March Member Challenge: Spring Cleaning

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SPRING CLEANING
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Spring cleaning is a good time to take stock of what we have accumulated and make some conscious decisions as to what we cherish and want to build on, and what could use some tidying up. The same is true for writing.

Below the cut you'll find a plethora of challenges (from writing, to refining and promoting your existing work, to comment-participation.) All participants will be awarded with a special badge. If you finish entries for the special 10-prompt colour, "Kondo", you may achieve an additional badge.

Challenge 1: Complete all prompts from the special colour

1. Use each quote to inspire a short story.
2. You can use one quote per story, and each quote can stack with prompts from up to two other colour-lists, and any number of supplies or styles. Use whatever you need to get the words out.
3. This colour does not count towards the cap of 5 colours that you can have active at one time, and stories using prompts from this colour after March 2019 can be submitted during amnesty rounds.)


Special Colour: "Kondo"
Theme: Quotes

1. It’s human nature to take the easy route.


2. The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.


3. Tidy a little a day and you’ll be tidying forever.


4. But when we really delve into the reasons for why we can’t let something go, there are only two: an attachment to the past or a fear for the future.


5. The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.


6. It is very natural for me to say thank you to the goods that support us.


7. The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.


8. People cannot change their habits without first changing their way of thinking.


9. Every object has a different role to play. Not all clothes have come to you to be worn threadbare. It is the same with people. Not every person you meet in life will become a close friend or lover. Some you will find hard to get along with or impossible to like. But these people, too, teach you the precious lesson of who you do like, so that you will appreciate those special people even more.


10. Only you can know what kind of environment makes you feel happy.

Challenge 2: Revamp, Redo

(Note that all pieces submitted will also use the style Graffiti, since they're part of a community-wide challenge!)
Write any number of pieces using the following supplies:

• Eraser: Write a piece that takes place in an alternate universe to your story's canon


• Nubs: Write a missing scene from a previously posted piece

Write any number pieces using the following styles:

• Reimaging: Revisit a previously-done piece


• Retouch: Repeat a color you've done before (this may not be a colour from a Saturation, but it may be a Tapestry or Bichrome)


• Sculpture: Take a short existing piece and expand on the events surrounding it. May overlap with Reimaging if you also include the piece itself from a different perspective.

Challenge 3: Kill Your Darlings

1. Choose one character from your story and write a critical scene that shows what would happen if that character never existed. Eg) Remove the villain, or protagonist, or a conveniently helpful character. What moment would be irrevocably changed?


2. Choose one critical event from your story and find a way to remove it, flip it, or otherwise spin it so that events do not turn out the way you planned. What happens to the affected characters?


3. Choose a setting critical to your characters' comfort or well-being and remove it, make it inhospitable, or unreachable. How does your character (or multiple characters) react or carry on?

Challenge 4: Community Participation

Start a discussion in the comments below about an aspect of getting your work polished, more widely shared, or published.

1. Use the subject line to describe the topic you will be discussing. (Eg: 'Organizing Work', 'Wattpad', 'Self Publishing', 'Editing Processes', etc.) If you want to propose a question, begin the subject line with a '?'


2. Give an overview of the topic and provide links if needed.


3. Chat in comments on other topics that interest you. Provide links or further reading if it helps. Ask questions, share tips!

Challenge 5: Tidying Up

If there is some administrative or meta work that you need to do to help make your collected work more polished or readable, spend some time doing that. (Organize a table of contents, publish your work to AO3 and create a collection, update the formatting of your journal, clean up the tags on all of your posts, etc.)

Comment under the header 'Tidying Up' either with a link to your works (if you want to share) or simply let us know that you've participated and gotten some spring cleaning done!

Rewards

1. Every 500 words added to rainbowfic will earn you 1 novelty bead prompt, which you can use in future stories. Keep track of how many novelty bead prompts you have written for in order to earn larger community accomplishments.


2. Every participant will receive a special Spring Cleaning banner, which you can display on your journal or anywhere you keep trophies.


3. Every participant who finishes all of the "Special Colour: Kondo" prompts will also get a special banner to celebrate that achievement. (This can also be claimed during amnesty rounds, but please link to your work if it's been some time.)


4. Get that cozy feeling of accomplishment with revising existing work and making this community feel active again!

FAQ

Can I post an entry without a colour?
No, you need to choose at least one prompt from a colour list (and once you have started that colour list, it is considered 'active' until you have completed all the prompts within it!) Here is a googlesheets list that you can sort by ROYGBIV, theme, or colour name. The second tab contains a random colour generator if you want to browse at random. You can also submit stories for this challenge only using the 'Kondo' colour prompts listed above.

Do I have to be a member to post?
Yes, you need to sign up to rainbowfic and follow the rules and posting format.

Is this the only place I can share my work?
No, you can share your work in your personal journal, or cross-post to other communities, including AO3 or Wattpad. Please post the initial fill for this challenge in rainbowfic as a courtesy.

What's an Amnesty Round? How does it work?
We ask that you only post fiction using special colours (like 'Kondo' above) during the period the challenge is active. Amnesty rounds allow you to return to those special colour prompts and finish any you didn't during the event. There isn't an official consequence of posting fiction using special colour prompts outside of events or amnesty rounds, save maybe not getting a badge to show your completion, or 'Novelty Bead' special prompts given out by mods for every 500 words written.

I'm brand new, help!
Feel free to send dray a message and I'll be happy to get you set up.

I'm returning after a long hiatus... what do?
Do you have any half-completed colours, or achievements you were close to finishing? Come dust off some stories, or maybe start something new. You're always welcome to meander back. Let me know if you need a new tag by using the "! needs tags" tag in rainbowfic.

Can I signal-boost this challenge?
Absolutely! Thank you for spreading the word--Rainbowfic is coming out of a slow period and we welcome new activity. If you don't have existing stories within the community yet, feel free to crack open one from another and expand upon it, or polish it up, or put a new spin on it using the prompts you'll find here.


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