|
BatBland is a land where passion grows
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Cultivating BatBland monthly creative challenges
One "inspiring suggestion" a month. Submit whatever your creative B&B self has produced (fic, poetry, visual whatever, essays, audio and so on) to BatBland at gmail dot com by the 23rd of each month. On the 25th of the same month, the submissions received will be posted, as well as a new challenge. The challenges are ongoing ones - you can also submit stuff inspired by past challenges. Scroll down to find the links to the submissions. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
November 2017:
January 2018:
Past challenges and submissions:
Write a B&B story of max 2000 words including all of these words:
submissions:
none { difficult, eh?
submissions: Judith Nolan 1, September 2017 Judith Nolan 2, September 2017
Make acrostics * with:
NEW YORK VINCENT ONCE UPON A TIME FOREVER BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
submissions:
submissions: ChicagoTunnelKid, September 2017
submissions:
First kiss
submissions: ChicagoTunnelKid, September 2017
1000 words or less Dialogue only (really, okay? Anything outside the quotation marks will be removed)
submissions:
submissions:
submissions: Chicago Tunnelkid, August 2017
submissions:
submissions: none
A Children's Story - She reads, she drops
everything, the goes. and/or... Where does Vincent find those roses?
submissions:
Cindy
Rae, May 2017
submissions:
Barbara Handshy
Anderson, May 2017
{Please note: this is not a "generic" April 12 prompt. The quote is the prompt.}
submissions:
Cindy Rae, April 2017
submissions:
Wouldn't you like to see more of Catherine as Crisis Counselor
submissions: none
Well, no, no challenges
for January and February.
And, if you *really* need a
BatBland Challenge
Georg Friedrich Händel Messiah
{click to listen and follow the score}
submissions:
submissions:
submissions: Barbara Handshy Anderson, November 2016
submissions:
This Challenge's opening date is September 25th,
So, the Challenge was - and still is - to create and send
submissions: ChicagoTunnelKid, October 2016 Judith Nolan 1, September 2016 Judith Nolan 2, September 2016 Judith Nolan 3, September 2016 Judith Nolan 4, September 2016 Barbara Handshy Anderson, September 2016
Briefs, boxers or commando?
submissions: Barbara Handshy Anderson, August 2016
submissions: ++
submissions:
Edie. Point last seen Dark Spirit (in production order). What happened to her?
submissions:
submissions:
Writing challenge as follows:
First words to be: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that
Last words to be: " Not exactly... "
Include somewhere: Vincent rolled his eyes.
submissions:
submissions: Barbara Handshy Anderson, June 2016
Brian Jamie
That's it. Write a story featuring them.
submissions: ChicagoTunnelKid {Jamie only}, May 2016
submissions:
CATHERINE
(from Ashes, Ashes)
submissions:
submissions:
At the end of the Pilot:
submissions: Barbara Handshy Anderson, April 2016
submissions: Barbara Handshy Anderson, March 2016
New titles for the episodes Once Upon a Time
A Children's
Story = ? Siege
= ? Terrible
Savior = ? No Way Down
= ? The Beast
Within = ?
Masques = ? Nor
Iron Bars a Cage
= ? Song
of Orpheus =
? Dark Spirit
= ? An
Impossible Silence =
? Shades
of Grey = ? China Moon
= ? The
Alchemist = ?
Temptation =
?
Promises of Someday
= ? Down to a
Sunless Sea = ? Fever
= ?
Everything is Everything
= ? To
Reign in Hell
= ?
Ozymandias =
? A Happy Life
= ? { Here is the list of the
official titles of the original episodes in five different languages,
from the Script and transcription website,
submissions:
Cindy Rae 1 -2 chapter 3 added, January 2016
Barbara Handshy Anderson, December 2015
On November 1st (or 2nd, or
3rd), Catherine goes to the hospital,
submissions:
Cindy Rae 1 -2 chapter 3 added, January 2016
submissions:
Cindy Rae 1 -2 chapter 3 added, January 2016
Barbara Handshy Anderson, December 2015
Lisa - her first night Above, after "the incident" in the Great Hall.
What is she thinking, trying to go to sleep?
submissions:
Magellan's Wife,
January 2016 -
updated February 2016
submissions:
Barbara Handshy Anderson, November 2015
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
SHADES OF GREY - Next time you call I'll be in CATHERINE
What happens next time he calls?
Who are they?
submissions: Barbara Handshy Anderson, July 2016
Dear Vincent, Henry and I wish to present our respectful regards to your dear Father, to you and all our friends Below. We remember with great delight the lovely evening we had in our restaurant last month, with your sweet Catherine. Next Tuesday will be our day off once more. We would be honored if we can have you and Catherine again as our guests that evening. Looking forward to your kind confirmation, Lin
--- Or:
Dear Lin, It’s always a pleasure to have tea and lovely chats with you! I certainly accept your kind invitation for Tuesday afternoon and look forward to it. Love, Catherine
--- Or both! submissions: Barbara Handshy Anderson, October 2017
From an official list of never developed ideas for Season 2 episodes:
submissions: Barbara Handshy Anderson, October 2015
So, did you find anything
inspiring?
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
indicates the monthly additions.
One submission this month (scroll doooooooooooown... )
}
"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy.
12. The Wishing Well: 
