Welcome to week twenty-nine, fellow questers!
Your challenge this week is to write a 500+ word short story based on this picture and answer the following:
What is the man doing/where is he going?
What are the birds doing?
What is the lantern for?By 'answer these questions' I mean, show the answers somehow through the story. You can change the setting to an ocean, the man to a dwarf, the birds into eagles, etc. just retain the basic structure so you can answer the questions: Man, birds, lantern. (and keep the boat too) After that, let your imagination run wild, they might be in a war zone, or taking beans to market. The birds might be assassins... Have fun with it, whatever you do.
Yes, the above is the product of my own insane brain--I don't want to cloud Raven's reputation with rumors that she came up with that preposterous challenge. It's just what happens when I don't have a lot of time to think up another goal, and I want to think of something original.
If you have any questions related to the challenge, ask them in the thread below.

Remember, in order to receive points for completing the weekly challenge, you MUST declare it by Monday at midnight.

As always...



If this is your first time on one of these quests, you'll need to see the initiation pamphlet.

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. 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


WRITE! *sets off a rocket he swiped from NASA*

Weekly challenge
Personal goal: Write a letter to Jay and finish step three for Jed and Ruth
Time Zone: CDT

Good gravy, Jeremiah, no wonder I haven't been able to do the weekly challenges of late!

I'll think about it and add it on Monday if I come up with something.

In the meantime...

Personal Goal: Write 500 words on HW Blog Post, and 1k on Story Development.
Timezone: MDT

May I say that I just LOVE the challenges you come up with, Jem?

Goal: Weekly challenge
Personal Goal: Write short stories based off of the pictures I found in a book, and write two letters--one to Jay and one to a friend of mine.
Timezone: Pacific Standard Time!

Weekly challenge completed! I'm going to start another one pretty soon.

You come up with great challenges, Wolf.

Personal goal: Make a scene list for my potential NaNo novel
Timezone: CST

Said scene list might not be fully fleshed out, depending on if I run into plot holes that need fixing, but I'll at least get the rough cut together. In any case I'll at least work on the thing this week despite the other writing stuff I have going.

@Rose - Okay.

@Renna - I'm glad you like them.





@Aubrey - Thanks.



Hooray!

Weekly challenge: 500 word short etc. etc....
Personal goal: Write short story for my little brother.
Zone: GMT

Weekly Challenge Accepted
Personal Challenge: Fractal Tessa and finish development of the Skrilax
Timezone: EST

Alright, I'm joining in... Add the Weekly Goal to my list.

Goal: Next chapter section of TKB
Timezone: PDT

It'll be fun to see what people come up with for the challenge and how different they are from each other. (As long as they post their story in the fireside...hint hint )

I'll post mine in the Fireside tonight. Beware, it's even more ridiculous than my Nightshade one.

I liked your nightshade one. And ridiculous stories are fun.

I need to change my personal goal.

Revised personal goal: Complete secret task for HWSF Birthday Party and write a letter to Jay.

Goal revised, Faith.

Goal: Weekly Challenge
Time Zone: EST

Thanks, Jeremiah!

Personal goal: Write at least 20 pages of The Conquering Light
Time zone: MST

Okay, I finished the short stories based off of pictures I was supposed to write.

Now I just need to send my letter to Jay, write a letter and send it to my friend, and finish the second story I wanted to write for this weekly challenge.

Weekly challenge finished.

Good job.

@Renna - So you did the weekly challenge twice?

Going to. I finished it once, going to do it again.

Ohhh. So when you said this
you meant you finished your personal goal too, correct?

Yep, except for the letters. I'm still writing the letters.

Ohhhhkay.

Weekly challenge finished. Here's a link: viewtopic.php?f=118&p=160339#p160339

Okay, I finished the letters, I just need to send them!

And I might not be able to do the second weekly challenge. I'm entering a contest where the writing that gets the most votes wins... and the prize is 1000 dollars. This is huge, so I'm not doing any writing but the story for it. Partially because I was a fool and procrastinated so much, the deadline is in less than a week.

No problem, Ren.

Actually, scratch that. I just found (in the fine print; figures the thing no one looks at has the rules) that you have to be 18 or older to join.

Aw, that's too bad. Silly rule, too... I am glad you thought to check before you spent the week working on it.

At 4,710 words, my short story is finished. (Do I get bonus points? Just kidding. )

Whoa, Mae! Well, you get a cupcake, anyway.

*babbles mindlessly as he goes to mark goal complete*

I have finished my weekly and personal goals.

Here is the link to my weekly goal.

I know! It wasn't supposed to be that long! I couldn't stop it! Ooh, I cupcake? Yay!


I was surprised myself! It was supposed to be just a quick, nice short story!

Finished personal goal as well.

I have completed my goal and surpassed expectations on what I would get done. But oh, to knock off those two extra, pesky pages before tomorrow night!

*gives Tarin a couple of cupcakes* You can do it!

*eyes cupcakes eagerly* Maybe I should wait to eat them until I finish those last couple pages, you know, for motivation.

It'll depend on how early I can wrench myself out of bed, how much time I'll have on the computer, and how much motivation I'll have.

Weekly and personal goals complete!

Done-eth!

No cupcakes for me--I didn't meet my goal. I came down with a pretty nasty cold and didn't write most of the week. However, I was inspired with a totally new book idea tonight, so hopefully next week I can get back into the swing of it.

Personal goals complete! Now I can go to bed!

(Jeremiah, I'll post my short story from the challenge tomorrow. Too tired tonight!)

I suppose I should join.... It's all Aubrey's fault though! She made me do it!

Yes, do it!

Yes I did, and I'm proud of it!

Evil!