Be Careful What You Wish For

[duniazade]

Title: Be Careful What You Wish For

Team Name: Spy for the Death Eaters
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG-13? Under the cut for foul language.
Challenge: Creative Cursing
Characters: Hermione/Severus/Ron

Disclaimer: I am making no profit and no copyright infringement is intended. Any characters or settings recognizable from the Harry Potter series belong to J

Comments

[dickgloucester]

A most excellent curse!

[duniazade]

That was a most excellent challenge - I think I'll revisit it later. Maybe we should do cursing competitions, each one of us taking up a character?

Thank you!

[dickgloucester]

That's a good idea. How shall we organise it?

[duniazade]

Maybe we should first pick our characters, then tune our voices in a comment duel on someone's journal - yours, or Buzzy, or mine - then polish the results and put them on GS100?

[a_bees_buzz]

Oooh! Can I get in on this?

[duniazade]

Ooh, of course! Welcome! As I was saying to Dickie, we could pick characters and do a warm-up on our respective journals for as long as we need - a week, or more - then polish the results and put them on GS100. How does that sound?

[dickgloucester]

So, SSHG, plus someone else?

[a_bees_buzz]

I think so. But, should the someone else be romantic rival, a meddling friend, an evil antagonist, a precociously foul-mouthed offspring, or something else?

[dickgloucester]

Any one of the above, I should think, as long as the outcome involves cursing.

Perhaps one of us should write the invite to this particular sub-challenge/duel, for all of us to publish on our pages?

Bugger - gotta go.

[duniazade]

Yes, would you like to write the invite?

No problem, see you later.

[a_bees_buzz]

Sure, write it up. A little round-robin action should help me get back into the swing of things nicely, and I do love this challenge. This is going to be fun! *rubs hands and cackles like a mad thing*

[dickgloucester]

So who's going to host it on their journal until we transfer it to GS100? And is the idea that we just pick who we want, or must it be more organised?

Sorry - tired and fudge-brained.

[a_bees_buzz]

Duniazade seems to have volunteered - I'm not fussed about who hosts. But we should probably work out a format first. One way would be to just set a rotation - who goes first, second, and third - and then whoevers turn it is can write whatever they want as long as it fits the challenge. Another way would be to assign characters and each stick to those characters. What do you think?

[duniazade]

I'm not fussed either about who hosts, but if you girls want me to do it, it's a pleasure. Only I'll need a bit of help, as I'm inexperienced.

What I had in mind initially was that different characters would have different cursing repertoires and styles, so I'm slightly partial to assigning characters, but in this case I suppose we should define a narrative framework. Buzzy, you have already participated in a round-robin,did you do any previous brainstorming, and did you do it in public (that could be fun...) or by mail?

[a_bees_buzz]

We had a comm where we did brainstorming. First the general premise of the story and organizing who would go when. Then, once the writing started, there were a couple of moments when we discussed where the story was going and what we saw as the end point we were working toward. The comm also got used a couple of times when someone needed to switch days. It worked pretty well.

[duniazade]

That's perfect - how should we call the comm? "The Foul-mouthed Harpies"?