The Challenge Factory discussion

Your tales for theme/tasks:

Little Mermaid
Rapunzel
The Ugly Duckling

Captain: Megan M TCF Grimm 2015
Captain: Juliana TCF Grimm
Kristin TCF Grimm 2015
Deliatex (Dawn) TCF Grimm Challenge
Vicci TCF Grimm
Mandy Grimm 2015
Claire Grimm Challenge 2015
Shy 2015grimm
Talia TCF Grimm Readers
Laila Jane 2015 Grimm Challenge

Grimm Readers Spreadsheet
Little Mermaid 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!! I'm super excited to this challenge.

Hoping to have a fun summer read with you all. :)

Hey Team can't wait for this one to get started.

Hey team I can't wait to start this challenge.

Whoop whoop ! !!
Hi teamies *waves*

Greetings!

I don't know Megan. I just asked Jenne on the major discussion.
And I volunteered to be help as captain too, since each team needed two. Maybe it us. ;)

So, we as a team need to decide who will be captain / co-captain.

I can be one or another (or just a team member too), just let me know.

Hi Team!!! Super excited.

I did but I'm happy for you to do it Megan if you want, I'm captain of a couple at the minute so it could get confusing lol

Lol I'm Vicci or V for short, that's probably why you couldn't find me ;•)

Haha cross posts HI **waves**

Hi everyone! Just popping in on meal break at work. I'm having a bit of a struggle getting my head round everything but I'll have another look tonight and figure it out :)

I don't have time to put myself forward as a captain but I'll happily help out if you need it.

so who is up for capt and co-capt and how are we going about picking them

Hellooooooo!!!!!! So sorry to be late checking in!!! Super excited for this challenge!!!

I'm happy to be either a co-caption or a regular team player. Summer has been willy-nilly so I'm afraid I wouldn't have as much time as I'd like to devote to all that is captain-like 100% of the time.

I am checking in before I read the challenge and task information, so I'll go back and read that stuff now.

PS - V - are we really on the same team????!!!!! Yay!!!! And I bet you thought you got rid of me, Shy, after SS! LOL! I'm back!!!

I see that Juliana & Megan are volunteering to be co-captains. I'm definitely OK with that.

Not sure if there are any others wanting to throw their hat into the ring?

Whoop whoop Chickadees Unite haha!

I'm happy to just sit back on this one if someone else wants to captain, I think I automatically say yea to everything and don't read up on the challenges before signing up!!

I'm a director in the new AMMP summer camp and have NO IDEA what I'm doing pahahaha !

I am cool with whoever decides to be captains. Hi Kristin feels like we just left each other.

I second Juliana and Megan being co capt

Damn it I've just read a purple book.......2 in fact grrrr back to the TBR pile!!

LOL!
I just need someone to tell me what to read. hahaha!

I'm reading a book with "18" in it...

It looks like I can just read it very slowly as long as I finish on the 17th or later, right?

I remember trying to find purple books in a past challenge and it was HARD!!!!!

Black covers? I'm your girl!!!!

Lol we've just read Black iris that would have worked (great read btw girlies)
And I've just finished the Rock Chick book too grrrr.

P.s books have to be *started* after the 17th so put it away and start it again then ;•)

It doesn't have to be a certain percentage of purple either. As long as it's visible you're good to go.

ooh thanks Jenne

There's my sweet & sour! LOL!

Hi girls! I'm off to bed, so I read the details tomorrow, but I can be the co-captain.

Good night to all.

Night x

Hi again. Think I'm getting my head round it. I've just asked about re-reads and how long ago you have to have read them because I've recently finished a series that I would happily re-read to remember how it all fits together, they would probably all fit for retellings, one would fit the mini challenge and two the main one with purple covers.

So hopefully I'll be able to use them :) And I should be able to get all 5 read in 2 weeks (they're fairly short but long enough).

I'm off to bed now, another long day tomorrow! Night everyone :)

Ooh Kristin how long ago did we read that Enchanted one? That's a series right?
I'm gonna check lol

Hmm February ....although I only read #1 so I could read the rest of the series for retellings.

Sorry I've been MIA today. It's been crazy but I'm around now. I love the idea of questions to get to know each other Megan. Just to be clear we don't start till next week or is it this week. I have a purple item & time book that will work for each.

Megan wrote: "Great! So every other Wednesday when we're assigned a new task, I'll post a new set of "get to know you" questions. Obviously this isn't something you have to do, I just thought it would be a fun a..."

Megan I love this idea!

GTKY Questions

1) Where are you from?
Altadena, California, but I now live in Arizona

2) Occupation?
Front Office Manager and Legal Videographer for a court reporting firm

3) Favorite book genre?
Fast-paced action/adventure a la Steve Berry or Clive Cussler

4) Favorite movie?
Scrooged or any of Bill Murray's older flicks

5) All-time favorite book?
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

6) Why did you join this challenge?
I like the encouragement and deadlines of participating in team challenges. They make me make sure I read at least 1 book every week. For this particular one, the name intrigued me :).

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.

Megan wrote: "Which Cussler book would you recommend me to start with, Talia?

Hi Megan,

The first Cussler novel I read was , and it had me hooked from the exciting beginning, so that would be a good intro. He has one called Atlantis Found that I haven't read yet and am looking forward to because it's gotta be good with that title!

Megan, set your spreadsheet to where anyone with the link can view it. Otherwise it'll only be you :)

If you're co-captain is gonna help with editing it too you'll have to add her as an editor by using her email. Let me know if you need help with the instructions and I'll walk you through it.

Yeah, it doesn't have to be exactly like that, whatever is easier for you so long as the pertinent info is there.

Looks awesome =]

Megan wrote: "Which Atlantis Found doesn’t even sound western so I don't know why I assumed that. And when I say western, I mean like cowboys and Indians, etc. Lol."


LOL nope, no westerns. The main character works for a marine agency that finds sunken ships, stuff like that, and he's always racing around the world thwarting some evil guy's dastardly plans or searching for a lost treasure.

GTKY Q's

1. Virginia
2. Mother
3. Fantasy
4. Dirty Dancing
5. Don't have one
6. I haven't participated in any group challenges yet and I have seen so many creative themes this challenge came up I figured it would be fun

Morning team!!

Wow, I have a lot of things to catch up.
Megan you are doing a great job gathering all that information.

I'll be back soon.

Blimey, a girl can miss a lot of chatter when she's asleep!

I'm on my phone so I'll try and catch up as quick as much as possible! Megan, I think the questions are a great idea, if you hadn't done them I was going to start getting nosey!! I'll answer them in a separate post as I've forgotten half of them :)

V (I think, my brain's not awake yet) is that the Unfortunate Fairy Tale series? I've just finished it but I'm going to reread it starting next week, that was the one I was talking about. If you fancy buddy reading or just chatting about any of it?

Lets see how many I remember!

GTKY questions:

1) I'm from Newcastle in the UK
2) I'm an ambulance technician
3) Favourite genre is difficult but anything but horror or erotica. depends on my mood
4) Favourite movie is definitely Apollo 13
5) Favourite book is probably The Night Circus but there are so many! Favourite author is Clive Cussler
6) I think it was why I wanted to join - I like team challenges and the fairy tale bit of this caught my eye :)

Talia and Megan. I enjoyed Valhalla Rising but I think my favourite is Atlantis Found. The Oregon Files series is fantastic as well, that's my favourite of his series.

Just before I dash off to get ready (and sorry for the run of posts!) I usually work 4 days on, 4 off. which means I'll just be popping in and out for 4 days and then around much more for 4. So I've not disappeared in the middle!

Just on the way to work so will update questions when I can.