The April Writing Challenge begins here!
The Gens to be used for this challenge are: the City, Law, Quick Character, and Plot Device Gens.
The objective of the challenge is to use the aforementioned Gens and turn their results into a short story between 5,000 and 10,000 words (about 6 – 11 pages). The specifications are as follows:
City Gen (Free use): Use this Gen to determine the location of your story. You may generate any number of cities and use one or more as the locations in your story.
You may NOT edit plots or mix-and-match city results.
Law Gen (Free use): Use this Gen to produce a selection of laws for your city. You may use as many laws as you like.
Quick Character Gen (Free Use): Use this Gen to generate a character or two for your story. You may have as many characters as you like, and the characters can be main, secondary or background characters, as long as they are visible somewhere.
Plot Device (Optional, Free use): Use this Gen if you wish to add an extra element to your story. You may use as many plot devices as you like.
You are free to use any other Gens to help you with your story.
And so, the challenge is to write a story involving whatever quick characters you generate living in your chosen city, where the aforementioned laws are either obeyed or broken, with a few plot devices potentially adding a little more flavour to your tale. Writing can be continued until the 22nd of April. Stories can be submitted at any point between the 1st and the 25th. You can do more than one story if you want.
Send your stories to RanGen HERE (please don’t send them as attachments; put the story in the body of the email), and write your name (it doesn’t need to be your real name) and “April Writing Challenge” in the subject line. If you’re having trouble sending long stories in one email, split it in two and clearly mark both as part 1 and part 2.
Be sure to include with your story the results of all the generators aforementioned Gens, and the results of any other Gens that you use!
After the 25th, the stories will be made available to read on the site and the winners will be selected and announced on the site.
If you have any questions or comments, don’t forget you can contact me for that too. For those taking part in this writing challenge, good luck; you may well need it…
