Discovered in a Livejournal

Belatedly, and with sad sighs, because there was lots of fab fic written, it's time to close the Discovered When We First Met challenge. Thank you to everyone who took part, and how fab to see new Pros-y people writing too! Long may you continue, and please watch out for our next challenge, coming up sooner than you might think... *g*

Don't forget, authors, to archive your stories to The Automated Hatstand and/or to send them to our very own ProsLib CD archivist, at Frances, Proslib business: proslib at gmail dot com.

And keep an eye out, there's another challenge already well in the pipeline... *g*

Thank you everyone who responded to the poll yesterday, and since there were four people who said they'd still like to write something for the Discovered When We First Met challenge, the deadline is now extended to Sunday 17th July!

So for anyone who would like to join in here's the original challenge post, and you can post your stories/artwork/drabbles/poems/songs/erm... any other creations to the community until midnight in your time zone (or midnight in Pago Pago if you get really stuck, because we won't close the challenge until they've had their chance too... *g*) If you'd like a prompt, feel free to request one either here or at the original post.

There will of course, be a new challenge when this one closes - but if you do start something and don't quite finish on time to post at discoveredinalj it's still worth finishing and posting to the_safehouse so that everyone can read it, honest! The whole point of discoveredinalj was to provide inspiration and encourage writing (and art and anything creative, but especially writing) - so posting to a comm where everyone can read it is the really important thing... *g*

And finally, if you'd like some inspiration for this challenge again, look what's been done so far:

Scratching an Itch by Piskiedust

Basic Instinct by Jojo

First Time Meetings by Merentha13

Such Things to Come by Slantedlight

Discovered When We First Met by Cloudless9193

And finally, some stories that were prepared much earlier via the First Time Meeting Storylist over at ci5hq...

Ooh, this time it finally worked!

Right - where was I? As per request from msmoat - a poll about the next challenge!

[Poll #1752449]

Wheeee - I managed to write a whole, complete story! It's fluff, but it's whole and it's complete, and it's the lads... and it's under the cut. *g*

Oh - and my prompt was from solosundance - they meet in a garage, or carpark, or somewhere with lots of cars! - thank you!

( Such Things to Come )

It's been a while since I posted a challenge here at discoveredinalj, mostly because we're waiting for a Guest Challenger to prepare a little something (*g*) and partly because it's been quite quiet lately, writing-wise. I'm guessing that alot of people are working on their Big Bang stories, and of course there's lots of general "real life" busy-ness around too. But this morning I'm feeling inspired by some of the old posts over at the_safehouse, and so I thought we might have a go at a wee challenge to end the month (and maybe even start the new one!).

This challenge is in homage to the very first fic challenge over at The Safehouse, set way back in April 2004 by phantomas who was the comm mod back then. It went like this:

What did the Lads think the first time they met?

Either from Doyle’s pov or from Bodie’s or both.

from drabble length - 100 words - to novel length if you are so inclined :)

There were three or four drabbles posted in response to the challenge (and then people started posting other fic as well, and bam! there were Pros stories up on lj! *g*) - shall we see if we can manage to equal if not pass that? We'd just need four posts... *g* There's so much scope for first meetings too - as per these posts over at ci5hq (if anyone's needing extra inspiration... *g*) If anyone would like a prompt, then do comment to request one below, and you will be given a place of meeting to get those ideas ticking over...

So - posting any time, any length, and any format - a drabble or a story or artwork or... anything you can think of - until the next challenge opens (and don't forget to use a trailer instead of a header, if you need to use either!)... What did the Lads think the first time they met?