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You should only write in present tense with extreme caution.

not because it's bad or anything but because if you do it even once you're going to be editing the bits where you shifted tenses out of your writing for the rest of your life

Inklings Challenge Last Call

Tomorrow is the beginning of the 2024 Inklings Challenge! At 8:00 AM Eastern time, the team assignments will be posted, and people can begin writing a fantasy or science fiction story for their chosen genre. If you'd like to be on a team, please contact this blog by replying to the announcement post linked above, or by sending an ask or a DM.

For those who might still be on the fence, I'll bring back the old list of:

Reasons To Join The Inklings Challenge

A way to explore your faith, but with robots and spaceships and fairies and superheroes!

You can have a whole story written in three weeks!

There’s no word count goal. If you want to write a 50-word story during your three weeks, it’ll be counted as a successful attempt.

It’s fine even if you don’t finish! Tolkien never finished the original version of this challenge, so failing to finish still puts you in the same category as Tolkien. You're not only allowed, but encouraged to post unfinished stories--we want to see whatever you wrote. And you can always finish and post on a later date.

You get the fun of joining in the group atmosphere of shared creativity.

You get to add to the canon of speculative fiction stories written within the Christian worldview.

Tolkien and Lewis participated in the original version of this challenge, and can you really be a full-fledged Christian speculative fiction author if you haven’t tried to imitate them at least once?

You can explore some really awesome Christian themes!

But there’s no pressure, because no one’s judging this! You don’t have to worry about finding “the right way” to explore a theme, or reaching perfect theological accuracy.

It can help you push past writer’s block and imposter syndrome by pushing you to create something within a limited time frame.

It can give you a chance to expand your story worlds.

It can push you to explore new genres and ideas outside your comfort zone.

It’s fun!

This has probably already been made, but it's been my mood throughout the day. Can't wait for @inklings-challenge to begin tomorrow!!

If it sounds like the composer is trying to blast you with the orchestra until you're as deaf as he is, it's Beethoven.

If it sounds like the composer might be a vampire, it's Bach.

If it sounds like the composer is trying to set the violins on fire, it's Vivaldi.

Because I'm curious about the statistics: