Climbing the Poet's Tree: Week-Long Serial Poetry Challenge

[poetree_admin]

aleegrrl

This week we're going to allow our challenge to branch out a little. Rather than having individual hosts this week, we are opening things up to community for a week-long challenge. Normally our challenges go up on a Sunday and community members have two weeks to post a comment containing their challenge response itself or a link to that response. For this challenge we will be posting the challenge on Sunday as normal, however, we ask that responses be posted directly to the poetree journal. You do not have to request a day. If you write your response on Monday and are ready to post it then, you can. If you write it Tuesday and want to post it Friday, you can. The limits are that your post must be an answer to one of the challenges, though poems for the writer's challenge may be posted on separate days, and your post must be up before 11:59 EDT on Saturday, November 10th.

For Writers:
Challenge #27: Write at least two linked poems. You may create your own series, or, if you have the permission of the author, write a poem for an established series. You must have the permission of the author if you are not writing in a series of your own creation. We do encourage people to play, to riff off each others' posts if others are amenable, and to have a good time with this.

Two open worlds to consider participating are ysabetwordsmith's Schrodinger's Heroes, and Ellen Million's Torn World. If you know of other open worlds that people might like to write two poems for, please provide the information in a comment to this post.

For Readers:
Challenge #28: Write a review of one of the poems posted under the serial poetry tag. Entry needs to be between 1 and 3 paragraphs and should reference how that particular poem fits into or informs the broader picture of the overall series.

This week's prizes:
Since the challenge is a little more difficult the prizes are a bit more substantial. Winner of each challenge gets zir choice of 50 dreamwidth points (the equivalent of a bit more than one month of paid time), 3 icons, or 1 15+ line poem continuing zir series. Icons or poem will be created by one of the admins, alee_grrl or jjhunter.

The winner for this week long writing challenge will be chosen by ysabetwordsmith. The winner for the reader’s challenge will be chosen randomly among all those who successfully complete the challenge. While anyone is welcome to accept and complete either or both challenges, the following people are not eligible for winning: the writers' challenge judge (ineligible for writers' challenge; eligible for readers' challenge); and the POETREE admins, jjhunter & alee_grrl (ineligible for both challenges).


Note that you do not have to be a member of POETREE, or even Dreamwidth for that matter, to participate. When you complete one of the challenges, please comment at this post with links to your poem or comments; if you complete both, please comment separately for each challenge. Deadline for challenge is Saturday, November 9, 2012 at 11:59 EDT. Winners will be announced on Sunday, November 18, 2012, which would allow our judge a full week to choose a winner.

Comments

[primeideal]

I'd love to write more for Schrodinger's, this sounds great! (I actually have to post some other poems for that soon, but they're not exactly linked to each other so I'll do that in my own space and probably link at the next round-up.)

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>I'd love to write more for Schrodinger's, this sounds great!<<

That would be awesome.

>> (I actually have to post some other poems for that soon, but they're not exactly linked to each other so I'll do that in my own space and probably link at the next round-up.) <<

Poems within the same project can count as serial poetry -- but if I need a tiebreaker, I'll give more weight to poems that are closely connected over those that are loosely connected.

If you give me the link for any Schrodinger's Heroes stuff, I'll add it to the menu page.

Re: Yay!

[primeideal]

Nah, I'd be more than happy to do new stuff! :) I just need to talk myself into posting the last few, they're...not my usual style.

If I ever get around to it (I've made a start, but there's a lot more I want to write and a lot of projects competing for my attention), I have another medium-lengthish fic in the works. So stuff is...coming! Eventually.

Re: Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>I just need to talk myself into posting the last few, they're...not my usual style.<<

Go for it! Branching out to new styles is good.

>>If I ever get around to it (I've made a start, but there's a lot more I want to write and a lot of projects competing for my attention), I have another medium-lengthish fic in the works.<<

That would be so cool.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Hmm.

I have an entry for the first challenge! (Technically two, per the rules!)

However, I do not have a Dreamwidth account, and so cannot post to the community, though Open ID does at least allow me to comment. May I send them to someone to post for me?

[poetree_admin]

You are more than welcome to send them to poetree.at.dreamwidth [at] gmail [dot] com which is the poetree admin email. We would be happy to post them for you.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Sending them now.