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Inspired by something murphybabe said over at ci5hq (gosh what a lot of links), I thought it was about time we had a new discoveredinalj challenge for January...

...which means it's all about you! Writers in particular, but there's no reason why artists and vidders can't join in. Have you ever thought about writing/drawing/vidding in a completely different style to the one you usually use? Maybe your stories are mostly dialogue-based, or you've never tried comedy, or you'd like to capture the gorgeous melancholia that Helen Raven or Sebastian touch in their stories. Perhaps you've longed to write like Ann McCaffrey, Daphne Du Maurier, Agatha Christie or Bridget Jones Helen Fielding? This is your challenge... *g*

Either choose a structural or authorial style in which to write yourself, and give it a go - applying it to our lads, of course *g* - or else ask for a prompt below, specifying whether you'd prefer (what I'm calling) a structural challenge (such as stream of consciousness, adventure, comedy, romantic romp) or an authorial one (such as Emily Bronte, Georgette Heyer - even Tim Winton... *g*). I'll assign you a prompt - or if you fancy assigning a prompt to someone, simply watch out for who's requesting one, cos why shouldn't we all play? *g*

Another place you might like to try for prompts is I Write Like - you paste in a piece of text and it tells you who you allegedy "write like". Goodness knows what it bases its decisions on, and it gives some interesting results - I wouldn't have said that my Christmas Story was in a style similar to Arthur C. Clarke's writing, but it might be fun to re-read one of his books and see how I could consciously apply it to a story about our lads... *g* (Who Caught and Sang the Sun is apparently more James Joyce...! Hmmn!)

Of course if you're an artist you might be challenged to create in the style of an Impressionist, or of Tamara de Lempicka or... Kirsten Sheridan... *g*

Then go away and write, create, experiment, despair and cry out in ecstasy... you know, write your story (create your work, vid your vid). Feel free to post here to discoveredinalj at any time in January or February - and if you're very quick, come back for another prompt!

As usual, don't forget to include a trailer at the end of your work, under the cut so that those who don't want to be aren't spoiled, but it can be easily found by those who do want information first - and most importantly, found by our hard-working ProsLib archivist!

The final deadline will be midnight in your time zone on the 29th February (happy Leap Year!) - or if you're not quite there, then midnight on the 29th in Pago Pago time... *g* And mostly? Enjoy yourself, and do come back and share with us! Oh - and even if you don't need a prompt, but think you'll play, it'd be nice to hear from you below, so that we know what we might have to look forward to... *g*