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Magically Yours
Do not worry, my ficly friends! This is not a Bewitched challenge. But it is a bewitched challenge! Let's see: Magic has to be a key factor in your story. You must use at least two of these words: "chariot", "charm", "mesmerism", "ramose", "devil", or "bole". I don't care if it'...
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The End
The end. How will it come? A mass of natural disasters? Nuclear weapons? Radioactive monkey-pig cross take over? I can't wait to hear your stories. :) <3, RPS
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When the Lights Go Out
It's almost summer (and will be by the time this challenge is over). That means big summer storms around here, which means the power goes out. When I was a kid, this scared the _crap_ out of me. There was always a huge _crack_ of thunder and then complete darkness; then we all made...
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All Fellow Saps Are Called!
Well.. Doesn't the title speak for itself? I need to read me some... oh, what's the word? Non-cliche` love story to read. So I challenge you, Ficly. Impress me. Make me go, "Ooh! I wasn't expecting that!" or "Whooooooa." Don't hope for the normal comment of "Nice.." or "Not bad". ...
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12 word Novel
NPR held a contest on who could write the best 12 word novel and my creative writing teacher introduced it to my classs. So, all you have to do for this challenge is write a 12 word novel. It's just that simple. *personally I love 12 word novels because they can inspire you in ...
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Beginnings
In honor of this new beginning, and to test out the challenge feature, I propose that we focus on beginnings. All things have a beginning, a *genesis* if you like terms. Every story has a beginning too. I hope that you can write a beginning that will inspire you to *keep going*, bu...
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Twitter Me This
Here's the challenge: Use one or more of the Tweets from this particular user in one or more Ficlets. www.twitter.com/happens4real No need to include the quote tags: (i.e. The Stranger, 13, Freckles, Zukii) *NO RULES* Entries will be judged on Comedy, Creativity, and Orig...
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Classroom Etiquette
Mr. Dobbins' Eight-Grade Math Class has 12 students, and respectively 12 stories. Desk Numbers are as follows: *.1. .2. .3. .4.* *.5. .6. .7.* *.8.* *.9. .10.* *.11.* *.12.* (The first desks being in the front of the class.) *Desk #1: Kristin Stuart* *Desk #2:...
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It Looked Like..
It's that simple folks, begin a ficly with those little words. Any genre, any style, and any length ;) It looked like.. See my story 'It Hatched" http://shush.ficly.com/stories/19 for an example. This is also the starter required for the _Write to Win!_ contest by _Writer's J...
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New York, New York!
Write about anything to do with this fabulous city. I don't care what. Jazz it up, make it lively and hot. Cool it down and kiss the night air and gleaming lights. Go for this one head-on!
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A Writer's Style - Break The Fourth Wall!
The results for the first 'writer's style' challenge will go up tomorrow as I'm too tired to judge now, but I _do_ have time to set up your next mission! In your entry to this challenge, I ask you to utilise the technique of *'breaking the fourth wall'*, or *'direct address'*. ...
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My Challenge Is Better Than Yours
This Challenge can be hard or it can be easy. At this point I'm not really sure. The Idea for this one came to me from a game we played in Drama class. Your challenge is to use these two sentences in a Ficly (Ficlet? Ficlyette??): "My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard."...
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The Umbrella
It was raining all week on Long Island and one day I noticed something on the hood of my car. It was a black umbrella with yellow smiley faces all over it. I thought it might have been my little brother's so I put it on the porch. When my parents and little brother came home, my mothe...
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Down In the Dungeon - Inside a Room
When TSR were The Wizards of The North and _Dungeons and Dragons_ ruled the spiral backed notebooks and index cards of incubating writer geeks, there was such a thing as the "down the stairs, through the hallway dash, slash and treasure grab." It was a time of wandering monsters, ...
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Alphabet Soup
You know those alphabet soup cans? Well, the aim of the challenge is to have a story that uses each of the letters below 10 times. *Z* *X* *Y* *V* *Q* But the story still has to be coherent, meaning you can't go qqqqqqqqqqzzzzzzzzzzxxxxxxxxxxkkkkkkkkkkyyyyyyyyyy, and expect to ...
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The Alien Challenge
Any story written from the perspective of another sentient race. It doesn't even need to be about humans, although it's always interesting how others see our wretched little species. If you are geniunely alien (i.e. _Homo aspergicus_, otherkin, whatever), you must not use the perspect...
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Summer, Where Art Thou?
It's being snowing here for what seems like forever. I can't even remember what grass looks like. Now don't get me wrong I absolutely love snow. It's my favorite form of precipitation....but frankly, it's getting a little old. I'm starting to wish for those days where I could run arou...
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A Touch of Madness
I think it's safe to say that usually the creative and intelligent walk a fine line between genius and insanity, if not occasionally crossing that line. Sometimes I get the feeling that society doesn't like the peculiar nature of the creative and intelligent, that we need to be "dea...
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Get a Clue
Having just joined ficly and read as much as I can, there is some MAJOR talent on here, particularly with regards to putting a twist in the tale - one of the essential components of a good murder mystery or detective story. In any style, be it the 19th Century pipe-smoker or the fa...
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Action Author
Inspired by Marli's challenge a while ago, I sort of want to repeat her challenge but with a different twist. Pick any three authors (friends are encouraged) and make an action/mystery Ficly about them. My only rule: 1. You must comment on every entry. (doesn't really have ...
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Alliteration
Write an entire story using alliteration. Alliteration is the practice where every word in a sentence begins with the same letter. The odd word that doesn't fit the alliteration is fine, but aim for as many as possible. You've got one month to come up with something brilliant!
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Everyone's Words
*PHASE TWO has started, so start writing!* In PHASE ONE, people were invited to choose words and post them in comments. Each person was allowed more than one word, but had to wait 24 hours between each one (i.e. one word per person per day). I reserved the right to disqualify words...
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Tales of Twilight
The challenge is simple. In the twilight hours when the sky turns an indigo-blue and fairies sprinkle dew over the grass, that's when the elves come out to play. Centaurs run through the forests and the tooth fairy runs riot in childrens' bedrooms. Write a story about the elves...
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Aliens Lacking Humanity
Write about an alien being (or a group of alien beings) exactly like humans, except for one definable human quality (no sense of humor, lacking suspicion, always completely truthful) and how they interact with either other aliens or humans. The missing human quality should be evide...
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Cyberpunk was dead
Start a story with the line "Cyberpunk was dead." Not necessarily in quites, mind you. And the period is optional, I guess. That's the only restiction. Two weeks. Will be judged based upon the whims of a madman.
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Sequels
Doubtless this has been done before, but I joined yesterday. Humour me. The name of the game is to write a passage of a story. You don't read the previous ones till you're done, and you don't edit. Hopefully at the end, we'll have a random story. To give it a bit of synergy... It'...
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Numbers Game
Your challenge is to write a fic about *numbers*. You can interpret that concept as loosely as you want, involving numbers in the plot directly, or just hinting at a broader numerical theme. Any kind of number is allowed! It doesn't have to be obvious, though whatever numbers you c...
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Cyberpunk was dead
Start a story with the line "Cyberpunk was dead." Not necessarily in quotes, mind you. And the period is optional, I guess. That's the only restiction. Two weeks. Will be judged based upon the whims of a madman.
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Tell Me a Western
I'm new to this here website and I quite enjoy the stories that I read. Unfortunately enough, I have yet to come across any westerns. I want to read about gunslingers, tumbleweeds, the railway, saloons etc. Write something that would make a prospector proud!
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It All Started When...
Wow, my very first challenge on this new site. So very thrilling. Well, I'll make it short and sweet: Your challenge is to write the story of how your parents first met each other. Who cares if it's true or not? Make it crazy, make it coincidental, make it creative! Was it fate? Wa...
