Creative Project/prompt/contest

How about a creative project for art and writing, maybe even photo or photo-manipulation. I guess it could apply to any kind of art, but outside of writing it could get more challenging.

Think of a setting, how about a park? Your character is sitting on a bench. Describe what is going through his or her head, what are his or her motivations? They should be dark in nature. There is no requirement for this other than that. You'll need to describe the environment and the people who may be in it. It shouldn't be over 3000 words, but I'll accept up to 5000 if necessary. I'd say minimum of 1500. For images, you just have to be more creative. Facial expressions, posture, lighting, should all reflect enough that we can all get a story - or at least the hint of one - out of it.  The image should speak to us, and of course, the story should give us enough about the character you are creating that we know what is going on. I made this scenario up for a writing project years ago and it was amazing what some people came up with. with just this basic information. The intention is to inspire you into writing your own unique story based on a basic starter scene, to get you writing on demand. If you give it a chance, you'l probably be surprised what you can come up with.

Overview. 1500 to 5000 word short story. (any type of image that fits within the requirements will be accepted as well.)

1. - Describe environment and people in it.

2. - Explain character's emotions, intentions, appearance. We should understand the character as much as is possible for short story format. (as I said, images will be more challenging for this, but it could be done.)

3. - story should be dark. The character doesn't necessarily have to be evil, but it wouldn't hurt.

We'll think of something to do for prizes. There will be a first second and third place. There will at least be a feature of all three deviations. 

Updates Ends at midnight on 10/19/2012. submit to the contest folder,as usual. I'm thinking of doing as i have seen in another group and leaving a past prompts section or something like that so that these can be used again to inspire people. 

Thanks to who has offered a single prize amount of 100 points and journal features. And to who has offered 500 points. And  who has offered 400. I'm also putting in 150 plus features and llamas.

All place prizes will include Winners Package from #AnotherContestGroup which includes features in their group and can include other things for first place as I understand it. 

Thanks again to , , , and  for all donations/help.

If you like this idea, we can probably do writing and art exercises monthly.