Come on, every other genre forum has one. We might as well join the band wagon.
*Have a character awake from a dream about doughnuts with pink frosting and rainbow sprinkles.
**Double Points if another character interprets the dream in a profound way.
*Have a character who always eats strange food combinations.
**Double points if the character is not pregnant.
***Triple points if the character convinces another character to try one of the combinations and they like it.
*Give a character a post-it-note fetish.
**Double points if you describe how their home is covered with post-it-notes.
***Triple points if a character struggles to locate a specific note.
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50,057 / 50,000
Okt 28, 2008 - 13 29
-Give a character tourettes. Double points if one of their tics involves shouting inappropriate comments and a lot of bad language.Triple points if you never explain this to the reader!!!
- Invent a place where characters refuse to visit, and name it after your worst enemies surname. Have your characters insist this is because "everybody there smells like cabbage."
-Try and fit the word "erogenous" into every chapter. Adapt your plot to fit in anyway you see fit. Using the character with tourettes is cheating!
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Okt 28, 2008 - 18 09
Have the characters invent their own form of slang. Double points if you never tell the readers what the words actually mean. Triple points if these words are actually unpronouncable by anyone who isn't able to accurate replicate the sound of swallowing marbles.
"Ah, that tyhredgtpohny over there with the red hair? Don't worry about him, he's just a exghtsflgargil."
Have a character who sleeps underneath his bed. Double points if they're a respectable intelligent wealthy middle-aged person. Triple points if nobody else in the novel regards this as strange.
Incidentally, I plan to use several of these. =D
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an open mind against a dying race
50,139 / 50,000
Okt 28, 2008 - 19 20
*Have a character only speak in single syllable words
**Bonus if no one notices
***Double Bonus if everyone, including himself, has more than single syllable names
*Have a character start ever sentence with "When I was your age..."
**Bonus if the character is the youngest one there
*Have a character only speak in popular song lyrics
**Bonus if other characters mysteriously find the songs stuck in their head
*Have a character always carrying a cup of coffee with his hands full
----------**Bonus if another character always manages to ask him the time
***Double Bonus if he never catches on
1,407 / 50,000
Okt 28, 2008 - 19 34
*Have a character always carrying a cup of coffee with his hands full
**Bonus if another character always manages to ask him the time
***Double Bonus if he never catches on
I'm going to tackle this one. Part of the story takes place on a college campus; so, It should be easy to find someone dedicated enough to have to carry everything and the coffee they need to keep moving.
120,105 / 50,000
Okt 29, 2008 - 07 55
Glad to see a dare thread here - some of the dares/quirks I've seen out there just dont fit with mainstream fic.
Dare: The character has to watch The View every morning, or their day is ruined
Bonus Point: The character yells repeatedly at the TV during the show
Double Bonus Point: After 10 minutes the character gets so angry they have to change the chanlle, but feel guilty after 2 minutes and turns it back.
Dare: The character lives lives in a pigsty, and it's never clean there.
Uber-Bonus: It's an actual pigsty instead of a really messy house
Dare: Character refuses to drink coffee unless it's cold outside, despite the temperature in the room, and gets into arguments about it
Dare: America only: Take your zip code, reverse the digits (so if I live in 12345 I look at 54321), and that's where your novel takes place. If its not an actual zipcode, make up a city thats in the same general location as one close by.
Dare: Character's dream is to be on a reality TV program
Bonus: The character is really boring
Double Bonus: They make it on a show
I might take that zip code - turns out I'd be writing about Arlington, TX. Hmm. I'll try to come up with some more later!
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The goal: Something other than my norm of spiritual lit, and finish it. Update - the muse has decided I must split my first idea into 2. nuts.
The first novel: Ava's Sunflower
The genre: Mainstream Fiction
Status : 40,002/60,000
1,407 / 50,000
Okt 29, 2008 - 12 04
Dare: America only: Take your zip code, reverse the digits (so if I live in 12345 I look at 54321), and that's where your novel takes place. If its not an actual zipcode, make up a city thats in the same general location as one close by.
Gah! This stinks. I was all set on using this one, but nothing remotely similar exist.
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Okt 29, 2008 - 18 00
Dare: America only: Take your zip code, reverse the digits (so if I live in 12345 I look at 54321), and that's where your novel takes place. If its not an actual zipcode, make up a city thats in the same general location as one close by.
Gah! This stinks. I was all set on using this one, but nothing remotely similar exist.
Hey, in England we've got all sorts of letters in ours. I'd be baffled to find that anything similar exists over here. It's a shame, because it's a good idea.
Anyone who manages to use all the dares in this whole thread gets quadruple points. =D
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200,081 / 50,000
Okt 30, 2008 - 06 19
*Have a character awake from a dream about doughnuts with pink frosting and rainbow sprinkles.
**Double Points if another character interprets the dream in a profound way.
*Have a character who always eats strange food combinations.
**Double points if the character is not pregnant.
***Triple points if the character convinces another character to try one of the combinations and they like it.
*Give a character a post-it-note fetish.
**Double points if you describe how their home is covered with post-it-notes.
***Triple points if a character struggles to locate a specific note.
Thankyou-- I can use all of these-- and probably will. :)
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Nov 1, 2008 - 01 06
Dare: Character refuses to drink coffee unless it's cold outside, despite the temperature in the room, and gets into arguments about it
Taking. My main character seems likely to do this.
Dare: Have a character who believes they are destined to marry a Jamaican. You can change the nationality if you wish.
Bonus: This character actually goes to said country to find a spouse.
Super Awesome Bonus Points: They actually get married to someone from that country.
Dare: Insert Chuck Norris into your novel.
Bonus if he roundhouse kicks people in the face.
Super Special Awesome Bonus if he's a reoccuring character.
Nano 06: Empty-58,100 words (won)
NaNo 07: Broken-51,915 words (won)
SF 08: Eleven-17,895 words (won)
NaNo 08: A Goldfish Named Spartacus: Plot in progress!
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life"-Terry Pratchett
----------Nano 06: Empty-58,100 words (won)
NaNo 07: Broken-51,915 words (won)
SF 08: Eleven-17,895 words (won)
NaNo 08: A Goldfish Named Spartacus: Plot in progress!
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest o
62,250 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2008 - 14 51
**Double Points if another character interprets the dream in a profound way.
Done and done. It really worked! Thanks.
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Nov 3, 2008 - 03 19
-Try and fit the word "erogenous" into every chapter. Adapt your plot to fit in anyway you see fit. Using the character with tourettes is cheating!
*Have a character start ever sentence with "When I was your age..."
**Bonus if the character is the youngest one there
Snagged these!
Leaving:
Have three characters who will only speak in alphabetical name order.
BP: If the second or third character often hits the first one to signal the first on to talk, and the first two say something lame like: What’s up? Or hello.
DBP: if the third character is at a crucial meeting, and a conversation like this follows
“As you can see people, the stock markets are plummeting and we need-“
Kayla threw a shoe at Beth, signaling her to say something.
“What’s up?” Beth asked.
“Not the stocks,” Diana, the second girl of the trio, said.
“Well, Mr. Whoever, to fix the stocks, I believe we need to…”
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Nov 14, 2008 - 03 27
Dare: Have a character who believes they are destined to marry a Jamaican. You can change the nationality if you wish.
Bonus: This character actually goes to said country to find a spouse.
Super Awesome Bonus Points: They actually get married to someone from that country.
Definitely taking this one! Brilliant. I haven't started writing my NaNo yet, but will surely use this once I do. (Have been busy and didn't catch the start of the NaNoWriMo).
Anyway, I am leaving some too:
*have a character be very conscious about their belly button cotton (don't know the real English word for this)
**have them collect it in a jar for a scientist doing research after the phenomenon
***have a burglar taking the jar
*have a character whose goal it is to solve all rubik's cubes in the world
**let them constantly have a backpack full of rubik's cubes, so that every forgotten minute can be spent solving them
***find a way to make them succeed
50,545 / 50,000
Nov 14, 2008 - 07 32
I'm doing some of these, if I can- even though my novel's filed under "Misc."
They seem a better fit to what I need .. *Grins*
Edit: Except the 'every chapter' ones which would require me to fatten my notes in a painful way and be counter productive, to me, anyway. :)
80,250 / 50,000
Nov 21, 2008 - 07 18
*Have a character always carrying a cup of coffee with his hands full
**Bonus if another character always manages to ask him the time
***Double Bonus if he never catches on
I'm going to tackle this one. Part of the story takes place on a college campus; so, It should be easy to find someone dedicated enough to have to carry everything and the coffee they need to keep moving.
hey, that's my past life you're talking about!
72,420 / 50,000
Nov 27, 2008 - 21 50
*Have a character start ever sentence with "When I was your age..."
**Bonus if the character is the youngest one there
I'm definitely going to use this in something. This is funny!
----------NaNoWriMo '08- Applefruit
NaNoWriMo '08- Applefruit