NaNo Dares...

One of the traditional AW dares is to use as many names of AW'ers in your story as you can.

TheIT said:

One of the traditional AW dares is to use as many names of AW'ers in your story as you can.

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This one looks like fun! Insta-charactermatic.

Sassee said:

Dare:

Each day, take one of your characters and write a small blurb about them (1500-2500+ words) doing whatever and then stopping in a specific spot during a specific time. Make the next day's character end up in the same place/time as the last. Once you've done this for all of your characters, continue the story from there.
*Bonus points if you come up with 20 or more fleshed out characters that end up in the same spot.
**Double bonus points if you involve them in a massive brawl at the end.
***Triple bonus points if they are in a cramped space (such as a small office) during this massive brawl.
****Quadruple bonus points if one of them pulls a deus ex machina to end it.

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Wait, so...you're going back in time for each day's writing and replaying more or less the same time frame to get them together?

AnnieColleen said:

This one looks like fun! Insta-charactermatic.

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Oh, yeah. Last year I had a bunch of street urchins to name in my story, so I had a ready made list. Plus, as bonus ChaosTitan became a swear word, or rather "chaos" did.

TheIT said:

Oh, yeah. Last year I had a bunch of street urchins to name in my story, so I had a ready made list. Plus, as bonus ChaosTitan became a swear word, or rather "chaos" did.

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I remember that! (I was lurking then.)

Nonono, not the characters going back in time (though that could be fun)...what I meant was, the narration going back in time...following each different character through what they were doing in the span of time before the meet-up point.

I'm probably way overthinking this!

You guys actually do the dares? You mean it's not just for the fun of listing preposterous ideas?

Last year's dares included a monkey, cannibals, a sex scene, AW names, and a favorite childhood toy. Bonus to anyone who could include all in a single scene.

I never did work in cannibals.

AW characters: Aunt Susie from Omaha, Step-dad Howie, Old Man Clary (an obnoxious ghost), a gal named Sage, a gaseous pug named Billy Thrilly, and a bunch of secretaries named Melissa, Kelly, Ruth, Beth, and Gayle.

Well, I was going to use the list of names of those friendly folks who send me viagra offers, stock deals and other helpful spam to be cannon fodder in my story.

But hmm, I can be flexible...

My brother requested to be in my novel...I told him he had to pick a different name, though. Way too distracting otherwise. But I'm finding characters I never would've thought of without the dare!

Ok, here's one. Use the phrase "no plot, no problem" in the novel, so that it makes sense in context.

Ooooh gooodies

Just suscribed to this joy

Somebody said we need more dares.

Include a character who keeps asking "are we there yet?" or mentioning the happy ending, regardless of how far from the actual end it is.

Arrange successive paragraphs or sentences so that the first letters spell out a rude message.
+ if it's rude without being vulgar (or, if it must be vulgar, at least creatively so)

Include a hot potato in your story: each character successively is in possession of a potato.
+ if it's not a potato-eating situation
++ if it's the same potato
+++ if they're actively trying to get rid of it, not just taking turns
++++ if someone is actively trying to get rid of it and keeps getting it back
+++++ if it's then stolen

Mr. Ian Woon and friends -- my version of him is Owin Moran -- came up in another thread, so I thought I'd post the link here too.

Anyone else up for giving these nice people a part?

hah. Not that I have any intention of doing these, but they are quite funny. Okay, I'll try to think of one real quick... let's see....

include your current daily word count in your story (ie: if you're on word 11,200, your 11,201st word should be 11,201)

+ if you use the word 'doom' within the next four sentences.
++ if there are bunnies involved.
+++ ...if they're pink.

maybe not as elaborate as some--but it gives you a hint if just how my brain works. Scared yet?

They are fun -- and, yes, I'm scared now!

I don't know how many I'll actually include, but I like to think of them.

Another one from the NaNo forum: include the Traveling Shovel of Death somewhere in the story. That is, kill of a character using a shovel as the weapon in some way, shape, or form.

(This one I'm using; just about to write it, actually.)

Denryu said:

+ if you use the word 'doom' within the next four sentences.
++ if there are bunnies involved.
+++ ...if they're pink.

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Let me guess, you've got something against the Energizer Bunny?

The scary thing is that I could probably use this one quite easily. Hmmm...

TheIT said:

Let me guess, you've got something against the Energizer Bunny?

The scary thing is that I could probably use this one quite easily. Hmmm...

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haha. Actually, no. Because I seem to just keep going and going too, it would be rude to hate him for it--though now that you mention it, he IS pink, isn't he?

Actually, I kind of accidentally coined the phrase "pink fluffy bunnies of doom" by claiming that EVERYTHING sounds better with the words "of doom" tacked onto the end of it. (try having this conversation with the nearest sane person if you can't live without a white jacket with really long sleeves. weird them out enough and it's free ...or so I hear.) ....so, yeah, doom bunnies, kind of a thing.

And aside from that, I really liked Anya in Buffy. I do believe the bunny costume she wore that once MAY have been pink...but it's been a while, I'm not even remotely positive.

ahem, that aside, TheIT, if you actually do it, I demand an excerpt...so I can laugh like crazy. haha.



And AnnieColleen--You should be. Ever since they let me out of the padded room and gave me back my tin foil, all kinds of crazy shit has been happening. (kidding, of course)

Denryu said:

ahem, that aside, TheIT, if you actually do it, I demand an excerpt...so I can laugh like crazy. haha.

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Done, and excerpt posted on the NaNo site. Though I spelled out the wordcount. Sounds more impressive that way.