Category: Writing Challenges
Challenges from the Bonanza Brand Forums.
A Tiny Preprandial Tale (by Puchi Ann)
Summary: An old short story, which I was inspired to post by the Dan Blocker Literary Birthday Challenge. It was originally written in response to a challenge to use the word “preprandial” in a story.
Rating: K Word Count: 770
This Thing of Darkness (by CwrightGirl)
Summary: A WHIB for the episode To Die in Darkness (S9E28). An extension and analysis of Candy’s spiral into depression and attempted suicide that hopefully offers some explanation and closure.
Rating: T (for mentions of suicide) Word Count: 5455 words.
Counting Mistakes (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: How many mistakes could he make in one afternoon?
Rating: K (1,415 words)
More Than Enough (by justafan)
Summary: This is the sequel to Enough.
Rating K+ Word Count: 4952
Enough Series, links to stories within the series are included.
On the Hunt for Brotherhood (by Puchi Ann)
Summary: Adam had been reluctant to take sixteen-year-old Little Joe on a hunting trip, but when he is incapacitated by a freak accident, only his baby brother stands between him and certain death.
Rating: T Word Count: 16,760
Don’t show off (by Sibylle)
Summary: Ben waits for Adam on his first day at school. (Prequel, 1837/Seedling Challenge)
Rated: K Word count: 1660
The Devil in Disguise (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: Learning bits and pieces of the past enforces a difficult lesson regarding thinking before one acts, and the need to hear both sides of a story before reacting. With the family poised to fall apart, can harmony be restored?
Rating: T (16,235 words)
Enough (by justafan)
Summary: Words said have a destruction consequence within the Cartwright family. One family member refuses to live where respect does not.
Rating: K+ Word Count: 6,299
Enough Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Desperate Rescue (by devilwind)
Summary: A WHI for “Desperate Passage.” After rescuing Mary Burns from the Paiutes, Joe has to be saved as his attempt to mount an Indian pony and ride to safety goes awry.
Rating: T (Some Violence) WC: 3396
It Almost Seems Like Yesterday (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: Twenty years etched into the memory of a man who stands at the crossroads of his life.
Rating: K (10,815 words)
Imagine My Surprise (by CwrightGirl)
Summary: Griff King’s inner-thoughts on what made him change his mind about Hoss Cartwright’s true character . 1st Person POV
Rating: K Word-Count: 2,685
Viva la Brothers! (by freyakendra)
Summary: After a night of brotherly bonding is complicated by a group of distrustful vaqueros and a jug of pulque, the morning after — two days later — opens Adam’s eyes to a whole new dimension in his relationship with Little Joe.
Word Count: 4351 Rating: T
Different (by Patina)
Summary: People have pegged Hoss as different his whole life. Is he really that different from his father and brothers?
Written for the 2014 Bonanza Roundup 2 Writer’s Seminar.
1824 words
Life’s Lessons (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: A companion story for the episode, Second Sight.
Rating: K+ (9,680 words)
Never Forgotten (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: A most important day in the life of young Little Joe, and he feels neglected.
Rating: K (2,075 words)