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The Writey Ducks! (TEAM 3)
| honeyelle | The Dare Thread |
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Ah! I figured out which topic was missing! The Dares! Repost and fill it up! :D |
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oct. 3, 2008 - 19 02
My stock-standard yearly dare is simply "Name a character after me." Peter, Peter Hayward, Peter C. Hayward, The Zaniak, Mr Hayward, Peter C. Sexypants...I'm not fussy!
----------2005 - "Trevor James: Space Actor"
2006 - "Writing a Novel"
2007 - "Basil Turret and the Prisoner of Algebra"
2008 - "The Black Handle Club"
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oct. 3, 2008 - 22 12
Warg! My dare thread disappeared? Which one of you there MLs did it. Eh, I don't care.
Kill a character named Peter C. Hayward Esq. in your novel.
BP: If he is killed in the prologue.
DBP: If it was in a way relating to electricity OR if the Travelling
Shovel of Death was involved.
TBP: If the electricity went through the shovel.
Everybody's (two people) doing it! (It got started last year. (I don't randomly hate
Peter.))
Aaaand websinthe said 'Everyone here is dared by me to, in your entire novel, use the passive
voice.'
That cover it?
----------Jechocochan
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oct. 3, 2008 - 22 17
Hooray for backups!
Speaking of, everyone is dared by me to backup their novel in several places this year. It's a serious issue. I almost lost my novel last year ;_; Thank God for backups.
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Nano '06: Waking Dreams :~: Won
Nano '07: Lines Drawn In Red :~: We'll see
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oct. 3, 2008 - 22 17
LOL Actually I was thinking the same thing. Then I remembered - when the site crashed the other day everything from Sept 30 and October 1 vanished mysteriously :/ I can only remember my dares had monkeys with fez's in them :( Poo.
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Ellie
co-Municipal Liaison for Brisbane, Australia
Captain of the Writey Ducks aka TEAM 3!
NaNo Title: tba
Genre: Thriller/Suspense
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oct. 3, 2008 - 22 24
Thanks for that jechocochran :D
Does that mean QDP if you kill Peter C. Hayward Esq. if he is killed in the prologue, with the electrified Travelling Shovel of Death, in the passive voice?
----------Websinthe (Kieran)
My work: http://kieran-tales.blogspot.com
My Blog: http://websinthe.blogspot.com
My Comic: http://websinthe.thewebcomic.com
Genre: Suspense/Sci-Fi
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oct. 3, 2008 - 23 23
Ooooh the poor Peters. And it might. You'd have a lot of points by the end of it is all I can say.
----------Jechocochan
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oct. 4, 2008 - 03 18
:(
----------2005 - "Trevor James: Space Actor"
2006 - "Writing a Novel"
2007 - "Basil Turret and the Prisoner of Algebra"
2008 - "The Black Handle Club"
51,282 / 50,000
oct. 4, 2008 - 03 20
If you get killed you can always come back as a zombie :)
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Ellie
co-Municipal Liaison for Brisbane, Australia
Captain of the Writey Ducks aka TEAM 3!
NaNo Title: tba
Genre: Thriller/Suspense
50,586 / 50,000
oct. 4, 2008 - 03 29
Which, if I have anything to do with it, is pretty much guaranteed! :-)
----------2005 to 2007 - The Array Wars Trilogy!
2008 - Half Life Zero: No Life
50,247 / 50,000
oct. 4, 2008 - 04 07
I'm having trouble getting a Peter in my novel. There's certainly none in the prologue. Maybe best friend #1 can be a Peter! But I took a liking to the chap so... Yeah... Hitting him with an electrified shovel...
----------Jechocochan
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oct. 4, 2008 - 06 35
It's okay, Peter. Killing you off with electrified shovels is how we show that we care.
I mean, at least you won't have to suffer through the rest of our novel, amirite folks?
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Nano '06: Waking Dreams :~: Won
Nano '07: Lines Drawn In Red :~: We'll see
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oct. 6, 2008 - 22 47
I think I did that last year...
Yes. Yes I did. Do I get a cookie? :P
12,011 / 50,000
oct. 6, 2008 - 23 32
Sure, I'll bring 'em to the KOP like I usually do :P
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Nano '06: Waking Dreams :~: Won
Nano '07: Lines Drawn In Red :~: We'll see
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oct. 7, 2008 - 17 16
Yeah, death in the prologue isn't so bad, you won't be associated with our crappy novels.
In fact, I claim awsome points because I just worked out how to do it, and still keep my novel serious :P
I dare you to work the rabbit of doom from monty python into your story
----------Double points if you kill him with the holy hand grenade
Triple points if you do it in the castle of anthrax! (So much peril...)
NaNo 07 - A Single White Plumeria - 50,032 (Bloody hell iit was close!)
NaNo 08 - ...uh, help...
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oct. 7, 2008 - 21 18
Have someone in your nano have a fetish for pasta.
BP if it's that moose-shaped pasta you can get from Ikea
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oct. 8, 2008 - 01 50
...you can get pasta from ikea?
damn, i need to go to this store one day!
----------NaNo 07 - A Single White Plumeria - 50,032 (Bloody hell iit was close!)
NaNo 08 - ...uh, help...
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oct. 8, 2008 - 02 00
haha yeh they sell heaps of cool food there after the checkouts.
And then there is the awesome $1 hotdogs. Oh my they are wonderful.
Another dare I thought of, from All My Circuits::
Have one of your charactres suffer from.... AMNESIA!
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oct. 19, 2008 - 19 12
Include a RHINO in your book!
A freakin' RHINO!!
----------2005 - "Trevor James: Space Actor"
2006 - "Writing a Novel"
2007 - "Basil Turret and the Prisoner of Algebra"
2008 - "The Black Handle Club"
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oct. 19, 2008 - 19 13
RHIIIIIIIIINOOOOOOOO
----------2005 - "Trevor James: Space Actor"
2006 - "Writing a Novel"
2007 - "Basil Turret and the Prisoner of Algebra"
2008 - "The Black Handle Club"
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oct. 26, 2008 - 22 34
I found an old poem I wrote years ago today, called "The Kitten Came from Outer Space."
New dare: Get that sentence in your novel somewhere.
----------2005 - "Trevor James: Space Actor"
2006 - "Writing a Novel"
2007 - "Basil Turret and the Prisoner of Algebra"
2008 - "The Black Handle Club"
50,051 / 50,000
oct. 26, 2008 - 23 57
A Nano Rhino perchance? ;)
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oct. 27, 2008 - 15 35
A sparkly zombie?
Sorry, needed to be said :).
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oct. 27, 2008 - 18 27
Ok I can do this . teaser coming
"The Zaniak stepped out of the deep cave for the first time since the Burning Wings disapeared from the skies. It had been so long that he did not recognise his surroundings. There were strange creatures upright on two legs, standing around the face of the cave. They were running every which way, and making horrid high pitched noises. The Zaniakshrugged his disconcern and began grabbing at the running creatures. After so long in hibernation he was rather hungry."
So, there is a taste of what will come inmy novel. :)
----------slognoth
"Stay Safe, Stay Strong, Soar Like a Dragon"
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oct. 30, 2008 - 11 24
Ok - this comes as a result of a handful of dares that I learnt came from this thread/forum to begin with, as well as another one. The following comes straight out of my character profiling notes, and I thought I'd post to give everyone a bit of a laugh...
"Petrina Hayward: 27 (as at 2015) - DOB: 1988
Born ‘Peter’, but had an identity crisis when he was 17. Associated himself with a female body image rather than a male one. Started performing as a cross-dressing exotic dancer/stripper at a club in Wollongong, where he earned enough money to pay for a sex change and associated hormone therapy. Was dissatisfied with the breasts that s/he grew, and moved to performing at a higher profile club that paid more. Had breast augmentation surgery in 2011. After performing for another couple of years s/he developed a heroin habit. Police picked Petrina up after the club it was performing at was raided by the Drug Squad. Petrina was found with a commercial quantity of heroin on its person, and charged. Sentenced in 2014 to two years gaol. Knows Tina due to the fact that her supplier and his supplier are the same person. Associates with Tina and Angela, and is rather eccentric. Petrina’s boyfriend comes in to visit every week, bringing gifts of new fiction. Petrina receives a copy of 'Outer Erf – A LoTR parody' on a visit a few weeks before Angela’s world starts to implode. The three discuss a few hilarious lines out of the book – including one about an exploding ibis."
*wonders if anyone can top that* :D
----------"When one states that they are the 'picture of mental health', one wonders if they mean of the Picasso variety or the average 6yo..."
Sanity is for the uninspired.
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oct. 31, 2008 - 14 57
Oh PLEASE not Wollongong! I will never be able to look Anthony Warlow in the eye again without thinking of this and killing myself laughing (he already KNOWS I'm a freak!)!
XD But that is an inspired choice, I must say.
Then I suggest:
Include a blue, genderless humanoid with an androgynous name who aspires to be a marine biologist but dislikes boats.
----------Tonight, I'll take from all mankind, conquer all the odds!
And I feel I'll live on FOREVER!...
Show the world that tonight and forever the name to remember is the name
EDWARD HYDE!
*is slapped by Star-scorch*
Me: YOU are the character, you will do as
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nov. 1, 2008 - 03 47
Include reference to a ping pong tournament...
----------You gots to start somewhere...
50,045 / 50,000
nov. 1, 2008 - 03 52
Describe a character perving.
DP if it's the protagonist
TP if it's on a relative
QP if it's a same sex relative
----------Websinthe (Kieran)
My work: http://kieran-tales.blogspot.com
My Blog: http://websinthe.blogspot.com
My Comic: http://websinthe.thewebcomic.com
Genre: Suspense/Sci-Fi
50,586 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2008 - 06 04
As you may recall, I had a "Thursan Yak" in my second novel. Sorta named after you, if you squint hard enough...
Today, however, I named a character in my new novel after you.
She is a nurse: Peta Hayward. If she makes another appearance in the novel -- and I suspect she's actually on the S+R helicopter on its way to Cairns -- we may well discover that her middle name is Christine and that, working from those initials, her beau likes to call her his "little peach"!
It's possible she's a survivor -- but then, it's also possible she'll get her brains eaten! One can never be sure in a Zombie uprising... :-)
----------2005 to 2007 - The Array Wars Trilogy!
2008 - Half Life Zero: No Life
50,586 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2008 - 06 13
I was in here to let Peter know a character named after him made it into my novel. Then I saw this post of yours about backing up.
Yay for backing up.
What I have actually done for the last few years is carry around a USB memory stick with my novel (among other things) on it. I use a "synchronise" batch file to synch it to whichever machine I have it plugged into, with the end result that I end up having three copies of my work: one at home, one at work, one on the memory stick.
This year I've modified that approach slightly. I've started using CVS to keep all my coding efforts in, and my novel is also being stored in CVS. Because I'm the only person using the CVS server, I can get away with transporting the CVS repository itself on my, uh, 320Gb portable USB drive. So now I have three copies (four if you count the laptop, which I also use occasionally) of the repository, and because it's CVS I can actually roll my novel back to its state on any particular day. (Will I ever need to do that? Dunno. But anything is possible, I guess...)
----------2005 to 2007 - The Array Wars Trilogy!
2008 - Half Life Zero: No Life
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nov. 5, 2008 - 06 42
DP if it's the protagonist
TP if it's on a relative
QP if it's a same sex relative
I'll totally describe my MC perving on another girl. But I refuse to make it a relative.
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