So I was commiserating with a friend and fellow Verwrimo of mine about how the dare threads won't open for me, which made me sad as I always enjoy reading through them and laughing (and, unfortunately, regularly losing The Game).
She came up with the brilliant idea of starting a smaller dare thread, just for us Vermonters. Apparently she was considering starting the thread herself, but seeing as she hasn't done so yet, I figured I could get away with lovingly stealing her idea and presenting it as my own.
So does anyone have any dares geared directly toward Vermont writers? Or any dares in general they feel like sharing?
I shall start:
Have two girls get in a catfight. Using hair straighteners as weapons.
((By the way I lost the game))
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2006: Newsong- about 5,000- loser
2007: All the Forms of Love- 55,003- WINNER
2008: Orion's Huntress- Just over 50,000-WINNER
2009: Adventures of the HMS Siren
Current Word Count: 18500, give or take
29,311 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 17 22
While I hate you a little for making me lose the game, I can only wish to make that dare work. My plot only involves one female at the moment, and it's a fantasy-genre that doesn't know what those are.
I like this idea though
----------This will be my third year doing WriMo. My first year predates this account though. Bah. I need some tea.
30,237 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 01
Here's something for you Game-players: http://www.xkcd.com/391/
23,176 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 21 12
XKCD!!! Best webcomic I've come across yet. Seriously. I love it.
Buuuut I happen to HATE that particular comic. Namely because, well, they don't have the authority to say I've won the game, and therefore, all that's really happened is I've lost the game. Every time I see it. Which is far too often.
Also, this thread has totally come back to bite me. Every time I see it I lose the game. Joy.
----------2006: Newsong- about 5,000- loser
2007: All the Forms of Love- 55,003- WINNER
2008: Orion's Huntress- Just over 50,000-WINNER
2009: Adventures of the HMS Siren
Current Word Count: 18500, give or take
30,165 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 21 24
wait is the game the game where you lose if you think of the game. if so then i just lost the game. how many times do you think i can say the game before people starting throwing there hair straiteners at me. eeek. *runs and hides.
----------yet as that dare is rather good, i fear it will be quit hard since one of the girls is six. even though i can have it as a flash back. ummmm this might work :)
I'm not strange, this is just me. (/>.<)/_, hiiiiya!
30,237 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 06 41
I figure Randall Munroe's got as much authority to tell me I've won as anyone else does to tell me that I'm playing a game that I can't quit and can only lose.
23,176 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 09 20
Lol fair enough, John. I play under the presumption that it's my choice to play, and therefore to be upset if/when I lose. If I decided I really didn't care about it, it would be that much easier to take the comic at its word :)
And yes, Nerdygirl92, THAT game. :D Love you dearly! *brandishes a hair straightener*
Anyone have some more dares to offer?
----------2006: Newsong- about 5,000- loser
2007: All the Forms of Love- 55,003- WINNER
2008: Orion's Huntress- Just over 50,000-WINNER
2009: Adventures of the HMS Siren
Current Word Count: 18500, give or take
50,467 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 15 45
Nobody has posted a dare in a while, so I'm going to add mine:
I dare you to have someone break their leg or another body part at an otherwise critical, revealing moment, thus postponing the critical information until after said person has been transported to the hospital and taken care of.
(This is a trick I used in a nano in order to extend a scene that I felt came too early in the story. It was good for at least a thousand words).
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05- Lost & Found (finished)
06- All These Things That I've Done (finished)
07- Don't Be Cruel (finished)
08 - (none...eep!)
09 - Like a Hero (A Little Bit of Night Magic)
36,009 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 21 40
Hey, breaking a limb actually might work for me! I have a character who is quite sick and usually cannot break limbs, as is the nature of the creature. But this could be a good idea to play with his time of weakness.. *Contemplates!*
102,608 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2009 - 02 44
Would having them find out they're pregnant at a very critical moment count????
50,467 / 50,000
Nov 12, 2009 - 16 24
Ooh, pregnancy would be good, too... a bit different from a broken leg, but yeah.
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05- Lost & Found (finished)
06- All These Things That I've Done (finished)
07- Don't Be Cruel (finished)
08 - (none...eep!)
09 - Like a Hero (A Little Bit of Night Magic)
50,467 / 50,000
Nov 14, 2009 - 17 30
I'm sad that no one else put any dares up... I'm looking for a bit of inspiration on mine.
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05- Lost & Found (finished)
06- All These Things That I've Done (finished)
07- Don't Be Cruel (finished)
08 - (none...eep!)
09 - Like a Hero (A Little Bit of Night Magic)
50,467 / 50,000
Nov 14, 2009 - 17 30
I'm sad that no one else put any dares up... I'm looking for a bit of inspiration on mine.
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05- Lost & Found (finished)
06- All These Things That I've Done (finished)
07- Don't Be Cruel (finished)
08 - (none...eep!)
09 - Like a Hero (A Little Bit of Night Magic)
43,715 / 50,000
Nov 14, 2009 - 19 48
well, I took your dare and had somebody twist an ankle... but I think I posted it on the wrong thread because it isn't here.
thanks for that useful dare.
Time to barely escape out the window when your house is exploded by arsonists using PROPELLANTS.
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16,191 / 50,000
Nov 19, 2009 - 19 31
I dare you to use one or more "Characters for an Epic Tale" (which can be found here: http://www.monoscope.com/2008/06/characters_for_an_epic_tale.html)
Bonus points if you use the magic cow!
38,524 / 50,000
Nov 19, 2009 - 23 30
No magic cow, but one of my characters is an apparition--at least during part of the story. Does that count? :-)
102,608 / 50,000
Nov 20, 2009 - 12 34
I dare you to have a corpse rotting away while no one seems to notice.........
30,237 / 50,000
Nov 20, 2009 - 14 23
I'd pretty much already done that. Negotiations went badly, one group's leader got shot dead. His companions decided they wanted him to have a proper funeral, but didn't have the time or the fuel for it just then, so they tossed his corpse over the back of his horse and pretty much ignored it for the next couple of days while they roamed around the plains.
Given their lifestyle, this is not a particularly unusual kind of thing.
102,608 / 50,000
Nov 20, 2009 - 20 38
that must have been one ripe corpse!!! mine is in a snow bank....but no one seems to care that he is mia.
30,622 / 50,000
Nov 21, 2009 - 10 41
In the romance I'm writing my heroine breaks her leg. She is rescued by the hero, his sidekick and a stableboy from under a fallen tree during a storm. She ends up a filled with guilt. Also have her getting pregnant and then miscarrying just before the hero is to break down and ask to marry her (it's his baby, BTW).
----------2007: Sage / Spirit's Homecoming (et al.) - 51,849 - winner
2008: Ironbound / Liberys / Blood-Bond / Silent Antagony, Liquor of Life, The Key, The Canvas, etc. - 55,884 - winner
43,715 / 50,000
Nov 21, 2009 - 11 54
Lord, it sounds like life itself!
43,715 / 50,000
Nov 21, 2009 - 16 56
A wonderful day, writing fast, but things seem to be winding up a bit prematurely. Tomorrow I might have to stop writing for a few hours and draw some diagrams to see where the story can accept an extra corpse or two. Or ten.
Writing like this has been a real eye-opener.