HCC: HCC #22: Someone Else's Characters

[Scott Eiler]

I think it's settled.  I hereby declare High Concept Challenge #22 open. 
  Wil, Dave, Andrew, Saxon and I have volunteered characters for public 
use.  Each creator can elaborate as they wish (I'll list my characters 
in a separate post), but each writer probably already has characters 
they remember and would like to use as guests.

Unless anyone asks for an extension, I'm going to close the contest and 
open the voting on Monday 25 August 2011, at 5 pm U.S. Pacific Daylight 
time.  That's three weeks and four weekends for writing.  This may seem 
long, but we'll probably need extra time for researching characters. 
I'll close the polls a week later.

The winning writer (not the creator) will get to declare the next contest.

Green flag!

On 7/27/2011 8:04 PM, Scott Eiler wrote:

> I have had great fun this year writing stories about characters from
> other imprints: first the Night of the RACCies, then the Coming of
> Gavrilo the Hermit Wizard Bee. (Thanks to all those who didn't complain
> when their characters get involved in these.) I'd like to see more
> stories with people guest-writing other people's characters. Or in the
> case of the LNH, characters from outside the whole imprint.
>
> As guest writers, would you accept this challenge? As character
> creators, would you donate any of your characters? It would be the
> writer's call where and how the adventure happens, and whether the
> writer's own characters are involved at all. It would in turn be the
> creator's call whether the adventure is in continuity for his characters.
>
> I've got a list of characters for the SW10 imprint: almost two hundred
> now. (I keep this list handy for when I need a random guest star.) If we
> go with this concept, I'll make them all available to be guest stars.
> And I'll write an exhibition story too, just because I would never
> propose a challenge I wouldn't write to. Either I'll write the next
> installment of the New Adventures of Gavrilo, or I'll do an LNH short
> story just to prove I don't hate the Legion.
>
> If you do accept this challenge, please respond with characters you'll
> donate. When we've got enough (I'd say, three more imprints worth) and
> if there be no major objection, I'll declare the contest open.