ADMIN POST: The Lie or Lay Challenge

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Helvirago suggested a challenge in which someone is lying, "as in, a character must be lying, or the narrator could be lying, or a criminal is lying." But lying of course has a double meaning: there's lying as in deception or fabrication, and then lying as in in lying down. And of course, there's that notorious confusion between lie and lay, not that I would ever encourage you in such confusion.

So! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story about lying--i.e. fabrication, reclining, fucking, or grammar. Possibly all four if you feel you can pull it off.

It's Sunday night by my watch; new stories are due Sunday March 13th at midnight.

Comments

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

-i.e. fabrication, reclining, fucking, or grammar. Possibly all four if you feel you can pull it off.

...Okay, the ingenuity of our fandom gives me very high hopes for this challenge.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

And okay, so the difference between this challenge and the mendacity one is that it's broader and has the other connotations?

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's right; it's by no means restricted just to lying as in falsehood, as mendacity was; this one is much more about lying or laying in a more expansive way; it needn't deal with falsehood, even, at all.

[alinewrites.livejournal.com]

I might give it a try, this time. Great challenge!

Challenge idea: "The Oddest Places"

[vienna-waits.livejournal.com]

How's "The Oddest Places" for a challenge? I see two possibilities:
1) At least one character has to be somewhere you wouldn't expect to see him/her (i.e., Fraser sunbathing at a nude beach on Lake Michigan, Welsh just about anywhere other than the 27th, Ray Vecchio at a yoga class, Turnbull at an academic conference, etc.), or
2) An item has to be found somewhere unexpected: it turns up in a very odd place.

I went through the list of old challenges and didn't see anything similar. Too complicated, or is this a workable challenge idea?

Re: Challenge idea: "The Oddest Places"

[vienna-waits.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'm replying to myself. 1) and 2) could actually be two separate challenges. I guess you could call #1 "The Double-Take Challenge": the character is somewhere so odd for him/her that you do a mental double-take.

Re: Challenge idea: "The Oddest Places"

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

It's a brilliant challenge--I might just have to bump it up the list, cause ROCK.