Two Word Challenge Week of July 29, 2007

This week's challenge word pair is: Love Promises.  I hope this pair of words brings a lot of inspiration!  If you are interested in being a future Two Word Challenger, send me a note with sample challenge pairs by midnight on Wednesday.  Please CC Kathryn Esplin-Oleski as well (kathryneo).  I would like to thank Kathryn for her exceptional help in moderating this group.  I have been going through a divorce and have been quite distracted from Gather, but Kathryn has devotedly kept this group going.  Please join me in thanking her.  If you are interested in being on the moderation team, also please send me a message.  I plan on creating fun group activities and would love to have a team of creative and motivated people to help make this group great.

Have a great week and enjoy the challenge!

How Does the Two Word Challenge Work?

Each week the “Challenger” issues a pair of words to the group.  Each person who wants to participate in the challenge will post their response to the group - either as a poem, short story, essay, article or artwork.  Do not post your entry as a comment on this article - create your own post to the group so you will get comments on your work.

The goal is to use the two word pair(s) in your work, giving your own interpretation of the words creatively.  It can be a literal interpretation - "the cellar door was large and made of rough wood" or it can be figurative – “he was a cellar door, protecting them from the storm that was their life." You can even modify the words slightly if needed - for example the name "Celardor" or "the cellar's door" (note - cellar door is not the current two word pair - the current work pair is Love Promises).

Just make sure you have the two word pair you are using in either your title or as a tag so the entry will be accepted into the group.  The purpose for this rule is to keep group content on topic.  We receive a lot of submissions each week and need to be able to quickly determine which are on topic for the group.  If your entry is declined but you have responded to an official Two Word Challenge, simply correct your entry so that the two words appear in your title or tags and resubmit to the group.

“Challengers” may add additional features to their challenge that make it unique, but as long as you complete the basic Two Word Challenge portion, your entry will be accepted in the group.  There are no time limits on the challenges so you can respond to any of them at any time. We will try to have a new one issued weekly.

All Two Word Challenges need to be kept PG to permit everyone to participate. Interpretations of the Two Words not PG are fine, as long as you flag your article appropriately.   If anyone feels a group submission is inappropriate, feel free to contact the group owner or moderator (see below).

If you have a suggestion for a future Two Word Challenge, send a private message to Monica Kennedy – Group Owner (daydreambeliever) and CC Kathryn Esplin-Oleski – Group Moderator (kathryneo) with the details of your idea(s).

For those new to Two Word Challenge please also see Two Word Challenges Past to Present for history and complete rules for participating in the challenge, as well as a list of past challenges.  It needs to be updated to include all of the past challenges, but a large number are listed there.

Monica Kennedy

Group Owner

Please remember that ONLY submissions pertaining to the Two Word Challenge (current or past challenges) will be accepted to the Two Word Challenge group.  Off topic submissions will be declined.