For the Due South Flashfiction challenge just a while back, we did Documentation, which produced some really wonderful efforts. It's amazing what you can do with a serially-amended shopping list, or the accident report for a car, or the case notes from a college counselor.
You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Buffista Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
Theodosia - Sep 22, 2003 5:05:21 pm PDT #6742 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
deborah grabien - Sep 22, 2003 5:11:28 pm PDT #6743 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Thing is, Theo, I popped over to look at the "lists" in question, and they seemed designed almost totally to be for those under 30, or those with particular, oh hell, lifestyles.
I just can't get excited about "Names that can be used in the title of the song 'Yesterday'", or "Sidewalk Etiquite"(WTF is THAT all about?) or "Words Learned While Playing Dungeons and Dragons."
Lists may be cute, but a list isn't generally a theme, and these put me right off my stroke. One of the first ones I ever participated in was one of twilite's - "write a drabble using the following elements: a set of keys, a gun, three words" and that sucker produced some of the best drabbles I've ever seen, and I wrote one of my own personal favourites from it, about Wes chasing Lilah all over the country through a series of cheap motels, always one step behind. It was that theme that got me to join that community.
But if this week's is typical, I'm outta there. It's just not where I live, nor what I what I write drabbles for.
Theodosia - Sep 22, 2003 5:18:30 pm PDT #6744 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I haven't seen those... yeah, sounds like freshman HS English composition time....
erikaj - Sep 22, 2003 5:20:44 pm PDT #6745 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I didn't like that when I got credit for it. Not that I have room to talk being as I barely stick my toes in the fandom wading pool.
askye - Sep 22, 2003 5:23:29 pm PDT #6746 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I never found where the List of lists was, so I never saw what everyone was working off of. Although in glossing's lj she said it was from McSweeny's. (I think)
One of the list is "things my father and I never talk about" I think i saw one actual story from that and then another that was a just a list of things that Xander and his father never talked about it. There's also the Ten Dates never to forget or something, which I've only seen as a list of 10 dates based on airdates and what they mean and that's not a story and there are better ways to interpert the challenge.
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2003 5:30:47 pm PDT #6747 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wow.
Kat's mean.
Nice job.
P.M. Marc - Sep 22, 2003 6:30:00 pm PDT #6748 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Damn, Kat. Wow.
Beverly - Sep 22, 2003 6:48:09 pm PDT #6749 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Uh huh. Be mean some more, Kat. Please.
Cindy - Sep 22, 2003 11:55:46 pm PDT #6750 of 10001
Nobody
kat perez killed Faith!!! kat, that was truly scary. I kept denying what I was reading, even as I was reading it. Thanks!
One of the first ones I ever participated in was one of twilite's - "write a drabble using the following elements: a set of keys, a gun, three words" and that sucker produced some of the best drabbles I've ever seen, and I wrote one of my own personal favourites from it, about Wes chasing Lilah all over the country through a series of cheap motels, always one step behind. It was that theme that got me to join that community.
But if this week's is typical, I'm outta there. It's just not where I live, nor what I what I write drabbles for.
We should do our own here or in one of our LJs, or some other sort of project (an easy one) like a serial, where we each write a chapter, and pass it along--sort of like that game you played as a kid, where you'd start a horror story (oral, not written) and stop at a scary part, and the person next to you would have build on the story you'd told (and deal with run on sentences, apparently).
(gah--need more coffee)
Am-Chau Yarkona - Sep 23, 2003 3:50:17 am PDT #6751 of 10001
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Yeah, you know-- normally, I like 'take a title from this' style challenges, but that set is very uninspiring. Where do you go with "Examples sentances from my sixth-grade grammar book"? Or, for that matter, "All of Chewbacca's Dialogue in the Comic Book Version of The Empire Strikes Back"? It's just... rather dull, and so specific that you can't expand on it.