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.

In a way, I find that the more limiting the challenge, the better my writing. The best fic I wrote (IMO) was written as part of a Lyric Wheel challenge that had a rather specific theme assigned along with the lyrics.

It's odd, because I hear that this week brought out some steller drabbles

It did. But there were a lot of pastiches, as well. I got very bored with the scattershot nature of it. Also, the list was yanked from a West Wing site. Fine for West Wing, not for me trying to see where I could take Jenny, or Joyce.

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.

But this presupposes that I know or care about Chewbacca's etc yada fishcakes. Or that I read comic books. And I don't. That's what I meant when I said they seemed aimed at a very specific lifestyle, or set of interests. I don't read comics, or hang out on ebay drunk or sober, and I haven't seen my sixth-grade grammar book in nearly forty years. That's the part I meant about it being for a younger set of writers.

So I passed. But I genuinely miss Princess Twilite and wish she was back and running the drabble challenge.

Also, the list was yanked from a West Wing site. Fine for West Wing, not for me trying to see where I could take Jenny, or Joyce.

I'm not sure what you mean by that. McSweeney's is the web/print zine Dave Eggers edits or finances or whatever. I'm not an expert on either it or the West Wing, but AFAIK one has nothing to do with the other. I can see where some of the titles might be more 20something oriented, but there were a couple hundred on the list and 68 that people used, so I don't think it's fair to say they *all* were.

If what you're saying is the same titles were used in a WW challenge, plenty of challenges for different fandoms have used the same theme, so I'm not sure how that's relevant.

I guess I don't get how the fact one theme didn't inspire *you* shows the community is going downhill.