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Post by Omni on Oct 9, 2009 13:22:37 GMT -5
I'll give it a shot. Dare: Double: Bonus: Double bonus: Triple total: Dare: Somewhere in your story, have someone work on a list, and have it empty. Bonus: If you actually write out the blank list. Double: If the list is actually important for something. Dare: Include misc. references and quotes throughout your NaNo. Bonus: If they make sense in context. Double above-bonus: If they sound like something that would be said anyway, and thus may not always be easily identifiable. Bonus2: If a character points out at least one reference. Double above-bonus: If they're not breaking the fourth wall by doing so. Dar- Dancing Thundy Clones! Dancing Thundy Clones... @o@
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Post by Elcie on Oct 14, 2009 17:23:26 GMT -5
Dare: Reference another NTWFer's NaNo in your own. Bonus Points: if you have one of your characters reading that NaNo. Triple Points: if the author of said book shows up as an NTWFer cameo.
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Post by Tam on Oct 14, 2009 21:51:19 GMT -5
Dare: Have your protagonist call the antagonist a fiend to his/her face. Bonus: Include the word "dastardly" in the dialogue of the same scene.
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Post by Bananas on Oct 25, 2009 21:24:02 GMT -5
Dare: Include a delicate crystal trinket somewhere in the story. Have it glow with untold power, be engraved with intricate magical runes, be stored in a prominent place of honor, and always be referred to in capital letters (as in, The Crystal of Light.) Write a lengthy description of it. Have one or more characters stop to admire it, and possibly feel an immediate magical connection to it. In other words, set it up as if it's going to be a major plot device.
Then have somebody drop it, shattering it into a million pieces. Oops.
Bonus points if everyone just shrugs it off and moves on, and the incident is never brought up again. Ah well, powerful magical artifacts are a dime a dozen these days.
Triple points if the story isn't fantasy.
Dare: instead of having a bunch of ninjas burst in through the door, bring in a pack (flock?) of dromaeosaurs.
Bonus points if they aren't velociraptors.
Triple points if they aren't velociraptors, a character mistakenly refers to them as such, and said character immediately gets chewed out by a paleontologist/dinosaur buff.
Quadruple points if they are ninja dinosaurs.
An internet's worth of points if they're microraptors. D'aww!
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Post by Gelquie on Oct 31, 2009 23:00:51 GMT -5
Since everyone is starting soon...
Dare: At the very start of the novel, have there be someone saying "This is the beginning." (Choose a puncuation.) Bonus: Put it in all caps and put many exclamation marks at the end. ("THIS IS THE BEGINNING!!!") Double Bonus: No quotation marks or anyone saying it, just have it there randomly. ;D
Dare: End your novel with "The End". Bonus: End your novel with "And they lived happily ever after. The End." Regardless of how it ended.
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Post by Jove on Oct 31, 2009 23:24:53 GMT -5
Dare: Have your protagonist call the antagonist a fiend to his/her face. Bonus: Include the word "dastardly" in the dialogue of the same scene. Doing this like whoa. Mine~ Dare: Describe a character (or have another character describe a character) as a tsundere. Bonus: If they're actually yandere.
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Post by Goosh on Oct 31, 2009 23:32:34 GMT -5
Dare: Include a delicate crystal trinket somewhere in the story. Have it glow with untold power, be engraved with intricate magical runes, be stored in a prominent place of honor, and always be referred to in capital letters (as in, The Crystal of Light.) Write a lengthy description of it. Have one or more characters stop to admire it, and possibly feel an immediate magical connection to it. In other words, set it up as if it's going to be a major plot device. Then have somebody drop it, shattering it into a million pieces. Oops. Bonus points if everyone just shrugs it off and moves on, and the incident is never brought up again. Ah well, powerful magical artifacts are a dime a dozen these days. <3 Was planning on doing this anyway. Dare: Give your villain a prominent moustache, and spend lots of time describing it, using as many similes as possible. Bonus points: If it's on a woman. Tripe super mega points: If they twirl it at least twice.
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Post by Kat on Nov 1, 2009 1:49:32 GMT -5
Dare: Put in a scene where one of the characters does a dance number with a lampshade covering their head. Bonus: If the said character is a normally serious character and is not drunk or under any influences. Taking this. XDDDDD I might take more since I feel game for these things. XD
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Post by Zylaa on Nov 1, 2009 2:18:07 GMT -5
Dare: Have some character, at some point, say "It's okay, I'm a doctor!" Bonus points: If the situation at hand has nothing to do with doctoring. Double bonus: If the character isn't even a doctor. Dare: Put in a scene where one of the characters does a dance number with a lampshade covering their head. Bonus: If the said character is a normally serious character and is not drunk or under any influences. Taking this. XDDDDD I might take more since I feel game for these things. XD ... I may have to take this just because my friends really did once walk around and dance with lamphshades on their heads while entirely sober. =D
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Post by Kat on Nov 1, 2009 4:31:29 GMT -5
Dare: Have some character, at some point, say "It's okay, I'm a doctor!" Bonus points: If the situation at hand has nothing to do with doctoring. Double bonus: If the character isn't even a doctor. *runs off with this one as well* XD
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Post by Zylaa on Nov 2, 2009 1:30:19 GMT -5
Dare: Reference another NTWFer's NaNo in your own. Bonus Points: if you have one of your characters reading that NaNo. Triple Points: if the author of said book shows up as an NTWFer cameo. Just thought of an excellent place to do the dare and bonus, so taking this. =D
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Post by Lizzie on Nov 2, 2009 7:17:15 GMT -5
x3 All these dares look so fun! Dare: Have ninjas randomly burst into a dramatic scene. Bonus: If the characters keep discussing where the ninjas came from. Double: If the ninjas turn out to be relevant to the plot. Both of these must be included. Um. Dare: If one or more of your characters is a genetically modified child/teen. Bonus:If he/she/it has wings. Double:If its one or more of the flock. More coming later. I must go to school. D:
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2009 23:47:17 GMT -5
So, what are your NaNo dares for this year?Killix's dares: Dare 2: Kill your MC in the middle of the story. XD - Bonus Points: If this doesn't change the plot at all. Dare 3: Have one of the characters say to the antagonist something simple like "You're doing bad things!" and have the antagonist stop and think about it, and then come to realise the error of their ways, thus ending that plot. - Bonus Points: If it ends the entire story. (lawlfailending) ^ I'm taking both of those dares. :3 Dare: Reference another NTWFer's NaNo in your own. Bonus Points: if you have one of your characters reading that NaNo. Triple Points: if the author of said book shows up as an NTWFer cameo. ^ taking that dare too. My language arts teacher is going to think I'm really messed up after this story ~ Dare: have the first letter of the first word of each chapter spell out a secret message. Bonus points: if the message is a key point to the plot. ^ That dare is ultimate win. ^^
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Post by Omni on Nov 7, 2009 18:12:09 GMT -5
Dare: Do an entire chapter in future tense. Triple: If you keep it up for the rest of the story. Bonus: If at least a decent part of it is in first-person.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2009 23:30:40 GMT -5
Dare: For a section of your text, make the beginning of each sentence spell out a code. Double: If the message is relevant to the story. Triple: If the message tells the reader something important that will happen later in the story. We paranoid coder-finders need more of this. XD
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