For the last couple of months I’ve been participating in a writing competition called the Wyrm’s Gauntlet — consisting of a series of challenges, two fiction, two non-fiction—the number of challengers was winnowed from 33 to 8 to 5, and finally to the last 3.
The first challenge was to critique a book review, the second to write a 2nd person POV short story, the third to write a critical paper about fan fiction and then, the final challenge, to write a short story with a movie trailer prompt.
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