Two Word Challenge Week of August 26, 2007

It's 4:04 AM and I am too excited about starting college later today to sleep. so I decided I should get about posting the Two Word Pair for this week's challenge.  While this week's word pair can be tackled like any other word pair, I thought it would be fun to give more meaning to the challenge. 

This week's Two Word Challenge is: About Me.  As I stated previously, if you want to use these words just as any other challenge - write a poem, a story, post a picture . . . that is fine, but if you would like a bit of an extra challenge, then write an autobiography about yourself. 

Tell us things we may not yet know about you, describe your passions, goals, dreams, secrets (they won't be secrets anymore after this).  Tell about the different genres you post on Gather, and what your best in each genre is (provide a link).  Hey, if you are single and looking, you can tell us what you are looking for in a life partner!  You can discuss your political or religious beliefs, lifestyle choices, favorite things, family members - whatever - as long as it is about you! 

You can even freak people out by posting a fictional About Me and see how many people you fool (and how many connections you either drop or add - could be interesting!).  Most of all, have fun, and enjoy reading others in this challenge so you can get to know more about others in the group. 

If you are interested in being a future Two Word Challenger, send me a note with sample challenge pairs by midnight on Saturday.  Please CC Kathryn Esplin-Oleski as well (kathryneo).  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 About Me).

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 Zenberg (formerly 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.