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BASIC INFO
scrimmage;
❝An exhibition game, an informal sports contest or practice match which does not go on the regular season record. A personal writing challenge involving the creation of new fiction, fan-fiction, and other prose.❞
Unlike other personal writing challenges that focus solely on meeting a specific word count, Scrimmage instead wants you to work on the completion of small works in order to unleash creativity, focus on the complete writing process, and also to just have a little fun.
Scrimmage will run three weekly challenges on a cycle.
Monday challenges will feature works that fall into a category of 100-499 words.
Wednesday challenges will feature works that fall into a category of 500-999 words.
Friday challenges will feature works that fall into a category of 1000-1500 words.
On every Sunday of the week, a post will go up with three comments. Each comment will coincide with either Mon, Wed, or Fri and contain a reward graphic for the specific challenge day. In order to complete the challenge, simply comment to the challenge thread with your work. It is advised that you post the work in a journal, comment, or work posting site such as AO3 or FF.net or Tumblr and link it in the comment, but posting your work in the comment isn't explicitly against the rules.
For every challenge that you complete by posting to the thread for the week, you are entitled to take the reward graphic for that week. Collect as many as possible for a visible measure of your success.
Scrimmage has no commitment necessary! This means you can comment at any time, join in at any time, and disappear from the challenge completely if you want to. Participants can join in on any combination of challenges, such as participating in all three, the 100 and 1000 word challenge, the 100 and 500 challenge, or the 500 and 1000 challenge.
This is a challenge that focuses solely on complete, standalone works within the word constraints. Things that don't qualify include:
Additional word counts to already published or started works.
Completed chapters to already published or started works.
A combination of one part of the word count in one story and then in another (for instance, you can't win the 500 challenge with a 200 word and then a 300 word piece of prose).
This challenge is narrow because it serves a purpose that asks writers to explore their ability to create complete works that have a beginning, middle, and end. This should be an exercise in their creativity, their ability to keep themselves within certain word limits yet still tell an interesting story or drabble, and also to feel the thrill of having a complete and posted work even if it is a simple drabble or one-shot. Posting the work to the challenge gives writers the feeling of sharing their work as well as giving themselves a small platform to widen their audience with. If you are looking for a writing challenge that explores other aspects of writing, they exist! This just isn't one of them.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here.
❝An exhibition game, an informal sports contest or practice match which does not go on the regular season record. A personal writing challenge involving the creation of new fiction, fan-fiction, and other prose.❞
Unlike other personal writing challenges that focus solely on meeting a specific word count, Scrimmage instead wants you to work on the completion of small works in order to unleash creativity, focus on the complete writing process, and also to just have a little fun.
Scrimmage will run three weekly challenges on a cycle.
On every Sunday of the week, a post will go up with three comments. Each comment will coincide with either Mon, Wed, or Fri and contain a reward graphic for the specific challenge day. In order to complete the challenge, simply comment to the challenge thread with your work. It is advised that you post the work in a journal, comment, or work posting site such as AO3 or FF.net or Tumblr and link it in the comment, but posting your work in the comment isn't explicitly against the rules.
For every challenge that you complete by posting to the thread for the week, you are entitled to take the reward graphic for that week. Collect as many as possible for a visible measure of your success.
Scrimmage has no commitment necessary! This means you can comment at any time, join in at any time, and disappear from the challenge completely if you want to. Participants can join in on any combination of challenges, such as participating in all three, the 100 and 1000 word challenge, the 100 and 500 challenge, or the 500 and 1000 challenge.
This is a challenge that focuses solely on complete, standalone works within the word constraints. Things that don't qualify include:
This challenge is narrow because it serves a purpose that asks writers to explore their ability to create complete works that have a beginning, middle, and end. This should be an exercise in their creativity, their ability to keep themselves within certain word limits yet still tell an interesting story or drabble, and also to feel the thrill of having a complete and posted work even if it is a simple drabble or one-shot. Posting the work to the challenge gives writers the feeling of sharing their work as well as giving themselves a small platform to widen their audience with. If you are looking for a writing challenge that explores other aspects of writing, they exist! This just isn't one of them.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here.