Comments | halfshellvenus: LJ Idol Season Ten: "Burn, Baby, Burn"

halfshellvenus

LJ Idol Season Ten: "Burn, Baby, Burn"

Apr 10, 2017 12:07

Burn, Baby, Burn
idol season ten | week 14 | 714 words
Campfire Storiesx-x-x-x-x ( Read more... )

original_fiction, my_fic, real lj idol, crack

Comments 27

adoptedwriter April 10 2017, 20:14:58 UTC

Clever!

halfshellvenus April 10 2017, 20:20:13 UTC

I get such a kick out of writing crack. It's the only thing keeping me sane right now, as much of an oxymoron as that might sound. ;)

i_17bingo April 10 2017, 21:28:36 UTC

This was wonderful! Of all the ideas I had for this topic, not one of them was about the campfire itself. And their personalities were fantastic.

halfshellvenus April 10 2017, 23:28:56 UTC

Thank you! I'm in such a mood for crack right now (I was afraid the inspiration might desert me, after taking last week off, but I'm still in the groove!)

The first evil thought that occurred to me with this prompt was to turn it on its head, and write about the stories campfires tell about US.

Not always flattering, as it turns out, but that's the way the flip side goes too!

So glad you enjoyed it. :D

mamas_minion April 11 2017, 23:50:28 UTC

Wow, very unique way to take the topic. I love the idea of the camp fires themselves being the characters.

halfshellvenus April 12 2017, 17:24:55 UTC

Thank you! And we are the stories they tell-- our weird habits, our good or bad food "offerings", and what our monster stories look like to them. ;)

Hiding the identity of the characters while making them clearly distinct was the biggest challenge of this whole thing!

marlawentmad April 12 2017, 01:05:35 UTC

This is such a great take on the topic! It is so entertaining.

halfshellvenus April 12 2017, 17:25:33 UTC

Thank you very much! This is the only thing saving my own sanity at this point, until work settles down. :O

In several months. Maybe. o_O

rayaso April 12 2017, 18:50:47 UTC

You hid the true identities of your characters so well! This was great. My first thought was that the characters were animals, like bears, eating campers and what they left behind, but having them turn out to be fires was fantastic! I love your crack -- it is so over the top funny! I have read this 3 or 4 times now, and I love it. Many kudos, topped with bravos.

halfshellvenus April 13 2017, 06:56:12 UTC

I'm glad you went through the animal detour first, hopefully after first thinking they were people. I could even see the characters being dogs that went along for the trip and had some inconsiderate owners.

Just so long as you were convincingly misled until that moment of, "Wait a minute!" and then "Oh, that is SO wrong!"

In that case, my work here is done. :D