The Challenge Factory discussion

Your tales for theme/tasks:
Cinderella
Pinnocchio
The White Snake

Captain: ~Leslie~ TCF Grimm
Shelby Grimm 2015
Jamie Grimm 2015
Emma Grimm 2015
Sadie TCF Grimm
Catherine TCF Grimm Faery Tales
Holli 2015 Grimm
Steph (Sign up post 118) Grimm Challenge
Jodi TCF Grimm
JackieTCF Grimm

Grimm Readers Spreadsheet
Team Cinderella Spreadsheet
Finished Tasks

Scoring:
Page Points:
150-200 = 20 points
201-300 = 25 points
301-400 = 30 points
401-500 = 35 points
501+ = 40

Re-telling = 50 points
Author Initial = 50 points
Team Name Title = 50 points
Mini Challenge = 20 points
Every set of 10 theme/tasks completed = 100 points

Acceptable words for Team Name Bonus:
Cinderella: Cinder, cinders, Ella
Snow White: Snow, snowed, snows, snowing, white, whites
Little Mermaid: Little, Wee, Small, Mermaid, Merfolk, Merman
Red Riding Hood: Red, reds, ride, riders, riding, rider, hood, hoods, hooded
Beauty & the Beast: beauty, beautiful, beauties, beast, beasts, beastly
Sleeping Beauty: Sleep, sleeping, sleepy, asleep, beauty, beautiful, beauties
Peter Pan: Peter, pan, pans

Author Initial Bonus Combinations:
AI
AN
AS
AU
BE
CI
DE
DI
DR
DT
EA
EB
ED
EE
EL
EM
EP
ER
ET
GB
GH
HE
HI
HO
ID
IN
IT
LA
LE
LI
LL
MA
ME
ND
NG
NO
OD
OO
OW
PA
PE
PI
RE
RI
RM
RP
SL
SN
ST
TE
TH
TL
TT
TY
UT
WH
WW
YA

Hello Team Cinderella! I guess I am the first to check in. I am coming from winning two back to back team challenges so hopefully I can bring a little luck with me! :)

I currently live in Houston but was born and raised in Baltimore. I have 3 kiddos. Ages 19, 11 & 19mos. I gotta hubby too...at times, he can be more demanding than the kids!

I'm excited to start this challenge. :)

Team Cinderella Shelves

Jaime grimm 2015
Emma grimm-2015
~Leslie~ tcf-grimm
Sadie tcf-grimm
Catherine tcf grimm faery tales
Holli 2015 grimm
Steph grimm challenge
Jodi tcf-grimm
Heather Grimm Challenge

Hi all! Checking in, too. Looking forward to the challenge. :)

Probably should add my bio as well. I'm live in and am from Texas; currently residing near Granbury. I'm a freelance writer, a mosquito magnet, and have an insane pet cat. :)

Feel free to add me as a friend.

Hi Everyone, I'm looking forward to this challenge.

Anyway, I'm from Canberra, Australia, I am a public servant and live with my partner, two dogs and a cat :)

Happy to be friended too.

Hello teammates,
I read mostly MM books. I'm currently in a book rut. I'm hoping this challenge will motivate me to read more. Starting stressful but fun 6 months mm scavenger hunt book challenge next month. I've watch multiple versions of Cinderella. Here is hoping for the best.

Hello Team! I am so excited to be part of this team and this challenge. I will go ahead and friend everyone if that's okay.
I live in New Orleans with my husband and my two 20something daughters. I have two other kids who are married and don't live at home (obviously!). I signed up to be a co-captain, so is anyone else up for that additional bit of fun?
I need to read over the rules a few more times to completely understand everything, but it looks like most things can be tracked pretty easily by a spreadsheet.
Looking forward to chatting about books!

Hi TayaJay and Leslie!! I think we're gonna have fun here at Team Cinderella!!

Hi Team!

Stopping in to say hello. I live in Ohio with my cat, Shadow. I am in the process of moving at the end of June, so I am passing on the role of captain.

I am excited to start another challenge. :) This challenge looks interesting, I might have some questions. LOL

Has anyone figured out how they are going to prepare their books to read? I have created another shelf tbr-grimm for my books, I think I might read during this challenge. I was wondering what you all might be doing?

I think I might have my 1st title that I am reading.

I will start putting books on the shelf that might work for the challenge, but other than that - I have so many to choose from that I should be alright, no matter what is called.

I have several books and about half a long series that will work for the bonus initial combinations.

Week 1 Task: Blue Cover
6/17 - 23

Cinderella: Cinderella is famous for her blue dress, read any book with something blue on the cover.


Our first mini challenge of the challenge!

Mini Challenge #1: Once Upon a Time
Dates: 6/17 - 6/23

The How To's:
Every fairy tale starts with once upon a time…
This week any book who's cover has a method of telling time on it (clock, sun, watch, hourglass, etc)
A number in the title (series # doesn't count!) or a method of telling time in the title.
Series name counts as title (again excluding the series #)

Will score you an additional 20 points per book.

I also have a different shelf for possible books to read. Ill constantly reference it and add to it. Its easy to delete that one when our challenge is finished.

Here are some links:

Grimm Possibilities

Best Fairytales and Retellings

If anyone can read next week, that would be awesome! I've read it and it's a great book. I'm willing to read it again if no one else can.

In the next several days, I will create a post with links to different shelves and lists with book possibilities. If you have links that should be included, PM me and I will gather them all together to make it easier to find. Heather, I have your shelf link and will add it to the post! Great idea.

I am getting excited!

Here's an example of the tracking, scoring, 10 tasks etc in this post

Sometimes "seeing it" is better than me trying to explain it lol.

This was the example Jenne just posted of how our completed "10" should look. I also like knowing what the abbreviations stand for.

Ok example:
For example purposes lets say the task was black on the cover with a mini challenge of 2 people on the cover. Once you've completed 10 books that fit the task group it together something like this:

Task books:
1. Priceless PP 25 (include who read the book too)
2. Cruel Beauty PP 30, FTR 50, TNB 50,
3. Immortal Rider PP 35, AI 50, TNB 50, MCP 20
4. Of Beast and Beauty PP 30, FTR 50, TNB 50,
and so on until you get to 10

At this point include any books that didn't fit the task and summarize them the same i.e.
The Fairest of Them All PP 25, FTR 50
Reached PP 40
White Hot Kiss PP 30, TNB 50, MCP 20

Then total up your totals:

Total PP for this post:
Total FTR for this post:
Total TNB for this post:
Total AI for this post:
Total MCP:
Total For complete task: 100


FYI:
PP stands for page points
FTR stands for fairytale retelling
TNB for team name bonus
AI for author initial
MCP stands for mini challenge points.

These are all the accepted names for the Team Name Bonus. Obviously, all this info can be found elsewhere but I just think it's easier if its in our team thread.

Cinderella: Cinder, cinders, Ella
Snow White: Snow, snowed, snows, snowing, white, whites
Little Mermaid: Little, Wee, Small, Mermaid, Merfolk, Merman
Red Riding Hood: Red, reds, ride, riders, riding, rider, hood, hoods, hooded
Beauty & the Beast: beauty, beautiful, beauties, beast, beasts, beastly
Sleeping Beauty: Sleep, sleeping, sleepy, asleep, beauty, beautiful, beauties
Peter Pan: Peter, pan, pans

Hello everyone im steph and i live about 30 minutes from chicago :) im in summer school so ill read as much as possible, i just cant say no to team challenges!

Which would get us more points...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Leslie, I'm happy to co-captain if no-one else wants to. I will be moving house over the next week or so, so might not be able to contribute fully to start, but should be fine afterward.

I've got my first book:

. It fits the main task, the mini task and author name points. Unfortunately the only fairy tale retellings I have are either too short or don't have blue on them so are better left for a different week.

I'm loving the challenge of finding books that can accrue the most points - this is so much fun :)

Hi Steph! I think book two would give us the most points. I might read it too. It sounds really good!

~Leslie~ wrote: "If anyone can read next week, that would be awesome! I've read it and it's a great book. I'm willing to read it again if no one else can.

In the next several days, I wi..."

I saw you and I both said maybe to being team captain. As Emma said I don't mind doing it either. Let me know what you'd like to do. I'm still in team captain mode since the Battle of the Gods challenge just ended! So I'm not trying to step on anyone's toes if someone else wants to do it. :)

Sadie wrote: "I plan on reading once this starts. :)"

I'm planning on reading this too. I actually thought I was the last person left that hasn't read it! Lol

Heather, it looks like you are much more organized than me! I am happy for you to be captain and Emma co-captain! I will definitely be able to help in the beginning while Emma is moving. Having just moved, I know how crazy that is!! How does that sound for everyone? I didn't mean to jump in and assume!

I've already read this book Snow White Sorrow so it won't be on my shelf. But its really good and a different take on Snow White if anyone is looking for something new. Im planning on reading the sequel Cinderella Dressed in Ashes.



I was curious...has anyone here ever heard of The White Snake? I didn't. I actually had to look it up! Lol

When we have a new challenge like this launched it takes the questions in order to work the kinks out and find any holes.

In order to keep things simplified I'm going to change the ruling on re-tellings, modern tales, etc.


IF IT'S BEEN SHELVED AT LEAST 5 TIMES AS A RE-TELLING OR FAIRY TALE IT'LL COUNT TOWARDS THE FTR BONUS.

IF IT'S ON A FAIRY TALE LISTOPIA I'LL TAKE IT

SO THIS WILL MAKE ROMEO& JULIET AND WIZARD OF OZ COUNT SINCE THEY'VE BEEN SHELVED MULTIPLE TIMES.


And I'm not shouting that just making it visible :)

Lol Thanks Jenne!

Since there are two of you that are happy to be captain I will pull out. I said in my registration I didn't want to be and would rather not be captain, but I didn't know if we had two in our group who wanted to be so I volunteered. Leslie and Heather, very happy for it to be both of you :)

That sounds great Emma! I just didn't want to step on any toes.

And thanks, Jenne! This is a great team challenge - and you are amazing to do it.

Lists

Fractured Fairytales

Fairy tales and Retellings

Best Retelling of Beauty and the Beast

Best Romance Fairy tale Retellings

Heather's Grimm Possibilities List

Cinderella Retellings

Leslie's Grimm Possibilities

Author List (initials reversed)(view spoiler)[A,E
A,L
A,M
A,P
A,Y
B,E
D,E
D,I
D,N
D,O
E,B
E,D
E,E
E,H
E,L
E,M
E,P
E,R
E,T
G,B
G,N
H,G
H,T
H,W
I,A
I,C
I,D
I,H
I,L
I,P
I,R
L,E
L,L
L,S
L,T
M,E
M,R
N,A
N,S
O,H
O,N
O,O
P,E
P,R
R,D
R,E
S,A
T,D
T,E
T,S
T,T
U,A
U,T
W,O
W,W
Y,T (hide spoiler)]

Okay cool ill make Spelled my first book then! Im probably going to ask for advice again which book gets more points at some point considering these rules are a tad confusing

Sadie, do you mind if I steal this please, it breaks it Down nice and easy for me to understand lol.

Haha nope I hadn't thought of that lol

Sadie wrote: "I think I got the gist of it.


Our first main task is to read books that have blue on the cover, anywhere on the cover, and it does not have to cover a certain amount. As long as we can see blue t..."

I knew Sadie would help me figure out what the hell I am doing :D

Here's an example of how we all should post their completed books. Or something similar to this. This way we're all doing it the same and it'll be easy to add to the spreadsheet.


Seven Years by Dannika Dark
Pages 332 (30 pts)
Task-Blue (YES)
Mini Challenge-Time "Seven" (20 pts)

OR


Cinderella Dressed in Ashes by Cameron Jace
Pages 300 (25 pts)
Fairytale Retelling (50 pts)
Team Name in Challenge (50 pts)

Heather wrote: "Here's an example of how we all should post their completed books. Or something similar to this. This way we're all doing it the same and it'll be easy to add to the spreadsheet.

[bookcover:Seven ..."

I think i may need help with this the first time around. Ill post when its time and just let me know if im right

Steph wrote: "Heather wrote: "Here's an example of how we all should post their completed books. Or something similar to this. This way we're all doing it the same and it'll be easy to add to the spreadsheet.

[..."

No problem! You'll get the hang of it quickly. If you any help or have any questions, please ask away!

Steph, since this is a first time for all of us with this challenge, we will all be learning along with you!

I haven't read , so it is on my list to read also.

Its on my list too! If anyone is interested heres my "maybe" list. I found alot of retellings of all the teams main fairytales. I tend to read more modern/current type books. So if you read Historical Fiction I'm not sure you'll like my list. Lol There are a few random books in there too that I'm just considering. ;)

grimm possibilities

Hi guys...sorry....I dodn't knkw we had started :( so..I am currently in NJ....but I am from Dorset, UK...

I pretty much like everything, but biographies....they are a bit to dry for me.....although I do love history!


I have to check the point list to see what I have that might work here....

Hey...would work?

Hi Leslie....haven't seen you in a while....I mean..I've seen you..but not in many of the team stuff..how are you?

Hello Guys,

I've already message Jenne and I've change my mind and decided to not participate in this challenge. Good luck and have fun.