Christmas Challenge
The Christmas Challenge
Members who wish to meet this challenge will complete twelve fics/pics, based on various holiday themes.
Artists! FanArt entries must be new, specifically drawn for this challenge.
Authors! FanFiction entries must be new, specifically written for this challenge.
- Since this is dokuga_contest, all entries must involve Sesshoumaru & Kagome as the main characters. Their relationship can be either romantic or platonic, but those two must be the focus.
- There is no upper word limit for this challenge, but we ask that your challenge pieces be at least 100 words in length.
- The order doesn’t matter.
- Though you have a great deal of leeway with the prompts, all stories must be holiday-oriented.
- You can use the various prompts to write twelve individual pieces, or you can concoct a plot and create a multi-chaptered story.
- Stories can be of any setting, genre, and rating. Entries with adult content will be tagged ‘hentai’, and must use Live Journal’s 'Adult Content' feature.
- You can post your entries to the venue of your choice (like Dokuga, although FF, MM, PD, DA, AFF, and LJ are also fine), but you’ll need to do a post (with the link) here to have your entry recognized.
- Challenges at dokuga_contest have no deadline, so you can complete them at your own pace. Do a few each holiday season if you like.
- This is not a contest; all participants will receive a banner for their efforts. You’ll want to collect a full set:
The banners for the Christmas Challenge are provided by forthrightly
The Themes
In order to offer writers a measure of flexibility, I've created a mix-and-match assortment of prompts that you can adapt to your story-writing needs. The prompts are all easily split. For instance, if you're writing for the theme 'Jingle All the Way', you could use that full phrase... or just 'Jingle'... or you could use 'All the Way'. If you're writing for 'Bells Ring', you could use 'Bells'... or simply 'Ring'... in any of its various meanings. See? Here's the list of prompts:
- Twirling Stripes
- Flakes Flutter
- Hot Chocolate
- To Give; To Receive
- Jingle All the Way
- Warm Hands; Warm Heart
- Bark & Bite
- Wreathed in Smiles
- A Sprinkling of Stars
- Merry & Bright
- Deck the Halls
- Bells Ring
When posting, use this format:
Subject Line: Nibble by Esteemed Author [Christmas Challenge]
Title: Nibble
Author: Esteemed Author
Prompt: Christmas Challenge - Bark & Bite
Genre: Romance, Fluff
AU/CU: Alternate Universe
Rating: Use the system you like best: G, PG, PG13, R, NC17 or K, K+, T, M, etc.
Warnings: Different people are squicked by different things, so please disclose the usual culprits: sexual situations, innuendo, profanity, character death, angst, fluff, etc.
Word Count: Please note the length for us.
A/N: Do you have anything to tell us? If your entry is part of a series, you might provide links to the beginning of the story here. Just keep it short, please.
Summary: Give us a teaser!
Link: Give us the URL to your story. If you’re only posting it here at dokuga_contest, then you must place your story under an LJ-cut.
This is the actual size of an individual award banner:
Once you post your story, we’ll immediately personalize the winter banner and pass it along.