Category: Writing Challenges
Challenges from the Bonanza Brand Forums.
Laura’s Decision (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: A Missing Scene reflecting on events from The Pressure Game and The Triangle.
Rating: T (685 words)
Art of Forgiveness (by Destiny Adams)
Summary: Originally written for a Chaps and Spurs Challenge, now slightly revised. Joe did it again, but was it really so bad?
Rated: K (1,145 words)
Gray (by gaerwn)
Summary: After the events in the episode The Dark Gate, Adam reflects.
Rated: K+ (1,265 words)
Held (by gaerwn)
Summary: Joe makes a promise.
Rated: K+ (2,375 words)
Books and worms. (by mumu74)
Summary: Pernell Roberts Special Literary Birthday Challenge
Rating: K (3,460 words)
ETTA (by ansinico)
Summary: Love, hate, death and Etta, go hand in hand with life on the Ponderosa…Who loves? Who hates? Who dies? Who is Etta? The Cartwright boys find trouble in Turner’s Town. Ben finds trouble in San Fransisco. Is Barney Fuller friend or foe? Candy gets an offer, but is it one he can refuse?
Rated: MA (112,575 words)
Man in Black (by BnzaGal)
Summary: Explaining why Adam became the Man in Black.
Rated: K (715 words)
The Squirrel Incident (by Born in the USA)
Summary: With Hoss and Joe away, Adam has to take care of his brother’s chores. And gets a little ‘surprise’ along the way.
Rated: K+ (640 words)
Consequences (by Sassybrass)
Summary: Joe must know about his father’s past with Julia Bulette, even to the point of pushing his father into a lie. Set shortly after “The Julia Bulette Story”.
Rated: T WC 1900
My Journal by Mary Coffee, Seventh Book (by JoeC)
Summary: A look in Mary Coffee’s Journal. A brief look at why the Cartwrights are such staunch allies for Sheriff Roy Coffee, especially when it came to the episode, No Less a Man.
Rating: K+ WC 14,100
You go fishing, son ? (by mumu74)
the sentence is “When he looked at his hand, it appeared to belong to someone else.” I made a few changes, because I decided those words would be connected with a woman.
Rating: T (1,680 words)
Nod or a Wink (by Writing Woman)
Summary: Hoss struggles to understand why a woman is gunned down on the streets of Virginia City.
Rated: T WC 750
Hoss, North and South (by Writing Woman)
Summary: While on a cattle drive headed east, Hoss becomes involved in the war between the North and South.
Rated: K WC 625
A Hard Act To Follow (by Dodo)
Summary: Joe was never a lover of school. So why is he so keen to go for once?
Word Count: 3926 Rated: K+
The Letter (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: Hoss has a very important message to impart. A missing scene from The Stillness Within.
Rating: K (775 words)