Category: Writing Challenges
Challenges from the Bonanza Brand Forums.
Somebody else’s dog (by Inca / aka Tye)
Summary: There’s been some gossip in Virginia City about Ben Cartwright’s new wife.
Rating: K Word count: 581
First Step (by Cheaux)
Summary: For fiercely independent Little Joe Cartwright, asking for help is the hardest thing to do. A Camp in the Pines short story.
Rated T Word Count 6254
There’s Wisdom, and Then There’s… (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: He thinks he knows all it takes to be a cowboy; leaving Ben to wonder.
Rating: K (1,070 words)
Part of the Cowboy-isms Series, links included within.
Greater Love (by BonanzaPR6)
Summary: A young girl visits the Ponderosa and has a profound effect on one of the brothers.
Written for the 2018 Ponderosa Paddlewheel Poker Tournament.
Rated: T 5,950 words
Competition (by Belle)
Summary: No man deserves all the attention.
Rating: K+ (6,025 words)
Competition Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Family Ties (by Patina)
Summary: WHI for The First Born and WHN for The Last Viking. Can Hoss protect his younger brother when Clay Stafford reveals he’s Marie’s first born?
Rating: K
Word Count: 8114
Finn (by bahj)
Summary: There’s just something about Finn. Good or Bad. You decide.
Rating: K+ Word Count: 1952
Grief is Hard Work (by mumu74)
Summary: It happens after the family had been deeply touched by pain and sorrow. What can adults do and say to help children to cope with ?
Word Count: 5691 Rated: K+
If Not for Aura Lee (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: What happened after Jean was taken into custody, and Julia’s window went dark.
Rating: T (for mild cursing and references to adult themes) (11,940 words)
Partners (by Sibylle)
Summary: Adam tells his grandson about the first time the three Cartwright brothers were in mischief together (post timeline part: 1905, prequel part: 1848) .
Word count: 6441 Rating: K
Grand Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Saved by the Kind Mate (by heike)
Summary: When a dream becomes a nightmare – a “pre-prequel”
928 words, Rating: G
Someone to Watch Over Him (by Cheaux)
Summary: A Ponderosa Paddlewheel Poker Tournament story for 2015 (A What Happened Instead for the episode “Bushwhacked” written by Preston Wood).
Word Count: 8974 Rated K+
The Bond (by frasrgrl)
Summary: Ben is late getting back from a business trip to Carson City.
Rated K+ Word count 4,159
Wanderlust (by Indyanna130)
Summary: What could drive a man to leave.
Words: 1326 Rated: G
Whatever the Cost (by faust)
Summary: To what length will Adam go to prove a stranger’s innocence?
9570 words, rated PG