hc_bingo, once again!

[arduinna]

If I sign up for hc_bingo enough, eventually I will actually manage to pull off a bingo, right?

This year's card:

therapy	whipping / flogging	broken bones	electrocution	cursed
plane crash	poltergeist	brainwashing	runaways	Stockholm syndrome
bruises	confession in desperate situation	WILD CARD	head trauma	unconsciousness
de-age	burns	poisoning	unrequited pining	interrogation
nervous breakdown	disappearing	taking care of somebody	telepathic trauma	grief

Most of this is stuff I haven't written, but hey, it's good to expand your comfort zones. And there are only a couple I'm eyeing particularly askance. Pretty good card, overall!

Comments

[arduinna]

pregnancy would be a big cause of everything that happened to Reese and Finch--for instance, that her pregnancy was the precise thing putting her in such danger. Which danger they then put themselves in the way of, while helping look after her and her particular needs. Would that still be incidental, do you think?

Hm -- I'm not sure, honestly! I mean, that's definitely pregnancy leading to bad things. But fwiw, for myself, I think I wouldn't write it that way, because it feels a bit more like a plot device that leads to the hurt that requires comfort, rather than itself providing a hurt that requires comfort (e.g., so the comfort would be about a bullet wound or head trauma from falling off a wall, rather than comfort about something pregnancy-related). But I tend to take a fairly conservative view about this stuff sometimes. *G* And I don't think the mods police responses, particularly -- they just want stories inspired by the prompts, which that idea definitely is.

Okay, and looking at the rules, it looks like as long as the pregnancy is a key part of the plot, it would be okay:

"Your work should have more than just a singular mention of the prompt. It should deal with it in some way. For example, if your prompt is "broken bone" that should be a significant factor in your work not just a passing mention. How you deal with a prompt is left at your discretion."

So no worries!

Oh, boys, GET A ROOM. :D

heeee

Did you read Ces's story? You should, it is lovely!

Let's do! Let's have some kind of accountability deal together. I mean, writing while hanging with [personal profile] mollyamory and [personal profile] marycrawford got me over a thousand words into the stalled comment fic (or rather, by now, "comment fic") I promised Lydia, just over the past couple of nights!

Oh, that is fabulous!

And I am all for an accountability thing, and/or group writing hours, or what have you. Although I may beg off for June on accounta vidding psychosis. (Although who knows, maybe by next week I'll be desperate to do something that doesn't involve beats and stray frames...)

[dorinda]

The rules mention of "significant factor" but also "at your discretion" is indeed where I'd pin my hopes...but you make an excellent point, which I think I'd end up having to follow:

(e.g., so the comfort would be about a bullet wound or head trauma from falling off a wall, rather than comfort about something pregnancy-related).

Yeah, that makes very good sense, and I can see the dodging involved, which would kind of defeat the point of the exercise. And therefore I would definitely need one of your clever POI ideas or similar, had I gotten 'unplanned pregnancy' (I ruled out 'difficult pregnancy' but left in 'unplanned' and took a gamble, in order to remove something else).

Did you read Ces's story? You should, it is lovely!

Not yet, but I certainly will! YAY CES WROTE CLAMS ON PARADE. \o/

And I am all for an accountability thing, and/or group writing hours, or what have you.

Whatever else we do, we could certainly go for 'story-a-month' (aka Arduinna's Law, wasn't that the definition of that one?), if you like. And then the group-writing-time could happen when we can manage it, but wouldn't be quite as mandatory (I'm someone who presently has a fair amount of trouble getting the time and privacy for group writing time, although I love it when I can get it...)

Although I may beg off for June on accounta vidding psychosis.

Understandable! If your eyes are still spinning around all @____@ , you could take June as 1) vidding crazy time, and secondarily 2) eyeballing card and thinking about your favorite squares time.

[arduinna]

Whatever else we do, we could certainly go for 'story-a-month' (aka Arduinna's Law, wasn't that the definition of that one?),

It was, for the brief shining three months or however long it lasted. *g* But it's not a bad schedule -- enough pressure so people are writing something, but not so much everyone's getting burned out. (Although wow, the end of the month comes up fast...)

And then the group-writing-time could happen when we can manage it, but wouldn't be quite as mandatory (I'm someone who presently has a fair amount of trouble getting the time and privacy for group writing time, although I love it when I can get it...)

Oh, yeah, definitely -- catch as catch can, for that.

[marycrawford]

Joining in to say: hi, I have caved like a caving thing!

My card:

headaches / migraines	loss of limb / limb function	loss of job / income	surprise sexswap	telepathic trauma
unrequited pining	skeletons in the closet	blood loss	mistaken identity	motion sickness
major illness	blackmail	WILD CARD	confession in desperate situation	sensory deprivation
depression	extortion	drowning	orphans	stalkers
time travel gone wrong	lacerations / knife wounds	wings	unexpected consequences of planned soulbonding	parting ways