14
Nov
2009
Everything Austen Give Away & Mini Challenge
Attention Austenites! Your favorite early 19th Century authoress is now in action figure form! AND it has nothing to do with zombies or sea monsters. It’s just her!
AND I’m holding an INTERNATIONAL GIVE AWAY. One lucky reader will get the Jane Austen action figure, complete with quill, writing desk, and copy of Pride and Prejudice.
Leave her in her box to assure mint condition for years to come, or take her out and play with her, voicing a high-pitched faux-British accent. It’s up to you.
This contest will last two weeks! TWO WEEKS! That means that you have until Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 11:59 PM PST to enter.
BUT! This is no ordinary give away! It’s also an Everything Austen mini-challenge.
That’s right. I’m making you get your creative juices flowing (if those of you doing nanowrimo can spare a few drops).
Jane Austen’s works are not short. However, the plots are usually fairly simple and be summed up easily. So for this mini-challenge, I want you to create a six word story or haiku about any of Austen’s 6 books or Juvenilia.
For example:
A six word story for Emma might read:
Nosy bitch changes ways, gets man.
A haiku for Northanger Abbey might be:
Bath bustles with snobs
Diff’rent dresses ev’ry night
Girl finds herself, love.
There are many ways to get multiple entries:
write a six word story (+1) (one only)
OR
write a haiku (+1) (one only)
OR
write both a haiku and a six word story (+2) (one each only)
THEN IF YOU WANT
Post them on your blog w/ details about this contest (+1)
Sign up for my newsletter at the top of the right side bar (+1) (make sure you use the e-mail address you signed up with when you leave your comment so I can verify)
Tell me what number you are on Mr. Linky (or your name on the non-blogger list) on Stephanie’s sign-up post (+10)
This contest is open to everyone, regardless if you are an Everything Austen participant. However because it’s for the Everything Austen Challenge, I will award TEN EXTRA ENTRIES to challenge participants. So, in other words, I’m letting everyone enter but skewing the contest.
ALSO I will give an extra entry to my favorite haikus/six word stories.
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Sweet challenge and giveaway…I will get my creative juices flowing and post something soon! Thanks again for the opportunity! So exciting.
For a start I’m totally devastated that I missed such a fabulous event as the ‘Everything Austen Challenge’.
A ready-made excuse to read P&P again and ogle Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation and I missed it ! :0(
I’ll be back soon with my six words
Elinor has sense;
Marianne, sensibility;
Both, in time, find love.
………………………………………………….
Priggish heroine is Mansfield’s Park’s Cinderella.
I would have never thought about a doll being made. I will have to do a lot of thinking.
+2 for both haiku and six-word summary
+1 for blog post: http://gofita.blogspot.com/2009/11/everything-austen-challenge-and.html
+1 for newsletter signup hmsgofita at hotmail dot com
+10 Everything Austen Challenge participant 117 Heather Crozier
Yeah, great giveaway! Thanks!
Woops here’s my haiku:
My Pride and Prejudice Haiku:
Too much pride excels
Too much prejudice avails
Then much love begins.
Mansfield Park six-word summary:
Fanny and Edward, cousins, together forever.
Yeah. You haven’t read my haiku, but in grad school, they begged me to stick to novels. Even my poems sounded like a novel to them!
All posted about at Win a Book.
Great comp! I’m clearing the space now right next to my Austen’s on the bookshelf (positive thinking right)
+1 for Newsletter subscription
+1 for Haiku
+1 for six word summary
+10 for Everything Austen Challenge – listed as Michelle on non blogging list as blog was down at the time – but latest entry on Mr Linky is 494.
I know there are 2 six word summaries below but wrote one for Lady Susan before remembering you said 6 novels or juvenilia – thought I’d send it anyway.
Haiku – Persuasion:
Girl persuaded, denies
Love, to sea goes
But return, loves chance renewed
Six word summary – Lady Susan:
Daughter mortified mummy coquette hunts husbands
Six word summary – Pride and Prejudice:
Pride nearly loses million dollar man
I just read Jane Austen’s history of England and so here’s my pathetic contribution. I’m also in the Everything Austen challenge.
Elizabeth not good; neither are Stuarts.
Elizabeth, Darcy, first hatred, then love.
+10 everything austen challenger, listed as Milka, I’m the second one on the list.
milkavainamo@lyseo.edu.ouka.fi
Here are my six word story and haiku, both for Persuasion.
True love waits, but not forever.
He’s not good enough
But love prevails for sweet Anne
And she gets her man
JT – this is a fun one. you know me luvs haiku.
+1 my haiku here
+1 blogged
+1 already signed up to newsletter
+10 part of Everything Austen (i’m #61)
hey JT…
response to your PPZ haiku
lol! I love it. I need an Jane Austen action figure! Now to think of Haiku’s…I will be back!
Great giveaway!
+1 Write a 6 word story – I wrote five but I’m not sure if you’re giving out multiple entries for that.
+1 I blogged about giveaway and my stories. http://paperbackreader2.blogspot.com/2009/11/mish-mash.html
+10 Listed as challenge participant #191
Six word story for Pride and Prejudice:
Regardless, Fitzwilliam is a weird name.
Cute action figure by the way.
-lauren
six word story in parise of Sense and Sensibility:
girlfriend threatened mayhem ’till I read it
Northanger Abbey in six words:
Scary story lover discovers a romance
P&P haiku (by “Mrs. Bennet”):
My single girls
Not quit looking for husbands
Settled, thank heavens!