Welcome, welcome to week twelve! If this is your first time joining us, please read the original announcement.
This week is a very special week. I have been honoured to be asked to help out with the Read-a-Thon activity for the book of the week this week, which happens to be HW's very own The Sword and Pen! In celebration, we have a number of weekly goals for you to choose from (or do a number of them for five points each). But that's not all! Each option has a specific number of Read-a-Thon points connected with it, and by posting in the thread in the Read-a-Thon room saying that you've done that option, that number of points will be added to your score! Great deal, huh?
What's that?
Oh, you want to know the options before you decide if it's a good deal. Very well.
1. Write a sestina (40 Read-a-Thon points)
2. Write a poem with the theme of discovery set in a far away place (25 Read-a-Thon points, 30 if the far away place is a fantasy land)
3. Write a ballad with a minimum of six stanzas (20 Read-a-Thon points)
4. Write a haiku including the word "silence" (10 Read-a-Thon points)
5. Write a Hemingway (10 Read-a-Thon points)
And, as always, you are more than welcome to make personal goals. No Read-a-Thon points for those, though, sorry.
As always...
The Rules wrote:
1. All challenges must be declared completed by midnight Saturday in your timezone (please specify your timezone when you sign up).
2. Personal challenges must be declared by midnight Monday in your timezone.
3. Personal challenges cannot be repeated.
4. The organizer reserves the right to veto any challenges that seem too simple. (i.e. writing a sentence)
2. Personal challenges must be declared by midnight Monday in your timezone.
3. Personal challenges cannot be repeated.
4. The organizer reserves the right to veto any challenges that seem too simple. (i.e. writing a sentence)
Also, I would like to remind everyone that any weekly challenge pieces that are posted on the forum will be eligible to be featured in our newsletter once it gets off its feet. Please post a link in this thread if you would like it to be considered.
If you could write your sign-up post in a similar format to the following, it would be appreciated:
Goal: weekly challenge (or whatever you decide to do)
Timezone: PDT
On your mark! Get set! Go!!! *fires pistol excitedly*
?!? I had trouble with a story in only 100 words! Oh well, I guess I can see what I can do.
*saunters back out of thread*
Well, I will be nice and not just start pumping out hemingways for the points, but try to write ones that are actually good. 
