DARES! 2009!

Make your characters randomly sing a camp song.
BP if the song is Sigfrey the Slug.
DBP if they sing a different camp song every chapter.
TBP if they are not actually at camp.
QBP if the camp songs are a crucial plot point.

"When Imagination walks, she writes letters to the earth. When she runs, her feet trace postcards to the sun. And when she dances, when she dances, she sends love letters to the stars." ~J. Ruth Gendler

Make one character Rickroll another.
BP if youtube hasn't been invented yet.
DBP if the computer hasn't been invented yet.
TBP if Rick Astley has yet to be born.

Having been called in here very many times over the past few months to answer for this or that misdemeanor, Oliver was well acquainted with the room's nuances and eccentricities – most of them fungal.

Make a character randomly heckle a character on screen while watching a movie
BP if they're watching the movie in a crowded cinema
DBP if the rest of the crowd joins in.

Write an entire scene focusing on an inanimate object
BP if that object doesn't appear to relate to the story in any significant way
DBP if it actually does.
TBP if it never appears again.

NaNoWriMo 2007: Fade To Silver (Failed)
NaNoWriMo 2008: Threads (Won)
NaNoWriMo 2009: Mindscapism

Have your MC be an non-player character in a computer game, or an MMORPG.
BP if they don't know they're in a game.
TBP if somebody says "lol" or "rofl" around them.

Nanoing with the zombie muse, Daramor!

2005: Musical Scales (53K)
2006: Myra (50K)
2007: Dark of Day (50K)
2008: TKH, SS, FW & CaP (200K total)
2009: Lucidity, ??, DaC & ?? (Going for 200K again! \o/)

I dare you - in any forbidden-by-the-Ancients-or-otherwise way possible - to include goat cheese in each and every item of food that makes an appearance in your story, or in any way relates to it.

For an atrocity of this magnitude, no amount of bonus points will ever justify it; Therefore, none are given.

Clearly, it is time for an infestation of zombies.

Totally stealing this!!

This would totally work for me...if my novel weren't set in the present. ;_;

...I love you. XD

Leaving:

Write your entire novel without using your hands.
BP if you write it entirely with your feet.
DBP if you write it entirely with your feet while wearing fuzzy bunny slippers.
TBP if you do this in a rocking chair.
QBP if you write it on paper while doing the above three.

Refer to one of your main male characters a "dazzling", "pale white", and "mysterious".
BP if he's a vampire.
DBP if he's a werewolf.
TBP if you do this mockingly.
QBP, a pancake, and a fail stamp if you're serious.

Make a single glass of orange juice the focus of the plot.
BP if a war spanning multiple centuries is involved.
DBP if it's over how much pulp was in it.
TBP if it's all about who drank it.
QBP if the person who drank it was somebody else entirely.

Taking everything up to DBP. Can't do triple. Or can I?

Edit: I can't believe I forgot bonus points, but included double point and everything after.

Dare: Have a NaNoer as a character
BP: They have to explain the concept of NaNo to somebody else (preferably everyone else)
Double BP: The character keeps on getting dragged everywhere against their will whenever they're working on their novel
Triple BP: They never finish their novel as a result
Quadruple BP: Said character is the author (as in, they are writing the story they are in)
Quintuple BP: This is a fantasy setting, or before 1999
Sextuple BP and my undying devotion: Your novel is exactly 49 999 words
x7 BP (what do you call it anyway?) and my eternal loyalty plus a cookie: The story stops part of the way through

If I wasn't doing a fantasy, I want to do that.

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I'll take this one. I'll leave:

Make something interesting happen on a Thursday,
DBP if interesting things ONLY happen on Thursdays,
TBP if you center your novel only around Thursdays.
QBP if you never mention "Thursday" in your novel.

Have a blind character as, if not main, then one of your important characters in the story.
BP if the character is extremely loud and curious and always asks "WHAT'S THAT YOU'RE HOLDING" (or something along the lines of) and demands a detailed explanation
DBP if the character is also fond of molesting people with the premises that they're just trying to "get a feel of their general appearance."
TBP if you have a fight scene in your novel and the blind character totally kicks everybody's ass.
QBP if this happens accidentally.

and a cookie if there is a scene in which everybody tries to explain the meaning of colours to this character.

Where all the spastic panicking about plot monsters is done.

Have a central character show up somewhere important in his underwear. And its not a dream.
BP if the character IS convinced its a dream.
TP if the character, convinced its a dream, believes he can *have a little fun*. And starts behaving extremely inappropriately. With inappropriate touching.
QP if this results in someone punching him, thus knocking him out. When he wakes up, he still isnt sure if it was a dream or not.

I need help on my novel and you guys on the Dare Thread always help me out every year, so here comes my question for this year, along with the dares:

NaNoDare #1:

Found in the 2008 DARES Archive:

Dare: Have a Death Scene in every chapter.
BP: If it always involves a main character.
TP: If it doesn't involve a secret evil organization
QP: If your MC starts to not notice everyone dying.
My Soul: If all of them are ridiculous deaths, such as Death by Tuna Sandwich.

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Well, since I write my NaNoNovels a chapter a day and the contest runs for 30 days, that means I'll have 30 mini-chapters, which in turn means that if I'm going to use this dare, I need to come up with 30 characters to kill off and 30 different ways to kill them off!

HELP! I need ideas for unique ways to kill off my characters!

Got a great idea for how to kill a character off? I made a poll that allows folks to ad their own answers to the poll, so you can both vote on answers and add new answers at the same time. http://www.squidoo.com/NaNoWriMo-2009#module60652542 Please check it out and add your idea to the list - who knows, I may end up using it! Here are a few ideas I copied from the 2006 Dare Thread Archives, not sure if I'll use them or not, but they may help you guys out:

Dare: End the novel with "and woke up and it was all a dream"
BP: If it actually is a dream
DBP: If a character actually says those words
TBP: If you're serious

I'm not entirely sure if this must be mentioned, but I feel compelled to...

I Dare everyone who reads this thread to include the action, thought, or narration of filling the White House with Jell-o.

I know I am. :)

I want to use some of these, but I can't say if I will since I haven't even the slightest semblance of a plot just yet.

also, bonus points and cupcakes from me if the jello in the white house is a component of a giant jell-o salad, or aspic, or both.

I accept. :)

Leaving:

Include a teacher who has no patience
BP if they end up spanking one of the kids
Double BP if they teach high school students

Have a character who only says one line
BP if they say the line in every scene they're in
Double BP if the line makes sense in the context of the scene
Triple BP if it turns out to be an important plot point

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I'm laughing so much while reading this thread, I've got tears streaming down my face! Also I think I'm going to try and use a previous poster's suggestion:

18-Have your MC try threaten to kill another character with a spoon. When asked why a spoon, the MC must answer with "because it would be painful".

I was just listening to Bryan Adams' Everything I Do... from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and reading that line instantly brought to mind one of my favourite scenes from the film. Is that where the inspiration for the dare came from? I'm fairly sure I can put a spoon-threatening scene somewhere in my story.

Totally gonna do this! ;) Blind people make the best assasins.

Something to satisfy the nerds that lurk here:

*Have a character who plays pokemon during a crucial scene in the plot
BP if they're screaming 'DIE, DIE YOU STUPID ZUBAT!!'
TP if they're playing Pokemon Yellow

*Have a character say "The cake is a lie" whenever they see cake
BP if they sing the actual song later on somewhere in the book
TP if they never explain this quote
QP if your book takes place before Portal comes out at all.

*Have one of the characters religiously refer to the color pink as Lightish Red
BP if they quote more Red vs Blue
TP if they quote Caboose the most
QP if they know the words to the themesong
BAJILLIONP if they 'slash' the characters in a subtle way, like wearing cobalt and teal colors together. :)

If you don't understand... don't ask. If you do........... Writer-Buddy me. RIGHT NOW.

*DeviantART*

I accept the challenge.

Dare: If a character writes Harry Potter fanfiction.
BP: If its Draco/Whomping Willow
DBP: If its Winky/Dobby
And your E-Peen will grow by a full 5" if any of this is somehow relevant to the plot.

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick

Adding a few that my friends came up with. x3

Interrupt a chapter with an ad for a made up product.
BP If it's something nobody would want, like a state-of-the-art zit waxer.
DBP If the brand/company name is Acme.

Total destruction of a planet.
BP If it is destroyed by a mass of asteroids, and someone comments on "why did nobody shoot those down!?"

Rain is deadly.
BP It's not acid.
DBP It is referred to as "Eraser Rain"

The Darkest Side of the Night (a working title) || 0/50k.
~ i'd like to make myself believe that planet earth turns slowly. it's hard to say i'd rather stay awake when i'm asleep, cuz everything is never as it seems. ~

I think I might well take at least the first two parts. I might have to take it literally though, and make it *only* deadly - it won't damage machines.

SO doing this XD

Ok ill leave:

Dare: Have a character threaten to incapitate someone with a utensil.
BP: If it is a fork
DBP: If its a lunch tray

NaNo09: The Taste of Steel

NOOO I WAS ABOUT TO POST THAT
i'll include it somehow in my novel though i promise. XD
Also adding bonus points to it:

- Bonus points if the Rickroller becomes the Rickrollee later on in the story.

DARE: Have Flo from the Progressive Auto Insurance commercials cameo in your story.
- Bonus points if she's not named
- Double bonus points if someone recognizes her as the Progressive insurance girl.
- Triple bonus points if a male character makes a comment about how hot she is.

DARE: Have characters play The Game.
- Bonus points if you just lost The Game reading this
- Double bonus points if you just lost The Game reading THIS.

DARE: Incorporate the line "Sorry about your coffee, I had to throw it at someone."
- Bonus points if it's said to the main character
- Double bonus points if it's said BY the main character
- Triple bonus points if it was thrown at the love interest
- Quadruple bonus points if they didn't miss
- Quintuple bonus points if the main character later gets a coffee in the face

DARE: Use the words lubrication, moist, and intercourse in your novel
- Bonus points if they don't relate to sex in any way
- Double bonus points if you use any word more than five times

DARE: Put a streaker in your novel.
- Bonus points if the streaker is just some random person your main characters comment on during a very important discussion in the story.

DARE: Have characters park their cars on a car carrier
- Bonus points if the carrier rolls away
- Double bonus points if the characters aren't in the car
- Triple bonus points if they are in the car.
- Quadruple bonus points if they're trying to hide from someone and/or trying to hide the car from the repo man.

DARE: Have someone whisper in your MC's ear, "whatever happens in the next hour, you must never tell your family."
- Bonus points if they don't.
- Triple bonus points if they do.

DARE: Have someone ask a character to lie down on the floor so they can draw a chalk outline of them
- Bonus points if they don't explain why.
- Double bonus points if the character is your MC.
- Triple bonus points if the people plan on killing this character later.

DARE: Have a character say "I reject your reality and substitute my own!" to another character.
- Bonus points if one of them is the main character
- Double bonus points if they scream it
- Triple bonus points if they run away immediately afterwards

DARE: Use the phrase "the cool pointing thing that rapper people always do".

DARE: Include the line "the cheese stands alone."
- Bonus if it's said in other languages (if you want them, let me know. I can say it in eighteen. XD)
NOTE: If you do this, I demand to receive excerpts of your novel with it.

DARE: Have a character make references to the ShamWow.
- Bonus points if they say "shamwow!" in surprise, instead of "gasp," "wow," et cetera.

DARE: Instead of saying osteoporosis, have a character say "osteocrap."
- Bonus points if they say they have it.
- Double bonus points if they're male and/or very young (thirty years or younger)

DARE: Include the phrase "HELO I JUST WONDERIN WTF R WE DOIN I AM SO CONFUDZ YAYAND."
- Bonus points if you write it exactly in that way.
- Double bonus points if a character says later on that they are "confudz."
(By the way, that sentence is pronounced "HEY-LO I JUST WONDERIN W-T-F ARE WE DOIN I AM SO CONFUDS YAY-AND.")

EDIT - Bookish13!
That topic was the best amirite.
I will, SOMEHOW, include that in my end of the world action-adventure novel.

OH MAA GAA NANO COOKBOOK

Have a character who does not like to have items referred to by their brand name - kleenex for tissues or band-airs for adhesive bandages for example.
DP if he says, "I don't have (brand name here), but I have ( actual word for item) here."

Have a character get cold feet at a wedding.
DP if they use the phrase, "I have buyer's remorse!" when fleeing the altar.

Include the following lines:
1) "A lot of brilliant artists were horrible people."

2) "Sorry to drown your mother on the second day. . ."

3) "Almost all of us are somewhere between becoming Hitler and curing cancer."

4) "I could get a little nerdy on you. . ."

5) "When you try to drown a baby, which I don't do very often. . . "

6) "I got hit by a ray and became the 50-foot man, and I came to the window and said, 'Hi. I'm here. Let's talk about Kant today.' And you would think that it's weird, but still think it's me."

7) "Clearly, I need to watch more commercial television."

8) "You're allowed to have the initial reaction of wanting to punch him in the face."

9) "Under my cape and tights, I am a writing teacher."

10) "Anyone own a rugrat?"
" No one owns a rugrat?"

Feet don't waltz when the roof caves in. . .

I ... love this thread. I actually have a Word doc of literally dozens of dares from last year that are, BTW, becoming a plot. Which is under serious consideration. For this year.

So I wanted to say, A HUGE THANK-YOU TO THE DENIZENS OF THIS THREAD. You have spawned a hilarious novel idea which will begin with the well-beloved "Where the hell are my pants?" and continue in a similar vein, including Gerald the cigar-smoking lolrus and Lord Squigglebottom Fancypants the incontinent vampire. I believe it will be great :D

So, for all you crazy people out there:

I dare you to be like me and base your novel on Dares.
DBP if you create dares for this thread and use them yourself
TBP if you include at least one per chapter
QBP if you include more than 100 dares
5BP if you do dares relating to what you do in RL as well as what happens in the story

Go crazies, go! :DDD

Check out my NaNo blog!

this thread is amazing./...oh and umm....dang it.......... I LOST THE GAME.....for the thirty thousanth time.

I dare you to:
have your MC dress up as a person of the oposite sex to confuse people
DP if it makes a huge difference in the outcome of the story
DBP if a close friend/ relative believes the disguise

^.^

Dare: Have a character who replaces the words "everything" "universe" and "life" with 42 in speech.
BP: If said character is haunted by the number 42. For example, he looks at his watch and the time is 12:42, or he solves a math problem and it's solution is 42
DBP: If said character is aware of this and tries to use it for his own gain.
TBP: If said character warps reality around him, and everything's answer really IS 42 around him. NO EXCEPTIONS.
QBP: If somehow s/he gains the ability to time travel using this.

Dare: Have a villain in your story who loves puppy dogs.
BP: If his personal chamber is filled with puppy dogs.
DBP: If your MCs fail to get him because of the puppy dogs.
TBP: If puppy dogs' cuteness is so strong that they can be used as power plants
QBP: If your villain realizes it and is trying to save puppies from used as power sources.
MadBP: If your villain is forced to resort to a puppy dog powered superweapon at the end.

Too much time near pen and paper results in interesting ideas

YOU'RE WELCOME! :3

Taking the "I don't have (brand name here), but I have (real name of product here)." Kvornan is smart-ass enough he'd do it.

OH MAA GAA NANO COOKBOOK

Novel: Thur's Utopia
Genre: Sci Fi (Dystopian)
One sentence summary: A man and a woman go an a voyage to overthrow an evil dictator.

Always the best thread of the season!

I dare you, fellow Wrimos, to:

Have a relatively plain and frumpy female character who dresses entirely in garments made of different-colored cellophane.
BP if she's always layering and re-layering them to change their colors so she can either blend in with, or stand out from, her surroundings.
DBP if she's always being hit on and stared at because she's nude.
TBP if she's convinced it's because she's such a hottie, and has quite the attitude about herself.
all that and a cookie if she manages to convince one or more of your other characters to start wearing cellophane.

Totally taking.

Leaving:

Have a character who says "brillo" instead of awesome, brilliant, cool, etc.
BP if he/she expands it to "Brillo pads"
DBP if he/she uses other types of pads (legal, maxi, etc.) to replace other adjectives.

Eeyore was saying to himself, "This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it."