The 2018-2019 Sekrit Solstice Sci-Fi/Fantasy Story Swap!

I'm definitely game!!!!

Give: I am primarily a fantasy writer! I can dip into Sci-fi (and wouldn't mind being pushed to do a bit more of it truth be told). If somebody really wants fantasy erotica I can probably swing that. Also good at silly stuff (again in the fantasy realm).

Receive: I'd like something from a 'normal' person in an otherwise fantastical world. A butcher who is inconvenienced by the necromantic plague sweeping the land because the stock won't stay still anymore. The space station gift shop clerk who has to deal with aliens that can't eat the food or wear the clothes he/she is selling, but they want to try them anyways. Something silly (Pratchett-esq, I suppose)!

themindstream said:

That sounds like totally best thing for brainstorming to me. (But I may be biased because I am lonely sick ball of misery this morning and also way behind on my FFC prompts.)

Am tempted to make note of my favorite prompts to Cobra this year as one or two do jump out at me. But some of the fun is working with the unexpected too.

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You can do the thing, themindstream!!! for the lonely, sick feelings.

TBH, I always tell Cobra a few of my favorites. While I've gained a lot of writing confidence by participating in this event, I'm not quite confident enough to not note favorites for fear of getting one that makes me draw a complete and total blank. Maybe I'll reach that level of confidence someday, but it is not this day.

Cobra, does it matter that my name isn't showing on your original post? I just didn't know if there's a master list elsewhere.

CobraMisfit said:

Seems I'll have to have a chat with the Story Elves about their attention to deta-

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Damn it, which one of us keeps dropping shiny baubles?

-side eyes scruffy-looking Glitter Reaper-

Blinkk said:

Damn it, which one of us keeps dropping shiny baubles?

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*whistles innocently*

I had nothing to do with that. Nothing.

J. A. Rama said:

-side eyes scruffy-looking Glitter Reaper-

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I BEG YOUR PARDON? SCRUFFY?

*sniffs indignantly*
*shifts bag of shiny baubles further back into the prompt pile*

Yes, one should pick up one's droppings.

I left flaming bags of sparkles on certain doorsteps of unnamed goats and aliens. See, Michael? I know what to do with droppings.

CobraMisfit said:

Exactly ONE WEEK left to sign up for the Sisyphus. If you, your friends, your family, your pet, or a random-stranger-you-met-that-one-time-at-the-coffee-joint-that's-simply-not-as-good-as-your-normal-spot-but-it-was-close-and-dangit-you-needed-caffeine-NOW wants to participate, let them know they still have time, but it's ah-tickin'!

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*waits with baited breath to see Cobra's prompt*

Justobuddies said:

*waits with baited breath to see Cobra's prompt*

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*Goes fishing with the baited breath*

There are a few people from last year still not signed up. I miss them.

But yeah, Cobra, where's YOUR prompt.

I think Cobra is probably doing a different system than us, instead of Giving and Receiving, he's going for Organising and Receiving everything.

This event is amazing! I'm in for both giving/receiving.

GIVING: Just about anything. Whatever I think I don't write, I end up writing in some way.

RECEIVING: Prompt: Bioplastics and elves.

No explicit parental abuse or horror. (Horresque is fine.)

Rainbow Drop points for LGBTQIA characters. (No, you don't need to work in all the letters. Extra points if you do! Neither romance nor sex scenes are required.)
Twilight Sparkle points for characters with blended identities. Examples: Half-elf, Cherokee-Irish, the living dead.

You have a time machine, Ari? Can I borrow it?

I'm so itching to start writing!

No—hangs head in shame—but I've always wanted one, just like I've always wanted a flying car as they promised way back in the '50s. I feel let down and betrayed, dadgummit!

And we still haven't gotten to Mars!

A time machine would be awesome... not so much the flying car. *doesn't like heights*

But really, Michael, looking at pictures of Mars, do you want to go there? It's kind of... dead. *g* I'd rather go someplace that has plants and growing things.

Like, maybe . . . Maine?

Michael Myers said:

Like, maybe . . . Maine?

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Oh, hell no! I left Canada to get away from cold and snow... and Maine has way more of that crap than where I lived in Canada. LOL

I would have liked to have seen more of Hawaii than the airport, but sadly, that's out of reach anymore. (Chronic illness stinks)

Michael Myers said:

Like, maybe . . . Maine?

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Maine vs. Mars sounds like the next Alien vs Predator sequel.