We had to have it. It's a yearly tradition, even though it sort of fizzled last year.
This dare thread is just for us C. Springs region WriMos, because it's fun to dare people that you might actually see at a write-in once in a while, and because most of us don't have the time to sit and skim the pages and pages of dares in the plot doctoring forum. Keep in mind that we all write in different genres, so posting a variety of dares or slightly more generalized ones are both good ideas.
So! Have at it! I'll post a few to get you started:
*Include a fellow WriMo as a minor character.
*Include a hearse getting gas at a 7-11.
*Include two men juggling while jogging.
*Include this sentence: "He swept me off my feet, and he's never done any sweeping since.
*Have your main character get summoned for jury duty right in the middle of the action.
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--Sarah, Colorado Springs co-ML
5,074 / 50,000
Oct 21, 2009 - 15 11
wow, awesome. i'm totally doing...some kind of dare! let me put on my dare hat and see what i can come up with here...
24,064 / 50,000
Oct 21, 2009 - 20 17
Challenge accepted.
"+" Always indicates that if you were to use a point system, that an extra point is available for following through; sometimes many extra points.
*Have someone within the story who wears a variety of multicolored scarfs to the point their skin is no longer visible.
+If they are thick winter scarves.
*Include a contortionist with a sprained back.
*A man at a busstop should be having a detailed conversation with a six-foot-tall white rabbit that only he can see, and tells other characters all about.
*Include a piece of incriminating or otherwise embarrassing evidence that keeps sporadically and inexplicably popping up at inconvenient times.
+Every time it pops up and any character gives a reaction to it.
*Every time a selected primary character sneezes, something terrible or hysterical should happen of a semi-unfortunate nature.
*A character who talks to their laundry for therapeutic value.
----------+If it's the first time that laundry talks back.
"De-scriptive reasoning: You have created a world. You are alive within it.
Pre-scriptive reasoning: You ought not to meddle in the affairs you create."
"You're working on a visual cliff that you simply weren't anticipating...Don't get lost, now."
94,050 / 50,000
Oct 28, 2009 - 19 59
Challenge accepted.
The technical term for juggling while jogging is joggling (my brother used to subscribe to a juggling magazine):
+Have characters debate the legitimacy of this term
*Have a scene in which two characters communicate to each other entirely through pointing at book titles (as in the film Une Femme Est Une Femme)
+The dialogue takes place using a small private collection of books that one of the characters prizes
+The characters ONLY communicate to each other in this method
+One of the characters is a primary character and communicates in only this method
( For simplicity, a list such as this one could be used. http://www.newsweek.com/id/204478 )
*A character presents a rose to another character, but as soon as that rose changes possession, its color changes.
*A scene takes place multiple times. One character does and says exactly the same things, but other characters do not
*A character slips spoonerisms into spis heech at inopportune moments.
+If the spoonerisms make some sense
+All the spoonerisms involve kitchen utensils
*A character accidentally trips a homicidal penguin
----------Thirteen Deaths At Knife Point: A mix of lovestruck, poetic prose and paranoia-induced, bloody visions.
Cluttered Noises: Experimental Modernism.
39,530 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 14 31
*Have anyone who summons a demon have the demon have a Pine Fresh Scent instead of the typical smell of sulfur.
*Have a Character named a piece of furniture
*Make a Zombie Ninja as an enemy or ally
*An epic fight on top of a speeding train.
57,079 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 20 03
Hmmmmmm...I think I can DO that one! And I know just the lucky lady...
Chris "Stealth" Barili
----------Chris "Stealth" Barili
24,064 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 22 49
*Have a Character named a piece of furniture
Demons and pine scent? Sounds fantastically off the wall and shall fit beautifully. Accepted.
The second one, just for a point of amusement, I've already done. A dictator, in fact. Guess which piece I selected?
----------"De-scriptive reasoning: You have created a world. You are alive within it.
Pre-scriptive reasoning: You ought not to meddle in the affairs you create."
"You're working on a visual cliff that you simply weren't anticipating...Don't get lost, now."
843 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 23 12
This one might actually work for me. What good is a Western without any epic fight scenes on top of speeding trains? Thanks for the idea! If I come up with any dares, I'll be sure to post some.
~Audrea ----------
~Audrea
38,402 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 11 58
*Include a character who spends hours playing Harry Potter trivia on Facebook.
------------Sarah, Colorado Springs co-ML
3,889 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 17 58
*A scene takes place multiple times. One character does and says exactly the same things, but other characters do not
Accepted. That's an interesting idea, I certainly want to try it.
----------50,721 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 19 42
My daughter? I don't think she'd want to be in a book.
94,050 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 12 09
*A freakish weather pattern suddenly strikes! (A blizzard in a tropical area, a tsunami in a lake that devastates a town, or something equally unusual)
*The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show up, except instead of being named for Renaissance artists, they're named for Romanticism poets: Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, and Keats.
----------Thirteen Deaths At Knife Point: A mix of lovestruck, poetic prose and paranoia-induced, bloody visions.
Cluttered Noises: Experimental Modernism.
33,610 / 50,000
Nov 15, 2009 - 12 48
*Include this sentence: "He swept me off my feet, and he's never done any sweeping since.
Accepted! :D
This is probably really late to be writing this, but whatever :)
I dare you to...
*Have a main character get hiccups at an inappropriate time.
+They last for a ridiculously long time
24,064 / 50,000
Nov 15, 2009 - 18 39
+They last for a ridiculously long time
Accepted. Just the spot for it, too.
----------"De-scriptive reasoning: You have created a world. You are alive within it.
Pre-scriptive reasoning: You ought not to meddle in the affairs you create."
"You're working on a visual cliff that you simply weren't anticipating...Don't get lost, now."
94,050 / 50,000
Nov 19, 2009 - 22 56
*While listening to music, include several words from the chorus [or a verse] of the song into your next sentence
+Do this multiple times, having put your entire music collection on shuffle
+Significantly change the course of the novel just to include the words.
*Have a cult dedicated to sugar
+They all listen to the band Sugarcult as part of their secret meetings
++The band members are actually the founders of the cult.
*Bring a dead character back to life
*A character dies in a freak trombone accident (this one is a favorite from years past)
*The narrator goes insane.
+The narrator has been reliable up to this point
+The narrator is a 3rd person narrator
*Someone falls into a vat of those rubber ball things. It is important to use the word vat, not pit.
----------+The character is pushed.
Thirteen Deaths At Knife Point: A mix of lovestruck, poetic prose and paranoia-induced, bloody visions.
Cluttered Noises: Experimental Modernism.