Make me a story!
Sep. 19th, 2007 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
readingredheadOkay guys. So. I need to write a short story by October tenth (yes, now there's a deadline) and therefore I need your help. The first thing you can do to help me is provide me with a list of (not necessarily related) stuff. If you have a moment, leave a comment with:
Who - a character name/type/profession/nationality/gender/etc.
Want - something that a character could want/desire
What - an object of any sort
When - a time of day/a season/a specific year
Where - a physical, nonphysical, or metaphysical location
So here's an example:
Who - an anthropologist
Want - to become a schoolteacher
What - an old house
When - summer
Where - Missouri
Feel free to be much more detailed. When a sufficient number have responded, I'll create a poll with Who, Want, What, When, and Where as the questions, and your answers as the options. Then people can vote, and the results will determine my short story! I will honestly write a story about whatever the poll results dictate.*
*While I will write the story, and post it for your edification, I cannot guarantee that the story will end up being the story that I submit for workshopping in my writing class. There's too big of a chance that this exercise will spur me to write something I feel is completely different but infinitely better. But I promise that it will be written. I think that's pretty good, all things considered.
Who - a character name/type/profession/nationality/gender/etc.
Want - something that a character could want/desire
What - an object of any sort
When - a time of day/a season/a specific year
Where - a physical, nonphysical, or metaphysical location
So here's an example:
Who - an anthropologist
Want - to become a schoolteacher
What - an old house
When - summer
Where - Missouri
Feel free to be much more detailed. When a sufficient number have responded, I'll create a poll with Who, Want, What, When, and Where as the questions, and your answers as the options. Then people can vote, and the results will determine my short story! I will honestly write a story about whatever the poll results dictate.*
*While I will write the story, and post it for your edification, I cannot guarantee that the story will end up being the story that I submit for workshopping in my writing class. There's too big of a chance that this exercise will spur me to write something I feel is completely different but infinitely better. But I promise that it will be written. I think that's pretty good, all things considered.
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Date: 2007-09-20 05:37 am (UTC)Want - To dance professionally... in London.
What - Two mismatched ballet slippers: one faded green, the other a normal pink.
When - Yesterday.
Where - Arizona and London.
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Date: 2007-09-20 10:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-21 02:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-20 06:02 am (UTC)want: cookies. he or she really *really* wants cookies.
what: late night jam session
when: late rainy night, late autumn
where: el paseo
:)
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Date: 2007-09-20 10:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-20 10:45 pm (UTC)Want- a bigger penis *cough* I mean approval. Or the full set of all different kinds of women- yes, all three. I hear it’s being sold on ebay. How awkward.
What- What? A big SUV.
When- the day he realized his mother would never love him the way she loved his father.
Where- in a cave, or in front of a tunnel with a train going into it. Or in his dreams . Oh, there’s an idea.
Okay, but seriously.
Who- a man going through a mid-life crisis. Or alternately, a UN
ambassador.
Want- to make a difference or be remembered for something.
What- a tiny dog; one of those really annoying ones that has a weird high pitched bark and never stops moving. Or an apple (I just rewatched Stranger than Fiction).
When- 2025.
Where- China or Africa.
If there are too many “alternates” in there for you, just ignore the second choices. I’m sorry I’m so indecisive. Good luck!
(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-21 03:52 pm (UTC)When do you move in at SB anyway?
(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-21 03:57 pm (UTC)Although it'd be rather funny to see a story about a man with a psychoanalytic obsession, even if he wasn't Freud.
I move in in two days. I'm so behind; I haven't even started packing. And I still have to buy a TV. And do all my laundry.