Professional Eliminators

Professional Eliminators - The Twenty-Ninth Day of October

Oct. 29: - "Plot: CONTEST ROUND: Plot Background Story" ▼
Write a story that sets up your plot. EXAMPLE: The Lord of the Rings story revolves around the One Ring, its significance, and how it's destroyed. But how did Frodo get the One Ring in the first place? We learn that in The Hobbit. You obviously can't write a full-scale novel in 15 minutes, but you could write the scene where Bilbo encounters Gollum and stumbles across the ring. That would be a background story that sets up the plot in Lord of the Rings.

*Contest Round entries may be any rating. Submit your ITEM or ENTRY number by 1200 noon WDC time on Sunday to compete. WDC time is New York City time and can be found at the top of the IM Console. If you miss this deadline or choose not to compete, you must still log the assignment complete (without linking your work) for the grand prize, per the standard Prep guidelines.

This contest is going to be a little hard to write. That doesn’t mean it can’t be done. It just may mean that it’s not just a prelude to this novel but a novel of their own. After all, Collina doesn’t know who has been trying to eliminate her until toward the end of this novel. She still doesn’t know why they have been doing it. At least not yet.