2009 Dares (Part III)

Dare:
have a character who carries an old-fashioned handbag that is stuffed with random items.
BP-this character always has whatever someone needs--a lighter, a washcloth, a wrench, a bottle of water, etc.
DBP-this character saves the situation in an important moment
TBP-this character, for the first time in her life, forgets the handbag, and can't save the situation at an important moment

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Leaving a dare to get it started:

Have your MC be madly in love with a celebrity.
BP if they get to meet them.
DBP if the celebrity is the reason your MC breaks up with their love interest (If they have one)
TBP if the celebrity is the reason they get together
QBP and all my love forever if the celebrity is Joe Jonas

Dares taken: 3
Dare Points: 5

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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.

This is how I used this dare:
“Hey Bart,” I said. “I’ll give you a cookie if you get up and leave.”
Bart’s eyes narrowed dangerously.
“What did you say?” Bart asked through gritted teeth.
“I said I’ll give you a cookie to leave. A big fat chocolate chip cookie.”
“With sprinkles,” I added slyly.
“That’s it!” Bart shouted, starting toward me.
“Bart stop!” Julia screamed. She stepped in between Count Dracula and me.
“Fine,” Bart said quietly. “You know what Julia? We’re done.”
The count walked outside and left me standing there with Julia, an awkward silence between us.
“Oh wow,” I thought. “I hadn’t intended to break them up.”
Not really anyway.
I hadn’t looked at her yet. I wasn’t sure how angry she would be. I mean, she wasn’t happy with Bart, but she may not have wanted to have him dump her at a party.
I glanced quickly at her face. Surprisingly, she didn’t look angry at all…just baffled.
I sat down quietly, letting her be the first to speak.
“Finally,” was the first word out of her mouth.
I sighed in relief. She wasn’t mad.
“You’re lucky I wanted to break up with him tonight,” she said looking at me with a fake stern look.
“You can thank me later,” I said, regaining my sense of humor.

A Jesus Halloween costume, 200 kids at a house party, police, toilet paper and a muddy wheat field.
What could be better than this?
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Dares accepted: 1) Dare: Have one of your characters say "I'll give you a cookie if you do this for me."
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D: Someone crashes a wedding.
BP: The wedding was the MC's.
TBP: S/he declares, "I have come to save you!"
QBP: S/he is arrested.
QBP: S/he doesn't know the MC.

I posted the following 3 dares in the Romance section (even though my novel genre isn't romance, but I do need to go through Romance because I can't write romance to save my own life):

The MC finds his/her girl/boyfriend in one of the following situations: Boy finding his girlfriend kissing another girl; girl finding her boyfriend kissing another boy; boy finding his boyfriend kissing a girl/boy; girl finding her girlfriend kissing a girl/boy.
DBP: The boy/girlfriend caught says, "It's not what you think it is!"
TBP: If the third person suggests a threesome.
QBP: If the MC accepts

*One of the lines in your novel is, "What do you mean you're pregnant/a father?!"

*The MC dresses up as his/her best friend and gets married to the BFF's boy/girlfriend
DBP: If s/he was blackmailed into doing it.
TBP: If s/he doesn't know the person s/he's replacing.
QBP: If the person s/he ends up marrying is someone she hates OR a close family relative
QBP: If the person s/he ends up marrying is the same sex
(And because I don't know what's after QBP): If s/he gets caught after the ceremony

Good luck!

This could work, actually, in a scene I'm working up towards. I love it! -snags-

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2009: Shadows of Fate (Thriller/Murder/Suspense/Romance... I think?)

Two dares for you!

DARE: Have a character who curses at, mocks, makes fun of, or critiques the driving of others on the road even if they're doing something only mildly wrong. (AKA, this character has really REALLY bad road rage).
BP: If other characters find nothing wrong with this.
TBP: If other characters refuse to drive along with this person because of their road rage.
QBP: If that's the only thing wrong with the character's driving (In other words, they drive fine, but freak out at other people.)
A MILLION BP: If the character with road rage drives a 90's era Ford Taurus SHO. xD

DARE: Write a chapter of your novel out, then copy/paste it into this website: (www.textreverse.com) to reverse the text for fun.
BP: If you copy/paste the reversed text section and use THAT for your chapter instead of your original chapter.

"Auf Wiedersehen... meine kleine Ananas!" she said in a growly tone, before she shot him between the eyes.
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Thank you for using my dare!
I'm glad it works for you :D

Leaving a dare now~

Dare: Have one of your characters be a shape-shifter.
BP if the character can't quite control their ability.
DBP if the character shifts unwillingly according to their mood.
TBP if this character is your MC
QBP if this incidental shifting happens at a really serious moment in your story and your MC's true feeling of the situation are revealed.

Okay so I came up with a dare the other day but forgot to post it. It is kind of a silly one but hey most are! I know I will be using a few in the days to come :P

Dare: One of your main or secondary characters (who shows up a lot) is absolutely terrified of one of these four things: A deer, a ladybug, the colour orange, or wall paper.

Double dare: That character is afraid of three of those things.

Double double dare: they are afraid of all of those things and they come across some insane combination of them, (i.e. an orange wall paper with lady bugs and deer) and yes you can use that!

Dare: Include a sentient kitchen appliance that can talk or communicate in some other way
BP if it falls in love with a major character
DBP if the cahracter it falls for is the MC's love interest
TBP if it gets in a fight with the MC over the guy/girl
All the bonus points if the MC loses the fight

DARE: Have chickens wandering around the pages of your book.
Bonus Points: if you have a differant breed of chicken in each chapter
Double Bonus Points: if the chickens talk just like humans do
Triple Bonus Points: if the chickens lay square eggs
An Ice Cream Sundae with Cherry on Top: If you have read the book this dare comes from (The Return to Plain Awful by Carl Barks) and retell the story.

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DARE: Have the villian/aliens/other plants brag about a Ray of Doom. Have everyone be scared of this Ray.
Bonus Points: In the end it turns out it is a guy called Ray who keeps on saying 'DOOM' to whoever he meets

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DARE:
take a cue from an old sci-fi movies of the 40's - 50's -60's: have a town terrorized by an animal-bug-bird-fish-plant that is normaly peaceful. You pick the animal.

here are a few examples to give you an idea:

Bees become killer bees

Ants grow to the size of cars and start colonizing sky-scrapers

Pigeons become "vampires" and wait in the parks to kill people

Plants come alive and eat people

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DARE: Have an alien animal that looks just like a coat.
Bonus Points: If it's venemous.
Double Bonus Points: If a character wears one anyway.

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DARE: 
Boost your word count with Mr. Ian Woon.

Bonus Points: 
If Mr. Ian Woon randomly walks in at least once per chapter.

Double Bonus Points: 
If Mr. Ian Woon dies every time he shows up.

Triple Bonus Points: 
If your evil villain is always the one who kills Mr. Ian Woon.

Quadruple Bonus Points: 
If no one but the villain notices that Mr. Ian Woon won't stay dead.

Homemade Cookies: 
If your villain becomes obsessed with finding a way to kill Mr. Ian Woon permanently.

An Ice Cream Sundae with Cherry on Top: 
If in spite of how many times he has been killed off, Mr. Ian Woon is still alive by the last page.

Mile-High Cheesecake: 
If in spite of how many times he has been killed off, Mr. Ian Woon is the ONLY character left alive by the last page.

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DARE: Have vampires that sparkle
Bonus Points: If they sparkle because they wear glitter paint
Double Bonus Points: If they sparkle because they wear sequined tuxedos
Triple Bonus Points: If your male vampire wears pink sequined suits and purple feather boas
Homemade cookies: If your vampire is a Sweet Transvestite from Transsexual Transylvania and wears nothing but a sequined Merry Widow (ala Dr Frank-N-Furter of Rocky Horror)
A trip to the Moon: If your vampire is Liberace - glittering sequined, feathered, diamond studded concert pianist by day - evil blood sucking vampire by night

Incubus: Fear the Night

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Have a character travel to Chile instead of China by mistake, due to a typo made by their travel agency / their mom / ... After all, there's only two letters difference.

BP if this becomes a major plot point
DBP if the char doesn't notice it and still believes he's in Asia
TBP for language jokes, e.g. "Sounds like Chinese to me!"
QBP if they end up calling Pinochet a communist and comparing him to Mao

Please let me know if you use this, it could be hilarious :P

NaNo 2007: Storm's Embrace (won)
NaNo 2008: Dagboek van een Martelaar (lost)
NaNo 2009: Goudzoekers / Gold Rush (in progress)

Hehehe...gotta love the junk email box! This dare came from the subject line of one of the emails in there! XD

Dare: have someone say "spice for amorous love"
BP: if they're cooking a meal
DBP: if it's just a normal spice
TBP: if there are some awkward moments after the meal because it WAS a magical spice
QBP: if your hero and villain shared the same meal and are now in lust with each other

And this one is thanks to my ML.

Dare: have one of your characters oink like a pig. or just have a pig oink
BP: it's a crucial moment in the story
DBP: everything was silent at the time
TBP: all your characters are creeped out
QBP: all your characters aren't creeped out and laugh
QuinBP: somehow this makes the villain lose
SexBP: it ends your book

2008: The Defeat of Thistledown (50250)

Dare - your characters run role playing game campaigns in the book
BP- your MC is not the Game master
DBP - mc is begged to play because they write so well
TBP - Game is based on known fiction example, Lord Of The Rings, Harry Potter, Star Wars, etc

2008 - The Daughter Sun
2009 - Conspiring to Acts of Magic

Dare- There are random chickens lined up against the side of a road.
BP- If the chickens cause one of the characters to scream like a little girl.
TBP- If their are letters on top of the chickens heads.
QBP- If the letters spell out 'fail'
QBP- If of the characters say this outloud.
SBP- If none of the characters notice.
An ice cream sundae- if the word 'fail' somehow is a major plot point that connects everything
My soul- if the word 'fail' is so important its life or death

Words written- 9078
Characters use of drugs and alcohol- 3
Bottles of gatorade- 4
Candy- five bowls
Breakdowns- 0.5
Monster energy drinks- 0
Sanity- 90%

1. Include the Large Hadron Collider in your story.
2. Bonus points if it's not sci-fi.
3. Double bonus points if it destroys the universe
4. Triple bonus if it doesn't because a bird drops a baguette in it.

Here:

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2009-11/bread-loving-bird-shuts-do...

P: Have MC fall over a chicken and make a complete ass of themselves (either in front of love interest or someone important to them).
DP: Have them hate chicken for the rest of the book
TDP: Have them return at the end of the book and shoot the same chicken that tripped them
Cookies (!!) and icecream: Have them fall over the chicken's body

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE..

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Writing purges

Dare: Randomly insert a sentence that overuses alliteration in a completely normal paragraph, just like this gem from my own novel: "Several silent seconds slipped by like a scaly serpent slowly, sublimely serving a siesta in its sunny suite, and then the snake spoke."

BP: Write a paragraph entirely made out of sentences like this.

DBP: Write a paragraph where every single word starts with the same letter (other than words like "the" or "and").

TBP: Make this paragraph a pivotal scene in your novel.

07 - the paxtangbo; or the birth, death, and violent emotions of arnold nawrocki and others like him (WINNER)
09 - the adventures of panda bear, the magic talking snake

I actually already have the first part of ths in my book. The celebrity is one of my MCs, actually. The other MC is madly infatuated with him. They have adventures together to save the world. Sadly, it is not Joe Jonas.

Have a vampire/zombie/monster/cannibal that will only eat people who are named after food, ie, Reuben, Apple, Rice, Candy, Honey.

It totally counts. I was thinking kitchen appliance because the new coffee maker in my MC's office has been hitting on her, and I just had so much fun writing it that I thought I'd share.

And another dare, since I'm posting anyway:
Dare: Have a business meeing get interupted in order to move to another location
BP if it's an important meeting, or the move takes place at an important point in the meeting
DBP if no one thinks it's odd
TBP if they all end up going across the street to a different building to finish the meeting
QBP if it happens regularly

This actually happened when a bunch of NaNoers in my area got together last night. It was kind of awesome, and I've decided to call it a vagabond meeting

Taking about 20 million more! These are all so great!

Leaving:

Dare: Have one of your characters constantly solving a Rubik's cube using algorithms.
BP: The character says every algorithm out loud. (Right, Up, Right Inverted, Up, Right, Up, Up, Right Inverted...)
DBP: If they work on it during a huge battle/fight scene/a big part of the plot
TBP and a cookie: They never actually finish solving it, because Mr. Ian Woon comes and scrambles it everytime he's almost finished.

Dares taken: 3
Dare Points: 5

Forget diamonds. WriteorDie is a girl's best friend.

I dare you to include a "foul-mouthed five-year-old" in your NaNo.
Bonus Points if it is wearing a pink dress.
Double Bonus Points if it is male, yet still wearing a pink dress.
Triple Bonus Points if none of your characters think this odd.
Quadruple Bonus Points if you dedicate an entire chapter to this five year old, and then never mention him again.
Quintuple Bonus Points if it has nothing to do with your plot whatsoever, and your narrator apologizes for the digression.

Dare: A character is walking down the street and trips over a small dog.
BP: Its your MC and tripping over the dog kills it.
DBP: The dog is famous/ incredibly important.
TBP: The dog works for the government as an undercover agent who busts drug labs.
QBP: Your MC gets paid off by the drug cartel and is put on the FBI's top 10 most wanted persons list.
COOKIES!: The dog is called in seance during the trial against your MC he testifies that his dying wish is that your MC have his/her name cleared.
UBER COOKIES: This sequence of events has virtually no effect on your original plot line.

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!

Dare - someone dies by food poisoning due to cross contamination by an improperly sterilized food safety thermometer
DBP - if it was a health inspector in his home kitchen
TBP - if it helps your main character

Do let me know if you use it. I would try but my novel's in the wrong time period for food safety thermometers.

***Kimberly***
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Nerd
Hates Naming Characters and Places
Gets Lost

Alright, let's try this:

DARE: Add a nymphomaniac dominatrix named Matron Venus who wishes to have as many children as possible in order to continue her bloodline of evil.

BP: If she dresses like Ivy Valentine. http://www.fixedthat.com/images/Ivy_Valentine.jpg

DBP: If your MC is abducted by her.

TBP: She and your MC have a child.

Heheheh...

In one scene, have someone of on the side using a log splitter.
BP if they aren't splitting logs, but instead splitting something odd like chickens.
DBP If this happens in multiple scenes
TBP If it's not during a dream sequence.

Click Me!

dare: give your MC a mother (or mother-in-law!) who walks around constantly offering people martinis.
BP: she offers them to a group of high schoolers
TBP: they are at school at the time
QBP: they accept her offer in front of a teacher/principal
QuinBP: the teacher or principal asks for one too.

peace, love & awesomesauce!
~~melly~~

2009 NaNo Virgin!