The X-Files Lyric Wheel

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Challenge
Name: The X-Files Lyric Wheel
Date(s): July 2000 – 2006?
Moderator(s): Kashmir, Marcia Elena, Logan, Pollyanna
Founder: Pollyanna
Type: Lyric Wheel
Fandom: The X-Files
Associated Community: X-FilesLyricWheel at Yahoo! Groups
URL: site at hegalplace.com
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The X-Files Lyric Wheel is an X-Files Lyric Wheel challenge founded in July 2000. It ran for approximately six years.

Description

The X-Files Lyric Wheel was created by Pollyanna in 2000, based on the Highlander Lyric Wheel. Pollyanna ran the Wheel until the summer of 2004 when she handed the reigns over to Kashmir and Marcia Elena, who ran the Wheel together until early 2006. In March 2006 Kashmir elected to move on, and so the Wheel remains in the hands of a single Wheel mistress again. Since its beginning the Wheel has served as a source of inspiration for writers both new and seasoned, and has produced some of the best X-Files stories available in their respective genres. We thank both Pollyanna and Kashmir for their years of dedication, inspiration, and hard work, and wish them well in all of their future endeavors.

What is a Lyric Wheel? It's a writing challenge where writers of all capabilities (including those who have never written before) have a chance to battle with the same problems: no betas, limited amount of time, size restraint on story, and they have to take their inspiration from a set of lyrics. (Aha! So that's where the lyrics come in.) Each writer chooses a set of lyrics which they pass to the next person on the circle who then has to write a story interpreting those lyrics and including at least one quote from the song. If you want some more details to understand better how the Lyric Wheel works, then go to the FAQ. For the addresses of other Lyric Wheels and Author Home Pages go to the REFERENCE PAGE. If you just want to see what's new then click here for the latest Wheel.[1]

History

Pollyanna founded the challenge in mid-2000 and ran it until mid-2004. Kashmir, Marcia Elena, and Logan took over running the challenge in 2004.[2][3]

As she prepared to hand over the reigns in May 2004, Pollyanna wrote about her memories of the challenge and some of her favorite stories created for it: see The Wheel is Dead. Long Live the Wheel!.[3]

In early 2006, Marcia Elena took over as the sole challenge moderator.[1]

As of September 2016, the Wheel website at hegalplace.com is offline. It was last successfully archived by the Wayback Machine in January 2016.[1]

Participants

The X-FilesLyricWheel Yahoo! group had 34 members as of July 15, 2001.[4] As of September 2016, the group has 61 members.[5] (Membership to the group does not require moderator approval; many members may be bots or lurkers.)

The Wheel's Reference page links to a number of the participants' fanfiction sites. Authors included on the Reference page include: Amazon X, Aqualegia, Arsenic, campylobacter, E. Watson, Flutesong, Dr. Ruthless, Dryad, Jam-wired, Jennie, Jo, Josan, Kashmir, Lady Midath, Logan, Marcia Elena, Pollyanna, Ratadder, Rhiannon, Shahara Zade, Skinner Box, Tarsh, Tosca, and Ursula.

Rounds

  1. The First Wheel (July 2000)
  2. The Second Wheel (October 2000)
  3. The Villains' Turn (January 2001)
  4. The Undercover Wheel (May 2001)
  5. The Fifth Wheel (August 2001)
  6. The Dictionary Wheel (November 2001)
  7. The Light at the End of the Tunnel Wheel (January 2002)
  8. The Endings Wheel (April 2002)
  9. The Red Shirt Wheel (August 2002)
  10. The Literary Wheel (November 2002)
  11. The Transports of Love Wheel (February 2003)
  12. The Horrible Wheel (May 2003)
  13. The Wheel of Fortune (August 2003)
  14. The Poetry Wheel (November 2003)
  15. The One Song Wheel (January 2004)
  16. The Beginnings Wheel (April 2004)
  17. The War For the World Wheel (August 2004)
  18. The Spooky Wheel (October/November 2004)
  19. The Rhyme Wheel (January 2005)
  20. The Nobody's Fool Wheel (April 2005)
  21. The Crossover Wheel (July 2005)
  22. The Raise the Dead Wheel (October/November 2005)
  23. ?

References

  1. ^ a b c The X-Files Lyric Wheel - Home at <http://www.hegalplace.com/xflyricwheel/wheel.htm>, archived 22 January 2016 by the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ The X-Files Lyric Wheel - Home at <http://www.hegalplace.com/xflyricwheel/wheel.htm>, archived 14 August 2004 by the Wayback Machine.
  3. ^ a b Pollyanna (anglopollyanna) at LiveJournal, The Wheel is Dead. Long Live the Wheel!, posted 29 May 2004. (Cross-posted to Dreamwidth 25 April 2009.)
  4. ^ X-filesLyricWheel at Yahoo! Groups, archived 15 July 2001 by the Wayback Machine.
  5. ^ X-FilesLyricWheel at Yahoo! Groups, accessed 19 September 2016.
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