Maybe... Maybe... I Could Use Some Creativity Juice...

Maybe... Maybe... I could use some creativity juice...

This is the magic lucky word count. Reblog for creativity juice. It might even work, who knows.

When they're at the church!

He was studying me. "You know, you look an awful lot like Sodapop, the way you've got your hair and everything. I mean, except your eyes are green." "They ain't green, they're gray." I said, reddening. "And I look about as much like Soda as you do." I got to my feet. "He's good looking." "Shoot," Johnny said with a grin, "you are, too." I climbed over the barbed-wire fence without saying anything else. I could hear Johnny laughing at me, but I didn't care. I went strolling down the red dirt road, hoping my natural color would come back before I met anyone...

Chapter 4, page 64 of my copy of the Outsider's.

Okay, so it was before the church, but close enough to it!

Also, the '...' meant that there was more to the paragraph, but I wasn't typing all that out, lmfao. It was a longer paragraph.

Opened my copy of The Outsiders to skim around, look for clues into their personalities, thinking bout righting a fanfic of it

And I got to a part that never clicked before (a reason I will always say people should rewatch movies and reread books, you'll always see something you missed before)

Johnny teases Ponyboy that he's good looking

I missed that years ago

What animal would Ponyboy shapeshift into? What animal should he shapeshift into? What animal fits Ponyboy?

Like, a Dog fits Darry, in my mind. And Sodapop is definitely a cat.

In light of the egregious actions carried out by the National Novel Writing Month organization, there has been a wide variety of different challenges created in order to keep the communal aspect of the challenge alive while distancing themselves from the official organization. This blog, at its most basic, is designed to be a hub in which various writing challenges are advertised so that the communal aspects of the writing community can continue in November and beyond. The spirit of Nanowrimo has long since expanded beyond the original group that began the challenge, and writers can (and should!) create their own spins on the idea.

With all of this in mind, I am proud to introduce the Writing Challenges Network!

However, this is not all that this could be. As it is the early days, I have set up a new discord, this tumblr, and a twitter page in the hopes of connecting writers to challenges throughout the year.

The writing community, as a whole, is welcoming and always wanting to lift each other up in reaching their goals. This network will hopefully be an avenue to provide those values to others and provide a place of connection. I would love anyone interested in fostering these values and are willing to brainstorm to please reach out! This is for the community, and thus should be shaped by and for all members of it.

I personally will be hosting quarterly writing challenges via another blog so that there are more challenges than just in November! If you are interested in the seasonal/quarterly challenge, the current @gothnowrimo will be happening in October and will have prompts, themes, and other fun posts to help get in the spooky writing spirit. The next one will be in February!

If you would like to submit a challenge or would like to connect, you can send an ask or connect to me in the discord community.

... I've been reminded that I fucking adore Apocalypse aus.

So the Hybrid idea is shelved, in favor of an apocalypse oneshot series.

Random Outsiders Headcanon

Soda has a burn scar on one of his hands bc as a pretty young kid (like 9 at most) he tried to grab a burning marshmallow.