Words & Genres for April ’17 Battles

Here are the theme words and genres in preparation for April’s battles!

April 4th

• THEME WORD: Surfer
• GENRE: Fantasy
  • Fantasy – fiction with strange or otherworldly settings or characters; fiction which invites suspension of reality
  • Please visit the BATTLE GENRE page for a full list of subcategories.
  • Challenge yourself! Try something new. 🙂
  • This Week’s Suggestion: Legend – story, sometimes of a national or folk hero, that has a basis in fact but also includes imaginative material

April 11th

• THEME WORD: Pirate
• GENRE: Crime/Detective
  • Crime/detective – fiction about a crime, how the criminal gets caught, and the repercussions of the crime
    • can be: Mystery – this is fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets

April 18th

• THEME WORD: Bribery
• GENRE: FREE CHOICE!
  • For possible ideas, visit the BATTLE GENRE page for a full list of subcategories.
  • Challenge yourself! Try something new.

April 25th

• THEME WORD: Garden
• GENRE: Fantasy
  • Fantasy – fiction with strange or otherworldly settings or characters; fiction which invites suspension of reality
  • Please visit the BATTLE GENRE page for a full list of subcategories
  • Challenge yourself! Try something new.
  • This Week’s Suggestion: Mythopoeia – fiction in which characters from religious mythology, traditional myths, folklore and history are recast into a re-imagined realm created by the author

Write a(n approximately) 1000 word or less story using this theme word and genre. And post it to your blog on Tuesday with a link (use this short link if that helps: http://wp.me/p7rsge-cL) back to this post!

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