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Multi-Fandom Fanfiction Meme
An inspirational writing meme, which I got from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lost_spook. Five fandoms, five random poetic prompts, 250 words.
The instructions
1: Pick five fandoms. List them in alphabetical order.
2: Visit this site to find your first RANDOM POEM OF POWER. Write down the 5th line (yes, even if it's an E.E. Cummings poem and you wind up with an apostrophe). Repeat five times and - you guessed it - list 'em in alphabetical order! (No cheating, mind! This is a challenge and it's always been about creativity.)
3: I think you can see where this is going. Write a very quick 50-word half-drabble for each fandom (try to do it all in one sitting - make your brain explode!), using the line from the poem as a prompt. You don't have to include it in the half-drabble - it's just inspiration.
4: Bravo! Have a cookie.
The post-game analysis
An interesting experience. The Doctor Who one leapt out immediately and more or less fully-formed, the rest took a while longer. (Speaking of longer, several of them wanted to be, and required careful and ruthless pruning.) When I saw the prompt that lined up next to The Muppet Show, I was worried about what might result, but I think it turned out all right.
The fandoms
Batman
Doctor Who
The Muppet Show
The Pretender
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club
The prompts
but on the whole fifty was a mess as though
- "Dream Song 104: Welcome, grinned Henry, welcome, fifty-one!", John Berryman
The laughing flowers that round them blow
- "The Progress of Poesy", Thomas Gray
there I saw hope barbed as barbed wire.
- "Ein Yahav", Yehuda Amichai, tr. Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld
To lend an Ample Sinew
- "To offer brave assistance", Emily Dickinson
Which helpless Nature drops
- "Shame is the shawl of Pink", Emily Dickinson
Batman: "but on the whole fifty was a mess as though"
Fifty of them surround Batman. No flesh and blood they, but wood and iron and magic, heads carved into threatening masks, forms oozing with the mud of the secret tunnel.
The altered smell of the mud is a warning lost on carved noses.
There's an incendiary grenade in his belt.
Doctor Who: "The laughing flowers that round them blow"
"Quietly," the Doctor whispers. "We don't want to startle them."
Romana looks around her. The TARDIS stands aloof in a flower-dappled meadow.
"Startle who?" she says, pitching her voice to carry. "There's nobody--"
All around, the flowers take flight, petals fluttering, swooping through the sound of her surprise and delight.
The Muppet Show: "there I saw hope barbed as barbed wire."
"This might really be it, chief. The end of the Theater."
"Nonsense, Scooter. We'll think of something."
Hope, that's the thing. Even when they have nothing else, hope keeps them going.
Kermit hopes they won't have to resort to Gonzo's plan with the railway handcart and the sixty live chickens.
The Pretender: "To lend an Ample Sinew"
Jarod runs a quick self-inventory: his attire of the moment is nondescript professional, no inconvenient nametags or logos. It will do.
From the knot of people ahead, a voice calls again for a doctor.
He walks forward, extends a hand. "I'm a doctor," he says, and for now it's true.
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club / "Which helpless Nature drops"
Most people, confronted with the supernatural, quickly reduce it in memory to something ordinary -- and safe. Human nature's protective veil, draped over the mind whenever it tries to grasp something that might burn its metaphorical fingers.
Most people; not all. Fred doesn't.
It now seems that DS Cotterill doesn't, either.
Sapphire & Steel: "An' found myself in seven days of mostly atmosphere"
When I was tracking back to see what other people had done for the meme,curuchamion had a spare fandom/prompt pair that spoke to me. I posted the result as a comment in curuchamion's post.
lost_spook. Five fandoms, five random poetic prompts, 250 words.The instructions
1: Pick five fandoms. List them in alphabetical order.
2: Visit this site to find your first RANDOM POEM OF POWER. Write down the 5th line (yes, even if it's an E.E. Cummings poem and you wind up with an apostrophe). Repeat five times and - you guessed it - list 'em in alphabetical order! (No cheating, mind! This is a challenge and it's always been about creativity.)
3: I think you can see where this is going. Write a very quick 50-word half-drabble for each fandom (try to do it all in one sitting - make your brain explode!), using the line from the poem as a prompt. You don't have to include it in the half-drabble - it's just inspiration.
4: Bravo! Have a cookie.
The post-game analysis
An interesting experience. The Doctor Who one leapt out immediately and more or less fully-formed, the rest took a while longer. (Speaking of longer, several of them wanted to be, and required careful and ruthless pruning.) When I saw the prompt that lined up next to The Muppet Show, I was worried about what might result, but I think it turned out all right.
The fandoms
Batman
Doctor Who
The Muppet Show
The Pretender
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club
The prompts
but on the whole fifty was a mess as though
- "Dream Song 104: Welcome, grinned Henry, welcome, fifty-one!", John Berryman
The laughing flowers that round them blow
- "The Progress of Poesy", Thomas Gray
there I saw hope barbed as barbed wire.
- "Ein Yahav", Yehuda Amichai, tr. Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld
To lend an Ample Sinew
- "To offer brave assistance", Emily Dickinson
Which helpless Nature drops
- "Shame is the shawl of Pink", Emily Dickinson
Batman: "but on the whole fifty was a mess as though"
Fifty of them surround Batman. No flesh and blood they, but wood and iron and magic, heads carved into threatening masks, forms oozing with the mud of the secret tunnel.
The altered smell of the mud is a warning lost on carved noses.
There's an incendiary grenade in his belt.
Doctor Who: "The laughing flowers that round them blow"
"Quietly," the Doctor whispers. "We don't want to startle them."
Romana looks around her. The TARDIS stands aloof in a flower-dappled meadow.
"Startle who?" she says, pitching her voice to carry. "There's nobody--"
All around, the flowers take flight, petals fluttering, swooping through the sound of her surprise and delight.
The Muppet Show: "there I saw hope barbed as barbed wire."
"This might really be it, chief. The end of the Theater."
"Nonsense, Scooter. We'll think of something."
Hope, that's the thing. Even when they have nothing else, hope keeps them going.
Kermit hopes they won't have to resort to Gonzo's plan with the railway handcart and the sixty live chickens.
The Pretender: "To lend an Ample Sinew"
Jarod runs a quick self-inventory: his attire of the moment is nondescript professional, no inconvenient nametags or logos. It will do.
From the knot of people ahead, a voice calls again for a doctor.
He walks forward, extends a hand. "I'm a doctor," he says, and for now it's true.
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club / "Which helpless Nature drops"
Most people, confronted with the supernatural, quickly reduce it in memory to something ordinary -- and safe. Human nature's protective veil, draped over the mind whenever it tries to grasp something that might burn its metaphorical fingers.
Most people; not all. Fred doesn't.
It now seems that DS Cotterill doesn't, either.
Sapphire & Steel: "An' found myself in seven days of mostly atmosphere"
When I was tracking back to see what other people had done for the meme,
curuchamion had a spare fandom/prompt pair that spoke to me. I posted the result as a comment in curuchamion's post.
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