Welcome back to Smash ‘Em Up Sunday!
SEUSfire
On Sunday morning at 9:30 AM Eastern in our Discord server’s voice chat, come hang out and listen to the stories that have been submitted be read. I’d love to have you there! You can be a reader and/or a listener. Plus if you wrote we can offer crit in-chat if you like!
Last Week
Cody’s Choices
Community Choice
/u/nobodysgeese - Before Transylvania - A prequel to Dracula.
/u/Ryter99 - Check In - Good Omens in 2022.
/u/katpoker666 - A Penguin’s Perspective - A writer of obituaries tours a penguin around to funerals.
This Week’s Challenge
This month I’m pushing you in a new direction. For years I’ve asked you to give me new worlds and stories. You’ve had to make up the people and places. You crafted rules and moral structures. All of this along with words, sentences, and other minutia to fill 800 words of space on my posts. However, this month I’m taking some of that work away from you. Each week we will delve into a world someone else has made. Welcome to SEUS!
In Week Three it is time to really push you out of the usual comfort zones. We’re going to the theatre. Plays, musicals, opera, if it is performed live it is fair game. One of my favorite things about theatre is that there is such a great level of interpretation to a work. In the corners of what is written, directors, stage designers, costume designers, etc all make personal calls of taste. So let’s push it a bit further and play around in these established worlds? Want to explore the Palais Garnier? Want to depict the actual trial in 12 Angry Men? Maybe you really want to mess around in Carmen. Have at it. Give us some bits of fun in a play. In addition I’m going to ask you to write in script format. Give me dialogue in line, stage direction, etc.
Please be mindful of the subreddit guidelines when choosing your EU. If the world would be outside of our guidelines, don’t pick it. Also, please put the name of the EU and maybe a link to a wiki or imdb page for anyone that might have their interest piqued.
How to Contribute
Write a story or poem, no more than 800 words in the comments using at least two things from the three categories below. The more you use, the more points you get. Because yes! There are points! You have until 11:59 PM EDT 19 March 2022 to submit a response.
After you are done writing please be sure to take some time to read through the stories before the next SEUS is posted and tell me which stories you liked the best. You can give me just a number one, or a top 5 and I’ll enter them in with appropriate weighting. Feel free to DM me on Reddit or Discord!
Category |
Points |
Word List |
1 Point |
Sentence Block |
2 Points |
Defining Features |
3 Points |
Word List
Embellish
Gun
Globe
Swing
Sentence Block
Defining Features
Nominate your favourite WP authors or commenters for Spotlight and Hall of Fame! We count on your nominations to make our selections.
Come hang out at The Writing Prompts Discord! I apologize in advance if I kinda fanboy when you join. I love my SEUS participants <3 Heck you might influence a future month’s choices!
Want to help the community run smoothly? Try applying for a mod position. Everytime you ban someone, the number tattoo on your arm increases by one!
I hope to see you all again next week!
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