The 2023 Prompt Nominations Post: "Oh, I thought you might have a few ideas..."

[brightknightie]

As discussed, we're playing challenge-style, and we'll nominate and elect 3 prompts (maximum 30 words each) to share. Each story (minimum 500 words) must use at least one elected prompt.

About prompts

• Definition: For our challenge-style game, a prompt is a word, phrase, sentence, question, stanza, etc. meant to inspire an FK story.
• Success: We'll likely get the most from prompts that can flex across different interpretations of FK, while also being specific enough to spark reactions.
• Limits: 1-30 words. If a prompt is a quotation, include a citation (not part of the word count). And, of course, please, no vulgarity, incivility, that kind of thing.

Nominations eligibility
Any member of the FKFicFest community on Dreamwidth can share prompts. Anyone can join the community at any time. Nominations are not a commitment to write.

How to nominate & elect

1. Nominate (March 31 - April 15): Reply to this post with up to 3 prompts you'd like in the game. (You can post all 3 in one reply, or each in its own reply.)
2. Vote (April 16 - 22): On the to-be-posted poll, number all the prompts from your most to least favorite.
3. Calculate & announce (April 22 - 23): I'll take care of this part. Any prompt that gets 25% of the 1st-place votes outright wins one of our 3 slots. Then, the prompt with the fewest 1st-place votes is eliminated, redistributing its votes to what was the 2nd-place preference of its voters. Repeat until 3 prompts each have 25%+ of the votes (or only 3 prompts remain). Break ties by comparing 2nd-place votes, or lower, if needed.

Stories come due no later than June 25 on the AO3 and start releasing on June 26.

Questions? Advice? Please share!

Comments

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[waltd]

Most

1 "I HATE and I LOVE. Why I do this, you may ask. / I don't know. But I feel it and it is torture."—Catullus, Poe2m 85
2 "Evil is a point of view."—Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
3 unexpectedly wakes up in the trunk of a car
4 a minor or original character must fill in for a major character
5 "The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time"—Thomas Edison, attributed
6 Coin for the ferryman
7 At the crossroads a decision must be made: advance, retreat, or hold your position
8 "Who has seen the wind? / Neither I nor you: / But when the leaves hang trembling, / The wind is passing through."—Christina Rossetti, "Who Has Seen the Wind?"
9 A new detective on the force

Middle
10 "long time passing"—Pete Seeger, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone"
11 "The rain it raineth on the just"—Charles Bowen, attributed
12 Another conquest to satisfy his/her craving
13 "You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day / you are going to find yourself again."—Finn Butler, "Saltwater"
14 The Road Not Taken
15 Give any episode a different ending.
16 That new car smell
17 "Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love."—Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
18 This experiment went horribly wrong

Least
19 "For there is no friend like a sister"—Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
20 (Urban) Legend
21 "Peruse how infinite I am / To no one that You—know— / And sigh for lack of Heaven—but not / The Heaven God bestow—"—Emily Dickinson, "The Way I Read a Letter's - this"
22 Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is a wildfire
23 1969
24 The first week.
25 The dreaming mind
26 Vampire turns human.

Re: list

[brightknightie]

Hi, Walt!

I'm guessing that this is your ballot, and you want me to count it as part of the voting on the election poll post.

In that case, I am going to copy/paste your post from here over to there, so that I don't forget it when it's time to tally the results.

Thanks!

Re: list

[brightknightie]

Actually, would it be okay if instead I asked you to fill out the poll in the usual way?

It crosses my mind that people might not feel super great about seeing the prompts they submitted get low ratings from anyone. With the regular poll, only I see the person-by-person results, so hopefully no one will feel bad about reactions to their prompts.