I recently found my file from last year of dares to include in the NaNovel and thought I'd rip my favourites from it to start off a new dares thread.
Feel free to add your own new/fave dares :
- your MC helps someone (or something) give birth
- write a paragraph without using the letter 'e'
- 1,000,000 people die at the same time
- A god dies
- A demon is born
- Have one of your characters go through a complete personality change for one (or more) chapter(s) andthen switch back (without explanation)
- Include playdough in your story
- Include the old cliche of slipping on banana peel
- have one of your characters put a fist through a window
- give a detailed description of a character's desk/room, even if they never go there or don't have one
- 2 Paragraphs in second person future tense.
Cheers,
Chris
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Christopher Barker
Derby, United Kingdom
http://www.fictionchris.com
39,025 / 50,000
Oct 19, 2009 - 07 56
Have a character who pops up every now and then and tells knock, knock jokes
----------Smoke me a cheese (I don't like kipper), I'll be home for teatime (You can't have cheese for breakfast).
2,919 / 50,000
Oct 19, 2009 - 11 40
Haha, these are fantastic!
I think I may have found a way to spend some free time before NaNoWriMo begins!
----------Gentlemen.
13,866 / 50,000
Oct 20, 2009 - 06 12
I’ve got a couple!
You’ve got to have a one legged (or peg-legged ) pirate character who can only tell dirty limericks (that should help people struggling for words)!
And
One of your main characters has to be on a quest to find a mythical cow that produces strawberry milkshake.
And, hey, what happened to the chocolate cake dare from last year?!
----------I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
~Spike Milligan
47,629 / 50,000
Oct 20, 2009 - 08 41
Write the whole thing without using 'I am' once.
Anyone crazy enough to take it?
2,324 / 50,000
Oct 20, 2009 - 08 43
I didn't want to get bogged down with old dares that maybe relied on inside jokes that newbies this year wouldn't get lol.
Plus writing about chocolate cake without you around at the meets shovelling it into your gob... I'm not sure I could take the emotion... :(
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Here are the dares that the NaNo peeps came up with at last nights Scribes/NaNo meeting.
- Character who is very sensitive to spicy food, eats a Jalepeno
- Find out a characters mum is a man
- Alien weapon is found in a cereal box
- Kill off Main Character
- Moneyphobia
- Crocodile out of a chicken egg
- Someone looses winning lottery ticket
- Main character gets into a fight over a case of mistaken identity
- Main character forced by gunpoint to sing ‘Ooops I did it again’ at karaoke.
Keep them coming folks!
Chris
----------Christopher Barker
Derby, United Kingdom
http://www.fictionchris.com
2,324 / 50,000
Oct 20, 2009 - 08 46
Anyone crazy enough to take it?
I reckon that's pretty easy, you write it from a different perspective and it's not an issue so I'll take that!!
Writing a chapter/paragraph without using the letter "e" is much more difficult. :)
Christopher Barker
Derby, United Kingdom
http://www.fictionchris.com
----------Christopher Barker
Derby, United Kingdom
http://www.fictionchris.com
56,300 / 50,000
Oct 23, 2009 - 14 18
- have one of your characters put a fist through a window
I'll take these, not sure HOW to figure playdough in yet, but it'll be fun :)
33,001 / 50,000
Oct 28, 2009 - 13 05
I am already killing off my main character so it isn't really a dare.May have some window fisting and describing a room nobody ever visits.
here are some from me:
- You character is given a pair of socks to help them on their journey
----------- A character signs something with a pink pen.
- Someone is eating a tomato
- In a bar scene, a group of people are playing 'pass the pigs'
- Have a dream sequence that has nothing significant to the plot in it.
- someone catches swine flu.
http://beccalicious.deviantart.com/
Winner 2008
47,629 / 50,000
Oct 28, 2009 - 13 01
@Prosody - That's a good point! I should have thought of it.
I'm shall try writing without that symbol, though I will probably fail.
-See, that sentence was hard enough!
(Also - I'm Hannah from the meet.)
39,025 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 02 40
My first paragraph has been written without using the letter 'e'
----------Smoke me a cheese (I don't like kipper), I'll be home for teatime (You can't have cheese for breakfast).
2,919 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 06 47
"- You character is given a pair of socks to help them on their journey"
Oooh, that would be interesting! My main character doesn't have any shoes, or socks. :D Just a layer of mud.
----------Gentlemen.
56,300 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 01 30
Have a character who has to eat everything in alphabetical order, even if this means eating pudding before the main meal, alphabet soup/spaghetti must be consumed in order.
44,774 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 06 33
Kill off the main character : I think that might already be in my plot somewhere... oops!
It would be harder to accidently kill them off, or link it to the trip on a banana peel dare -
Just walking along when, Oops!, splat, The End!
----------Not exactly 50,000 words though!!