Welcome!

[shivver]

Welcome to tenminutesaday! Please see the profile page for full info and rules, but here's the tl;dr:

• This is a low-pressure community designed to encourage a habit of writing regularly - ideally, ten minutes or more a day.
  
• On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, we post challenges - focused ideas for a short scene - to give you something to write about. Fills are due the day the next challenge is posted.
  
• We're not keeping score. Fill whichever challenges you want, fill them late, write about something else entirely, or just lurk and read - whatever helps you. We're here to support your writing, and celebrate your successes with you!
  

Feel free to jump right in! And if any of your fills blossom into a full story on AO3, please consider adding your story to the Ten Minutes a Day collection.

First Post!

[shivver]

Mustn't every first post be titled "First Post!"

This is all detailed in the profile, but this comm is for managing a writing challenge between two friends. You're welcome to look in, but we're not accepting new members until we see how this goes. If you are interested in joining, please do apply - it would be helpful to know if anyone else is interested in this. Thanks!

Challenge #1

[shivver]

You're going to novelize an episode! Well, a short bit of it.

1. Think of an action scene (not a conversation) from any DW episode - a scene that you're familiar with enough that you can picture the setting and you can see in your mind what the characters are doing.
2. Now, write a few paragraphs describing what's happening, as if you're novelizing the episode.
3. You're aiming for ten or fifteen seconds' worth of action, and trying to make your reader clearly picture what's going on.
4. Try to focus on using action verbs and avoiding adverbs (words ending in -ly). For example, instead of "The Doctor ran quickly to the console", try "The Doctor dashed to the console" or even "The Doctor leapt to the console".

You can choose an audio, if you prefer, or even a comic book, but not a prose story. If there's any dialogue in the scene, you can either get it from chakoteya.net or just make it up from memory - for this challenge, dialogue accuracy is not important.

This one is due Monday, since this is the first challenge and is posted late.