Weekly Challenge #257: Participate in a character interview thread on the forum.

Directions:
1. Post on the challenge thread, declaring the goals you have committed to. This must be done before midnight on Monday.
2. When you have finished your goals, post on the challenge thread again, stating what goals you have completed, how many times you have completed them, and whether any of them were combined.
3. At midnight on Saturday you are not allowed to report any more finished goals, and the challenge is over.

Rules:
1. You can repeat the weekly challenges, and get more points, but if you repeat your own personal goal, you will not get extra points.
2. The organizer has the right to veto any personal goal that seems too easy (i.e. writing a sentence).

Points:
You can earn points in these ways:
1. completing the weekly challenge
2. repeating the weekly challenge
3. completing your personal goal
4. combining your personal goal and the weekly challenge

Challengers for the week of May 7-13:

Miss Elizabeth: Personal goal: Finish HHMS edit and ATW edit. [b]Completed.[/b]

Domici: Weekly Challenge Accepted! Completed.
Personal Goal 1: Move Dede forward according to her journey. Completed.
Personal Goal 2: Rewrite Zo intro as prologue for TDW.1429.1.Completed.
Personal Goal 3: Find some ways to show Al as a likable kid, even though she struggles. Completed.
Personal Goal 4: Encourage those God is bringing into my life.Three since posting this. For those who don't know, encouragement is my second strongest gift. "Grumpy old fart" still tops the charts though... Completed.
Personal Goal 5: Let myself be encouraged. Two hits on this already, praise God! Completed.
Personal Goal 6: Ben and Jimmie scene start. Completed.

atpollard: Weekly Challenge #257 (Character interview): Accepted Completed and combined.
Personal Goal: write 3000 words and finish StarMarshal post. Completed and combined.

Lt. General Hansen: Personal Goal: Finish & Post Ch4 & Ch5 of Peter's Angel Completed.

Lady Brie D.: Personal Goal: Make all preparation to launch editing business. Did not report

Teyn Greenhood: Personal goal #1: Finish my poem that lies unnamed Completed.
Personal goal #2: Finish my retelling of the Tortoise and the Hare Completed.

Personal goal: Finish HHMS edit and ATW edit.
Time Zone: CST

Weekly Challenge Accepted! Actually, I've gotten an early start and am now waiting on the rest of you layabouts. You've got your basic sci-fi or an interesting alt-earth to choose from: get cracking! Completed and Repeated. Not sure if continuing the same thread is repeating or not. Guigielmo sent Anika two letters. Al needs to answer Mistress Kidh as well.

Personal Goal 1: Move Dede forward according to her journey. Completed.
Personal Goal 2: Rewrite Zo intro as prologue for TDW.1429.1. Completed.
Personal Goal 3: Find some ways to show Al as a likable kid, even though she struggles. Completed.
Personal Goal 4: Encourage those God is bringing into my life.Three since posting this. For those who don't know, encouragement is my second strongest gift. "Grumpy old fart" still tops the charts though... Four now.
Personal Goal 5: Let myself be encouraged. Two hits on this already, praise God! Four now. Considered completed, though encouragement is always welcome.
Personal Goal 6: Ben and Jimmie scene start. Completed

I've been sloughing for a few weeks, time to get back on track.

Weekly Challenge #257 (Character interview): Accepted
Personal Goal: write 3000 words and finish StarMarshal post.
Zone: EST

Welp, I meant to post last night, but due to family fun time I never got back to the computer. I didn't finish my scene because I ended up rewriting it instead of just editing it, but I got through a significant part of the rewrite and am extremely happy with how it's turning out... so that's a win, right?

Personal Goal: Finish & Post Ch4 & Ch5 of Peter's Angel
Timezone: CST

Personal Goal: Make all preparation to launch editing business.

Timezone: AEST

Personal goal #1: Finish my poem that lies unnamed
Personal goal #2: Finish my retelling of the Tortoise and the Hare

Does the Hare win?
... or Zeno:

The Tortoise challenged Achilles to a race, claiming that he would win as long as Achilles gave him a small head start. Achilles laughed at this, for of course he was a mighty warrior and swift of foot, whereas the Tortoise was heavy and slow.

“How big a head start do you need?” he asked the Tortoise with a smile.

“Ten meters,” the latter replied.

Achilles laughed louder than ever. “You will surely lose, my friend, in that case,” he told the Tortoise, “but let us race, if you wish it.”

“On the contrary,” said the Tortoise, “I will win, and I can prove it to you by a simple argument.”

“Go on then,” Achilles replied, with less confidence than he felt before. He knew he was the superior athlete, but he also knew the Tortoise had the sharper wits, and he had lost many a bewildering argument with him before this.

“Suppose,” began the Tortoise, “that you give me a 10-meter head start. Would you say that you could cover that 10 meters between us very quickly?”

“Very quickly,” Achilles affirmed.

“And in that time, how far should I have gone, do you think?”

“Perhaps a meter—no more,” said Achilles after a moment’s thought.

“Very well,” replied the Tortoise, “so now there is a meter between us. And you would catch up that distance very quickly?”

“Very quickly indeed!”

“And yet, in that time I shall have gone a little way farther, so that now you must catch that distance up, yes?”

“Ye-es,” said Achilles slowly.

“And while you are doing so, I shall have gone a little way farther, so that you must then catch up the new distance,” the Tortoise continued smoothly.

Achilles said nothing.

“And so you see, in each moment you must be catching up the distance between us, and yet I—at the same time—will be adding a new distance, however small, for you to catch up again.”

“Indeed, it must be so,” said Achilles wearily.

“And so you can never catch up,” the Tortoise concluded sympathetically.

“You are right, as always,” said Achilles sadly—and conceded the race.

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Weekly Challenge #257: Participate in a character interview thread on the forum.






Are all of you people seriously claiming to be SO BUSY, that you cannot attempt to make one post on one of the character interview threads this week?
Wow, that's pretty pathetic. I mean, this one rates up there with 'write a couplet' in terms of difficulty.

I can write about coupling but I figured that'd not go over well. I'm too young for that.

Oh, couplet. Nevermind.

I just remember the Weekly challenge to write a couplet because I had to look up what a couplet was. I had to check several sources before I was confident that it could really be met by just writing two lines that rhyme.

"A couplet I must write,
hardly worth a fright."
... Challenge done.

"I don't know what to do,
So I'll stop and tie my shoe."
... Challenge repeated (badly).

This week ain't much harder. "Post on a character interview."

You know the "Al" thread is there just waiting for you, right?

I honestly didn't even look at the weekly challenge because I already knew what I was going to write this week. But I suppose I can add it, if you're going to be that way about it.

Weekly challenge accepted.

He is that way, trust me.

*sigh* No, the Tortoise will win. It actually was an assignment I had that I am now lengthening for the fun of it. However, I was not allowed to change the meaning of the story (and thus the outcome). I am writing in first person though with the Hare as my main character. It has gotten quite interesting . Maybe I will end up posting it IF I complete it .



I did see it...and looked at an interview forum. My two oldest brothers are coming home from college tomorrow, I am the oldest in charge until then, and I am finishing up projects for a project fair on Thursday.
Alas! I didn't see your challenge until now! However, amidst the busyness I will try and find time to post on an interview thread even though I will not earn the points. Mine will most likely not be as lengthy as yours though .

Both personal goals complete.
I ended up twisting the ending of my retelling of the Tortoise and the Hare like I wasn't supposed to. Just a little bit...

Goal finished. On Tuesday. I thought it would take longer...

Weekly Challenge #257 (Character interview): COMPLETED & COMBINED
... (3500+ words in Character Interviews & Star Marshall post)
Personal Goal (write 3000 words): Done
Personal Goal (finish StarMarshal post): COMPLETED HERE
Zone: EST

Weekly Challenge: Sort of complete? I posted on a thread?
Personal Challenge: Sort of complete? I finished Ch4 and have started Ch5 but it's still giving me fits.

But I went to a church service tonight that I didn't know was going on until today, and got both of my term papers done, so I'm not sorry.