Challenge by: reminiscent-afterthought
Ever taken those personality tests before? I found one on elemental affinity and I wound up with, predictably, water. More surprising, Earth was a very close second.
But I'm getting off topic. Here, you guys are going to do the personality quiz, modified to address writing personalities as opposed to social personalities. The questions and table are below, so do the questions and work out your rank with the table below!
Questions (pick one at each dot point)
Table (use this to rank your elements, highest scoring ranks first)
What's this for, you wonder? Well, that's where the challenge comes in.
The tasks
Note that it doesn't matter what order you do the tasks in, as long as you follow your rank. For example, if your rank was 1. fire, 2. lightning, 3. water, 4. wind and 5. earth, then task 1 should be done with fire, task 2 with lightning etc. Apart from that, do it in whatever order you like. You also don't have to complete one task to go to the next, as long as you complete them all at some point.
Also note that if you are better with structured poems than freeverse, switch 1 and 2 around, ie. your first element should do task 2 and your second should do task 1 (the other tasks/elements remain the same). If you're more familiar with freeverse, as I think most people here are, then just proceed as normal.
1. The poetry/drabble novel: You may have done this before, you may not have. Your tale has be to at least three poems/drabbles, each poem/drabble functioning as a chapter in a MC fic. Other than the fact that these are poem/drabble chapters, everything else is pretty much the same as your regular MC.
If you ranked first in "x" element:
2. Writing in form:
Poetry writers: you write one each of rhyming couplets (in each pair, the last word in a line rhymes), blank verses (following the du DUM du DUM du DUM du DUM du DUM rhythm), echo voice (where the last sound of a line is repeated by itself on a new line, like an echo), a sonnet (a rhyming sequence of ab ab, cdcd, efef, gg), and a rondeau (a 15 line poem where there are only two rhyming sounds throughout).
Prose writers: you write one each of stream of consciousness, letter, social media style (eg. a string of twitter posts), article and essay.
If you ranked second in "x" element:
3. Writing odes: there are many types of odes. Pick one and make it your style, then go ahead and write it.
Prose writers, write in lyrical prose!
If you ranked third in "x" element:
4. Some other poetry styles: we're getting into some of the harder stuff now, seeing as you're probably not too keen on those last few elements. This time:
Poetry: the form of the poems is a little looser. Write one each of a riddle (where you describe something but don't mention its name until the last line), a kennings poem (using one two-word phrase per line to describe something), and a lyric (expresses personal and emotional feelings).
Prose: write each in narrative, descriptive, heroic, expository and persuasive prose
If you ranked fourth in "x" element:
5. Writing freehand: Write a single piece on the theme below. No extra strings attached.
If you ranked fifth in "x" element: