the challenge challenge

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help me out with ideas for season 4 challenges, folks! don't make me steal them all from sga_flashfic :). some examples of what I've been brainstorming:

- Found (make or write about a piece of accidental ephemera)
- Scripture (make a holy text, an exegesis of one, or a fanwork based on one)
- The Wireless (make something that might pass through the Fleet's news service)

the userinfo includes a list of various potential inspirations, but in general and already familiar terms.

or if you have ideas for provocations beyond the weekly challenge format, comment with those too!

Comments

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

1. Scripture it is!

Yay!

or heck, maybe your Model One challenge should be FIRST, so people could carry it through every episode if they wanted. also I'd love to incorporate Projection or other unique facets of Cylon consciousness.

As a continuing project it could certainly be interesting. Perhaps try it out early and see if it's successful enough to warrant a continuation? Honestly, I'm not sure, as you say, it's a topic we almost have to tackle, but in some ways that makes it a good "staple" - something we can slot in if we're running low on challenges? Ugh. I LACK ANY FORM OF DECISIVENESS! ;)

3. maybe I could do a combined microscopic challenge, for things smaller than a drabble/icon/vidlet. covering haiku, one-sentence fic, twitter fic, along with like 10-second vids and tiny thumbnails or whatever else people want to make.

I confess I have no idea what twitter fic is, but the notion of ten second vidlets fascinates me... I think the main challenge there would be cutting the music down. I have no idea how people manage to do that - get rid of middle verses, etc. But I managed to truncated the Hummingbird Song music without too much difficulty, so, yeah, 10 second vidlets, I like muchly.

I would love to get people round-robin-ing, if there are enough of us.

Round-robin comment fic sounds great. Good length for co-operative, spontaneous narrative, I feel.

I would totally write twitterfic based on your episode reviews, if you're going to keep doing them. :)

Again, I have no idea what twitterfic is, but yes, I do absolutely plan on rambling at length about the episodes as I usually do. Whether that constitutes a "review" I'm not sure. ;)

plus you seem generally interested in POV shifts and other thought experiments ("crazy notions"), so we can keep brainstorming about that.

I think one thing I learned from my not-so-recent writing project is that my mind responds well to challenges, the unusual, and the downright weird. ;)

my plan is to post challenges *after* each episode airs, in case there's something particular that calls for a response.

Honestly, yes, I think this is the best way to do it, mainly because we have no idea what awesomeness awaits. And the point is to organically work from what the text gives us: if we straightjacket ourselves ahead of time, we'll only be distracted by what actually happened this week anyway. Which is a roundabout way of agreeing with you. But it's good to brainstorm some frameworks even if the topics change.

but, dude, inspiration totally struck about MY little project: I want to make some sort of document or artifact for each episode that inserts the GIRLSLASH GOGGLES into it.

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:p

I need to make a girlslash goggles icon out of my Kendra manip...

*anticipates*