Isn't that the kind of thing you could use in your Wild Card square?
I think so, yeah -- I've just never yet hit the point where the Wild Card square was an option! (I would feel weird making that be the first thing I did.)
Um. Hey. Can I have your brain?
Noooooooooo, I need my brain!
But you are entirely welcome to the idea, if you wind up with a tentacles prompt. *g*
That's the sort of flexible thinking I need to cultivate, clearly! When imagined flexibly, I suspect there are very few prompts I couldn't give a whirl, although I am still no on the pregs plz.
Well, honestly, I'm more capable of thinking creatively for things I haven't been assigned myself, as I get to skip the whole tharn phase of panic and lockdown. *g* But yeah, that's my basic approach -- a prompt for "therapy" probably is supposed to be mental therapy, but there's nothing says I can't write it as *physical* therapy, which I'm more comfortable with. etc.
But that said:
(Although, okay, thinking creatively, it isn't like that requires mpreg or me giving a female character I like an unexpected pregnancy if I don't want to... could be more like a POI number that ends up involving someone pregnant or some such...)
I'm not sure that would qualify, as the pregnancy would have to directly affect your characters; it can't just be incidental. But it could be something like John finding out Jessica had been pregnant, or Finch finding out that his former fiancee was pregnant by this new guy she was seeing, and in either case, our beloved clam had sought comfort in the arms of another clam who happened to be nearby... (well, okay, no, more like, our beloved clam had added another layer of shell, and the other beloved clam had noticed and silently investigated and then gently brushed his fingers across the back of the first clam's hand at an opportune moment...)
And the only way to do that, it seems to me, is to try doing it! (Instead of...you know...talking about it and wishing it would just kind of happen. *g*)
Oh, my life, how well you describe it. *g*
I tend to forget that this allows for pretty short writing, too; I think that's part of why I fail to produce, because I look at the prompts and try to come up with a 5,000-word story all fleshed out in my head, when really, just a scene would do it, and would get me back in the habit of writing...
I'll dither on it a little more, and then see if I can sneak up on myself and push myself over the edge.
I say go for it: there's really zero pressure for this challenge, with a nice long deadline during which you can win "prizes" (banners, I think), followed by another nice long amnesty (not much in the way of prizes, but also even just one story will count as finishing, rather than five), followed by, at least so far, no negative consequences for not getting anything done. So there's no worry about not being able to try again next year, if this year doesn't work out.
(actually, the lack of pressure was probably a downside for me, especially this last year -- but it is nice to know that I can just have the card of prompts sitting there to spark me during the year if I want.) (and we could do our own mini-deadlines -- one story a month, or something.)
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I think so, yeah -- I've just never yet hit the point where the Wild Card square was an option! (I would feel weird making that be the first thing I did.)
Um. Hey. Can I have your brain?
Noooooooooo, I need my brain!
But you are entirely welcome to the idea, if you wind up with a tentacles prompt. *g*
That's the sort of flexible thinking I need to cultivate, clearly! When imagined flexibly, I suspect there are very few prompts I couldn't give a whirl, although I am still no on the pregs plz.
Well, honestly, I'm more capable of thinking creatively for things I haven't been assigned myself, as I get to skip the whole tharn phase of panic and lockdown. *g* But yeah, that's my basic approach -- a prompt for "therapy" probably is supposed to be mental therapy, but there's nothing says I can't write it as *physical* therapy, which I'm more comfortable with. etc.
But that said:
(Although, okay, thinking creatively, it isn't like that requires mpreg or me giving a female character I like an unexpected pregnancy if I don't want to... could be more like a POI number that ends up involving someone pregnant or some such...)
I'm not sure that would qualify, as the pregnancy would have to directly affect your characters; it can't just be incidental. But it could be something like John finding out Jessica had been pregnant, or Finch finding out that his former fiancee was pregnant by this new guy she was seeing, and in either case, our beloved clam had sought comfort in the arms of another clam who happened to be nearby... (well, okay, no, more like, our beloved clam had added another layer of shell, and the other beloved clam had noticed and silently investigated and then gently brushed his fingers across the back of the first clam's hand at an opportune moment...)
And the only way to do that, it seems to me, is to try doing it! (Instead of...you know...talking about it and wishing it would just kind of happen. *g*)
Oh, my life, how well you describe it. *g*
I tend to forget that this allows for pretty short writing, too; I think that's part of why I fail to produce, because I look at the prompts and try to come up with a 5,000-word story all fleshed out in my head, when really, just a scene would do it, and would get me back in the habit of writing...
I'll dither on it a little more, and then see if I can sneak up on myself and push myself over the edge.
I say go for it: there's really zero pressure for this challenge, with a nice long deadline during which you can win "prizes" (banners, I think), followed by another nice long amnesty (not much in the way of prizes, but also even just one story will count as finishing, rather than five), followed by, at least so far, no negative consequences for not getting anything done. So there's no worry about not being able to try again next year, if this year doesn't work out.
(actually, the lack of pressure was probably a downside for me, especially this last year -- but it is nice to know that I can just have the card of prompts sitting there to spark me during the year if I want.) (and we could do our own mini-deadlines -- one story a month, or something.)