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fkficfestAs discussed, we're playing challenge-style, and we'll elect a shared pool of 4 prompts (maximum 30 words each) via an elimination brackets series. Each story (minimum 500 words) must use at least one elected prompt.
When to nominate: By Thursday, March 7, 10pm Pacific Time.
Who may nominate: All FK fans! Readers as well as writers are invited to nominate and vote! Nominations are not a commitment to play.
How to prompt:
Questions? Advice? Please share!
When to nominate: By Thursday, March 7, 10pm Pacific Time.
Who may nominate: All FK fans! Readers as well as writers are invited to nominate and vote! Nominations are not a commitment to play.
How to prompt:
- Definition: For our game, a prompt is a word, set of words, 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 direct quotation, include a citation (not part of the word count). And, of course, please: no vulgarity, incivility, that kind of thing.
- Nominate (March 2 - March 7): Reply to this post with up to 5 prompts you'd like in the game. You may post all in one reply, or each in its own reply. You may recycle unused prompt nominations from previous years.
- Rank (March 8 - March 11): On the to-be-posted poll, number all the prompts from your least to most favorite. This "seeds" the bracket match-ups.
- Eliminations (March 12 until done): Each day, on a to-be-posted poll, for as long as they last, identify your preferred prompt in each eliminations match. When only 4 prompts remain, we have our pool!
Questions? Advice? Please share!
(no subject)
Date: 3/2/24 04:19 pm (UTC)Byes
Date: 3/2/24 04:24 pm (UTC)(If I pick and choose from past nominations, won't people feel I'm being unfair by not selecting theirs?)
Re: Byes
Date: 3/2/24 05:05 pm (UTC)Personally, I'd be thrilled to see mine get another chance -- especially if it meant I could finish a fic that I'd been unable to finish the first time.
(Although, with the fest schedule, I'm unlikely to be able to participate, so please don't make decisions thinking otherwise.)
Re: Byes
Date: 3/2/24 06:15 pm (UTC)Re: Byes
Date: 3/2/24 10:43 pm (UTC)While I do think it's a great idea and could work at another time, I do see why you wouldn't want to add in another variable in the middle of your already-planned system. But no need to! You can keep it in mind for another year - if you'd like to do it!
Prompts for 2024 fkficfest
Date: 3/2/24 11:16 pm (UTC)"I'd rather be lucky than good." --Lefty Gomez (and many others)
"Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink." The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." — Søren Kierkegaard
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” — Albert Einstein
(no subject)
Date: 3/3/24 12:06 am (UTC)"They're sharing a drink they call loneliness, but it's better than drinking alone."
- Piano Man by Billy Joel
prompts
Date: 3/4/24 05:51 pm (UTC)Unexpected visitor
Time travel (real, flashback, dreams, etc.)
Bend it! (rules, roles, genders, jobs, species, etc.)
"Nerver thought I'd say this, but..."
(no subject)
Date: 3/5/24 05:11 pm (UTC)Crimson silk
Tears in the rain (apologies to Bladerunner)
What does the moon see?
Bureaucracy
Prompts
Date: 3/6/24 01:04 am (UTC)It's complicated.
"There's always some reason to feel not good enough," -- Sarah McLachlan
That's a wrap!
An unexpected event leads to chaos.
Brightknightie's 2024 nominations
Date: 3/6/24 05:31 am (UTC)"Better days are shining through" -- Bruce Springsteen, "Better Days"
Go the long way
"the crazy longing that time will never tame" -- Jackson Browne, "You Love the Thunder"
Take a third option
Four more
Date: 3/6/24 02:19 pm (UTC)Play
Taste
Whatever happened to ___________?
(no subject)
Date: 3/6/24 06:17 pm (UTC)Haberdashery
A study in shades of crimson
Keep silent in a silent house
“the world was his and everywhere he moved he was the center of the universe.” — Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel by Laurell K. Hamilton
Prompts
Date: 3/6/24 09:07 pm (UTC)2. Loss of control
3. Changing landscape
4. Finding out the truth
5. A perfect match
(no subject)
Date: 3/7/24 03:27 am (UTC)2. The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there. — L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
3. Stop and smell the roses.
4. Understanding is a three-edged sword. — J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5
5. early days
(no subject)
Date: 3/7/24 11:27 pm (UTC)1. "Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me, The Carriage held but just Ourselves — And Immortality." Emily Dickinson (I've always loved this poem)
2. habit
3. thicker than water
4. clarion call
5. swan song
Everyone is invited!
Date: 3/8/24 03:55 pm (UTC)Your prompts are in the ranking poll now. :-) Thank you!
Re: Everyone is invited!
Date: 3/8/24 04:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 3/8/24 04:10 am (UTC)The shape of water
"Time cast a spell on you, but you won’t forget me. I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me." -Fleetwood Mac, "Silver Springs"
What happened to André?
LaCroix is amused with a thief.