the challenge challenge

[projectcyborg.livejournal.com]

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]

Those sound great, especially the Scripture one - I'm definitely interested in that one.

I'm not sure if it would work, but my first thought as a prompt, in trying to tie it in to the setting, and themes of the show, is:

Pick a scene from this week's episode. One of the characters in this scene is the final fifth cylon. Rewrite the scene from that character's perspective.

I think that has the potential to create some interesting work as I love the kind of perspective flip that can occur when you realise someone meant something else entirely with that sentence, or at least, had a totally new motivation and agenda while saying it. But I also think that a lot would depend on picking a good scene/section of dialogue...soooo... Yeah. There's that.

Looking through the userinfo, I have to say that I love haiku, and have succeeded in writing some - I thought - quite lovely fandom-based ones. But again, that's hit or miss, and haiku has a tendency to turn into something other than poetry because it's easy to write a seventeen syllable sentence, but not so easy to write a seventeen syllable poem that makes use of line breaks. But I think that could be interesting as a mini-challenge? As twitter is to LJ, maybe?

Stealing inspiration from the userinfo notes about multiple endings/reminaginations of fic, we could perhaps do a similar thing with the episodes themselves? I'm thinking, "rewrite this episode/a scene from this episode, EXCEPT [insert crazy notion]," where [insert crazy notion] could be a free-for-all idea auction/ideas-out-of-a-hat kind of thing.

And I suppose if we wanted to get really meta, there's always fic-inspired-by-meta, where you pick a piece of meta and try to make its argument in a fic? Of course, I also think that's the sort of idea that might end up awesome but has a higher than average chance of just not working if you pick the wrong bit of meta, but I figured considering the focus of this community it was worth mentioning?

Well, anyways, those are my thoughts, for what they're worth. :)

[pirateygoodness.livejournal.com]

Overheard - write or otherwise reconstruct the thoughts of characters (familiar or unfamiliar), seen doing something else in the background of a scene from the show. Alternately, create something along the lines of "Overheard in New York (http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/)," within the context of events on the Galactica or elsewhere in the fleet.