Sweet and Short

Time for our monthly overview. We have lots of great works posted during March. Thank you to everyone who participated.

Let's have a tiny statistic:
Participants: 8
Works posted: 31 in total

Congratulations to soryenn for completing the 10 out of 20 challenge with 10 (11) icons. veronyxk84 wrote 6 drabbles/ficlets and used 10 prompts in total.

Comment quicky:
We have had three participants here; thank you all.

Bingo Blackout:
Congratulations go to tarlanx for creating four icons each.


If you want to check out all the great works created for this community, go H E R E.

I hope to see all of you again in April.

If you have any suggestions or questions, don't hesitate to comment here or send me a pm.

I hope all of you can enjoy a peaceful Holiday Time and are ready to step into the new year soon.

I will continue preparing the community for 2024. You might notice some small changes on the side, tags, and more during the next few days.

Hope to see you all again in 2024.

This community offers various kinds of challenges every regular month. Three times a year we will have an amnesty month.
To give you a better idea of what to expect, here is a short introduction.

Monthly Prompts
On the 1st of every regular month, you will get a list with 20 prompts. Your mission is, to grab at least 10 of them and create something for it.
You can mix up various fandoms and work types. You may make 10 single works, or mix up prompts in one or more works. Of course, you are always welcome to use more prompts, up to 20.
Allowed are fics up to 500 words per prompt, small poems like haiku or tanka, icons (100x100 px), and small graphics up to 500 px width x height.
All fandoms, genres, and ratings are welcome, as are original work and real-person work.

Comment Quicky
On the 8th of every second month, we will have a little comment fun. I will leave you a starting prompt, and you will answer with a little fic or one icon (other works are not allowed).
For fics, your work should not be longer than 100 words. Icons should fit DW standard = 100x100 px, < 60kb.
After posting your work, you will have to leave a new prompt.

OR

Picture Prompt Fun
On the 8th of every second month, we will have some fun with pictures. I will post two pictures for you. Use one (or both) as the basis of your work(s).
Allowed are fics up to 500 words per pic, small poems like haiku or tanka, icons (100x100 px), and small graphics up to 500 px width x height.
All fandoms, genres, and ratings are welcome, as are original work and real-person work.

Only Two
This double challenge will start on the 15th of every regular month.

For fics:
I will offer you two sentences.
Grab one of them and use it as your story starter or your last line.
Feel free to change personal pronouns.
Allowed are fics up to 500 words (+ the given sentence)
All fandoms, genres, and ratings are welcome, as are original work and real-person work.

For icons:
I will offer you two themes.
Grab one of them and create a minimum of four icons for it.
Icons should fit DW standard (100 x 100 px).

Bingo
On the 22nd of every month, we will have the last challenge of the month. A mini-bingo. I will offer you a 4-prompt card you should blackout.
You can make single works or mix the prompts up in one big work.
Allowed are fics up to 500 words, small poems like haiku or tanka, icons (100x100 px), and small graphics up to 500 px width x height.
All fandoms, genres, and ratings are welcome, as are original work and real-person work.

Amnesty Months
We will have amnesty months in June and December.
All rules are disabled. Everything goes.
There will be one amnesty challenge, but you can also go wild and grab any prompt you like.

All challenges run until the end of the month.

What is this community about?
Sweet and short is a low-pressure community for creating small fanworks each week.

There will be four regular challenges each month January to May and July to November. In June and December, we will have an amnesty month.

The schedule for regular months in 2025 looks like this:
1. Monthly prompts 10 out of 20
8. Comment Quicky / Picture Prompt Fun = alternating monthly
15. Only Two = two prompts for writing, two prompts for icons
22. Micro Bingo = four prompts only

Amnesty months in 2025 will look like this:
Amnesty challenge 10 out of 20 = prompts chosen from previous months
If you don't want to accept the challenge, just go wild and have fun.

All challenges run until the end of the month, midnight in your timezone.

For more challenge information, have a look at the Challenge Overview.

General Rules
Allowed are fics up to 500 words, small poems like haiku or tanka (3-5 lines), icons (100x100 px), and small graphics up to 500px width x height.
Note: During amnesty months, all rules will be disabled, and everything is possible.

All fandoms, genres, and ratings are welcome, but please use warnings if applicable. Original works and real-person works are acceptable.

You can combine your works with any other challenge/community, as long as the work is created within the given challenge period at sweetandshort.

Post your work directly to this comm. Please use a header of your choice and put bigger works under a cut. You can also post your work at other places like AO3 or your writing journal - in this case, please leave a header and a link at sweetandshort to keep the community running. I would like to ask you to keep the posts unlocked at least until the end of the following month.

Please use the following tags: creator, month, work type, and based on. If a tag is missing, use !tag needed.

AO3
You can find the Sweet and Short AO3 collection here.

Promotion
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<center><img src="https://prisca.dreamwidth.org/file/1282881.jpg" alt="" title="" /></center> <user name=sweetandshort> is a low-pressure challenge community for creating small fanworks / original works each week. All fandoms, genres, and ratings are welcome. Allowed are fics up to 500 words, small poems like haiku or tanka, icons (100x100 px), and small banners up to 500px width x height. ~ ~ ~ There will be four regular challenges each month January to March, May to July, and September to November. In April, August, and December, we will have an amnesty month. The <b>schedule for regular months</b> looks like this: 1. Monthly Prompts 10 out of 20 8. Comment Quicky / Picture Prompt Fun = <b>alternating monthly</b> 15. One Sentence (for writers) / One Theme (for graphics) 22. Mini-Bingo All challenges run until the end of the month. Sign-up is not necessary, but please, check out the <a href="https://sweetandshort.dreamwidth.org/306.html">Community FAQ</a> before starting to create, thanks.

Questions? Suggestions?
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