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Here are the themes that actually seem to be in contention and which I will include in the upcoming poll. Please post here if there's something you really want to add before I start a new thread.
The Infinite Story (looping with no actual End Room)
Bloodline
Myth
Maze
It's difficult to write about a utopia and have some form of conflict. These things really depend on what your personal utopia would be like. I think it would be beneficial for everyone to write about their version of a utopia, challenge themselves with the premise and then talk about utopian ideals after the contest.
I will make the argument that conflict in a utopia is achievable. Since we aren't writing about dystopias, surely most people would write and have human emotion intact (and other such things). Even in a utopia, errors can be made and misunderstandings might arise. There may be a character who thinks the utopia is in fact dystopia, and plans to take it all down. In a utopia, giant meteors might still have massive momentum and be on a crash course with earth.
I am particularly partial to this topic, and have ideas in mind.
"The Secret" was right. You were thinking about adding Megaman to your ignore list. And it almost came true! The universe sends you this hyperlink to make your job a lot easier. Click it now.
I'll throw one in there. The Unreliable Narrator. In IS terms, you must make your protagonist (the reader) believe in or espouse untruths as an integral part of the story.
I must add that there's any number of ways to write circles around the Bloodlines or Infinite Story themes so that a shorter piece is still viable, though I've come to prefer Myths to those as well and feel it's likely to top the polls.
You can always throw Mudkip onto the poll for good measure. You never know, Leblanc may randomly show up and alert a pokemon fan-fiction forum and they will show up and toss in hundreds of votes for it...
How much time should we give ourselves for this and future contests?
It seems like the 3-month suggestion that Sev had (amusingly) made has been thoroughly set straight. However, there has been some talk of a semi-annual contest (aka every 6 months).
I, for one, think that 6 months is also too short a time. First of all, I'm partial to the idea of a yearly contest, mostly because that sounds cool and somehow very important. Secondly, I think that it is much more realistic to grant a full 10 to 11 months to all of the slacktards slugging about around these parts.
I think the 6 month timeframe works well if this is going to be an official part of the site, with the trappings of front page news and links in places to make it well known among all users and not just forum users. It gives it a better chance of being entered by others if the deadline isn't so far off, and therefor easily put off until later.
However, if this is going to be our usual forum user thing, then the normal almost a year timeframe works well.
Hmmm yeah, I think that's a good assessment. It does rather hinge on Sev, doesn't it? Hopefully he'll get back to us soon regarding projected finishing times for those site updates.
Ahh yes, now that you mentioned it. I will be waiting under your bed around 2am or later on a night yet to be determined with an overly large and sharp icicle and a boom box equipped with Roy Orbison's in Dreams to play as I execute your demise with the icicle.
Ahh yes, now that you mentioned it. I will be waiting under your bed around 2am or later on a night yet to be determined with an overly large and sharp icicle and a boom box equipped with Roy Orbison's in Dreams to play as I execute your demise with the icicle.
My god, I am SO FUCKING HOT right now.
Thanks for my Saturday Night Jollies, my little Apothypoo.
It wasn't intended to be foreplay. An icicle is a perfect weapon because it melts leaving no finger prints or other such evidence. As for Roy Orbison's in dreams, it would be just be an amazing song to kill someone to. While I did it, I'd say this:
"I'll have to send you a love letter! Straight from my heart, fucker! You know what a love letter is? It's a bullet from a fucking gun, fucker! You receive a love letter from me, and you're fucked forever! You understand, fuck? I'll send you straight to hell, fucker!... In dreams... I walk with you. In dreams... I talk to you. In dreams, you're mine... all the time. Forever. "
It wasn't intended to be foreplay. An icicle is a perfect weapon because it melts leaving no finger prints or other such evidence. As for Roy Orbison's in dreams, it would be just be an amazing song to kill someone to. While I did it, I'd say this:
"I'll have to send you a love letter! Straight from my heart, fucker! You know what a love letter is? It's a bullet from a fucking gun, fucker! You receive a love letter from me, and you're fucked forever! You understand, fuck? I'll send you straight to hell, fucker!... In dreams... I walk with you. In dreams... I talk to you. In dreams, you're mine... all the time. Forever. "
Keep up the psychosis, bitch, and I will be dripping little rivulets of lady love all over my Stainmaster carpet.
Yeah, I'm thinking it doesn't matter how long we have to finish the contest, as it really comes down to how busy we are during the last two months. All I did those other nine was come up with random ideas and thoughts of how cool it was gonna be when I actually got around to doing something with it. The only difference between six and twelve months is how much brainstorming I put into it- I'll only be productive the last two months anyway.
I'd honestly rather it be six months- then we can do more of them. These contests seem to be the only way to motivate me enough to do something. I have ideas of my own...but I only really ever get working if someone tells me to get to work. The contest pieces may not be my best work- but they are work. And I've found that my put-aside ideas see the light during contest season, as I decide to work on them when I should work on the contest, but am not in the right mood for the genre. (Writing Hellish or Porn things doesn't work well when you're uber happy.)
Originally posted by Ryan_DuBois
Usoki, you're the crankiest asshole we know. Not that it's a bad thing, it just means that you smell funny and are best left hidden in darkness.
And it's embarrassing when you make any noise at all.
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