3.6.07 - 3.20.07 Challenges 2

[mayo-polyphony.livejournal.com]

Evening! I bring this year`s Round 2, open until the 20th. Late fics are accepted!

Theme: Vocalists. Explore the connection of voice and words.

---Can the voice exist independent of words? Where is the voice - in the sound or the meaning?
---Where is the voice produced (physical/technological)? Where does the voice come from (conceptual/mythological/religious/philosophical)?
---What can be done with the voice? In English, one "gives voice (to)," one`s voice "drops," etc.
---What happens to words/the voice once it`s written down?

Address one question, all, or take your own approach. Form is up to you.


Exercises:
1. DRABBLE. Everyone has this knee-jerk "short=easy=crap" reaction, so I dare you to do it, and do it well.

A) Free-form: you have exactly 100 words (I expect a word count), + up to 15 for a title. These 100 words must be self-sufficient, no snippets of a longer fic. If there is redundancy in your drabble, I will eat your babies. This is where you explore characterization, style, setting, culture. To drabble (well), you must THINK, and examine that thought.

B) Box: you have 100 words only, INCLUDING the title. The key to a box drabble is to build it around a central concept, and name that concept in the title. The other 99 words should lose half their meaning if read without the title. Here, especially, your language has to be tight. The key to creating meaning in a box drabble is through juxtaposition. Use homophones, use balanced pairs in your sequence of action (i.e. open/close, up/down, light/dark, etc.). This is where you explore characterization, style, setting, culture, and LANGUAGE.

C) Cycle: write a series of three or more linked drabbles. The link can be sequential, thematic, chronological, surprise me.

D) I invite you to volunteer your drabble draft to be work-shopped. If interested, respond in the comments!


2. Theme and Variations. Structure your fic like a theme and variations composition. This is pretty much what it sounds like.


3. Dream Sequence. Incorporate a dream sequence. I`m hoping for some mind-bending horror here. No badfic, please. XP


4. Band-of-the-Fortnight. Happy Birthday, Ryuutarou!! Plastic Tree.


Process:
Write a fic in response to one or more challenge, post a link in the comments, request a fic from me! Participation is open to all. Don`t hesitate to ask for any clarification. Good luck!


Tagging: If no one claims it by the 20th, I guess it`ll bounce back to mimei. ? Hai Mi-chan douzo.

Comments

[mimei.livejournal.com]

mmm drabbles. my knee jerk is to avoid them because of the audience... i just get too experimental and it becomes elitist junk :(...


...dream sequence oh dear. XD;; i find even the best authors have a hard time making those work. or, rather than 'work', readable.


anyway, yay! prompts for me to print out and carry around! *boogies*

& a general message: late fics are totally accepted for the last round :(....

[mayo-polyphony.livejournal.com]

I like elitist junk. XD The more accessible thing to do with them, of course, would be humor or scenery. XD

^__~ I anticipate with masochistic glee.

I know! Sorrysorrysorry I still endeavor to write. >.

[mimei.livejournal.com]

that's great because i was totally sitting in a lecture today internally composing a drabble using Kaguyahime from Taketori Monogatari. and well, Yamato Takeru is so damn slashable to start with-*cough* yeah. hopefully those are not going to see the light of day X____X

:3

ohno, that wasn't a dig at you! it was just for anyone reading the comments, in case they weren't sure ^ ^

[mayo-polyphony.livejournal.com]

Wahh, a great way to spend time! XD

I know, but I feel guilty bringing challenges when I didn`t give anything to the last round. :P

[mimei.livejournal.com]

all my thoughts are turning into draft drabbles D:

don't! (: if the prompt doesn't fit~ or, um, something :C...

[narcomanic.livejournal.com]

Phe~w... I still have a late entry for the last round to finish.. T_T

But they all sound so nice.. Drabbles, dreams.. Band-of-the-Fortnight? o_O Is this meant to be taken as a Ryuutarou birthday fic challenge?

[mayo-polyphony.livejournal.com]

It can be Ryuu-birthday, or anything Pla, either way! ^^

[narcomanic.livejournal.com]

xD 99% of my fanfiction is Pla anyway, so...

Yeah. I think I'll try the dream sequence thingie.

[mayo-polyphony.livejournal.com]

Wheee! ^^

[mayo-polyphony.livejournal.com]

...b/c it`s meant to be totally contained in 100 words, no extra for the title? XD

[mimei.livejournal.com]

ajsdlkasjd dream sequence (http://bluetent.livejournal.com/18486.html) (starts from You wouldn’t remember it if it were true so i guess can be read in isolation...) i don't really know if this counts though~ hum hum~ okay, time for me to go collapse now~~~

[sugarless-666.livejournal.com]

I completely failed to respond to any of the prompts you list above, but I tried (http://i-shiki.livejournal.com/21401.html#cutid1) writing 2 little somethings anyway.

[narcomanic.livejournal.com]

<.<

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Here's (http://narcomanic.livejournal.com/74293.html) the dream sequence fic.. *cowers from sharp objects*

[mimei.livejournal.com]

*saving*

for when i do the drabbles. because i will. when i don't have essays due tomorrowish. D:

[bluetent.livejournal.com]

like now (http://bluetent.livejournal.com/18896.html)!

...it's pretty horrible really though. there's another...one or two, but one of them stopped at 35 words because i was trying to write on a terribly packed bus which worked as well as something that works particularly badly.

[mayo-polyphony.livejournal.com]

Whee! Are you fine with doing the next round? Nobody ever seems to take the tag... 0.0

[mimei.livejournal.com]

aa! i didn't see that! yup, i'll get something up.