sophinisba | Challenges

With much help and encouragement from

danachan, I've written a Merry/Pippin fic for the Location challenge over at

waymeet. It takes place just after the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, on March 16th and 17th in Minas Tirith, and is not cute or lighthearted, though it has its moments. (I wanted to post it on the 17th, but I was too damn slow.) It's my first hobbit slash fic and my first sustained attempt at canon compliance so it was, well, a challenge, but I enjoyed writing it a lot. It is quite long (over 11,000 words) and rated a hard R. The Silent Street

I've written, oh, maybe half of my Frodo spring challenge fic and am enjoying that a lot too, though it's a bit scary. It's, again, somewhat different territory from anything I've tried before, and yet I think anybody who knows me will be able to spot my story right away. Oh my, the same words, the same ideas, over and over again! I'm pretty well aware of it, but I can't seem to think of any other way to say things. :)

kissing_athelas has set up an informal challenge over here at

domlijah. The theme is "drinking games" and fics (of any length) are due April 1st. March 31st is

absolutefiction's birthday and she deserves much happiness, so I hope a lot of people join in. (Why no, my motives for pimping this challenge are not selfish in the least.) I believe this challenge will inspire a lot of Old School, First Time, New Zealand type Dom/Elijah fics, and that thought makes me very happy. Though of course other scenarios, including wacky AUs, would also be lovely ~~especially if they involve drunken robots omg~~.

April 1st is also, of course,

abby_normal's birthday and will be celebrated again this year with Frodo/Merry Day, which can also be Frodo and Merry Day if slash isn't your thing or if the slash muse is absent.

Now, I realize this happened by complete coincidence. Carole doesn't read rps as far as I know, and Abfic is more of a Frodo/Sam fan when she goes for hobbit fic. However, as a fan of both pairings, I'm really quite thrilled, and I love that they happen to be coming on the same day. I hope we get loads of wonderful new fic out of both these challenges.

airgiodslv is interested in organizing a lotrips challenge in which writers will be paired up, and each partnership given a prompt to write a fic collaboratively. An effort will be made to match up people who get along well but haven't written together in the past. Doesn't this sound like fun? Go comment here if you think you might like to play. Does anyone think this might be something cool to try out with hobbit (including interspecies) fic as well?

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I read your waymeet fic and left you feedback. I was very much impressed with it. Lots of birthdays coming up this spring.

Naw, thank you! I figure not a whole lot of people on my friends list will read it (since we're a bunch of Frodo fanciers), but that's another reason it was nice to get to post in the comm and have some new people see it.

LJ is great because your friends' birthdays become holidays, so many fics get written for them.

I think anybody who knows me will be able to spot my story right away. Oh my, the same words, the same ideas, over and over again! I'm pretty well aware of it, but I can't seem to think of any other way to say things.

I feel the same way about my stories!

*grins and hugs*

Well, and I don't think it's really a problem, like we need to try to disguise ourselves or anything. It's just amusing and a little bit frustrating sometimes to see how I tend to fixate on the same things in every story.

*hugs back*

Hee. I just can't wait until all the challenge stories come out. I so totally have to finish mine in case I have to do a backup or something...;-D

No more challenges for me for the time...not until my muse gets more manageable! :-)

Well, these other ones are not so much formal challenges as, you know, birthday conspiracies, but I understand about the muse. I do, I do. I'm still pretty scared about mine for the Frodo challenge, but I am looking forward to it a lot.

I am warming up for the challenge fic, I really am. Yep. I had an idea, but it now seems lame, so I have another idea. I'm hoping to just start writing and see what happens...:-)

I feel like saying all kinds of things about my challenge fic, like how many words I've got, and the lovely bits from the book that I've been rereading, and how it relates to things I'm reading for school, and so on, and I can't say anything because I'm trying to be all secretive about it!

Hee. Me too! I hope to get more done in the wee hours tomorrow...yay!

I'm so happy for you that you've been getting so much writing done!

Whee! I'll look into your Silent Street as soon as I can.

I'm also half, or more, through my Spring Challenge. It's been a pleasure writing it, is all I will say. *looks shiftily for her secret recipient*

I also do not read RP anything. I do enjoy M/F, so I'll put on my thinking cap for Abby's bday. Thanks for the reminder!

Silent Street is crazy long and there's no Frodo in it, so I'm really not sure how it happened at all, but I really loved rereading the relevant sections of ROTK, with a new appreciation for the Merry angst.

I remember the lovely Frodo and Merry gen fic you did last year. April 1st is gonna be great.

*hugs you*

Many of my Hobbit_smut entries are 11,000 words long. No sweat!

I was really relieved that it actually fit into one LJ post. :)

Technically, I believe it's legal to write fics that don't have Frodo in them. *checks manual* Well, it's unclear, but I think I'll be happy to read whatever you want to write. :) Oh, unless it's RPS-- :O Never mind! :-D

It's just amusing to me because I barely ever even read anything that doesn't have Frodo (or Elijah in some manifestation or other). My first idea when I saw the challenge was to do Frodo and Sam in the Dead Marshes. Do we see a pattern here?

I've gotten some really amazing fics out of challenges. There's something about somebody else's suggestion combining with my own stock supply of ideas that makes a fertile combination. Plus, it's fun!

Oh, I completely agree. That is, I haven't participated in any organized challenges before, but almost all of my fics were at least partially inspired by requests from friends. Am trying to finish one right now, actually, for a birthday that came up sooner than I was expecting it, and it appears I have no ending, again. *ponders*

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