Posted on September 28th, 2009 by Amy Nutt
First up
Here is the new one:
At Teitho, the challenge for October is Weird Tales: It’s supposed to be as general as possible to give you the opportunity to write anything fitting the spirit of Halloween: haunted houses, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, magic. Middle Earth has its fair share of dark corners. Halloween is the perfect time to explore them! Have our dynamic duo live through a scary adventure, have them meet a vengeful spirit or let them recount urban legends! The deadline for this challenge is October 25th. If you want to know more and/or participate, please visit the website.
And in other fanfiction news (well sort of) I finally got myself a new beaut laptop - now I just need to transfer all my favourite fanfiction over to it - you’d think that would be easy wouldn’t you. Well it’s not. You see the reason I have a new beaut laptop is ’cause my desktop is dying a slow death, one of the latest problems with it is that I can’t copy/paste, or move/transfer files etc from one folder to another or from the pc to usb etc. Which means everything of importance to me that’s on my laptop (photos, stories etc) I’m having trouble getting off - at this stage I’m uploading them to my webhost and then downloading them to this laptop - very time consuming, but at least in the long run I’ll have them all - then since I’ve never learnt from my mistakes in the past - I’m actually going to put them all on another storage device (usb, cd etc) straight away.
Wish me luck (and patience)
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Posted on September 3rd, 2009 by Amy Nutt
September is nearly upon us and that means a new challenge:)
At Teitho, the challenge for September is Crossroads: There are different angles from which you can tackle this theme. You could interpret it in a realistic manner and write about characters travelling or standing at a crossroads. If you prefer, you can of course also use the metaphorical meaning of Crossroads and write about turning points in a someone’s life - and there are as many as there are characters in Tolkien’s world! The deadline for this challenge is September 25th. If you want to know more and/or participate, please visit the website.
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Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by Amy Nutt
new month, new Teitho:)
At Teitho, the challenge for July is Competitions: I think you all remember Legolas’ and Gimli’s friendly competition of who killed more orcs. However, this is - of course! - not the only competition one will come across in Middle Earth. Therefore, Teitho challenges you to describe all kinds of competitions in the current challenge. The deadline for this challenge is July 25th. If you want to know more and/or participate, please visit the website
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Posted on June 9th, 2009 by Amy Nutt
Sorry this is a bit late this month - I’ve been away.
Here’s the new challenge over at Teitho:
At Teitho, the challenge for June is Strange Encounter. What draws us to the world Tolkien created is not only the characters. To a large extent, it is also the fact that Middle Earth is a place of many wonders and surprises. To read Tolkien means exploring strange and unknown lands and people. And while Tolkien’s descriptions are full of detail, he leaves gaps as well. So who can know what creatures and wonders await at the far corners of Middle Earth - or just around the next bend in the path for that matter? If you want to participate in this challenge, head over to the website to see all further info. The deadline for this challenge is June 25th.
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Posted on April 28th, 2009 by Amy Nutt
At Teitho, the challenge for May is Crime and Punishment: You could take this challenge as an opportunity to explore how “crime and punishment” would have looked in Middle Earth. Or you could approach this challenge on a more personal level: How would Aragorn be punished by his wife if he forgot their anniversary? The deadline for this challenge is May 25th. If you want to know more and/or participate, please visit the website.
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Posted on April 25th, 2009 by Amy Nutt
It seems that since the internet and fanfiction combined there have been fanfic sites hosted at GeoCities - Authors could upload and host their fanfic on their own homepages to share with the world. While nowadays there’s plenty of sites that host and archive fanfiction there’s still plenty of old stuff to be found via GeoCities.
Unfortunately that won’t be the case for much longer according to this report. At the end of the year GeoCities will be closed.
As mentioned there are plenty of places to choose from when it comes to fanfic from personal pages to sites like my own fanfiction archive and fanfiction.net etc but if you have (or know of anyone) that has some old stuff hosted on GeoCities and nowhere else now is the time to move it somewhere else if you still want it available to share with others.
Over time there’s been an awful lot of incredibly good fanfic that has just disappeared from the ‘net - some of it is deliberate (the authors wanting it removed etc) some of it not (sites closing before authors have a chance to move it - and not having a backup etc)Â and I’d hate to see more of it go.
If you have your stuff hosted on a GeoCities homepage and you want it to remain online please take a moment to find out where else you can host it (or if you no someone please pass the message on) there’s plenty of other hopefully more permanent places it can be archived**
Help spread the word now before more fanfic sites disappear
** as a side note if you’re interested in hosting it on your very own site or blog but don’t know where or how to start feel free to give me a yell and I’d be happy to help you get your own site set up
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Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by Amy Nutt
At Teitho, the challenge for April is “When I Was Your Age…!” Haven’t we all heard that sentence in our youth, mostly spoken in a long-suffering voice by an adult? It would be followed by the story of a misspent youth or the recounting of a marvelous adventure or a wise decision we would never have come up with in the same situation. In the end, there would be a morale, something along the lines of “Do as I did,” or “Don’t ever do as I did”. And most likely we would take nothing away from the story, and would instead make our own mistakes! If you want to participate in this challenge, head over to the website to see all further info. The deadline for this challenge is April 25th.
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Posted on March 7th, 2009 by Amy Nutt
At Teitho, the challenge for March is Eat, Drink and Be Merry! We challenge you to write about food and drink, about what different cultures eat and drink, about how food is prepared or even about sowing, reaping or famines. Write about feasts or parties or drinking games! If you want to participate, head over to the website to see all further info. The deadline for this challenge is March 25th.
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Posted on February 21st, 2009 by Amy Nutt
So if you’ve read the Virtual Season 2 of Women’s Murder Club
I’m sure you’re desperately hoping there’s going to be a season 3 - And if you haven’t read it - Why Not? it’s brilliant.
One of the best virtual seasons I’ve come across and even if you never watched the show you can still get hooked on it. If you want to start from the beginning here’s the episode list - Virtual Season 2
Now if you did read it - and you want to know whether there’s going to be a season 3, here’s link to a recent interview with all those involved with the virtual season.
These writers, artists and beta-readers did an incredible job - some of those writers are all time favourites of mine and there fanfics are in my to be read over and over again file while I was introduced to a few new authors who are quickly moving up my top writers list. The artwork is fantastic and after reading the interview with the betas they are incredible in their field as well .
Here’s the interview - WMC - Behind The Scenes 2 (yes there is an earlier interview)
As always if you read these episodes don’t forget to drop an note to those involved there’s several links to allow you to leave feedback.
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Posted on January 31st, 2009 by Vanessa
I’ve been a bit slack on the fanfiction updates front, aside from being that time of year and being flat out at work it’s been way too hot to even think about spending too much time in front of the computer - we’ve had days of over 40C heat (with no real break to it in site) so I’ve really on done a little behind the scenes type stuff; tidying things up etc.
There is however a new challenge over at Teitho
So for those of you whose brains aren’t melting in the heat…
At Teitho, the challenge for February is Excuses in all possible forms: excuses for situations or behaviour and, of course, apologies. The challenge will end February 25th. If you want to participate, head over to the website to see all further info.
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