Okay. This is the fantasy part. Now this fantasy can be you're own anime series thing, or your dungeons and dragons style fantasy, or if anybody has ever read Broken Sky (By Chris Wooding) Which you haven't you damn well should because it is such a brilliant book! It'll knock the socks off you, and it's in nine parts!
Any way, you're all wondering what the challenges are. Since fantasy-sci-fi stuff is more my Forte, I won't give you too many, only some interesting little bits to have have a go at....
Challenge One:
(Easy Peasy!) Have atleast three charcters as a group, be it a family or a group of friends, where some kind of event separates them, and when they get back together, they find there's a very bif challenge ahead of them (it could be somethign as bad as one of them has a bad illness and is dying. Most people think of war or fighting, but some times simple things can make it more pulling)
Challenge Two
( Mostly consisdered for female writers) Try a fantasy romance thing, I'm not going to be a mills and Boon person and say they have to hate each other at the start. Make them fall in love any way you want, be very creative! I know alot of girls out there could really give this the works!
Challenge three:
(A little bit harder, quite a bit of discriptive ability needed and plenty of good, different words. Recomended for human thesauruses!) In your story include the Following:
1.Predjudice
2. Mysical power hidden in somebody
3.Two people be it boy and boy or girl and girl or what ever combination you want having friction between them that doesn't make them particularly get on with each other
4. Somebody with a bad past (Now this could be anything, not always bad. I could be that they were raped, they were left at the alter, they saw somebody they didn't know die, it doesn't mean they have to watch all their family and friends die. It could be as simple as them almost dying with a disease or something, or learning some magic they didn't like, it's affects scaring them....)
(For those who liked the idea of the love thing, you could use this thing to make a romance. Think of the possibilities!)
The last challenge is the hardest to keep short, if you're going to make it clear that it's all going on. Try sending it in chapter by chapter, or have three chapters at once (Like Chris Wooding started off doing)
