Team of Consciousness
I’m going to enter NaNoWriMo, the (Inter)National Novel Writing Month - it is actually global, the original organizers were just a tad Americocentrically chauvinist in their choice of name.
The goal is to write a (minimum) 50000 novel in the 30 days of November.
Last time, 2002, I wrote a fantasy, as I mentioned in an earlier post, but I missed the deadline. This time I want to write a science fiction piece, but nothing in my files really grabs my imagination for this project.
Okay, here’s the plan. You’re going to help me.
How, you ask? What are you going to do?
Submit a short list of ideas, in the comments here (if you can), via email (dwjoyes [at sign] barker pip tnir pip org), or through my LiveJournal blog.
Here’s the rules:
1> Give me minimum 3 word phrases (maximum 7 to 10- I don’t want you writing the whole thing).
They’ll be ideas as inspiration. I might use them literally or figuratively. I might combine them with other ideas, yours or other peoples’, or use them as dialogue. No guarantee cuz I have no way to predict. Your contribution to my imaginative effort. Cliches are okay. Plagiarism is not.
2> No Faulkner, Joyes (later edit: I mean Joyce, of course. D’oh. Duh.) or Escher - each phrase has to make reasonable sense
- eg ‘three blue spheres’
- eg ‘the aliens laughed’
- ie not ‘husband bracken hairband’
- ie not ‘avuncular carbuncle ankle’
- Get it?
3> Submit as many as you want; I promise I’ll use them all. You may not recognize them, but they’ll all be there and I’ll be able to prove it.
4> Tell your friends. Seriously. Tell your kids.
5> The deadline (because I have to read them all and make notes based on them) is the end of next week, that is Friday, October 20, 2006.
7> Wish me luck.
October 13th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
dripping with gore
someone like Luisa
suspicious-looking unshaven astronomer
October 14th, 2006 at 9:09 am
Thanks Debbie! Very inspiratin’!
From Anneli via email:
“The stars exploded
The wind sobbed
Everything ached”
Thanks! Coolly evocative!
October 14th, 2006 at 11:42 am
His head had the consistency of yogurt
Coffin filled with entrails
October 14th, 2006 at 6:38 pm
entangled quantum teleportation
parallel universe
time travel
.. pretty standard stuff, but it needed to be said.
October 18th, 2006 at 9:22 am
Thank you, Reid and Luisa, both very interesting. Very interesting. Hmmm.
October 18th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
entangled photon temporal distortion pattern (which is actually based on quantum teleportation)
co-dominant lycan alleles
The space pickles are attacking!
Don’t feel the need to use any of this. have fun :D
October 19th, 2006 at 1:08 am
Sorry I’m late - here goes:
possessed a Tom Swift like genius
tachyonic quantum field generator
devilishly clever chocoholic filker
Colonial Space Marines
Good luck with the writing!
October 19th, 2006 at 8:45 am
Woohoo, mgc! Good ones! And I have to use them. I promised.
Way to go, Korak!
I already started fiddling around with the earlier submitted ideas, and both these last two fit in nicely. Where, I’m not exactly certain, but bells certainly went off, kind of like a future memory.
Thanks!
October 19th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
I posted on the “No Comments” place cuz Luisa told me to.
October 22nd, 2006 at 8:19 am
[Genesis 1:1]
Science posits God does not exist.
Science gives birth to the Technological Singularity.
The Technological Singularity is God.
Therefor there is a God.
Therefor Science does not exist.
Therefor there is only the word.
[John 1:1]
[Revelation 6:12]
(repeat)
Thus your yearbook picture is either 35 years old, or 20,000,000,035 years old. Hah, and you thought 35 years was a long time… :)
Hm, I seem to have omitted heaven and hell. Oh well.
October 22nd, 2006 at 10:55 am
Er, my angled brackets in that last post went missing, now it doesn’t make sense. bah.
October 23rd, 2006 at 9:51 am
Jeff K, excellent contribution. I’ll even keep the spelling mistake in ‘Therefor there is only the word.’
They’re already pinging off the outline so far and other people’s contributions!
October 23rd, 2006 at 9:58 am
From Leslie and Peter via email. They’re smartasses.
1. “Hitler’s frilly underwear” (Peter’s contribution)
2. “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely One-Man Band”
But I promised I’d use everything. Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!