Total Drama Writers Month

Total Drama Writers Month is an annual writing challenge for Total Drama fanfiction writers in the Total Drama Writers Discord server. Each week of the month has its own theme and prompts.
Completed submissions can be viewed on various websites and apps. Prompts can also be viewed on the Discord server itself, as well as a complete listing of submitted fics.
== 2020 ==
=== WEEK 1: Dialogue Prompts ===
* "I don’t even hate you. That would imply I cared."
* "I need nothing but my mad skills, rugged good looks, and maybe half a million dollars."
* "Didn’t your mother ever tell you not to talk to strangers?"
* "Let’s hear your side of the story."
* "Jeez, it’s my first day. Give me a break!"
==== Submitted Fanfic ====
* , for "I need nothing but my mad skills, rugged good looks, and maybe half a million dollars."
* , Alejandro & Duncan for "I don't hate you. That would imply I cared."
* , Mike & Vito for "I don’t even hate you. That would imply I cared."
* , Noah/Owen and Chris McLean & Noah for "I don’t even hate you. That would imply I cared."
* , Alejandro & Duncan for "I need nothing but my mad skills, rugged good looks, and maybe half a million dollars."
* , Courtney/Duncan for "Jeez, it’s my first day. Give me a break!"
* , Heather/Sierra for "Jeez, it’s my first day. Give me a break!"
* , Dakota & Scott for "Jeez, it’s my first day. Give me a break!"
=== WEEK 2: Love and Friendship ===
* Write your BROtp
* Family
* "The One That Got Away."
** "there was someone who, in hindsight, we regret not being with because when we look [back] we feel that they may have truly been 'the one' for us that we might want to have known better — or maybe even realize that they were potentially the one you might very well want to spend the rest of your life with."
* First Date
* Wedding Season - write about your favorite characters getting married, or your favorite characters attending another person’s wedding!
* Total Dramarama
* "What If?" / Alternate Universe
==== Submitted Fanfic ====
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* , Courtney & Duncan, Alejandro/Duncan, and various other relationships for a submission combining various prompts.
* , Gwen/Trent for "The One That Got Away," with Duncan/Gwen.
* , Duncan & Gwen & Jo for BROtp, with Duncan & Jo and Duncan/Gwen.
* , Anne Maria & Zoey for "The One That Got Away," with Anne Maria/Vito and Mike/Zoey.
* , Courtney/OC for First Date.
=== Week 3: Strengths and Weaknesses ===
* Write your NOtp doing something you’d write for your OTP (date night, wedding, etc)
* Spin a wheel & the two people you choose must be the stars (insert wheel link here)
* Re-write an old oneshot of yours with your current style & compare to see how you’ve strengthened as a writer!
* Write a different genre than you’re used to 
==== Submitted Fanfic ====
* , Justin & Pete for Spin a Wheel.
* , Ella & Ryan for Spin a Wheel.
* , Jo/Mike for NOtp.
* , Courtney/Duncan for one-shot rewrite.
* , Duncan/Gwen for NOtp.
=== Week 4: Deleted Scenes ===
* Checking in with elimination contestants at the Peanut Gallery and Playa De Losers
* Between Scenes: what are your favorite characters up to between scenes when there’s nothing to do?
* Audition Tapes - make an extended audition tape for your favorite character!
==== Submitted Fanfic ====
* , various characters from Total Drama: Revenge of the Island for various prompts.
* , Anne Maria & Brick for Playa De Losers.
* , OC for Audition Tape.
=== Week 5: Freestyle ===
==== Submitted Fanfic ====
* , Five Nights at Freddy's crossover.
* , Courtney/Scott one-shot.
== 2021 ==
=== WEEK 1: Summer ===
* Vacation: vacation, had to get away! It’s summer and your fave is going on vacation! Who do they go with? Are they going alone? Tell us all about it in your oneshot!
* Carnival/fair: The carnival/fair is in town! Who kisses on the Ferris wheel? Who wins the stuffed bear for their date? So much can happen in this scenario!
* Summer job: Ugh, summer jobs. Not the most glamorous thing to do for someone who wants to spend their time outside of school relaxing, but having money is nice, too!
* (Stolen from smallworldathome.blogspot.com)“There it was, finally. Our island. Our very own island. It looked beautiful above the waves of fog, but there was still one question to be answered: why had they sold it to us for only five dollars?”
* (also stolen from the same blog) Write a summer-themed prompt that incorporates this line: “Did she actually just say that?"
==== Submitted Fanfic ====
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* , Brick & Ella, Bridgette & Ella, Bridgette/Geoff and Brick & Geoff for summer job, with Ella playing matchmaker.
* , Transfic Harold & Leshawna for “Did she actually just say that?"
* , Courtney/OC for vacation.
=== WEEK 2: Behind the Scenes/Alternate Universe ===
* In Between Takes - Write about what the contestants, both the eliminated and those currently standing, are up to behind-the-scenes! This was a popular prompt from last year that I wanted to bring back!
* Unlikely Duos - Have you ever wondered what the most unlikely pairs and duos would look like? Write a oneshot describing this!
* What Happened After - How was the end of Total Drama for everyone? Were they happy with how they performed, or do they regret ever being on the show? Use this prompt to show everyone’s feelings on Total Drama, as well as to show how they’re doing now!
* If Things Were Different - You have a chance to go back and completely re-do an event in Total Drama. This can include your AUs, as well, not just canon events! What is it, and how do you change it? What is the outcome?
==== Submitted Fanfic ====
* , Sky & Tyler for Unlikely Duos.
* , Anne Maria/Duncan and Anne Maria & Jo for Unlikely Duos.
* , Brick & Scarlett for Unlikely Duos.
* , Amy & Sammy for What Happened After.
* , Duncan/Gwen for What Happened After.
* , Justin & Noah for Behind the Scenes.
* , Trent/OC for If Things Were Different.
* , DJ/Gwen for What Happened After.
* , Katie/Noah for Behind the Scenes.
* , Duncan/Izzy for Behind the Scenes and Unlikely Duos.
=== WEEK 3: Decades ===
* 60s
* 70s
* 80s
* 90s
* Free Space - Use this to explore any decade not listed above!
* Time Travel - A time machine has been acquired or made! What do your subjects use it for?
==== Submitted Fanfic ====
* , Brick & Shawn in the 60s.
* , Trent/OC songfic in the 60s.
* Five Nights at Freddy's crossover with Cody, Noah and Owen in the 80s.
* Road 96 fusion AU with various characters in the 90s.
=== WEEK 4: Celebrations ===
* Birthday: Write about your faves’ birthday bashes! Or maybe they don’t like birthdays - the world is your oyster!
* Wedding: They’re getting married! Maybe your faves are getting married, or your fave is forever alone, feeling upset attending yet another wedding of their Total Drama castmates, and they’re wondering when it’s their turn
* Anniversary: Write about an anniversary, whether that be the anniversary of something traumatic, amazing, etc!
* Special Accomplishments: Is someone having a baby shower? Did someone recently graduate college? All of these and more can be written with YOUR talent and devotion!!
==== Submitted Fanfic ====
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* , Katie/Noah for Special Accomplishments.
* , Brick/Jo with various other characters for Birthday.
* , Ella/Sammy and Jasmine/Shawn for Birthday.
== 2022 ==
=== Week 1: Throwback Week ===
* First Date (from TD Writers Month 2020 week 2 theme, ’Love and Friendship’)
* "What If?"/Alternate Universe scenarios (from TD Writers Month 2020 week 2 theme, ’Love and Friendship’)
* Vacation, had to get away! It’s summer and your fave is going on vacation! Who do they go with? Are they going alone? Tell us all about it in your oneshot! (From TD Writers 2021, week 1 theme, ’Summer’)
* Birthday: Write about your faves’ birthday bashes! Or maybe they don’t like birthdays - the world is your oyster! (TD Writers 2021 week 4 theme, ’Accomplishments/Celebration’)
* Checking in with eliminated contestants at the Peanut Gallery/ Playa De Losers (from TD Writers Month 2020, week 4 theme, ’Deleted Scenes’)
==== Submitted Fanfic ====
* , DJ/Gwen for First Date, with DJ & Zoey.
* , Trent/OC for First Date, with Cody and Noah.
=== Week 2: Winter Wonderland ===
* Winter Activities
* And nothing can go wrong... Oh no, it all went wrong!-- [the TD characters you choose!] are/is celebrating the holidays, and everything that could go wrong goes wrong! How do they fix it? How do they make a terrible day into a good one?
* "Chosen Family" Dinner
* Choose a holiday movie & bring TD character(s) of your choice into it -- whether they are the characters or they are in the background of the movie
* Holiday Traditions
==== Submitted Fanfic ====
* , Ella/Sammy for Holiday Traditions, which was later updated to include a Valentines Day second chapter.
=== Week 3: New Beginnings ===
* Party
* New Year, New Me
* You wake up on January 1st to realize that the world is now controlled by snowmen. Continue the story.
* Your character brings his/her new boyfriend/girlfriend to his parents' house for the holidays. However, unbeknownst to him/her, his parents have also invited the ex-boyfriend/ex-girlfriend they had always hoped your character would marry...
* New Opportunities
==== Submitted Fanfic ====
None appear to have been submitted.
== 2023 ==
=== WEEK 1: SUMMER ===
* Set your story on a warm summer evening with a full moon, when everything feels magnetic and your character’s about to meet someone important.
* Write a story about someone trying to reinvent themselves after spending a long time in a rut.
* Two characters who met and grew up together at a summer camp as kids, and they are now 17 and in their age-out year. What happens? Are they enemies? Are they potential lovers? Just friends?
* Beach party!
* Free space! Don’t see a prompt you want to write, but want to participate this week? Create your own plot!
==== Submitted Fanfic ====
* , Millie/Ripper for Free Space, with the theme being a baseball date.
* , Bridgette/Heather for Summer Evening.
=== WEEK 2: SENTENCES ===
Build one (or more!) of these sentences into your story, it can be in the story itself or the title.
* “Maybe in another life”
* “Rome wasn’t built in a day"
* “I’ll eat my hat”
* “So, what’s the catch?”
* “It’s mine, and you can’t have it!”
* “Houston, we have a problem.”
==== Submitted Fanfic ====
None appear to have been submitted.
=== WEEK 3: FAIRYTALES ===
* Write a modern version of "The Tiger, the Brahmin, and the Jackal," in which someone suffers from their own good deeds and must turn to an unlikely source for help.
* Start your story with, “It was so terribly cold. Snow was falling, and it was almost dark.” (from Hans Christian Andersen's “The Little Match Girl”)
* Two young princes (can be altered to any gender combo - princess/prince, princess/princess, etc) are trapped inside a magical mirror and transported to another land. There they encounter an assortment of new friends and obstacles on their quest to break the spell and return home.
* Choose your own fairytale! A list of fairytales — https://www.storyberries.com/category/fairy-tales/famous-fairy-tales/
==== Submitted Fanfic ====
* , Heather & Priya for a Tangled fusion AU with Priya as Rapunzel.
=== WEEK 4: ANGST ===
* They put blood, sweat, and tears into getting to be where they’re at — only to question whether it was worth it.
* These two friends were once inseparable, but now they find themselves growing apart — or even, friends turned enemies. (Can be adapted to write about a couple who broke up)
* Free space, song edition — choose the angstiest song you can think of & write something based around it (some templates for funsies -- Complicated by Avril Lavigne, Haunted by Taylor Swift, Before He Cheats by Carrie Underwood, Brutal by Olivia Rodrigo)
* Write about how a single event affects a seemingly unrelated area of a character’s life
* Your character is known as the town gossip. One day, it comes back to bite them.
* Set your story in a world where time travel has been perfected, and people can use it to hop between alternate timelines — but at a cost.
* Start your story with someone vowing to take revenge.
* Free space! Don’t see a prompt you want to write, but want to participate this week? Create your own!
==== Submitted Fanfic ====
* , Bridgette/Geoff with an ocean angst theme.
== References/Further Reading ==
Writers Month
Category:2020 Challenges
Category:2020s Challenges