Literary Fiction Dares, 2011!

+5 if a piece of paper becomes an essential character
+10 if it has something written on it only the paper can see, but no other character
+10 if what's written on the paper is essential to the other character
+15 The paper shares its secret if and only if asked kindly, but no one ever does

I think I will most certainly be earning some of these points...

Certainly leaning in a piece of artwork having a central role. Not sure if it will talk though...

Well, check on +5, but alas, I don't think I'll qualify for the 10 or 15. How about characters acting out works of art?

I'll take on the artwork one; it won't be talking, though.

That dare is totally mattkinsi's... I can't take credit for it. :)

Definitely have the obsession... my character thinks almost exclusively in Taylor Swift lyrics and wants to name a child Taylor. Yeah... I doubt she would ever meet Taylor Swift, though.

In my first nanonovel I had a dog puppet chanelling a 5th dimensional entity until the entity appeared to the main character as Spencer Tracy

I just narrowly avoided spitting coffee all over my keyboard.

"
+5 if your character notices a theme in his/her life without overtly breaking the fourth wall
+10 if the theme that the character notices is not an actual theme"

Love it! I think I can get these points.

Going for both the 5 and 10 pointers

Well, I got the +15, and the +501 already. Not sure about that +500 though, I'd feel as I'd be egotistical in saying that.-Which is odd for to admit, though it is true.

...and here I thought I was going to be clever by having my MC stumble across a write-in and be suckered into joining up!

(Semi-ironically, this is why I have no chance at taking baka-neko's dare from below for never stepping foot in a coffee shop. My MC is an AUTHOR, how can she NOT go into a coffee shop? and in November, all coffee shops are fair game for write-ins :)

Can I still get the points if she's going to cheat and use the novel she already has in progress?

This. Just this. I wanna do it!

At least, I'll try!

The best!

I want to give a main character my name... instead I just make her feel the same way about her name as I feel about mine.

Also, while it isn't "nanowrimo", 6 of my characters are writing novels as a part of a writing group, and I intend to include excerpts from each!

Cha-Ching! +++++!!!

I attempted a novel very similar to this one, actually, back in 2009. I failed miserably in completing. I may pick it up again a few years down the road. but not this time around.

though I do love that others break the Fourth Wall in their works. :D

'If someone dies on the piano'

Gosh, I'm wanting so badly to try and incorporate this into my novel haha.

You have just given me new ideas for very important scene.

"if someone dies on the piano"
Ohhohoh, yes. This, this could work.

One- Badass Bad Wolf pic.
Two- That last dare made me LOL.

Hmm, I'll have to make one of my characters a pianist-in-training. This is exciting haha

Complicated drink order?

I can do that.

I may just get the +10 and +20.

Oh how fun this will be!

My main location happens to be a coffee shop...oh ho ho! I may be making big points if I run out of dialogue/plot ideas. :)

I...
may go for the +50!

;D

I think I'm taking the one sentence chapter and I might try just one alliterative sentence, maybe one per chapter.

I would love to write in not-identified-Hemingway... not sure how that would happen considering he's dead by the time my novel starts (then again what is death? does it really happen?), but it would be awesome.

I might just be able to fit all of this in!

. ^_^ Thanks for the idea, I think these will really help my story!

I think I can take on all of these!

Going for +5, +1, +100, +10, and possibly +15. This is amazing.

Are you mad? This dare is... too much!

I believe my English teacher would call 25, 75, and 500 a run on sentence. I could do 1000 word sentence easy but my teacher would circle it and say something like "Scary long run on sentence" if she ever saw it.

now the 20 and other 25 are actually possible just not with my story.

If only I could include a scene of Santa checking his list - then I could cash in on the 1000 word sentence points! Dang!

Love the peripheral character idea. Might do something w/ dat.

I'm doing some of these. This I'm heading for the world's longest sentence. I don't even care if it's grammatically correct if it's long as hell.

I love the idea of every chapter being set in a different location. Even if I don't end up doing it, I hope someone else does.

I love the peripheral character one! (and the 1k sentence, even better if it's a pivotal moment aka so good that the reader doesn't realize it's one sentence)

MrHeywire wrote:
+25 for a 1,000 word, grammatically correct sentence.
+75 if it contains no semicolons.
+500 if it contains no punctuation at all.

+20 if every chapter is set in a different location

+25 if every peripheral character is you, the author (eg. MC overhears a strange conversation you once had on a bus)

Definitely going to make every chapter set in a different location! I may do the peripheral character as well since my novel is a bit autobiographical fiction anyway!

I LOVE the peripheral character dare. Done and done.

I hereby accept the 5, 10 and 25 point drunk dares (and possibly the 100, depending on how I feel at the time), as well as the 10, 20 and 30 point name dares.

I really like all your dares! :)

I would love to also do the 10,30,and 50 point name dares. I will see if I can do the 200 point one since I am undecided on my title at this point. My working title, instead of being hilarious, would fall a little flat as the name I think. But not as one of the nicknames!

Oh I can so do the 10, 30, and 50 name thing perfect for my story, I already know what name I'd use. ~thinks of a way to make it part of the title.~

+10 if there's a recurring character whose name the MC can never remember or never knew
+30 if Mc gives them a new nickname in their head every time they meet
+50 if the characters name turns out to be either the same name as the MC or something symbolic to the story-line.
+200 and a cookie if the characters name is part of the title.

LOVE IT!!! Might steal. I already had a little of this going on in my mind-story

Snag!

Well, hate at the moment, anyway, hopefully I still get the points.

To the names: I claim all points before NaNo even starts! XD

definitely doing the 100! so excited for it!

I accept your 5, 10, 100 and 10, 50, 200 challenge, AND the first will be inherent in the second! Woah yeah!

(Flipping great dares.)

Perpetual slurring dialogue. I like that. Consider it done!

To funny -- I had already gotten +10 for the first one before reading this, now on to the others I suppose...

I am definitely doing the 30, 40, and 50 point dares. Though, that was already the idea, so I'm not sure if I should get points or not...

I might be able to do 50.

"GETAWAY STICKS" !!!!

Ha! I'm already planning the +10 pointer!

My characters best friend is dead but you aren't supposed to know that until about 80% of the way through the novel so I'll take it!

Score! already planned for, do I get bonus points if I bring him back to life.

Already half-way there! Yay, killing fictional people!

Accepted!

Deaf character it is.

Bring on the points!

Hahaha already had a deaf character from the start! :P

This actually happens to me with Rolling Stone! I have come to suspect Ticketmaster as the culprit... Too bad it doesn't work in my dystopian world. Unless I invent the magazine entirely, like "Oppressive Robots Monthly" or something hehe.

how about +200 if it's a pro wrestling magazine?