2006 Summer Blockbuster Challenge

Everyone likes a great Summer Blockbuster, and with the summer of 2006 just around the corner, we thought it would be fun to take six great movie titles and let you put your own twist on them. This Sue Thomas F.B.Eye challenge is another original challenge; each entire story will be the author's own work. The movie isn't your guide... just use the title and let your muse interpret it.

You are welcome to respond to any of the themes you wish – with over two months until the conclusion of the challenge, there is time for multiple entries! Here are the titles from which you can choose:

Option 1: Animal House

Option 2: Independence Day

Option 3: Mission Impossible

Option 4: My Best Friend's Wedding

Option 5: Ransom

Option 6: You've Got Mail

The stories will be judged by the readers within the following categories:

1. Best Drama
2. Best Comedy
3. Best Mystery
4. Best Action
5. Best Fourth of July Theme (it is the FBI, after all)
6. Best Romance (J/S Pairing)
7. Best Romance (Other Pairing)
8. Best Themed Story (one award for each title)
9. Best Original Character
10. Best Short Story (5,000 words or less)
11. Best Junior Writer (age 18 and/or younger)*
12. Best New Writer**

* If your date of birth is not in your profile and you qualify as a junior writer, please notify justme_jp3 by PM so you can be included.

** To qualify as a New Writer, you must have no more than 2 stories/scenes on the board at the time of entering the challenge.

The Challenge opens immediately and runs through July 31, at midnight in your location. To enter, simply select the theme option you are going to write (1 – 6) and place your name in the title (for example: Mission Impossible - justme_jp3). Don’t forget to include your rating (G, PG, PG13, PG17) in the description line!

It’s time to start and let the challenge begin!!


The Admin Team

Please use this thread to post any questions or comments you may have regarding the 2006 Summer Blockbuster Challenge...

Questions will be answered by the forum mod or site Admins. Thanks!

can we use the movies as kind of a guide to help with ideas? or does it have to be completely original with ideas and all?

The storyline should be completely original, and not modeled after the movie. For example, say I wanted to use the title "You've Got Mail." Rather than following the storyline acted so well by Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, I might choose to write a story where a letter gets delivered to Tara that was postmarked April 3, 1942, and sparks a mystery as she tries to find the woman named Tara who used to live in her building, and in the process finds out this other Tara was a war bride whose husband never returned from the front, and this was his last letter written to her.

We're looking for original and creative twists on these titles, so grab your pen (or keyboard) and give it a go!!!

Janet,

That would actually make a very interesting story !!

Yes, Janet. It would. Are you writing it???

Jill

sorry, still a little confused, like becuase im gonna do the my bestfriends wedding thing i cant like use the whole jules trying to get michael to marry her instead and george is like her best friedn kinda thingy. that was my idea to do with the stfbe charachters obviously with my own twists and stuff.

The idea for the challenge is not to think of the movie's storyline, but to take the title and use that as your theme or idea. Think of the title and then write a completely original story, using the characters from STFBE.

Can I write a STFBE AU fic?

Yes, you can write an Alternate Universe story for the challenge. Interested to see what you come up with!

Thanks I need to look up some things before I start to write it.

*AH waves sheepishly from the corner*


Can i enter more than one story in the same category? Say two short stories with different titles?


Just wondering....



AH

Yes, you can enter two (or more) short stories in the challenge, as long as they are under different titles. Keep

i wonder if this is a crazy quest, but do the stories have to include a pairing or have a romantic lean to them at all? thanx;-D

It's not a crazy question, and the answer is no, it doesn't have to have a pairing or a romantic storyline (or undertone), even though this is the romancefanfiction website...

I have a question. So based on what's said in the above quote, does this mean a person can't write two entries for eg, "My Best Friend's Wedding", even if the two stories will have a different plotline and ending?

That is correct. Since we've given you six titles to choose from, we're going to limit the number of responses to one story per title per author. That allows you a total of six possible entries.

I understand you have to have 2 or less stories/scenes on the board to qualify as a new writer, so your third story would still count as you being a new writer. If you were to write 4 challenge stories, would the fourth count as you still being a new writer?

It's not the stories that are up for vote, but the writer. If you're a new writer (ie: you have two or less stories on the board at the start of the challenge), then the members are voting for you, as a writer, rather than your story(ies).

Thank you!

I have another question....

If I were to start a challenge and found that I couldn't finish it in time for the deadline, could someone move it to WIP? Or would I have to just end it and post a sequel/continuation in WIP?

And if I were to mark it with the wrong rating? Would it be possible to change it, or would I just put an extra warning at the beginning of the post?

I know, I'm asking all these questions and I don't even have a story in the challenge yet. I am trying to get one in there, just as soon as school lets out.

Any challenge story not completed by midnight on the deadline will be automatically moved to the WIP forum for continuation/completion. Only those stories that are truly completed will be considered for voting selection.

If you need the rating changed on your story, please PM the moderator of the forum or one of the admins and it will be changed in your description for you.

I'm English, so I have to ask, what is special about the 4th of July??? Sorry! And what is Independance Day???? What kind og things are celebrated then??? I'm just curious!!

Jenny

Sir Google works his magic any time.
http://www.usacitylink.com/usa/
http://www.swingstateproject.com/2005/07/indpendence_day.php

Thanks LeviCool!!!!

Jenny

Time to Cast your ballots for the Golden Levi's! Our Summer Blockbuster Challenge is now closed and the voting is open. Simply click the link and vote for your favorites. When you have completed the ballot, you will be redirected to a 'thank you' screen, so you know your ballot has been accepted. Each member is allowed one vote. The voting ballot will remain open until midnight (Eastern Daylight Time) on Sept 4th.

Our warmest thanks to EVERYONE who entered the challenge. We had a record number of responses and they were all wonderful!!!

Stay tuned for our Fall Challenge, which will be posted soon. It's something new, something different, something creative!!!

For those of you who wish to know who the nominees are before going to the official ballot... here you go.

1. Best Drama - Animal House

Okiefoster
Learningtosign

2. Best Drama - Independence Day

Oreolover
Rosa17
learningtosign
Ickleails
Rerio
tis*me!

3. Best Drama - Mission Impossible

LittleEm
yhm
learningtosign

4. Best Drama - My Best Friend's Wedding

MelissaT
jbryce
bell
LizzyM87
Doglover
learningtosign

5. Best Drama - Ransom

learningtosign
Marlo29
crazy4stfb
KatsMeow
tis*me!
Rosa17

6. Best Drama - You've Got Mail

Duckfan
learningtosign
sand86802
Ickleails
C.H. Slater
Wicked and Welsh

7. Best Comedy

Animal House - Duckfan
Animal House - Ickleails
Animal House - tis*me!
Independence Day - Jill
Ransom - justme_jp3
You've Got Mail - MelittaT
You've Got Mail - yhm

8. Best Mystery

Independence Day – rerio
Ransom – Marlo29
Ransom – justme_jp3
Ransom – crazy4stfbe
You’ve Got Mail – C.H. Slater

9. Best Action

Animal House -Okiefoster
Independence Day – Oreolover
Independence Day – rerio
Mission Impossible – LittleEm
Ransom – katsmeow
You’ve Got Mail – C.H.Slater

10. Best Fourth of July Theme

Independence Day – Ickleails
Independence Day – tis*me!
Independence Day – Jill
Independence Day – learningtosign
Independence Day - rerio
My Best Friend’s Wedding – bell

11. Best J/S Romance - Animal House

Ickleails
learningtosign
tis*me!

12. Best J/S Romance - Independence Day

Oreolover
Rosa17
tis*me!

13. Best J/S Romance - Mission Impossible

LittleEm
AgentHudson
learningtosign
yhm

14. Best J/S Romance - My Best Friend's Wedding

MelissaT
tis*me!
learningtosign
jbryse
bell
LizzyM87
Doglover

15. Best J/S Romance - Ransom

tis*me!
learningtosign
Rosa17
Marlo29
justme_jp3
KatsMeow
crazy4stfbeye

16. Best J/S Romance - You've Got Mail

Wicked and Welsh
Duckfan
learningtosign
tis*me!
flowersweetie

17. Best Romance (Other Pairing)

Animal House – Okiefoster (B/T)
My Best Friend’s Wedding – bell (B/Jay)
My Best Friend’s Wedding –jbryse (B/T)
My Best Friend’s Wedding –trecebo (L/A)
Independence Day – Oreolover (M,L; B,T)
Independence Day – rerio (Emma and Chase)
Independence Day – Rosa17 (M,L)
Independence Day – Jill (B/T)
You’ve Got Mail – sand86802
You’ve Got Mail – Ickleails (B/T)

18. Best Themed Story - Animal House

Duckfan
Ickleails
Okiefoster
learningtosign
tis*me!

19. Best Themed Story - Independence Day

Oreolover
Rosa17
rerio
learningtosign
tis*me!
Ickleails
Jill
yhm

20. Best Themed Story - Mission Impossible

LittleEm
learningtosign
AgentHudson
tis*me!
yhm

21. Best Themed Story - My Best Friend's Wedding

Doglover
MelissaT
tis*me!
learningtosign
jbryse
LizzyM87
bell
Trecebo

22. Best Themed Story - Ransom

tis*me!
learningtosign
Marlo29
Rosa17
jusme_jp3
crazy4stfbeye
KatsMeow

23. Best Themed Story - You've Got Mail

Wicked and Welsh
Duckfan
learningtosign
sand86802
C.H. Slater
yhm
tis*me!
Ickleails
flowersweetie

24. Best Original Character

Animal House – Ickleails (Mattie and Maud)
Independence Day – rerio (Chase and Emma)
Independence Day – Jill (cherubs)
Independence Day – Oreolover (Samuel)
My Best Friend’s Wedding – Bell (Jay)
You’ve Got Mail – Duckfan (Peter)

25. Best Short Story - Drama

Independence Day – Ickleails
Independence Day – tis*me!
Mission Impossible – yhm
My Best Friend’s Wedding – Melissa T
My Best Friend’s Wedding - Trecebo
Ransom – Rosa17
You’ve Got Mail – sand86802
You’ve Got Mail – tis*me!

26. Best Short Story - Comedy

Animal House – Duckfan
Animal House – tis*me!
Animal House –Ickleails
Mission Impossible – Agent Hudson
Ransom – justme_jp3

27. Best New Writer (separate poll)

C.H. Slater
crazy4stfbeye
flowersweetie
KatsMeow
LittleEm
tis*me!
Wicked and Welsh