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Hiya, writers & frenz —
Good on everyone who found ways to pursue National Novel Writing Month goals. That’s not me, must confess, though I guess I still have three days to index another WriteOn! or two by SensibleShoes, or else there’s always DaKoWriMo in January … unless we want to make it February? Discuss!
Tonight’s challenge is, write a turkey!
h/t mamajo2k
h/t Rexxmama
I.e., post a comment of at least 500 words — just for tonight, lengthiness is fine — summarizing the beginning and middle of the most formulaic, trite, banal, superficial novel/story you can come up with. All clichés are on the table except, of course, as concerns DEI, female characters included. IOW, if you need characters to say and do dumbass things — and what turkey of a fiction piece doesn’t??!! — make it equal opportunity rather than put it all on women, minorities, or even men. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the real world especially recently, it’s that stupidity, villainy, and other shit is as fully distributed across all the demographics as better stuff is.
Genre — your choice.
h/t Dixiecollie <sup>[RIP]</sup>
Ending — you can include one if you really want to. But if you omit the slightest consideration for tying up all the flailing loose ends, you actually get greater scope for going wildturkey!
Use a word counter before you post your comment. If the total is shy of 500 words, go back and pad your entry with overmuch background details, dialogue samples (excessive adverbs included), minor and extraneous characters, etc until it IS at least 500 words, and only THEN post yr comment More than 500 is dandy, too!
Just no rehashes or spoofs of existing stories, be they film, television, books or etc. This is still fiction practice, so practice originally writing baaaadly! :D
After you post yours, read your frenz’ entries and reply to list all the clichés you see them achieving. Let’s say the entry with the most, wins!
Extra credit: write an ending for an entry that hasn’t got one, limited to 100 words. Now there’s a challenge! Just keep in mind, this too should be bad writing. :D
For everyone who likes something substantial from every WriteOn!, here’s a TheConversation article, “Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges.”
But read that later. First, give us a flock of turkeys!!!! Scroll down for your soundtrack/music video.
h/t jrfrog <sup>[RIP]</sup>
h/t Dixiecollie
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