2009 Dares (Part II)

Yay, I wanna be the first one!

Dare: Have a character who loves abandoned houses
+ if she breaks into them at night time
++ if she convinces some other characters in your story to come with her

Dare: Have on chapter written in notes characters send to each other

Dare: One of your character wants to break up with her/his boy/girlfriend, but doesn't want to hurt him/her, so before breaking up she/he tries to find a better partner for the boy/girlfriend
+ she/he actually manages to find a good one
++ after pairing those two, she/he starts to miss his/her ex-girl/boyfriend
+++ she/he tries to win him/her back

Dare: Have one character, who never uses doors but climbs in or out from the windows instead
+ if she/he does that because if she/he would use a door, she/he would end up being somewhere random no matter where the door is

Dare: Have a character whose sense of touch is multiplied
+ if the character is really afraid of touching because of this
++ if the character fells in love
+++ if the multiplied sense of touching leads to problems between the character and his/her love interest

2006: Feathers And Winds/Sulkainsitoja ja siivetön
2007: The Winterpainter And A Bird/Talvenmaalaaja ja lintu
2008: The Day You Stole/Päivä jonka minulta veit

Dare: have someone say Rape is always the answer
(this was here before, I'm adding BPs)
BP if this is to a completely innocent question
DBP if rape is the answer
TPB if this is a major plot point.

I took so many dares from the old thread I won't bother to try and list them

Saying No Comment tells me everything I need to know
2009: To Be Honest

End every chapter with "I needed to call for backup."

Have one character think the Octopus species is endangered and start up a "Save the Octopus" fund.
BP if they always carry around a donation can and shake it in people's faces.

Include a hobo with a wacky sign along the lines of "ninjas killed my parents, need money for karate lessons".
Have it actually be true.

This is madness!
This
Is
NaNoWriMo!

Have a hockey player show up in the middle of your story.
BP if he's trying to play in the NHL.
DBP if all he ends up doing is driving the zamboni.
TBP if you include a song about how he drives the zamboni.
QBP if he is Sidney Crosby and he has decided he wants to drive the zamboni for a living, not play hockey anymore.
(If you do this one I want to know how you do it.)

Use the following line: "Don't worry, my little kangaroo, I will protect you!"
BP if it's said to a SO.
DBP if it's said to someone who's NOT a SO (completely unromantic/unrelated person).
TBP if they are actually a kangaroo.
QBP if nobody cracks up laughing.
Cookie if it's said by the MC to the villain during an epic battle/fight scene.
Two cookies if he's serious and he goes over to protect the villain.

Start your novel (or a chapter) with the phrase "It was a bright and sunny night."
BP if it suddenly becomes a "dark and stormy night" midway through the paragraph with no explaination.
DBP if you never explain how it's a bright and sunny night.
TBP if your characters do not live on either the North or South Pole.
QBP if your characters reference this but do not seem to find it odd.
Cookie if one of them does and then gets slapped and is forced to hold their tongue for the rest of the chapter.

They're kind of lame but do what you wish with them :)

NaNos:
2004-2007: Epic fails
2008: The Rise and Fall of Rushalee Cade (WON)
2009: Letters/It's Not You, It's Me (WON)

Leaving:
Make someone constantly plan a trip to London
BP if this person actually does it in the end, and comes back
DBP if he visits the Scientology bookstore at Tottenham Court Road
TPB if he is, in fact, a scientologist and has a secret plan that is never discovered

Jesus walks on water. Iris walks on Jesus.

Love this thread!

A character is obsessed with correcting everyone’s grammar.
BP if everyone avoids them because of this, and/or groans when they come near.
DBP if they’re crazy about it and say things like, “Did I just hear you use a comma splice?”
TBP if they correct the grammar of someone with a speech disorder and get in trouble.
QBP if this is why the villain wants to kill them.

Work the Linux vs Windows debate into your story.
BP if it’s important to the plot.
DBP if the hero uses Linux and the villain uses Windows.
TBP if the villain loses due to the Blue Screen of Death.

Someone informs the world that “Drugs are bad, mmkay.”
BP if they’re serious.
DBP if they’re a counsellor.
TBP if they have a giant head.
QBP if you know what the hell I’m talking about.

Every time you stop writing, God kills a muse.
Please, think of the muses.

NaNo '09: Ironic Punishments Dept.

Gah, I am so taking this! Thank you so very much!

Have a character ask another, "How is babby formed?"
BP if the character also asks "How girl get pragnent?"
TBP if the other character's response begins, "They need to do way instain mother>"
QBP if it follows the entire outline of http://www.somethingawful.com/flash/shmorky/babby.swf

And...
If the snow
Buries my...
My neighborhood

Have a random giant dancing chocolate ball appear in the middle of a very serious conversation between your MC and another charcter.
BP: Everyone stops to stare at it for a full 300 words. Then the conversation is centered around the random giant dancing chocolate ball.
TBP: The other charcter stomps on it and the conversation continues.
QBP: The MC tries to eat the crushed chocolate ball while carrying on the very serious conversation.
QuintBP: No one even notices.

NaNo08- Wish
NaNo09- According to Sarah

taking this

leaving these

Dare: Have a character that raises bunnies
BP if the bunnies are called "plot bunnies"
DBP if the bunnies really are plot bunnies

Dare: Have a character participate in NaNo
BP if they win
DBP if their story includes a character participating in NaNo
add BP for each character writing a story for NaNo about a character writing for NaNo

http://caffeineaddictsanonymous.blogspot.com/

This looks like a hilarious thread, and I wanted to put in my few bonus points ;)

Dare: Have one of your characters say "I'll give you a cookie if you do this for me." to another character.
Bonus Points if the character actually gives said other character a cookie.
Double Bonus Points if it's a chocolate chocolate chip cookie.
Triple Bonus Points if the character your using for this is the MC.
Quadruple Bonus Points if your MC says this to the villain in the middle of the big end fight.
Quintuple Bonus Points if the villain accepts.

Made and is going to use this next one :D

Dare: Have your MC constantly in all sorts of trouble/always has one problem or another.
Bonus Points if whatever your MC gets into is completely stupid and/or silly (Bombarded with acorns by pissed tree sprites).
Triple Bonus Points if your MC had nothing to with why the problem started.
Quadruple Bonus Points if your MC totally looses it and goes berserk.
Quintuple Bonus Points if have this happen to more characters than your MC.
One of those chocolate chocolate chip cookies mentioned earlier if you make this how they beat the main bad guy/girl.

Have one character die per chapter.
BP if none of them (except possibly the ones in the first few chapters) are throwaway characters.
DBP if the characters who die are the [number of chapters] between MC and the throne/presidency/what have you.
TBP if everybody thinks MC is killing off the characters to become the ruler.
QBP if in the last chapter it's revealed that MC actually was the one killing the characters off.

I don't know if this was covered in the first thread, but I'm not going to read all 500 posts!

Name each of your chapters after movies!
BP if they have absolutely nothing to do with what's happening!
DBP if they actually DO have something to do with your story
TBP If you include a line of dialogue from that movie in your chapter.

I'm doing this one!

___________________________________
*ML for Tucson, AZ*
You see these? You see these words? These are REVLON words!

:D Putting my two cents in on this thread.

Dare: Have your MC find out where is Waldo?
BP: If Waldo is the villain.
DBP: If the MC runs through a Where's Waldo convention with everyone dressed up as Waldo.
TBP: If Waldo's been stalking the MC the entire time.

...that actually sounded funnier in my head. Oh well.

Dare: The MC is on a quest to find out... who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?
BP: If that's the entire plot
DBP: If everyone else besides the MC already knows who stole the cookeis from the cookie jar.
TBP: If the villain stole the cookies from the cookie jar.
QBP: if it was the MC who stole the cookies from the cookie jar (and is trying to cover up their guilt by blaming someone else)

This actually fits my plot!!

Others:

Dare: Have a character answer a question with "Suspension of disbelief"
BP: This actually answers the question
DBP: This is no way related to the question
BP & love: you understand this

Dare: Have someone walk into the bathroom while your character is in the shower
BP: it's your MC
DBP: it's someone of the opposite sex
TBP: it's a plot point
QBP: it's a recurring theme

Dare: Have a chapter be based on something from MLIA or FML
BP for each chapter written this way
TBP: end the chapter with "MLIA" or "FML"

http://caffeineaddictsanonymous.blogspot.com/

Have an MC date five different people at once.
BP if none of them know it.
DBP if they all DO know it and continue to date the person anyway.
TBP if they take their five boy/girlfriends all on a date at once.

Make a character participate in NaNo. (That's lame, but it's not the only part!)
BP if it becomes a major plot point.
DBP if they browse the Dares thread.
TBP if they include this dare in their novel.

Have a character who is very superstitious and is obsessed with chain emails/texts.
BP if they get all freaky on other characters who don't pass along chains.
DBP if one of the chains actually comes true (e.g., "if you don't pass this along your mom will die...")

These are kinda lame...

2007: The Regency Street Book Club - realistic fiction 50k/50k
2008: Indigo - fantasy 58k/50k
2009: Witching Hour - YA

"Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies." --Adrienne Gusoff

[quote=Celedë_Anthaas
My favourite dare from last year (it got me 10 k in about two days!!)

- Write Chapter X (can be about anything)
- Then, write a chapter called 'Once more, with pirates!', which is essentially Chapter X, but with pirates.
- Then, write a chapter called 'Once more, with pirates AND ninjas!', which is (logically) Chapter X with pirates and ninjas.

DARE: :Have your MC go hunting.
BP: If they manage to kill their game with a fork, spoon or spork.
TBP: If the manage to kill their game with a lunch tray.
QBP: If what they're hunting runs away and your MC says "I lost the game", and subsequently makes your other characters lose the game as well.
OVER 9000 BP: If what your MC is hunting is giant, man-eating pigeons who speak with Brooklyn accents and comment on how delicious your MC and their party is.

I would totally like to read an excerpt of this if you do it! xD

2009: Ad Astra Per Aspera (Sci-Fi/Fantasy) - WON! (51K)

Dare: base your entire novel on your music collection
BP: If you name your chapters after the song that happens to be playing when you start them
DBP: If you name all your characters after musicians/bands
TBP: If you name all your characters after songs
QBP: If you make all the dialogue lyrics

Call me Mae.

Consider this accepted. Should inject a bit of humor into my otherwise dark story. And I'll leave this.

Dare: Have a character flipping a coin randomly.
BP: It's a personality quirk.
DBP: It happens at the strangest points in the story.
TBP: No one seems to notice, let alone care.
QBP: Exactly ONE and ONLY ONE character comments on it as out of place.
QuintupleBP: Neither the coin flipper, nor the one commenting are main characters.

I'm sooo using this, with some tweaking :D
Edit to dare=
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.
Double Bonus Points if the streaker isn't a random person.
Triple Bonus Points if the streaker ends up being a crucial character in the story.
Quadruple Bonus Points if the streaker answers all the questions the MC needs answered.

Here's what I'm dropping off:

Dare: Have a male character babysit a large number of little girls.
Bonus Points if they subject him to a makeover.
Double Bonus Points if they dress him up too.
Triple Bonus Points if he has to go home wearing both the dress and the makeup.

And thanks, Probit_Return for using my dare. I hope you have fun with it :3

I love these, they would fit into my story!

Barb

NaNo 2009 -Unwanted Legacy -Winner! 50367 word count!!!

You're welcome Alex. I'm looking forward to it. I'm planning on throwing an "only if you admit you lied" into it as well.

You are my hero and if I wasn't writing a fantasy novel I totally would be all over snagging this dare.

Adding to this dare:
QBP if you are able to add in BSD vs. MacOSX debate

And my husbands addition:
Super bonus points if your hero is Linus Torvalds

Taking!

DARE: Have a conversation cut short because one of the participants scream out in agony then compose themselves to say in a slightly different, declaring voice, "This body has been repossessed," then walk out.
BP: If the conversation is serious or important
DBP: if the character is the main character
TBP: If the other character(s) go on a quest to find the rest of the conversation (in whatever form it is in now).
QBP: If this is the entire plot.
A cookie if you can come up with a reason for the character to have a repossess-able body in the first place.

NaNoing from FOO!

I'm snagging this one. I love it with all of my heart.

I'm leaving:

Have a character make a special trip to milk a cow
BP if the cow is not at a farm
DBP if the character drinks the milk right after milking the cow
TBP if the character brings a cookie to eat while drinking the milk

Blog: aboutavern

Write your novel as a series of conversations using the Socratic method.
BP if it's used to attempt to decide mundane issues such as where to eat, ending in aporia.

This is funny. I'm not going to use it but it reminds me of the Resident Evil: Outbreaks. In those two games there is a character who has a lucky coin who you can make flip randomly even if zombies and monsters are in the room.

Alright, I'm taking a ton of these, so I'll post one.

My Dare...
Have a character dream that they turn into a muppet.
BP if it's the main character
DBP if they are convinced that it is real
TBP if it is real
QBP if they form a muppet army and take over the world.

(actual dream that i had, only my muppet army took down Troy from High School Musical!)