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May. 13th, 2010 11:25 amIf this isn't a meme yet, it ought to be.
You: gives me a word.
Me: gives you a sentence of fic.
You: gives me a word.
Me: gives you a sentence of fic.
Yuletide Hell Game
Oct. 20th, 2009 01:17 pm![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
ankaret linked to some jolly sensible advice on the writing of Yuletide prompts and how to (a) hopefully get something you’ll really like whilst (b) avoiding frightening your author so that she runs and hides in a ditch.In the course of the post was some additional information on conventions in some anime fandom, which it appears are rather complex, but seem to boil down (once one has just given up on understanding the iffy foreign language numbering thing) to Harry/Draco being considered a different pairing from Draco Harry.
Which leads me to suggest a game/meme: write in comments the Yuletide prompt that you would hate to get. Others are then invited to try and write a sentence of it.
To get you started:
(1) Wimsey/Bunter (NOT Bunter/Wimsey, eww!)* ^^(trebizon)/gecko-alpha-gecko It's got to be a really plotty mystery (the more plot the better! I want them to trail criminals at night and have to use disguises, and there should be at least 4 cliffhangers) about how Peter has an illegitimate brother and Helen finds out, and tries to have him murdered. I don't want Harriet getting between Peter and Bunter. Barbara should be in it: maybe she and Harriet are having an affair LOL! Sub-plot: Bunter seduces Saint-George because he wants to top. RPF Mosley would be a bonus.
(2) Bunter/Winifred. Any.
* It is interesting to note that under this scheme there is no Wimsey/Bunter at all on the web, it all being Bunter/Wimsey. Which makes the fact that there is giant squid/Bunter (though not Bunter/giant squid) even scarier.
Even more incidentally, someone asked (perhaps metaphorically) on the LordPeter list where the Bunter fanfic is. I have not yet decided how to reply, but it is awfully tempting to make some suggestions...
Random things make a post
Sep. 15th, 2009 02:11 pm(1) Finally finished the meme fic thoughts of the previous post, including sparkly Wimseyverse vampires. I was a bit disappointed that none of you mentioned my favourite scene, in which Harriet considers Peter to have the body of a sparkling marble tribute to some forgotten pagan God.
(2) Discovered in Waterstones at lunchtime, Mr Darcy, Vampire. It is not that I object to such things - far from it - but I do wish they could be better written so that I can enjoy the finished result. The bandwagon for this one appears to be rolling merrily: a similar work by another author, Vampire Darcy's Desire is published in December.
(3) Off to Galway tomorrow night for a long weekend. There is even a possiblity that the weather will be fine for some of the time. It has also reminded me that I really need to buy a good woolly jumper that will go over other things. There will be a 20 month old child in the house, which will no doubt be an interesting experience as well as requiring rather more energy than when he was content to sit and play with a wooden spoon. I have bought a copy of the magnificent Mrs Plug the Plumber as a bribe.
(4) I have just spent a happy five minutes filling in the feedback form for a workplace Weblearn course which turned out not to be Weblearn Fundamentals (appropriate, because I know almost nothing about it) but internet fundamentals - introduction followed by 10 minutes practise on a bloody chatroom! As my comment put it, this was like turning up to "Beginner's French Cookery" and being taught not how to make a basic roux, but how to eat with a spoon.
(2) Discovered in Waterstones at lunchtime, Mr Darcy, Vampire. It is not that I object to such things - far from it - but I do wish they could be better written so that I can enjoy the finished result. The bandwagon for this one appears to be rolling merrily: a similar work by another author, Vampire Darcy's Desire is published in December.
(3) Off to Galway tomorrow night for a long weekend. There is even a possiblity that the weather will be fine for some of the time. It has also reminded me that I really need to buy a good woolly jumper that will go over other things. There will be a 20 month old child in the house, which will no doubt be an interesting experience as well as requiring rather more energy than when he was content to sit and play with a wooden spoon. I have bought a copy of the magnificent Mrs Plug the Plumber as a bribe.
(4) I have just spent a happy five minutes filling in the feedback form for a workplace Weblearn course which turned out not to be Weblearn Fundamentals (appropriate, because I know almost nothing about it) but internet fundamentals - introduction followed by 10 minutes practise on a bloody chatroom! As my comment put it, this was like turning up to "Beginner's French Cookery" and being taught not how to make a basic roux, but how to eat with a spoon.
Meme from, oh, everyone by now.
Sep. 11th, 2009 11:06 amGive me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.
People! Stop putting ideas into my head!
Sep. 10th, 2009 09:39 pmexecutrix wrote in a comment on her LJ (not in context anything to do with vampires):(BTW, I just read a book about Bible authorship that points out that when Moses' sister Miriam turned "snow-white" this didn't mean that she was, like, all sparkly, it meant she had leprosy.)
Thank you very much, that’s just what I needed.
So, who is going to write the fanfic in which either
(a) Miriam turns into a sparkly vampire,
OR
(b) Edward can’t allow himself to fall in love with Bella because he (along with all the Cullens) has leprosy.
