Literary Inspiration Challenge
Rules of the challenge: select a story, poem, author or theme that appeals to you and is in the public domain – meaning, there is no longer any copyright on the work involved.
Develop a story or poem derived from the work or the author chosen.
The range of possibilities for this are manifold. You can rework the ending of the story, write an entirely new text based on a minor character, change the setting and time frame of the story, change the genders of the characters, write a modern version of the story, and so on. One thing that is essential is the story MUST be based on the text that is in the public domain, NOT on a film or television version. It is up to you to make sure you are following or referring to the text in the public domain.
An excellent resource for books and texts that are in the public domain is the Project Gutenberg.
Example of a few writers whose works are in the public domain: Mary Shelley, Jane Austin, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Wilkie Collins, M.R. James, Bram Stoker, Louisa May Alcott, L.M. Montgomery, E.A. Poe …
The great works of mythology are also excellent sources, with no need to list them here.
Read the following guidelines, follow them carefully, and submit the text for publication here at Stories Space.
Guidelines for the challenge:
- The text must be written for this challenge and not already be published here or elsewhere
- It can be either a stand alone story, or part of a series having up to three separate chapters
- There is no deadline to the challenge
- Preface your title with Literary Inspiration Challenge
- Include literaryinspiration as a tag
- Use a tag that indicates what inspired you – for example : charlesdickens, janeausten, shakespearean sonnets, mythology, folk lore, aliceinwonderland…
- Submit your story via the story submission link on the home page
- No excessive or blatant violence, cruelty, sex etc allowed, but if implied, hinted at or referred to, the age appropriate category must be used.
- Word count is minimum 150 words, maximum 3000 for each submission
- Categories : All categories are eligible with the exception of Micro Fiction, due to the minimum word count of 150 words
- Language should be clean and appropriate
- All the site rules apply
If you have any questions or have concerns, please ask them here, especially if there is something that is unclear.
Thank you, and I hope you find inspiration and have fun with this!
Links to the challenge stories are here:
Literary Inspiration Challenge: Edward Arlington Robinson - Survivor
Literary Inspiration Challenge - The Egotists Lament - HappyJack
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