ANNOUNCING: Outside of My Box - Blogfest/Competition

So,  my dearies, I've been thinking. *gasp* Yep, I do that on occasion. I've recently discovered that

ZOMG I HAVE >200 Followers!!!

And have been trying to come up with a way to celebrate. Well, I figured it out! Yay! I'm going to host another Blogfest! Or should I say Competition? 

Now, I know that a lot of you found my They're People, Too-Blogfest a challenging concept, something you actually had to work at, something that stretched your writerly muscles. This meant that I didn't get that many entries, BUT what I got was some of the best stuff I've seen off you guys so far. You really did stretch yourselves, let your imaginations run wild, and came up with great concepts, all of which were brilliantly executed. 

So I've decided to throw down the gauntlet again. I hereby challenge you, YES YOU, to enter my 

Outside of My Box - Blogontest

(LOL Blogontest...get it?)

Here's what I'd like you to do....

1. I want you to write something OUTSIDE your comfort zone. Write a short piece in a genre you don't normally touch. Say, if you write romance, try horror. If you do sci fi, try historical fiction. If you're a manly man, write some chick lit *insert evil laugh right about now*. If you usually do original fiction, try some fan fic. You can even post something autobiographical if you like, just as long as that's not something you usually do. 
2. How much you write is up to you. It can be a scene, a short story, a piece of poetry, flash fiction - anything goes, just keep in mind that longer bits of writing should be broken up by line breaks or maybe pictures to make reading them via blog easier on the eyes. 
3. The contest is open til 5th December. Yes, that long, because I know a lot of us are doing NaNo this year, and anyway, I want you to think about this and REALLY, TRULY challenge yourself. You'll need time to do that. 
4. Please only sign up on the linky list with the DIRECT LINK to your ACTUAL ENTRY. Because this contest is going to run for a while, if you just link to your blog in general, people (including me) won't be able to find your contribution. 
5. I'd appreciate anything you did to promote this contest. Yes, I'd like you to follow my blog, too *here goes the evil laugh again*, but really I think the more people join in, the more fun we can have. Post on your blog, use facebook or tweet (#blogontest). You can grab the logo up there and add it to your sidebar, too. 
6. On 7th December, I'll be posting a shortlist of 5 entries, upon which you then get to vote. 
7. There shall be 3 prizes... I'm not sure yet what, I'll do an updated post on that. If anyone would be willing to sponsor something, say a book they wrote (or a bookmark for the book they wrote LOL), that would be GREAT FUN. I promise to do plenty of plugging if you do. 
8. The contest is open worldwide, but if you're shortlisted and you live somewhere other than USA, Canada or Europe, please do let me know in advance so I can check out prize-shipping options. Depending on how difficult that turns out to be, there might be a substitute prize (Amazon.com voucher). 

What do you think? Good idea? Willing to put yourself out there, do something different for once? 

I dare you! 

So here's the linky list... please remember to post the ACTUAL ENTRY LINK (so you probably won't be able to link right away). 

Even if you don't want to join or you don't feel you CAN leave your box (and let me just say that while that's fine, it might make your muse happy to do something different for once), go on and check out what  the others have written. In particular, check back on Dec 7th to VOTE on the shortlist! 

For the post on PRIZES, go HERE!