I had a super-awesome blast with this. Coming up with new weird characters was fun! The fairy bodyguard and the tech support wizard were probably two of my favourites. I got a little behind and had to scramble to catch up, but this was good, an exercise in understanding stereotypes and also breaking them without going overboard, creating Mary Sues, or otherwise falling into writerly traps. Maybe one day I'll take up with some of them again, and it was good times. Half of this was mixing stereotypes, taking one person and stereotyping him or her as something else, like Ranolph the werewolf actor: take away his being a werewolf, and he was a stereotypical drama boy. Same with the soccer witch, the hot surfer boy. I think the fairy bodyguard and the vampire family were probably the most original, and I had oodles of fun with them.
NOTE: no challenge this next week. It's Thanksgiving! Spend it with friends and family.
