Challenges

Write a story based on ONE of the following genres: Werewolves, Vampires, Zombies or Wizards. The story must be written in third-person POV. It must contain at least 4 characters: 1 main character, 1 antagonist and 2 or more secondary ones.

Write and publish a brand new children's tale. Remember that children like images, so you must add images to every chapter. This time we don't require a specific amount of chapters, but you must write 2500 words for the whole story.

Go to our Writer's Blog, check all the articles we have written, and write one that fits in there. The article must be about a subject we haven't talk about yet, but it should be useful for writers and/or readers. It must also contain good research and helpful information. The best articles could actually be featured on the official blog under your name!

Each week create a contest on Instagram and/or Facebook in which your followers must write an 8-word micro-story about a particular topic (for example love, summer, fears, animals, lack of love, etc. They should write their micro-story in the comments of your post and tag @getinkspired and 2 friends inviting them to participate. The contest should be called #MicroExpressing + (AND THE THEME SELECTED) Example: #MicroExpressingLove.

Publish a serial novel where its characters are trying to solve any mystery. The story plot must be developed across the first 5 chapters and must have 5 alternative endings (one ending per 1 of each of the last remaining chapters; 10 chapters in total). Use a first person POV as narration style.

Write and publish a parody based on a trending contemporanean issue in the world. The story must be inspired on a real fact, but you can add fictional facts, and it must be stated in the description as a parody and must be funny as well.

Create a writing InstaChallenge on Instagram or Facebook. The challenge can be about any topic you consider fun, but one of the rules should be that participants need to tag 3 friends and @getinkspired using a hashtag with the name of your challenge. The challenge should be brief and not last more than 7 days. In the end, you must have had at least 25 participants.

Create a fun video by introducing yourself as a writer in which you briefly tell about the stories you publish on Inkspired, your preferred genre and what is your goal as a writer. The video has to be published on your social networks and on YouTube with the Inkspired logo as a watermark or with the text: getinkspired.com. Also, you must tag 3 friends.

Choose a recent movie, and create a comic based on it. It is not necessary to detail the entire film in the comic, but at least you must publish (in 2 different chapters) 2 distinctive or famous scenes. In the description, you must detail what movie it is about.

Post a story of the genre you want-written with another Inkspired user. Both are going to be Co-Authors of this work. The form and style in which you write it will depend on you. The story must be published by one of the users (not both) and in the description of the work, you should specify the user name of the other co-author.

Write a short story based in the following phrase: "The color of her blood was the least of my worries...". This phrase should be included within the story, whether in the beginning, middle or end, and the plot must be developed around it.

Write a fantasy short story about any of the following writing prompts. You must write on the story’s description of what prompt did you use. - You suddenly realize that you have supernatural power. - You start realizing that at least one aspect of every dream you have becomes true the next day. - You wake up one day living on a different planet. What do you do? How does it look like? What’s the journey back home? - You must destroy a demon that gets inside people's minds. - You find a black dragon in a cave, and you realize you can read its mind.

Publish a short story written entirely as a dialogue. You cannot write or describe anything else as a narrator; everything should literally be written as a conversation. All the information must be communicated by the characters at all times. The dialogue could involve as many characters as you wish; it could between 2, 3 or more characters. To develop the story plot, choose one of the following settings: 1) the characters are inside a house in fire; 2) the characters are trying to escape a crumbling castle tower; 3) the characters are in a hijacked plane by terrorists; 4) the characters are on a sinking boat in the middle of the arctic ocean; 5) the characters are fighting a medieval war between 2 armies between men with swords and wizards that can use magic; 6) the characters are about to invade a country.

Choose one of your stories (published on Inkspired) and make it a film script. You need to write it with the respective dialogue-based format. On the story's description, you must state which story you choose. The screenplay must have the same amount of chapters as the original story.

Write and publish a Fanfiction story of at least 3 chapters based on one of the worlds of these famous authors: J.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, George R.R. Martin. You must write in the story's description which author you chose. You craft whatever kind of plot, but it must be based on the settings as described in those fantasy worlds and its characters.

Take a minimum of 10 photos, publish them in a gallery as a visual story, that narrates the story of ONE of the following characters: - A homeless person - A foreigner living in a new country - A professional or semi-professional athlete - A writer - A Paralympics athlete

Choose the story of a popular person in your country and make it a biography narrated in 3rd person POV. Even though the story will be based on real facts, it can have fiction elements that support your main idea.

Publish a Drama story -of 3 chapters minimum- that develops on a Mental Hospital and in which the main character is someone who has been diagnosed with a mental illness, but it isn’t true. You will have to create the scenario, describe the place, the character, the conflict, and the solution, but you can't use the word "madness", "mental illness" and/or any of their synonyms in the whole story.

If you participated in the Flash Challenge "The Horror Author - Part 1", now it's time to continue writing your horror story. You must write 9 more chapters during this month. The whole story should have a minimum of 10 chapters and remember that it needs to be scary. If you didn't participate in the Flash Challenge, don't worry, you can still participate in this one, but you will need to write 10 chapters instead of 9.

Draw a funny comic about any ordinary daily life situations; example, a day in a school/university. You will have to publish it as Visual Story of 10 chapters. Each week, at least, 3 new chapters of the Comic must be published; until the month ends. You will not be allowed to publish the 10 (or more) chapters at the same time; you need to do it periodically throughout the month.

Publish at least 15 microfictions on Inkspired and your Social Network, using 3 hashtags. All microfictions must be quality stories, well written, and connected in a way that, if read together, they should make a story, but each individual microfiction should also be able to be understood as standalone microstories.

Write and Publish a series of 6 poems about one singular subject. Choose a topic and create a connection between them.

Read 1 different story each week, from any author within the platform, and leave *review* in the story using the "send review" option on the website and/or the mobile apps. What are the strengths, the weaknesses, the things to improve, etc… The reviewed stories must be from different authors. You cannot repeat the same author twice.

Write a short story from the Historical category, based on some of the events that have marked history (Discovery of America, World War I and II, The first time a man reached the moon, The Holocaust, Twin Towers, African Americans rights, etc). The story should address the chosen topic, but may not be completely real.

Publish a story that contains at least 10 of the following words: “blue moon”, “volcano”, “sword”, “Alchemist”, “wizard”, “artist”, “unicorn”. “lords of darkness”, “enemies”, “galloping nightmare”, “white demon”, “red angel”, “winged shadow”, “two-headed dragon”, “eternal torment”, “blind hope”, “endless lands”, “frozen mountains”, “dead walkers”, “ice nation”, “eastern empire”.

Earn 2,000 Rewards Credits by interacting in the platform before the month’s deadline.

Narrate, in the first person POV, a short story about an amazing travel experience you have had when traveling overseas and by yourself.

Create a poem in verse about any subject that inspires you, publish it on Inkspired and narrate it in a creative video with all the tones, the correct voices, and resources that you think necessary.

Write and Publish a story in the form of a chronicle about anything you have witnessed in the past 3 months. It can be any real fact you have experienced or seen, but it should be written in 3rd person POV and be interesting. A chronicle must have details, it must evoke emotion and it should make you feel as if you were there.

Post a picture of one of your stories published on Inkspired in your Facebook and/or Instagram account, using The Authors' Cup logo on one of the corners. Try to get the most likes as possible until the final day of the challenge, and when marking it as "completed" enter the URL (or link) of your post. The user with the most likes will win this challenge. There are also points for the second place.