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mark_asphodel) wrote2010-10-03 12:08 am
mark_asphodel) wrote2010-10-03 12:08 am
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Huh.
Damn.
There goes my strategy for responding to hypothetical prompts for Challenge 009. Yeah, I could PICK a prompt that suits "Teardrop on the Fire," but where's the fun in that?
:(
Seriously, I've been gleefully anticipating the results to this one 'cause I figured it was a wide-open field and that someone new like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kittykatloren might win and throw us all a curveball the way nagasasu did with the "rainbow sky" challenge. And "Teardrop" would either work, or it totally wouldn't and I'd be back to square one, brainstorming during my commute for an answer, pawing through the WIP list for candidates, et cetera. Because being caught off-guard is, after all, a huge part of the fun here. Rarely has a prompt been as confounding as "flying through the rainbow sky"-- heck, until now I figured it was an implicit rule that prompts were one word only-- and rarely has coming up with a response been such... fun? Yeah, pure fun.
Though I do find it amusing that, even though the prompt seemed to call out for the Dionysian-- sex, drugs, and crazy-- two of the three winners were far, far more to the Apollonian side of the spectrum. Albeit in totally different ways.
[Oh, yes. I am glad all y'all liked it that much. I don't write for FE8 often, so when I do I'm never sure how it'll be received. I'm just a little bemused right now.]
Damn.
There goes my strategy for responding to hypothetical prompts for Challenge 009. Yeah, I could PICK a prompt that suits "Teardrop on the Fire," but where's the fun in that?
:(
Seriously, I've been gleefully anticipating the results to this one 'cause I figured it was a wide-open field and that someone new like
kittykatloren might win and throw us all a curveball the way nagasasu did with the "rainbow sky" challenge. And "Teardrop" would either work, or it totally wouldn't and I'd be back to square one, brainstorming during my commute for an answer, pawing through the WIP list for candidates, et cetera. Because being caught off-guard is, after all, a huge part of the fun here. Rarely has a prompt been as confounding as "flying through the rainbow sky"-- heck, until now I figured it was an implicit rule that prompts were one word only-- and rarely has coming up with a response been such... fun? Yeah, pure fun.Though I do find it amusing that, even though the prompt seemed to call out for the Dionysian-- sex, drugs, and crazy-- two of the three winners were far, far more to the Apollonian side of the spectrum. Albeit in totally different ways.
[Oh, yes. I am glad all y'all liked it that much. I don't write for FE8 often, so when I do I'm never sure how it'll be received. I'm just a little bemused right now.]
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Grand idea. I like it.