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NeumeIndil
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Not yet. I have a list somewhere, but I'll consider pretty much anything if we have enough people up for it.
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Viv
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Am in. June seems doable.  |
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eiranae
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I'm game. 
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*pokes her head in* Count me in... in fact, please please please drag me in, kicking and screaming if you have to!!!
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ramfish
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Ok so....where do I find the challenges? I'm lost  |
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NancyBrooke
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| ramfish wrote: | | Ok so....where do I find the challenges? I'm lost |
That's because there isn't one yet.
Over the past year or so we've done a couple challenges like this one, initiated by the members, on a theme. The idea was to get out of our comfort zone and write something we otherwise wouldn't. We started out "Breaking Type", in which each participant was randomly assigned a character, a theme, and a style, e.g. "mystery". Then they had a month to write a story of no less than three hundred words. Completed works were randomly assigned to another participant for beta reading, so everyone got some practice at that, and then completed works were posted for r/r.
Since Neume has suggested this latest round, and suggested it begin in June she'll likely organize it and put up a formal announcement sometime in May.
 Neume, we've worked only in the Tolkien fandom so far; would it be possible to open this one up to other fandoms?
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NancyBrooke
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Okay, so my memory's not so good.
The first challenge we did was Breaking Type, the idea being that if you usually planned your work in advance, this time try just letting it flow and vice versa, with a character and topic chosen randomly.
Then we decided to get even more random, and created the "Never Have I Ever" challenge, in which you could have randomly assigned a character, POV, and genre, or just select something for yourself you've never done before.
Most recently was the "The Way I See It" challenge, where we all wrote about the same moment from LOTR, but from any POV or character.
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Viv
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| NancyBrooke wrote: | | Neume, we've worked only in the Tolkien fandom so far; would it be possible to open this one up to other fandoms? |
That sounds fun. |
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ramfish
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I would be such a terrible Tolkien writer.  Although MAN you guys tempt me with the Half Life section that is begging for something to be put in it. *plots* |
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NeumeIndil
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That would be fine with me, NB & Viv, but a Free-for-all Fandom setting would work better as a "Breaking Type", I think, than "The Way I See It". We couldn't say something as specific as "Death of Theoden", which was kind of the keystone of the "The Way I See It" challenge, but "main character death" is a pretty common theme that would work in a bunch of different fandoms.
It could also be a type break to write in a completely new fandom. I web-publish pretty much exclusively LotR, but I have Firefly, Harry Potter, Ghost Ship (an obscure Karl Urban horror movie), and a Riddick fic all on my hard drive. I could see something like this being a kick in the seat to put another fandom on my list... (looks at her crammed plot bunny hutch) like I *need* more projects running at one time.
So, if we throw the doors wide in this way, I think we'd have to pick a broad topic; but could/should we also specify any other parameters? A vignette about a whore w/ a heart of gold (one of my apparent specialties) wouldn't be much of a stretch if I wrote it in the Firefly/Serenity 'verse. But, if I had to try that from, say, first person limited, it would be a challenge (I HATE first person POV!).
Thoughts? In put? Out-takes? (Since we're good at those.)
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NancyBrooke
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| NeumeIndil wrote: | | That would be fine with me, NB & Viv, but a Free-for-all Fandom setting would work better as a "Breaking Type", I think, than "The Way I See It". |
Ah! I see I misunderstood you. I thought you meant are we up for a new non-drabble challenge, not specifically an "as I see it" challenge. I'm up for either, although I'd like to see other fandoms included to broaden the participant pool.
| Neume wrote: | | "main character death" is a pretty common theme that would work in a bunch of different fandoms |
That's a good compromise.
| Neume wrote: | | It could also be a type break to write in a completely new fandom. |
The trouble I see with this is coming up to speed on a new fandom. It isn't feasible to go out and rent all of BSG, e.g., and watch it prior to the challenge.
| Neume wrote: | | So, if we throw the doors wide in this way, I think we'd have to pick a broad topic; but could/should we also specify any other parameters? A vignette about a whore w/ a heart of gold (one of my apparent specialties) wouldn't be much of a stretch if I wrote it in the Firefly/Serenity 'verse. But, if I had to try that from, say, first person limited, it would be a challenge (I HATE first person POV!). |
I think that would be interesting - take a standard plot element - hooker w/ a heart of gold, star-crossed lovers, UST, femme in trouble (my personal least favorite), mismatched buddies and see how it relates to different fandoms. Adding a random element like POV would certainly make things more challenging.
| Neume wrote: | | I web-publish pretty much exclusively LotR, but I have Firefly, Harry Potter, Ghost Ship (an obscure Karl Urban horror movie), and a Riddick fic all on my hard drive. |
And we haven't seen those because ... why? 
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ramfish
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| Main character death would be fun. There is a character that dies in Half Life 2 (thought I won't ruin it for anyone). And of course, there have been plenty of Star Trek deaths Of course, there is LOST, Dexter, CSI.... oohhh the possibilities! |
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NeumeIndil
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I didn't necessarily mean "new" in the sense of not already a fan of it, just not already published (much) in it, like ramfish was talking about with the video game. I'd probably try Firefly/Serenity (all of which I have memorized because I'm a freak like that, except the graphic novels, but we do own the first 2 of 3), or Harry Potter (which again, I've watched, read, etc., just not written in much).
| Quote: | | And we haven't seen those because ... why? |
Heh heh heh. Since you asked...
In progress are:
1. Gamling/Morwen;
2. my take on Elrond/Celebrian + The Twins/their mates;
3. my take on Eomer/Lothiriel;
4. my take on Feanor/Nerdanel from the first challenge we did;
5. a "Mary Sue Done Right" challenge entry in which a female Harry Potter fan/Librarian from NYC gets zapped back to the formative days of the Riddermark, just before the dedication of Meduselde;
6. a reverse Marty Stu in which Orophin gets zapped into modern day Cleveland and charged with the protection of a Yoga teacher/artist from her creepy stalker neighbor... by her grandmother's psychic cat;
7. teaching Boromir how to properly "apologize" to a lady;
8. the aforementioned horror movie gap filler;
9. my take on what Jo Rowling left out of the last Harry Potter book;
10. a gap filler in the Firefly 'verse (between episode 4 and 5 I think) in which I practice some horny juvenile wish fulfillment with a naked Jayne Cobb.
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11. A comedy of errors/door play in which a house full of college students all end up with the same STI but have *no idea* how they got it/that they've all been sleeping with each other's "sloppy seconds".
So, if you'd like to see any and all of these in a more rapid time period, please feel free to beta any *and* all that you're interested in.  Gods know I could use the help; the Plot Bunnies are rapidly becoming Novella Chinchillas, and the next step in that parade is probably my own Fan Fic Warren/Website!
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I would definitely read some Munder fic!!!
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NeumeIndil
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I knew I'd have at least one if I could ever get the thing wrangled, Do. I'm finding it difficult to follow the pattern I started with alternating a "here and now" scene with a "flashback" on Munder's life with his girlfriend a couple of years before the ship blew up. The flashbacks are coming along fine, it's the "what next for Epps" things that are tricky. 
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