We needed one. I saw a dare go down in another thread, so we definitely need a thread just for dares.
Go for it!
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Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Oct 8, 2008 - 05 19 |
We needed one. I saw a dare go down in another thread, so we definitely need a thread just for dares. Go for it! |
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Oct 8, 2008 - 09 08
Me and my friends already do this stuff :P Inside jokes, and ridiculous things our teachers come out with...payment in gummy bears.
I dear somebody to get the phrase "rabid hamster" into their first chapter - that's one of our official dares from every year haha.
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Oct 8, 2008 - 12 25
I dear somebody to get the phrase "rabid hamster" into their first chapter - that's one of our official dares from every year haha.
I'll take you up on that one.
2007: Untitled Novel About Poetry-Quoting Ninja-Girl and Anguished Catholic Detective - FAIL (but it was still a cool idea)
----------2007: Untitled Novel About Poetry-Quoting Ninja-Girl and Anguished Catholic Detective - FAIL (but it was still a cool idea)
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Oct 8, 2008 - 12 26
mdiamond: Oh, done.
I dare [generic you] to incorporate weasels and toothpaste somehow.
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What am I doing still awake?
...Oh wait.
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Oct 8, 2008 - 12 37
I dare [generic you] to incorporate weasels and toothpaste somehow.
Double bonus points if it also involves hedgehogs. ----------
Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
50 Stories; 1,000 words each... will I survive?
Current story:
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Oct 9, 2008 - 07 16
I concur that we need our own dares over here. Here are a few:
-Give one of your characters and office supply fetish, such as enjoying going at it in piles of printer paper. Bonus points if the character enjoys drawing on the other person (or being drawn on) with Sharpies, and it has to be Sharpie brand.
-Give a character a sixth toe. Have this sixth toe become very important to the novel. Bonus points if the toe get severed at some point.
-Have a character dream that she or he has a horrible skin condition (such as boils all over the body). Have him or her wake up still thinking the boils are there, finally decide to bear it and live with the condition, only to tear off the blankets and discover the boils are not actually there. (An actual experience of a friend of mine.)
-Include a character that enjoys dousing herself in perfume (or himself in cologne) and other people avoid this person because it's too strong. Bonus points if the perfume is something your grandmother would wear.
-Include a character that often uses large words incorrectly. Bonus points if this is the narrator of your novel.
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Oct 9, 2008 - 08 49
-Have a character whose only form of transportation is a unicycle.
------------Bonus points if the unicycle can fly.
---Double bonus points if it timetravels.
2007: The Texture of Silk (50150)
2008: Rain
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Oct 9, 2008 - 08 59
- Have a character go through surgery to remove bottfly larva from his but cheek.
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Oct 9, 2008 - 10 56
-Include a character that often uses large words incorrectly. Bonus points if this is the narrator of your novel.
On it. In fact, I already have a character that thinks he's smarter than he is, so this works perfectly. Although he isn't the narrator, he's the too-interested and not-subtle-enough co-worker who makes the protagonist want to hide under her desk every time he walks by.
Here's a new dare: Start each scene with a sequential letter of the alphabet (as in, the first sentence of you novel might start with "After" and the first sentence of the second scene might start with "Buttons"). When you get to the end, start at the beginning again. Bonus points if you work this *into* your novel in some way.
--joanarc4
NanoWrimo 2006: Green Mountain Getaway
----------NanoWrimo 2007: Sudden Orientation
NanoWrimo 2008: The Milkman
NanoWrimo 2006: Green Mountain Getaway
NanoWrimo 2007: Sudden Orientation
NanoWrimo 2008: The Milkman
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Oct 9, 2008 - 20 00
Here's a new dare: Start each scene with a sequential letter of the alphabet (as in, the first sentence of you novel might start with "After" and the first sentence of the second scene might start with "Buttons"). When you get to the end, start at the beginning again.
I may try that in some form.
________________________
----------Oh, the insanity.
Oh, the insanity.
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Oct 9, 2008 - 21 36
Oooh! That's perfect!
My main character is going to be the ugliest woman on a (small, Scottish, 15th C.) island, and giving her a sixth toe would be great...
...Or else maybe I'll give her mother the sixth toe, and have it play a crucial role in her (the mom's) early demise (an impromptu amputation, maybe... ) (Hey! - Then I'd get the bonus points, too!)
The sixth toe would play nicely into the whispers and suspicions that MC's mom is/was a witch, which contribute to MC's ostracism, which will be part of the complex personal and societal issues with which I plan to grapple when I'm not busy severing people's putatively demonic toes.
Cool!
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Oct 10, 2008 - 19 58
-Give one of your characters and office supply fetish, such as enjoying going at it in piles of printer paper. Bonus points if the character enjoys drawing on the other person (or being drawn on) with Sharpies, and it has to be Sharpie brand.
But then it would be a memoir!!!!
(snicker...!)
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Oct 11, 2008 - 06 24
- Write one (probably short) chapter using only words that are one syllable.
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Oct 11, 2008 - 12 28
I will do the botfly one. As punishment to my characters who have told me nothing one of their bonding experiences will be one of them somehow getting botflies and then having to get surgery. The sad thing? I am actually really excited about this now.
Random: have a character who knows all there is to know about air fresheners. B.P if they are the narrator and randomly insert metaphors relating to them into conversations or narration.(for example "I looked at him hatefully. I would imagine that my glare would smell like a glade plug in that's gone bad. I just bought one of those last week and it made me very angry". LOL that sounds like word padding XD) FAIL. That's actually a similie -_-'
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Oct 11, 2008 - 19 33
Here's a few lines for you to consider using...
"Stay away from my lamppost!"
"Yay, putting it down."
"Does this qualify for a high five?"
and you go into super bonus collecting mode if they're all in the same scene.
----------The mind can be a playground if you use it.
Planning progress: I know that it's set in a hotel.
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Oct 12, 2008 - 09 15
Dare: have your character secretly believe that he is a character in your favorite novel and act accordingly. For instance, an office worker who thinks he's MR TUMNUS from THE LION, THE WITCH, and THE WARDROBE. He can always go around in a winter coat even when it's summer, complain that it's never Christmas even on Christmas Day, and mumbles to himself about what a bad faun he is whenever he can't get his computer to work.
----------cen (excentryke)
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Oct 12, 2008 - 20 23
This dare is too realistic for litfic.
----------The mind can be a playground if you use it.
Planning progress: I know that it's set in a hotel.
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Oct 13, 2008 - 12 01
no, it's not. i think as long as someone didn't make any direct references to that book (that includes saying 'faun') then it would be fine. it could just be something you mix in there that readers won't even realize.
----------http://www.peacelovetwilightblog.blogspot.com
http://www.fanfiction.net/~cedwardpattinsonian
http://edwardrevamped.livejournal.com
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Oct 14, 2008 - 02 07
"Stay away from my lamppost!"
"Yay, putting it down."
"Does this qualify for a high five?"
and you go into super bonus collecting mode if they're all in the same scene.
Done! (Well, will be doing...)
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Oct 14, 2008 - 03 59
No, I meant that people believing they're characters from a novel is a regularly occurring thing. And I should know because I'm a hobbit. [No, really.]
"Stay away from my lamppost!"
"Yay, putting it down."
"Does this qualify for a high five?"
and you go into super bonus collecting mode if they're all in the same scene.
Done! (Well, will be doing...)
Please, please, please, please post it here. Did I mention please? ----------
The mind can be a playground if you use it.
Planning progress: I know that it's set in a hotel.
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Oct 14, 2008 - 07 34
-Give one of your characters and office supply fetish, such as enjoying going at it in piles of printer paper. Bonus points if the character enjoys drawing on the other person (or being drawn on) with Sharpies, and it has to be Sharpie brand.
I believe Adrie, one of my MCs, would fit perfectly with this dare. It's just so her. She would be so likely to draw various flowers on Sonya's arms while she's sleeping. XD
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----------Nano 06: A Taste for Blood and Vengance, 22.5k
Nano 07: Mask, 20k
Nano 08: The Language of Flowers
Nano 06: A Taste for Blood and Vengance, 22.5k
Nano 07: Mask, 20k
Nano 08: The Language of Flowers
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Oct 14, 2008 - 16 46
-Include a character that often uses large words incorrectly. Bonus points if this is the narrator of your novel.
Double bonus points if MC's name is Dogberry. ----------
Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
50 Stories; 1,000 words each... will I survive?
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Oct 15, 2008 - 08 43
...there is a character who does not brush his teeth for what he refers to as "moral reasons." bonus points if the ensuing bad breath and/or english smile becomes a major plot point.
----------"the difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."
- mark twain
http://noweekwillbewasted.proboards.com/
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Oct 15, 2008 - 11 10
-Include a character that enjoys dousing herself in perfume (or himself in cologne) and other people avoid this person because it's too strong. Bonus points if the perfume is something your grandmother would wear.
I'm absolutely going for this one, thanks! :D
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Oct 15, 2008 - 14 13
Totally going for it, since it'll fit in nicely with one of my central themes (the fact that people spend their lives preparing for things that will never happen.) Yeah, I'll actually try to take it seriously. Destined to fail, much?
I'll throw in a few of my own!
---Have an entire scene devoted to a character jumping on a trampoline. (Bonus points if the trampoline symbolises the working class and the jumping character symbolises the social factors oppressing them.)
---Have a character who collects human hair and makes all their clothes, soft furnishings etc. out of it.
---Start a chapter with the line, 'My life is like a dildo.'
---Resolve a deep conflict through the drinking of pea soup, preferably making puns related to 'peas' and 'peace' in the process.
---Every few paragraphs or so, have the word, 'DINGOES!' appear, uppercase mandatory. (Bonus points if it's different characters.)
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Oct 16, 2008 - 04 11
---Have an entire scene devoted to a character jumping on a trampoline. (Bonus points if the trampoline symbolises the working class and the jumping character symbolises the social factors oppressing them.)
---Start a chapter with the line, 'My life is like a dildo.'
---Every few paragraphs or so, have the word, 'DINGOES!' appear, uppercase mandatory. (Bonus points if it's different characters.)
I might try one of these. Or a variation (on the word 'DINGOES!') In utter, complex seriousness of course. Or maybe just because it'd be ridiculous and thus FUN.
Here, some of my dares:
- Have a character declare sovereignty and make his home+adjoining land (or any space he owns) a mini-country.
----------- Include karaoke, in whatever form.
- Recall the most delicious meal you've ever had and insert into your novel descriptions of it so vivid that anyone who reads it would be drooling and crying about their pathetic culinary experiences thus far.
- Make a character's life mission the (eternally unsuccessful) quest for larger feet. And link it to Freud.
- Insert freudian slips! Frequently!
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
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Oct 17, 2008 - 17 49
-Include a character that often uses large words incorrectly. Bonus points if this is the narrator of your novel.
I had to say something: I used to do this in real life with my friends, but I stopped after the time when I heard the word I used incorrectly used by my friend, incorrectly, two days later. It was the same incorrect usage... ooops. ;D
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Oct 18, 2008 - 16 43
- Have a character declare sovereignty and make his home+adjoining land (or any space he owns) a mini-country.
I'm in love with this dare. I'll have to invent a whole new character to make it work, but still.
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Oct 18, 2008 - 17 28
"Stay away from my lamppost!"
"Yay, putting it down."
"Does this qualify for a high five?"
and you go into super bonus collecting mode if they're all in the same scene.
Done! (Well, will be doing...)
Please, please, please, please post it here. Did I mention please?
Sure thing. Man, that's going to fun to write!
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Oct 19, 2008 - 04 39
- Have a character declare sovereignty and make his home+adjoining land (or any space he owns) a mini-country.
I'm in love with this dare. I'll have to invent a whole new character to make it work, but still.
I want to see what happens (: I've always wanted to use that but it never worked out so I'm glad some one's doing it. Hah to you, ninja plot bunny!
----------Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
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Oct 19, 2008 - 13 13
---Start a chapter with the line, 'My life is like a dildo.'
Double bonus points if it's qualified with "of the vibrating bunny kind." ----------
Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
50 Stories; 1,000 words each... will I survive?
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