Uh huh. Be mean some more, Kat. Please.

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)

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.

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).

Hmm. This sounds as if it's got potential. I'd be willing to play with something like this.

Where do you go with "Examples sentances from my sixth-grade grammar book"?

That would be a good Xander POV drabble as he tries to reach Dark!Willow.

Or, for that matter, "All of Chewbacca's Dialogue in the Comic Book Version of The Empire Strikes Back"?

Andrew faced with things he can't talk away.

If I'd had coffee, I'd write it.

It's odd, because I hear that this week brought out some steller drabbles. Which I haven't read, so I can't really judge.

I really liked the Sunday100 challenge, because I found working from a title liberating, and there were enough titles on the list that I could come up with a LOT of ideas.

The challenges I can't do are the ones that are too specific -- I remember skipping one about "a woman on the phone, a set of keys in her hand," because I don't work well from specific scenarios. Just goes to show how different writing styles and muses are...

I agree that doing the "10 important dates in 1999" list based on airdates didn't work, though. The first time I saw one, I was like wow, that's cool, but by the fifth one I thought it was really dull.

Edited to add: Kat, that was *amazing.* Very creepy.

Cereal:

Where do you go with "Examples sentances from my sixth-grade grammar book"?

That was one I had on my list of possibilities. I'd do it with Dawn diagramming sentences as she thought about her big sister -- she would have been in sixth grade during S3. Not very plotty, but it could be melancholy and evocative and all of thiose drabbly things.

I think the titles are great. I bookmarked the site so I can maybe use them as future titles.

I have to admit, title challenges were the first sort to suck me in.

The Buffy Angel Improv Stephen King Title Challenge remains the one I think made me happiest.

Huh. Other folks have all sorts of ideas. Clearly the Smallville/Lois+Clark/Batman crazy-AU -crossover-monster- plot-bunny really has sucked all the brain cells out of my muse.