The Ultimate Ficly Challenge!

PLEASE CONTINUE THE SERIES!!!!

Oh, wow, thanks kaellinn :)

And thanks to everyone else who made ‘The Bottomless Lake’ what it was: bottomless (or maybe endless i s a better word). You’re all awesome :)

There were a few people who really took this challenge and ran with it. If the commenting were the only aspect I had to judge, it would have been very difficult to pick a winner.

However, thelostgirl’s entry spawned off one of the best series that I’ve ever read on this site. From that one short Ficly, over 20 others have been spawned, written by many different authors. It has been great fun to participate in that series, and it helped me make some new friends as we all built this world together.

Congratulations, thelostgirl! You are the Ultimate Ficly Challenge Champion!

See, I want to do this… but I don’t know. Maybe I can cook something up. Now would be a great time for that inspiration button.

I’d just like to say that this Gorm/Juno stuff series is now taking up !! 6 !! places on the “popular” list =O
Rock on guys!

Well I’m exhausted. I’ve just finished reading the new entries, not to mention all the sequels to the ‘Bottomless Lake’ (which is going to be novel length by the time we’re done!) and commenting my little brains out.

But I just wanted to say that this is a freakin’ awesome challenge kaellinn. Not only is it demanding on our abilities to give constructive criticism but everyone that’s participating is producing amazing stories! I’m stunned, I am.

Thanks for making such a fun and exciting challenge :D

Thanks, Abby! This challenge succeeded far beyond what I expected, even managing to be featured for a while. (And it’s not even over!)

The fantasy series inspired by thelostgirl’s entry is definitely one of the best on the site, and it has more contributing authors than any other series that I’ve seen to date.

Also, I’ve noticed that people who have contributed to this challenge have started writing more informative comments on the site in general, and that makes me very happy. Thanks to everyone for participating! This is great!

I just wanted to say well done for making this challenge – it’s given birth to an amazing series that I’m enjoying being part of. =D Thank you!

It’s fine. You don’t have to enter if you don’t want to. :-)

I am so sorry, but I accidentally somehow wrote to enter the contest and didn’t mean to. Should I just enter the contest, or leave it alone? If there were a way to delete it, I would have done so.

Wow…typing all these comments are starting to hurt although I read stories thinking about what to say now so thanks for that.
Good challenge and I found something to sequel =D

Abby, you can prequel/sequel something that already has prequels and sequels.

I can’t find one I want to sequel so can I wait 4 a bit…(puppy dog eyes) or just look at the hamsta!! please.
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That seems fair. All good, then.

Sorry, but I don’t think it would be fair to allow anyone to pull anything at this point.

Hmm. Can I pull Stairway to… out of the challenge, then? If not, I’m happy to stick by it…

It’s just a little more disjointed than what I’dve gone for if I knew I had only one shot.

No, no. One original entry. You can write as many offshoots of other people’s entries as you want, but you must note which one will be counted and which ones will not. See thelostgirl’s entries for examples.

Hang on, wait, to clarify – we can make multiple original entries and prequels and/or sequels? ‘Cause I probably wouldn’t have entered Stairway to… if was my only shot.

Okay, thanks Kaellinn

I’ll do it this way: you can prequel/sequel as many entries as you want, but you must pick only one that will be used for rule two of the challenge. Leave a comment saying which one you want to be used (I recommend doing this as soon as you write it so others will know which they need to rate/comment on), and leave comments in the others you write saying that they are not used for the purpose of rule two of the challenge.

This will make it easier for me to judge a winner and also easier on everyone else since they are only required to rate and comment the prequel/sequel you are including for the challenge.

Also, just in case it isn’t obvious, I am not eligible to win this, though I will be participating.

Can we prequel/sequel more than one entry? There are a couple I’d like to try my hand at.

Yeah, there’s no reason to do everything all at once. You might want to wait until you see an entry that really inspires you.

I think I’m gonna hold off writing a prequel or sequel until the other entries are in.

Great idea. But your challenge description could do with more dramatic and psychological charge in the second paragraph – might I suggest a robot versus lightsaber battle?
Er. I wrote a sequel to an earlier story of mine. http://ficly.com/stories/11751 I DIDN’T MEAN TO, IT JUST HAPPENED! Is this alright? It’s not even in the same narrative style… can I get a pass, coach?

Also: ‘Ultimate’ means ‘not to be improved upon’, last, final – so have we reached the end of Ficly so soon? And should I stop typing now? I think ‘yes’.

Oooh, I like this challenge. I’ll be sure to write once I get an inspiration!