Workshop 1.9 is ON!!!

Announcing the Supergirls Incorporated Story Workshop 1.9

Workshop topic (chosen by DKC, author of the story that gained most votes in Workshop 1.8):

"To Be Continued! Try your hand at writing a sequel/continuation to an SWM or ubergirl classic piece of fiction -- whether it be your own or someone else's *"

* NOTE: Writers should get permission of the original author before penning sequels to others' works. Any complaints from the original author may result in entries being taken down and disqualified.


Word Limit: No limit. Entries can be any length.


Deadline for submission: Sept 30th, 2006


Send entries to:

webmaster@superwomenmania.com

I think I might take you up on that offer, Mark! Details in my PM.....

Lfan

I give permission to anyone wishing to use my stories for purposes of this workshop. But just for this workshop.

Mark

OK, have been out of town so been a little absent to respond. As the curator of the workshop, hopefully the follwing will help answer some questions:

1) Concerning deadline....the deadline stays as planned! I reserved the chapel and the invitations have been ordered already so we cannot move it, sorry! I DO realize this is pretty aggressive and might limit entries from some, but there are other constraints (travel) that were some of the root of the cause for the early deadline. Please note that any late entries (as well as entries for ANY workshop topic) can be submitted at anytime! Hopefully, we'll get a good turnout (any show of hands), but it is what it is.

2) Concerning others' properties (for example Super Ex).....frankly, in my mind ANYTHING from the fan-fiction realm is game. If the creator of Super-Ex (Don Payne) doesn't complain, it will be fine....

3) Concerning Awakening....sure, go for it!

4) Concerning Lfan's other stories (if anyone cares), anything IN the SWM library is fair game. A few select pieces that may be floating around that are NOT in the SWM library I respectfully ask to leave alone for this exercise.

Its also important to note I think to "review" the definition of the Workshops as they have done by the de facto "long" and "short" codenames for a while now. There is no "Long" workshop! The 1.x workshop is free-form, no minimum or limit of words which often lends itself to longer stories, but please do not feel it HAS to be long -- it doesn't. The only workshop requirement is that 2.X submissions need to be less than 1,000 words -- that's it!

Peace
LF

This may sound like an odd request, but any chance we can add a month to the deadline for this one? Or can we at least trade the deadlines on workshops 1.9 and 2.6? I've got two reasons for this.

First, it just makes sense that the one with the longer possible word count should be given more time. More time to write more words, after all.

Second, the theme for 1.9 is sequels to previous stories. I'm just about done with my workshop 2.6 story, and it's an "origin story" that was intentionally designed to set up what comes next. You can see where I'm going with this. I haven't definitely decided if that's the sequel I want to write yet, but having the workshops in this order narrows my options.

So how about it?

YAGS

Am working on my story, if I can stay in one place for more than 48 hours. Nevertheless, I WILL have at least one story done for the Workshop. Since Marknew is not big on sequels, I took matters into my own hands (with his blessing). Hopefully, will do the story justice. Which one you may ask? You'll have to wait and see....

Any other takers?

ElF

In that case, I'm probably out for workshop 1.9. My story for 2.6 has already been submitted.

I do have sequel ideas for pretty much all of my stories here on SWM, but they're all ideas that lend themselves to long stories, and I don't want to submit anything half assed. If I'm going to write sequels, I'm going to take a couple of months to do it right, now just rush something out in a couple of weeks. The one story I could maybe write a short sequel to is the one I submitted for workshop 2.6, but that wouldn't make sense as an entry to 1.9, since you'd be getting the sequel before the first part.

I'll think about maybe doing a fan-fic sequel to someone else's work - probably Superman II - but I'll have to think about it. With the deadline only 16 days away, I doubt if I'll have time.

YAGS

Due to the abbreviated timeframe and repeated requests for extensions, the Workshop deadline for 1.9 wil be extended to 10/15/2006. At such time, any said people that have requested extensions AND have not submitted will be summarily flogged in the town square.

Carry on!
LF

Mrs. Ace is going to drag me away for the weekend, so there is no way I can make the deadline. How about an extension until Monday 10-9-06 which will give me another weekend to work on my entry?