RE: My First Entry For Fiftywords Challenge: "The Moment He Stops Crying"
I think with a lot of the challenges out there it is the challenge and fun part to be able to fit them into your own niche here. It helps pull it out of the normal way people where approaching something and gives it a new spin on things. A while back I did this with #marketfriday where I visited a shopping mall inside of a video game and showcased gear/weapons/other stuff that where up for sale and on display in different booths and what not. While also explaining things a fair amount since people would have no idea what they where anyways.
Fanfiction in gaming is a very fun part and I’m sure I’ll included it in a few other things going around if I ever make time for it. When it comes to something like gaming and where you try and include it for different kinds of challenges out there it should not be “if you should” but how can you. Gaming can have a very wide reaching range it is just up to us to do so. I’m sure some people won’t always be happy to see it used in such way. But if one is not creative then we are all just doing yet another gaming review and that becomes rather stale and not very creative over time.
Like any good photo that screenshot you used help create the emotion you wanted. It allowed you to give it detail and depth. It allowed you to express things in a way someone who would not being doing so from the content of a game would do so.
I did read the FAQ about what can you write in this challenge, and the example of the short story about a "moment", different moments. But a moment in video game? That didn't pop up in mind. And when it did soon after, I didn't think it would be a good and acceptable way to write about video game, or this fiftywords challenge here. Then I read your short story, then you know the rest...
That exact moment in the game was the first that come to mind. I have another moment I could think of that I think suited with the word "tear", but I don't know if I can make another story. This took me hours to make lol.
The fun part is when you're able to fit them into your own niche, I agree with that.
Rules for something like this are more of a recommendation. I’ve seen some people go way over 50 words while others have broken down long stories into 50-word chunks. The fun thing about this is it does not take a lot of time to do and the person running it has changed a couple of times. With changes of the guard so has flavor and the kinds of people who do this as well. It is amazing to have watch it change over time.
I’ve been doing these off and on for well over a year. Most of them I’ve made into gaming ones. Sometimes I’ll go week or a month without one. Other times I just felt like “hey this make a great 50 words story.” Thankfully my first one is buried deep and lost into the void. It was so bad!
Visiting a market inside a Videogame and talk about it as if it's a real market IRL?! Wow, I would never have thought of that, great idea!!
Most of the time for those kinds of contests it’s about being creative and bringing something new to the table. It had that desired effect as no one expected that. Yet, as a gamer, I’m always visiting in-game markets to buy things and so it’s not that shocking to me.
I did the same for some name challenge that was going around as well. Since Enjar was my past gamer name used in an MMO where I went over his history, struggles, and victories in that game.
You can apply such things to quite a number of the different contest/challenges out there. I’m sure some would not be happy about it but who’s to say you can’t unless they say it right in the rules. In which case most don’t follow challenge rules 100% anyway. They are more for the fun than anything else.
This line is my ... They can disqualify you if they want but you have two benefits:
If nothing else you just don't include the tag or title they are using for the challenge/contest and just make it its own thing. Which can be fun as well. Quite a few times those challenges the person who started it might not even be around or even be checking out most of them.
When I was doing some of the the color challenges for a while (I really should do one for a game) I was just creating very strange/weird short stories that included objects that where that days color. Everyone else was taking photos of flowers and most time the same kind.