Indigo's Monthly Writing Challenge: September

This is actually going to be a thing I'm so excited!!!

Hey, remember the idea I wrote about yesterday in this post? Well, a few people said they were interested so I've decided to make it into something official. Welcome to Indigo's Monthly Writing Challenge! (I'll probably give it a snappier title later on...)

The idea: at the start of every month, I come up with a theme, such as "music", "friendship", "pets", "summer". And whoever wants to participate has until the end of the month to write a short story on the theme I've chosen.

Here are the rules!


THE RULES:

- Anyone can participate!

- There aren't really any rules about what you can write, so long as it has something to do with the theme (that's the whole point of this challenge, after all). I only ask that you keep it clean (i.e. no bad swearing or any content that's unsuitable for kids, you get the idea).

- You can write as much or as little as you like; there's no word minimum or maximum.

- You don't have to take the theme completely literally; for example if the theme is "zombies", you're perfectly welcome to write about a zombie apocalypse, but you could also write about how people go about their everyday lives like zombies... think outside the box, be creative!

- Once you've finished your story, post it on your blog, and leave me a link to it in the comments below so I can check it out! (If you don't have a blog, get in touch with me in the comments and we'll sort something out.)

- When you post your story, can I ask that you mention me, Indigo, as the host of this challenge, as well as leaving a link to this blog? I'd really appreciate that. Maybe you could even encourage your readers to check out this post and take part in the challenge, that would be great. I know I don't have a huge amount of readers so I'm really relying on others advertising this for me!

- You have until the last day of the month to write your contribution and share it. On the first day of the next month I'll write a post sharing links to all the previous month's stories, as well as revealing that month's new theme.

- And above all, have fun! This isn't a competition, it's just a challenge for people who like writing stories, so enjoy!


And I think that's about it! If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.

So I think it's time to reveal the first theme! September's theme is...

SCHOOL

Happy writing! You have until the 30th of September to write your contributions, so there's no rush.

Edit: due to me being away at the end of this month, I'm extending the deadline until the 5th of October. I'll be posting the next theme on the 6th. 

As I mentioned before, you don't have to take the theme completely literally, I encourage you to be as creative as possible with it.

If you're stuck for ideas let me know and I'll try and help you out.

I'm going to be writing a story as well, so keep an eye out for that at some point in the next few weeks!

Have fun! I can't wait to see what you guys come up with!

Stay awesome,

-Indigo