January meme: H/C bingo

[arduinna]

(still taking questions/suggestions, if you want me to talk about anything in particular - mixing up my responses to those with other stuff as I go)

As part of my "dammit I will be more fannish" decision, I signed up for an hc_bingo card. The official bingo period ends, uh, tomorrow (Jan. 5), so I suspect I will not succeed on that front, but the amnesty period lasts through June 1, so I still have a shot at getting something done, at least.

My hc_bingo card:

family	burns	cursed	depression	brainwashing / deprogramming
unrequited pining	bullet wounds	on the run	shipwrecked	allergic reaction
rejection	accept injury to protect someone	WILD CARD	deadline / time bomb	amnesia
crucifixion	protection	minor illness or injury	loss of powers	hazing / bullying
sensory deprivation	corporal punishment	magical trouble	betrayal	Stockholm syndrome

Comments

[rosaw]

I have no idea how this works -- does this mean that you'll write some certain amount of words for each of the tiles, or only some of the tiles? Really cool h/c list, though. I'd read all those.

[arduinna]

The idea is to do a "bingo" line of fic (or art, vids, meta, recs, etc., each with their own minimums - full list of options here). The bingo can be in any direction, and over the years more patterns have been added, too (examples here). For fic, it's 500 words minimum.

It's a pretty neat way to get some prompts!

You need to do a full bingo line or one of the patterns to fulfill the challenge (which I've never managed to do), but then after the official end of the challenge is the amnesty period, where even one fill counts. So that's what I'm aiming for. :) I haven't written anything in over a year, so... baby steps!

[klia]

That's a pretty awesome card!

[dorinda]

Agreed! I am particularly nuts about the center horizontal row... rejection, accept injury to protect someone, Wild Card (any prompt from the prompt list), deadline/time bomb, and amnesia.

Arduinna was saying the other day that it basically reads like a Person of Interest episode. :D :D :D

[arduinna]

It is! I'm pretty pleased with it. Now to just, y'know... do something with it.... *g*

[dorinda]

Only 500 words makes a fill!! That's the length of a Shack!

The world can always use more Shacks. And if the cold weather has you disinclined to write a proper Canadian Shack, what about something more tropical? Surely characters stumble into similarly isolated and idyllic Island Shacks ALL THE TIME.

[arduinna]

You are a MENACE, is what!

[dorinda]

THIS IS TRUE

*makes menacing arms while holding up a laptop with a word-processing program open*

[gwyn]

I mean, outside of the shipwrecked one, your bingo card is like the entirety of Steve and Bucky's relationship.

If I understood how these things work I'd be tempted to sign up myself.

[dorinda]

I find it pretty mellow--I mean, nothing bad happens if you ask for a card but never post a completed bingo (...ask me how I know :D ). And as Arduinna mentioned above, we're heading into the long amnesty period.

Thus far, I've asked for three cards--one I never acted on really, but last year's I used for prompts/inspiration and wrote a bunch of pocket stories, though I never did go back to the comm and post the links as a bingo...I think I never officially finished the row I picked?

And then there's my most recent card, which Arduinna has reminded me I might want to post on my journal. It's not quite as good as hers, but I think it's pretty darn good.

[dorinda]

...huh, I took a look back and apparently I *did* write stories for a whole row. Why did I not post links to them as an official bingo??? WHO KNOWS, I AM A MYSTERY WRAPPED IN AN ENIGMA WRAPPED IN A BLANKET.

[arduinna]

I've never actually done one properly! *g* It all seems very easy-going, although I'm not sure there are cards available anymore since the amnesty period has started.

(But if you just want prompts, the mod pastes everyone's card into the comments on the request post, so it's easy to just wallow around in them.)

[dorinda]

Yeah, what she said, all the cards are there for the inspiration... and the whole list of prompts from which the cards are constructed is there in the sidebar, which is a nice read. (List of mostly-painful prompts = "nice read". Heh. Yeah, h/c fan here. :D )

I was also thinking, if I hadn't been able to get my own card, I could just use the list of prompts + a random number generator to prompt myself.

[the_shoshanna]

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