Challenge The Kessel Run 2023 | 12 Weeks, 11 Prompts, 1 Wild Fanfic Challenge | Thanks for another great Run!

My girls [/derail]

 

My entry for week 4 is up: Infiltration.

I do feel that I've been a bit lazy about it, because everyone really went for the kaboom sort of action and, being about stealth and stalking each other, my story is so much tamer that I'm not sure it even qualifies. At any rate, that's the story I wanted to write, so @ViariSkywalker by all means feel free to deduct it from my total if you feel there isn't quite enough action in there.

 

My week four entry is up (with a bonus 1/2 entry from another point of view).

Blue Light

Coda: He said.

 

Absolutely love the title, Jade. A Firefly fan, perhaps?

 

Likewise, ma'am. tips hat, turns so his browncoat can swish behind him and slowly walks away

 

*raises hand* Did someone say browncoat?

 

Browncoats, unite! Today we take back our lands and show the Alliance what's what.

 

Ain't we just.

 

Years ago, I almost bought a very cool replica of the coat... but alas it was $500.

 

*runs in*

I managed a drabble for Week 4.

I can't write action for the life of me, so @ViariSkywalker, the same goes for me if you feel it doesn't meet the criteria for the prompt. Thanks again for all your work on this!

 

Both of my Week 4 entries are posted.

I'm behind with reviews, sorry! Trying to catch up amidst adulting.

 

Fantastic work, everyone! We still have a little over 24 hours left until your action-packed Week 4 entries are due, so let's get them in!

@Chyntuck and @amidalachick - No worries, you guys are both good to go!


And I'll see you all here tomorrow for the next prompt.

 

Literally same. Adulting sucks!

 

I just want to read and write fanfic and instead I have to do grown-up stuff and it's terrible. Why can't laundry and food just do themselves.

 

And pay for themselves.

 

@amidalachick , @vader_incarnate , same!

And I've posted Week 4: Break Glass (In Case of Emergency), featuring an OC that has lived in my writing files for nearly a decade and never seen the light of day 'til now.

 

Happy Monday, everyone! We're still going strong, and I'm confident that those of you who still have Week 4 entries to post will be able to get those finished by tonight at 11:59pm EST. But for now, let's see what our next secret prompt is, shall we?

* * Week 5 * *​

• Write a set of 3 double drabbles with the following prompts: juggernaut, shepherd, undertaker
• Hey, technically they're not drabbles.
• What is a double drabble anyway? Well, since a drabble is a short work of fiction that is precisely 100 words long, no more and no less, then doubling our drabbles brings us to 200 words each.
  
• Each double drabble must be exactly 200 words, for a total of 600 words
• Entries due Monday, February 13th at 11:59pm EST

I promise, I did have this prompt decided upon weeks and weeks ago. You may write for these three prompts in whichever order you prefer; they do not need to be written in the order given. Remember, your fics are due one week from today. And just a reminder as we move into Week 5 - you do have the option of taking one "bye week" (to be made up during or before Week 11) or of using the "get out of jail free" prompt as a substitute for one of the secret prompts. So if you're not feeling the prompt or need a break, those options are there. Good luck, and happy writing!



*Just for fun - and in what seems likely to become a weird Kessel Run drabble tradition - the prompts for this week's drabbles were all inspired by a newer show that my sister made me binge-watch a few weeks ago... can anyone guess which show it was?*


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Week 4: The Manadalorian Girl, featuring one of the Infinite Ezras meeting Sabine for the first time.

 

Oooh, not-drabbles! I still think we shouldn't be counting prepositions, but I can work with this

A question from a non-native speaker: my trusted dictionaries are extremely confusing as to the word "undertaker". One says it means only "funeral director" and exclusively in the British usage; the other adds "entrepreneur", again in the British usage (and "Englishman who took confiscated land in Ireland during the Cromwellian plantation", but I don't think I can work that meaning into a SW story). Are there other meanings in the American usage?

 

Interesting question re 'undertaker'; another one: would this guy come under the purview of the prompt? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Undertaker

'Pushing Up Daisies' comes to mind re the show inspiring prompts ... I'd not call it 'newer', however ... *puts on thinking cap*