "sweet." There is no graphic sex in a Regency, although a Regency-period long historical is not bound by this rule. And yes, some established authors have been pushing the envelope. This is not to say that there is no sexual tension. Far from it. One of the most sensual scenes I have ever read is in Georgette Heyer's novel, Frederica. All Alverstoke does is kiss Frederica's hand. And yet, the scene is simply stuffed with sexual tension.

There is also relatively little profane language in a Regency and never from a lady's mouth. It wouldn't be good ton.

The plot is relatively low-key in a Regency. Look at Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice is about a girl who is snubbed by a rich man every single girl wants to nab. Sense and Sensibility is about two sisters, both of whom are prevented from marrying the men they love by the man's family because they are not rich. Emma is about a girl who tries to matchmake with unfortunate results. There is usually no high drama such as you would see in a longer historical, although a girl kidnaped for her dowry or the war with Napoleon may figure in the plot.

The plot generally revolves around finding a husband. The heroine may go to London for the season, if her Papa can afford it, and attend Almack's, also known as the "Marriage Mart." If she isn't good enough for Almack's, she must settle for a husband from the fringes of the ton and won't be invited to all the best parties.

When writing a Regency, historical accuracy is essential. Readers of Regencies are extremely aware of the facts and will call you on them if you make a mistake. Still, don't look to "the greats"and accept information as facts without checking into them. Georgette Heyer years ago inserted information that was wrong in order to catch a plagiarist. In point of fact, there never was a "Little Season" in London. If your Regency novel sends your heroine to London to find a husband during the "Little Season," your book will be inaccurate.

If at all within your budget, try to go to London and Bath to see the locales written into the novels of published writers. Hyde Park, Rotten Row, the Bath Assembly Rooms, Grosvenor Street and all the rest are not just names. You can look at photographs, but there is nothing like being there and walking along the Serpentine. Who cares that no dashing rake will come trotting up to you, tip his hat and dare you to gallop in the Park? (Well, I cared.)

Reference material can sometimes be hard to come by. My local library has essentially none and getting books from outside of the system is very difficult if you don't know the name and author of the book. Kristine Hughes and Emily Hendrickson have compiled and self-published several good reference books; Marilyn Clay also puts out an excellent newsletter. I have included other references as well, though they are perhaps not so exclusively Regency.

References to consider for your library:

The Regency Reference Book by Emily Hendrickson
The Regency Plume (newsletter) by Marilyn Clay
The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England by Kristine Hughes
A Life in Service by Kristine Hughes
Researching Historic Great Britain by Kristine Hughes
The Ladies of London by Kristine Hughes
Jane Austen's Town and Country Style by Susan Watkins
Regency Style by Steven Parissien
Where Queen Elizabeth Slept and What the Butler Saw by David N. Durant
An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England by Venetia Murray
The Perfect English Country House by Candida Lycett Green
I wasn't kidding when I said that the Regency novel creates a world. And that's how it should be.

Cynthia Marienthal was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she learned to read at the age of 3. Books always played a focal role in her life. Although she received a Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy at UW-Madison, and an MBA from Webster University, in between classes, she was hard at work writing historical romance novels. She joined WisRWA, serving for a number of years as the newsletter editor; she also edited "Tales of the Troubadour," a newsletter about medieval romance novels. Her mss. have won and placed in contests, and she has achieved RWA Pro status. She currently works for Abbott Laboratories in Illinois--writing, of course.

Cynthia Marienthal is a past winner of the "Finish the Dang Book Contest" and once took second place in the "Marry Me" contest with her Western Historical Romance, Dishonored (then titled Footsteps of a Stranger). She was recently awarded an RWA Pro pin and is hard at work on an Irish historical that she hopes will be the book to earn "the Call."

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Write Byte

From Regency to Historical
(December 9, 1997)

Regency Romance (with a capital "R") is a sub-genre that many readers love, but just as many readers just "don't get". Many authors began their careers writing Regencies, then switched to historicals (often set in the regency period), including Catherine Coulter, Jo Beverley, Loretta Chase, Mary Jo Putney, and Jane Ashford. Some authors, such as Mary Balogh and Edith Layton, have written both Regencies and historicals concurrently. Still other authors, notably Carla Kelly and Karen Harbaugh, strictly (at least for now), write Regencies only.

Author Kate Moore recently made the transition from Regency author to author of historicals. I asked her to talk about the reason she made the change, what's involved in writing an historical that's different than writing a Regency. This is what she had to say:. . . ."

What's it like to switch genres from writing Regency romances to writing historical romances?

For rest of article go to:

http://www.likesbooks.com/katemore.html

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Dear WIKTTers,
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[/color]http://www.awe-struck.net/PHAETON/MACKEY_phaeton/mackey_Etiquette.html  essay on regency etiquette[/size]
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[/color]http://www.regencylibrary.com/links/links.htm  collection of Regency links[/size]
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[/color]http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9140/book.htm  What people used to read[/size]
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[/color]http://austen.com/onreg.htm  ‘The’ collection of Regency links[/size]

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Regrets Challenge rules

The plot-
Severus is pondering his life or just this one regret. He thinks back to the one night he spent with the woman he loved. In his mind he relives it moment by moment (I said night spent together does not have to involve sex).

Must include-

-         Hermione (of course)

-         Mention of why they only had one night and why she isn’t around anymore

-         How the one night came about

-         Some sort of reminder she left that he holds/strokes/fondles as he thinks about her

-         Mention of a song that reminds him of her (can be sung, on radio or just title or lyrics mentioned)

Quotes, must include these (or at least 2 of them) -

-         Your what I traded ____________ for a bad bargain was that!

-         I wish it could have been different

-         If only

-         Damn her! Damn that woman!

A/N – I said it had to be repressed memories and regrets of the woman he loved, I didn’t say it had to be sweet. His regret may be that he didn’t show her he loved her and she died, at the hands of death eaters or something. Just saying so I get some sort of mix of sweet love and not so sweet love.

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I'm a huge fan of Rocky Horror and i wanted more snape/mione fics that involved
 Cross dressing and mad scientists, so i thought, "What the hell?"  And thus my
 Brain-child was born.  Here are the rules:

The Scenario: Albus makes everyone put on a school production of the Rocky
Horror Picture Show.  Needless to say, Professor Snape is Forced into the lead role of the 
Cross-dressing FLAMING mad scientist.  There are garters and corsets involved. And hermione gets a peek at "the package".  Let's do the Time warp Again!

The Requirements:

cast of characters must be as follows:

Severus Snape      as Dr. Frank N. Furter
Hernione Granger   as Janet Weiss
Harry Potter       as Brad Majors
Ron Weasley        as Riff-Raff
Ginny Weasley      as Magenta
Cho Chang          as Columbia
Draco Malfoy       as Rocky Horror
Neville Longbottom as Eddie
Albus Dumbledore   as Dr. Scott
Minerva McGonnagle as the Criminologist

At least 5 of the following must be used:

1. Traipsing about like a magnificent poof!
2. this coming from a guy in gold lame hot pants
3. snape looks better in a dress than i do.  Excuse me while i weep in a corner
And mourn my utter lack of femininity.
4. Good God man! You're ruining a perfectly good pair of stilettos!
5. "Ladies and gentlemen, We have hit rock bottom"
"snape is to play the lead role"
"oh no, here is a lower place."
6. Congratulations Albus, You have manages to find a completely new and Ingenious way of humiliating me utterly.
7. "Snape in tights.  Not as repulsive as i thought it would be."
"i fear you"
8. "A musical.  Hm, interesting."
"don't you mean horrible and degrading, professor?" 
"What?  oh yes, of course. Terrible thing.  Must put a stop to it, damn it!"
9. Sweet Merciful CRAP!
10. French fries cause cancer.  Next time you order a burger and fries,  You're
 really asking for the French fries of death.
11. Pope spelled backwards is e-pop.
12. Just remember, if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.

All Entries Must Be recieved by January 6th.  The entries don't have to be
 finished.  Updates are welcome after the entry deadline.  New entries are not
 welcome after the entry deadline.  (well, Duh)

I think that's it.  Cheers and good luck.

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The “Sabrina” Challenge

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Plot:

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Based on the movie “Sabrina” with Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart

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Date of completion: 7-21-01 (one chapter must be posted)

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Hermione has been hopelessly in love with (whoever you chose) for some time now. After returning to Hogwart’s because of a two-year absence, she vows to win this person’s heart, and does. But if they run off together, Snape will be forced to continue his job at potion’s master and not receive the DADA position. So, Snape plans to seduce Hermione...

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What happens next?

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Must include one of the following:

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Snape: “I don’t care if she runs off with Hagrid, as long as she doesn’t run off with my teaching position”

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Hermione sings the song “La Vie En Rose” in French, to Snape

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“Well Severus, I hope you remember what to do with a girl”

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Snape: “It’ll come back to me”