![]() Challenge yourself by writing a complete picture book manuscript in that genre! It doesn’t have to be perfect! No one else has to see it! Have fun with it! (This is a personal challenge for yourself, and no critiquing or sharing manuscripts is involved.) Outcome:īy the end of the year, you’ll have 10 new picture book manuscripts! And hopefully you will have been pushed out of your comfort zone, tried something new, and had fun doing it. I will then share a top ten books list and a guest post or two from authors who write that type of picture book. At the beginning of each month, I’ll share a blog post with information about that month’s genre of picture book and will provide examples. Register by commenting on this blog post. Accepting the challenge will allow you to join a community of picture book writers, learn about different structures and forms of picture books, and push yourself out of your comfort zone. Combine two AUs from the list into one story.The 2023 Picture Book Writing Challenge is a year long challenge to write 10 new picture book manuscripts in various genres. “Two of the Above” is a repetitive feature of AU-gust. ![]() :) A doppelganger can be a lost twin, an evil clone, an andriod copy of oneself whose purpose is to do the dangerous jobs instead of you, or really a random person who looks exactly like you. The prompts don’t have rules, there is not single solution. Utopic future society? Peace comes at a great cost.Īgain, with the Doppelganger AU, you’ve listed many possible interpretations and all I can tell you is “all of the above”. Your sweet cinnamon roll character? Now he’s a toxic asshole. No more Avengers protecting the Earth from alien invasions – now they are a gang of beings with superpowers who exploit humanity’s fears and threaten to destroy the world if they don’t get what they want. You can take it as a challenge, do a little research into what a plumber’s job is (or wing it like me because research is a black hole that I’m not coming near to at any cost), or go the smutty way, which is a great solution to any AU that leaves you stumped! :Dĭark AU is a common tag on AO3 that sums up all those AUs where the world or the heroes are just a dark version of themselves. Plumber AU is an occupational AU, because surprisingly many people asked for those! I know it is a very unusual one. :D Anything from a reincarnation story, Heaven/Hell based story, or dealing with grief goes. :) Don’t be afraid to stretch the prompts as far as they can go that’s what this challenge is all about!Įveryone’s view on afterlife is different, so I’m really not going to dictate how this prompt should work. If you prefer plot-centric fics above character-centric, you might be interested in picking an interpretation like this. ![]() Another interpretation that I like is more sci-fi leaning, finding something that acts as a lighthouse deep in space or buried under kilometres of earth. Either a character or characters working at a literal lighthouse, or someone being someone’s metaphorical guiding light. Lighthouse AU was intended both of the ways that you mentioned. Hey, I’m glad you like this challenge! ^.^ As you’ll soon discover, the answer to most AU-related questions is “up to your interpretation”, but I’ll gladly list some ideas that might spark your or other people’s inspiration. Love this list so much, I can't wait for it to officially begin! Thank you once again for organizing it! - ♥︎ ♥︎ ♥︎
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