Trial Run
ETA 03/07/07: This trial run will end on Thursday 5 p.m. PST or 9 p.m. EST.
gelsey will post the new, improved board early Friday morning.
Do invite your friends and come play :-)
Game Over
Please follow the current rules in the userinfo.
HomeStart on B square if writing original.
Start on A square if writing fanfic.
Declare which fandom you will be writing for this round.
APrompt: Ark. +3
BGenre: Biography. +2
CAction: Cursing. +1
DPrompt: Dream. +1
ECharacter: Elderly. +3
FPrompt: Fast. +1
GGenre: If writing original, write in a genre that you've never written before or rarely write.
Write smth original if writing fanfic. +3
HPrompt: Haunt. +2
IPrompt: Internet. +1
JCharacter: Journalist. +1
KPrompt: kit. +2
LWrite 5 L-words in a poem or a drabble. +2
MGenre: Memoir. +1
Player's ChoiceAnswer any prompt (A-Z) you haven't answered before.
Double the score from that prompt.
NGenre: Creative Nonfiction. +2
OPrompt: Orgasm. +2
PGenre: Pastiche. +3
QCharacter: "Queer." +2
RPrompt: rote. +2
SPrompt: salvation. +2
TPrompt: Telemarketer. +2
UUnresolved sexual tension. +3
XPrompt: Exodus. +2
YGenre: Young Adult. +1
ZPrompt: Zeitgeist. +1
ETA 03/05/07:
Once you have finished one round, you may do a second round. Go ahead and move around the board counter-clockwise instead of clockwise.
Start on Z square if writing original.
Start on Y square if writing fanfic.
If you've done the Z prompt in the first round, you may skip Z square since "Zeitgeist" is not exactly a seminal word. Cheers.
The difference between 'prompt,' 'character,' and 'genre':
"Genre" = the classifications you would find in a bookstore.
So "Genre: Young Adult" means write something that would be classified as a Young Adult book/ a book with young adults as audience.
"Character: Young Adult" means one of your characters have to be a young adult.
"Prompt: Young Adult" would be more open to interpretation. You may simply incorporate the phrase in the drabble. You may treat it as a theme and not include the phrase at all in your drabble. One of your characters may be a young adult. And so on.
ETA 03/06/07:
Pastiche
The fandom definition: transplanting a whole set of characters into another world. It's different from crossovers because in crossovers, characters from two different worlds interact.
In a way, Thursday Next is a pastiche. (IMO it's a bad novel, btw. Awesome premise but poor execution).
I am Responsible for My Rose, where Harry Potter characters are transplanted into the world of Le Petit Prince, is a pastiche.
The Wikipedia definition:
1. hodge-podge
2 a. style imitation (Regency novels written in the style of 19th C Brit Lit, for example)
2 b. parody (Don Quixote is a pastiche of medieval romances)
3. posthumous continuation of a work (say after Rowling keeled over people write a Snamione sequel to Book Seven)
Go ahead and choose whichever definition of pastiche works for you.
gelsey will post the new, improved board early Friday morning.
Do invite your friends and come play :-)
Game Over
Please follow the current rules in the userinfo.
HomeStart on B square if writing original.
Start on A square if writing fanfic.
Declare which fandom you will be writing for this round.
APrompt: Ark. +3
BGenre: Biography. +2
CAction: Cursing. +1
DPrompt: Dream. +1
ECharacter: Elderly. +3
FPrompt: Fast. +1
GGenre: If writing original, write in a genre that you've never written before or rarely write.
Write smth original if writing fanfic. +3
HPrompt: Haunt. +2
IPrompt: Internet. +1
JCharacter: Journalist. +1
KPrompt: kit. +2
LWrite 5 L-words in a poem or a drabble. +2
MGenre: Memoir. +1
Player's ChoiceAnswer any prompt (A-Z) you haven't answered before.
Double the score from that prompt.
NGenre: Creative Nonfiction. +2
OPrompt: Orgasm. +2
PGenre: Pastiche. +3
QCharacter: "Queer." +2
RPrompt: rote. +2
SPrompt: salvation. +2
TPrompt: Telemarketer. +2
UUnresolved sexual tension. +3
XPrompt: Exodus. +2
YGenre: Young Adult. +1
ZPrompt: Zeitgeist. +1
ETA 03/05/07:
Once you have finished one round, you may do a second round. Go ahead and move around the board counter-clockwise instead of clockwise.
Start on Z square if writing original.
Start on Y square if writing fanfic.
If you've done the Z prompt in the first round, you may skip Z square since "Zeitgeist" is not exactly a seminal word. Cheers.
The difference between 'prompt,' 'character,' and 'genre':
"Genre" = the classifications you would find in a bookstore.
So "Genre: Young Adult" means write something that would be classified as a Young Adult book/ a book with young adults as audience.
"Character: Young Adult" means one of your characters have to be a young adult.
"Prompt: Young Adult" would be more open to interpretation. You may simply incorporate the phrase in the drabble. You may treat it as a theme and not include the phrase at all in your drabble. One of your characters may be a young adult. And so on.
ETA 03/06/07:
Pastiche
The fandom definition: transplanting a whole set of characters into another world. It's different from crossovers because in crossovers, characters from two different worlds interact.
In a way, Thursday Next is a pastiche. (IMO it's a bad novel, btw. Awesome premise but poor execution).
I am Responsible for My Rose, where Harry Potter characters are transplanted into the world of Le Petit Prince, is a pastiche.
The Wikipedia definition:
1. hodge-podge
2 a. style imitation (Regency novels written in the style of 19th C Brit Lit, for example)
2 b. parody (Don Quixote is a pastiche of medieval romances)
3. posthumous continuation of a work (say after Rowling keeled over people write a Snamione sequel to Book Seven)
Go ahead and choose whichever definition of pastiche works for you.