Challenger Approaches!

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I felt like setting a challenge. One that I might take up in the near(ish) future. I may regret this a little later, since my old challenge is still in progress (even though the only person regularly updating is WishingDreamer5 - thank you for that, by the way).

This one, however, is just a little more fun, with a lot more leeway in what you can do with the story. It's also going to be far shorter, only twenty five themes.

The thing about that is, I'm not giving you the themes. You will get to choose the themes.

Well, sort of.

This is a song challenge. All you have to do is take all of your songs on your iTunes, or your favourite Youtube playlist, or any equivalent, and set them to shuffle. Skip the first five songs, then record the next twenty five. In order.

These are your chapter titles. In the body of the story, it must also include at least one line from the song, not counting characters singing the song selected. So, if you got 'Somebody Out There' by A Rocket to the Moon (my first result), you could have There's somebody out there, when he brings you flowers, hold you and kiss you or anything else from the song. And please make a note of the quote you used in an authour's note somewhere.

Also, no skipping songs in the order, unless that song has no lyrics to it, or is a theme song that just repeatedly reinforces the title of the show/game/film. No reordering the songs, if you're up for the challenge then post your songs in the comments, and make it one continuous story.

Everything else is up to you. Even where you post it, though if you aren't posting here on dA, could you please leave a link for me here, or on the separate journal entry I'll be making as a list of all of the entries when someone enters. Thank you.

Oh, one more thing. If you want me to read it, please don't include explicit content.

EDIT: It was brought to my attention that I never specified a fandom (Thanks RaberbaGirl!). My options are restrict it to one, or have no limits on fandom but potentially not be able to read them all. Since I've allowed explicit content, I'll give free reign on the fandom. The challenge is more about fitting the story to the songs, after all.
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I really wanna do this.. I'm working on a story atm that has a lot of songs attached to it and I was going for this same theme; chapters being named after songs. My only problem is it's multi-fandom ;P I'mma see if I can get inspiration from itunes and maybe kickstart my butt into writing properly again.. help me relax after marking and planning ha!
Happy New Year's Eve too!! xx