ADMIN POST: The Documentation Challenge.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

The Documentation Challenge.
This one comes to us from LauraKaye. Write a story that is either in the form of or prominantly features some kind of document (e.g. case report, traffic ticket, personnel evaluation, pizza delivery log, diary or journal, letter, phone bill, deposition or transcript...)

It's Monday by my watch--stories are due next Monday before midnight.

(And while I have your attention--I need more challenges, people! Submit those challenges! Put 'em in the comments, send me an email, buttonhole me at the bar and say, "Ces, ol' buddy, ol' pal--I'm picturing a challenge with a leather harness, an egg time, and a kazoo...." Put all these great minds to work for YOU!)

Comments

[some-stars.livejournal.com]

This is possibly too narrow, but I'm not great at thinking up this stuff--Involve a woman's undergarment(s) in the plot, in a non-sexual manner. (Because knickers comedy is the BEST comedy.) (Or, hell, I don't know, maybe Ray's got a keepsake old bra of Stella's. Heh, actually, I'd like to dibs that one.)

[helvirago]

Ces, ol' buddy...

How about... hmm. How about lying? As in, a character must be lying, or the narrator could be lying, or a criminal is lying... it could work in there somehow?

Or I suppose lying down.

[axiom_of_stripe]

how about a tea challenge? drink tea, make tea, bitch about tea, dump hot tea on someone's lap....

or a challenge for passing as something the character isn't (be it sexual orientation, gender, nationality, or something kinkier).

i'd say a poetry challenge, but that might be a last resort -- so very many ways to go so wrong on that one.

or a letter challenge: write a whole story without using the letter 'i'. bet that'd keep people from running so far over the word limit!

a drunk and disorderly challenge might be fun.

what about a porn challenge? the characters must be having sex for the entire duration of the story!

gotta love cough medicine. how come other illnesses don't get such good drugs? there's a question for the ages.

<b>2, 4, 6, 8!</b>

[reginagiraffe]

Who do we appreciate!? Ces! Ces! Yaaaaaaay, Ces!

*shakes her pompoms*

It's the Numbered Saying challenge. Use an adage or saying (a stitch in time saves nine; six of one, half a dozen of the other) that contains a number.

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

How about a Movies challenge? Either watching one, set in a theatre, or an AU where they are inhabiting movie roles....

I'm hungry...

[thermidor.livejournal.com]

so i would like to see a food challenge.
Maybe someone buys or cooks dinner for someone else, someone gets food spilled on them, someones have sex and use chocolate sauce , etc.

or since it's summer, maybe a vacation challenge?

[jenboo.livejournal.com]

The Water Challenge? (could be a bath or shower, a rainstorm, a swimming pool or jacuzzi, The Lake They Call Michigan, a glass of water, someone's water breaking, whatever.) Too general??

[rowanfairchild.livejournal.com]

Due South often used doors to visually punctuate a scene (in the good old theatrical comedy tradition.) So, what about a challenge where a door has to be involved? (I mean any kind of door, physical, metaphysical...)

[(Anonymous)]

Since I'm just back home from one of them, I'd love to see a 'Gay Pride Parade' challenge! Have the characters work as security officers at such an event or let them walk along or... whatever. *bg*

Foxy0

Query

[heuradys.livejournal.com]

If the document in question is a form and the story is in the form of the form, do the words of the form itself count as words of story?

[dsudis.livejournal.com]

How about a key challenge? House keys, car keys, handcuff keys, muscial keys, map keys; keys lost, found, exchanged, jingled, whatever.

Packing challenge?

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

How about a packing challenge? Someone's packing heat; or packing a suitcase; or packing a sex toy (hm, not sure men do that, so maybe that'll encourage Frannie and Thatcher and Stella to get some action)...

Hmmm. Challenges.

[destina.livejournal.com]

Well, off the top of my head...some of these are kind of goofy. *g*

A dialogue-only challenge, wherein there can be no description or narrative of any sort - only dialogue between any two characters (more than two, and it gets a wee bit confusing).

A darkness challenge, wherein the entire story takes place in total darkness in the location of the writer's choice.

A POV challenge, wherein the person whose POV we're treated to in the drabble is either a supporting character, an original character or an inanimate object.

A 'five minutes after' challenge - five minutes after Ray and Fraser ride off into the sunset, what happens? Five minutes after they patch their friendship up on the deck of the Bounty, what happens? Five minutes after Vecchio walks out of the station on his way to his undercover assignment, what happens? That kind of thing.

A 'planes, trains and automobiles' challenge, wherein the action takes place on some mode of transportation.