Somebody mentioned dares and I feel like my writing is getting dull and I want to enjoy it again, soooooooo..... here's a dare for anyone interested..... One of your characters has to say the words....... "It comes in pints?!"
Can anyone else do better?
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My God.... It's full of Typos.
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Nov 9, 2007 - 14 11
Can you get in a scene involving Possum Fur Nipple Tassels???
I would love to, but sadly there was little call for them in the 17th century.
"It comes in pints" may well get fitted into a coffee house somewhere...(ooo, pints of caffeine.... *drools*) but had anyone got any historically-relevant dares?
----------"Curiosity is the cure for boredom. There is no cure for curiosity".
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Nov 9, 2007 - 14 14
Mine be a fantasy sci fi crossbreed, but I don't have any decent dares to give.
----------Sorry.
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Nov 9, 2007 - 14 40
These were some off the London Dare threads:
To keep the writing process interesting...
If not writing a science fiction novel, include some of Roy Batty's self-eulogy from Blade Runner ("I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die")
If writing a science fiction novel, include Gandalf's speech against the Balrog from LoTR ("You shall not pass. I am a servant of the secret fire, wielder of the flame or Arnor. You shall not pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun. Go back to the shadow. You shall not pass!")
If writing a romantic novel, include Hannibal Lecter's dinner menu ("I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti") in a scene between the two main love interests
If writing a horror novel, include Madmardigan's words to Sorcha in her tent from Willow ("You are my sun, my light. I dwell in darkness without you") in a scene with a nasty and a victim
Don't forget - "Bob was there too"
If a group of your heroes are outnumbered and under fire in open ground, and they all survive, someone must mention The Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academey. Bonus point if none of them are even hurt
End a sentence at random with "because I only had one radiation suit."
Get some exotic fruit into your novel without referring to it in its fruity form. Someone names their child mango for example?
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Nov 10, 2007 - 03 42
Not that I'm a Trekky but:
There's a line in a star trek film or tv show where kirk get's emotional and almost gives spock a hug. Spock says, 'Please Captain, not in front of the crew.' Which I thought was probably a dare among the st writers. But how about that one?
I love the exotic fruit one - i'll probably do that anyway coz it's funny.
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Nov 10, 2007 - 03 53
Okay, I did it. Here's the extract:
After the clinic visit, where a very put-out staff-nurse handed over enough streptomycin and syringes to keep Turk going for several weeks, they headed for the streets lining the lower seaward slopes of Lion's Head. In one of the brightly painted stucco bungalows, Mary and Frank were to have a party to celebrate five years of marriage and the sixth birthday of the twins Mango and Chutney.
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Nov 10, 2007 - 04 19
That is bloody brilliant!!! :-D And by the sounds of it, not only did you get in the mango, she is also an Illegitmate Mango. and that just makes it perfect.
Was reading a very distrubing pieces about Kirk-Spock love affairs in the realms of fan fiction the other day. That image is going to stay with me for a very very long time..... uuuuurgh.
Oh, Carl dared me to get a parrot into this somewhere, so I did, and unfortunately he's now become the main protagonist. Those well laid plans....
----------"Curiosity is the cure for boredom. There is no cure for curiosity".
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Nov 10, 2007 - 11 23
Heres my attempt to include fruit:
It had been one of the early requirements specified by the projects psychiatric advisors as an onboard essential for station personnel. The prospect of living in zero gravity, with no fresh food, living thousands of miles away unable to see your family for months and circling round the moon, was made all the better just by the thought of being able to drink a cup of tea. The benefits of hot beverages had always been espoused over the centuries but it had been one Professor Thomas Lychee in 2146 who had finally made the connection between tea and space crew’s mental wellbeing.
----------This had prompted millions of pounds worth of research and development into how to make hot drinks in zero gravity. Early trials with ‘microwavable coffee’ had given encouraging results, though the drink itself was somewhat unpalatable. Further tests with varying mixtures revealed it was the water that determined how good the cuppa was, the fresher the better.
You'll find me in a small dark box twiddling knobs...............
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Nov 10, 2007 - 11 36
Like that hils, Subtle!
I think I am gonna have to get fruit in now, but I don't know quite where.
----------Oo, I could have Esteban's girlfriend called Platanita - it means "small female banana" in spanish - would that qualify? they are supposed to be nearing Guyana now. Esteban is the cabin boy. The temptation to call him Roger The Cabin Boy was overwhelming....
"Curiosity is the cure for boredom. There is no cure for curiosity".
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Nov 11, 2007 - 15 40
ok, I did get fruit in:
Although highly excited and relieved to be on dry land again, Louisa was also utterly exhausted. The small room in the hotel was practically cavernous compared to her cabin, but the fact that she was alone in a very strange country, and a very very long way from home, was inescapable. This had been made painfully obvious as soon as she had arrived at the hotel. A small, wiry black boy had politely, and rather curiously, manhandled her trunk, the tree and her carpet bag up to her room for her. When he had set everything down neatly, he paused for a second, stared at her open mouthed, as if she were the strangest thing he had ever seen in his life. As it happens, she was. Marco, for that was his name, had never seen a white woman properly before, let alone a slightly wind-burnt and otherwise dishevelled white woman, with a brightly coloured headscarf tied on her head, backwards, it seemed to him, and with an equally straggly bird on her shoulder. At least, he now saw that it stood calmly on her shoulder; at first sight it looked as though the thing were literally growing out of her ear. English women were a strange shape too. Most of the women he knew were sort of papaya-shaped, if they were rich and healthy. Solid, comfy and oddly inviting. Even the Dutch women, like the wife of his Master looked similar, like pale, under-ripe papayas with strange yellow hair, and all of them impossibly tall. This one was not so tall though, and all angular and curvy, nipped in at the middle and with an enormous backside covered in reams and reams of heavy fabric. She was more... yam-shaped, he decided. Not at all attractive.
----------"Curiosity is the cure for boredom. There is no cure for curiosity".
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Nov 12, 2007 - 15 00
OK, Include this in your novel as a famous warrior's battlecry, or something similar.
----------"I WANT MY MUMMY!"
Finally thought of one, lol..
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Nov 12, 2007 - 15 01
OK, Include this in your novel as a famous warrior's battlecry, or something similar.
----------"I WANT MY MUMMY!"
Finally thought of one, lol..
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Nov 13, 2007 - 08 27
D's challenged me last night to include:
----------' "Boing" said Zebedee '
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Nov 14, 2007 - 12 58
I am so crap at these dares, my book is so bad, here is an example:
“Good evening. I don’t think there will be anything on the menu I’ll enjoy, but I thought we should join you anyway.”
“I think I may have found another difference between our worlds, this menu has pints of blood on it, a choice of four nationalities.”
The vampires eyes lit with a fire of desire.
“It comes in pints? Well…. Maybe I shall take a look."
Or how about, this one's really bad:
Lie shrugged and looked about the office.
----------“We should go to the Alchemist again. I’ve just noticed a note here. Apparantly his real name is Asda Cumquat.”
“I ain’t gonna be his bitch.” Replied Ron.
“You are you know.” Said Lie.
My God.... It's full of Typos.
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Nov 17, 2007 - 15 25
I have another dare that makes silliness:
----------In a duel, or confrontation between opposing sides, in the middle of the action, one character says:
"I say, [CharacterNameHere], I'm afraid we're going to have to put this on hold for fifteen minutes. It's time for tea."
I'm doing that too.
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Nov 20, 2007 - 05 14
Ok Chris, its taken a while, but here's my effort:
Max entered the kitchen with the last of the cups and caught sight of Franka gulping down coffee. He smiled to himself at this vision, but feigned annoyance out of duty. He knew that Louisa was not keen on her drinking the stuff, especially not in that quantity.
“Franka, you know you should not be drinking whole ibriks to yourself. I don't mind you having a dish of coffee every once in a while, but please, refrain from the whole jug in one sitting.”
“I am sorry Papa, but that is how the customers drink ibriks. It only come in pints!”
“True, but they are shared amongst a group of grown men, not downed in their entirety by a twelve year old girl.”
“Sorry Papa.”
“You will be when you get a coffee headache. Have you finished your letter then, skat?”
Did ya spot it????
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Nov 20, 2007 - 10 12
Don't forget - "Bob was there too"
And I've got in "'Boing' said Zebedee", though I might re-use that one by having a character slowly rocking in a corner muttering it over and over again.............
In addition to the various crew photographs there were plenty of pictures of other people, mainly casual shots of them smiling in what looked like holiday snaps. She guessed they must have been family and friends. There were also a couple of what looked like visitors to the station, mostly men in suits looking very formal. Randomly someone had scrawled underneath one of them ‘‘Boing’ said Zebedee’.
Scribbled over the blank white bits of the wall were other comments and graffiti. This was the crew’s personal space filled with personal comments. Though as with most graffiti, there were plenty of comments that she couldn’t fathom, that clearly only made sense to the person who had written them in the first place. She read a few.
‘Chuck was ‘ere’ she read, underneath it written ‘Bob was there too’. Who Chuck and Bob were she didn’t have a clue. They might not have been anyone.
Yet to fit in 'it comes in pints' but I have a lot of novel to go yet.........
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Nov 28, 2007 - 03 46
woohoo!
Finally got it in:
‘Excitable chaos’ was Dave’s reply. ‘The champagnes already flowing and your guys haven’t even landed yet.’ He held up a large glass mug full to the brim of the sparkling golden coloured liquid. ‘See it already comes in pints!’ he joked.
----------‘Well I’m glad someone’s able to celebrate already’ Gwyneth laughed. ‘Sadly we don’t have that option just yet.’
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