Dickensblog

So it seems there's this LiveJournal challenge where you write 100 fanfics for the fandom of your choice. Two of our most ardent Dickensians, Nina and Christy, are already drabbling away (go to those links to see what they've got so far — they're both doing terrific!). I thought of holding off on our next Dickensblog fanfic challenge to give them time to work on that one, but I've been urged to go ahead and post it on the chance that they might be able to incorporate it into the challenge they're already doing. Clear as mud? Good.

So here we go: The next Dickensblog fanfiction challenge, inspired by Barnaby Rudge, is "Five Years Later." To be precise, take the Dickens novel of your choice and write a story about what happened five years after things left off. It doesn't have to be exactly five years after the end of the novel; for instance, you could take a character or characters — say, the Murdstones — and write about what was happening to them five years after we last saw them.

I'm putting no dates on this one: You may enter whenever you like and post the link(s) to your story or stories in the comment section whenever you like. Have fun!

Oh, and if you end up entering some Dickensian stories in that LiveJournal challenge as well, please give us a link to those!