Spring 2016 Workshop, take 2 (extended)

As usual this is going to be the place for questions, announcements, pleas fro help and bragging for the ongoing workshop.

Just to remind these are the key points:

• Deadline: midnight July 31st 2016 August 3rd 2016 GMT
• Length: no limit (but please write at least 2000 words)
• Theme: "Power Transfer with a Catch" (you can find the explanation of what it means on the front page )

Just bumping.

Awesome. I've got the 2.1% inspiration, now I just need to invest the 97.9% perspiration!

Looking forward to reading all the entries in August.

geekseven wrote: I'm in brainstorming mode. I have an opening scene, a protagonist, and a secondary antagonist in mind. I have a reason why there is a catch to the power transfer, but not the catch itself.

I need to do some reading to make sure it's not close to something that's already been done and figure out a plot.

Some pages (TV Tropes Warning) that I'm going to look over while brainstorming that might help others:

PowerParasite
AssimilationBackfire

Thanks for the (potentially dangerous) links, G/

Well ladies and gentlemen,

you might consider this a bit on a unncessary bump, but I got a couple of things.

First, I'd like to have a more precise idea of who is in with this workshop who's not, so I'd like if those who are thinking of participating can please raise hands? Thank you.
Even if you're not going to contribute directly I'd like to have a round up of people who are willing to help by doing beta-reading and proofreading.

Second. I got a couple of question about the "catch" part of the story. So I wish to ask all of you to provide some examples (not necessarily what you're going to use in your entry) so that we can all be on the same page.

argonaut wrote: I've got an idea for a "catch," but it doesn't involve power transfer. Still, I might write the story and submit it by the July 31 deadline. You can either send it to the Library or post it with the other entries but exclude it from the poll.

That's a the right attitude, thank you Argo

shadar wrote:

LustMonster wrote: Being a newbie at all this, I actually have a question about the "power transfer" part.

Is it power freely given, power stolen, power shared, or any/all of those?

From earlier discussions, the answer would be YES, YES, and YES. Any way of transferring power, as long as it comes with some kind of a catch.

Shadar

I can confirm what Shadar just said: any of those scenarios are perfectly valid as long as a significant amount of power change hands in the process.

((laces fingers - turns palms outwards - extends arms till knuckles pop))

Looking like an interesting field, this season.

I feel like I should have Eye of the Tiger playing.

Oh, wait. I do.



Looking forward to reading them all .