I like dares. I especially like dares that are flexible and can be adapted to any plot/story/setting/characters.
For example, I do not like dares like: "Put a cross-dressing elf with scabies in your novel and he has to say "poink!" every time he speaks." The year I attempted to write a novel about dinosaurs, I realized that dares should be much shorter, simpler, and more generic than that. In fact, simple dares like "pirates" work really well.
So, what dares shall the TN crew take on? What is your challenge to us all?
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Stephanie Bryant
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Oct 16, 2007 - 07 28
How about this?
Include one character that only speaks in a language that the other characters don't understand.
BP if there are no translators.
DBP if he has something really, really important to say.
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Oct 17, 2007 - 04 47
Here is my Tennessee dare: Have in your novel a bootlegger.
Doesn't matter what kind of bootlegger. Could be whiskey. Could be Grateful Dead tapes. Could be intergalactic stellar cartography charts. Just someone who home-produces something that would otherwise be proscribed.
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Stephanie Bryant
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Oct 17, 2007 - 13 40
I'll take the bootlegger dare. I can fit that one in, I might be able to fit the dinosaur too.
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Oct 17, 2007 - 13 43
I'll take this one too.
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Oct 17, 2007 - 13 54
LOL! Are you making a Dinosaur dare? I like it, and not just because my novel is required to have dinosaurs in it....
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Stephanie Bryant
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Oct 18, 2007 - 19 35
LOL. This is what happens when you speed read. But sure I'll dinosaur dare, only because I've already put in in my story plan. What else can you come up with, because so far they have fit in pretty well.
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Oct 19, 2007 - 05 12
Bunnies (or some other small, edible, fast-reproducing species that is adorable).
I always put a bunny rabbit in my novels. It's usually a pet, and often serves as a plot point later on. I think two years ago, it was a nightmarish rabbit, though (that year had the realm of dreams as the setting).
And I'll give you the same ones I gave the sci fi crowd:
Have one of the following appear in your novel:
* Robots
* An incurable disease
* Cannibals
Yes, a robotic bunny would kill two dares with one stone.
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Stephanie Bryant
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Oct 19, 2007 - 20 13
I too love the dares.
I'll take 'other small, edible, fast-reproducing species that is adorable.' I didn't plan to use mice in mine, but this inspired me to do so. It works out well. I might even add in a bunny too.
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Title: Love is Enough (pending)
Genre: Fanfiction (Life with Derek), Literary Fiction/Satire
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Oct 23, 2007 - 18 29
I'll take the bunny and the disease. But I'm going to add two to the list.
An airplane crash
bible thumper
That's all I am going to take right now. I think that gives me a total of 7 (since I'm going to do my own dares as well.
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Oct 23, 2007 - 18 55
I might be able to slip an airplane crash in there somewhere. Not sure where.... it'll be interesting to find out!
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