The call for prompts is now Closed!!
open! For the next 24 hours Until I write all the current prompts, I will taking your prompts on the theme of Spooks and Creeps, Ghosts and Ghouls.
I will write (over the next week) at least one microfic (150-300 words) to each prompter. If you donate, I will write to all of your prompts, and write at last 500 additional words for each $5 you donate, to the prompt(s) of your choice.
In addition to the donation incentives below, I have two new incentives:
For every linkback I receive, I will post another 50 words on a story (See the poll for setting here.
I will write, for the story with the most commenters by Friday morning, a piece about that setting.
And, of course, donations are always well-received:
If I reach $35 in donations, I will post an additional 1000-2000-word fic on the subject of the audience’s choice. Reached!
If I reach $65, I will write at least 2 microfics for everyone, whether or not they donated. Reached! Add a second prompt if you haven’t already!!
If I reach $95, I will write to every prompt I get in the next 24 hours – if something truly bugs me, I’ll ask you to re-prompt (or a third prompt to each prompter). At this point, please allow up to 2 weeks for the writing to be completed. REACHED!!!
If I reach $120, I will record a podcast of an audience-choice story and post it for everyone to read. Also, everyone who tipped will get double wordcount.
If I reach $150, I will release an e-book of all of the fiction written to this call and the last one. At this point, please allow up to 4 weeks for the writing to be completed.
I’m still saving up for the giraffe carpet, which will be installed the first week of October November (still can’t find a plumber)!
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“I don’t mean to sneak up on people, I just forget to make a sound sometimes…” revenge of the pumpkins anything in the Dragons Next Door setting
From your first prompt I got “Ninja Kitty:” http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/291798.html
To your second prompt, I wrote http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/155948.html “Revenge of the Pumpkins”
Anything in specific you want to see in DND?
Well, I’d love to get a resolution to that Hostage Situation series sometime, but I’m not sure it fits the topic of this call.
I’d say he counts as a creep, wouldn’t you?
Good point. 🙂
*grin* I’ll see what I can do!
I wrote to your Dragons Next Door prompt here – http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/302472.html
Baram, pre-Addergoole.
http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/292072.html
Someone creeping or trying to creep Ceinwen out.
you knoooooow…. (how do you feel about prequels?). Hell Night would work for that.
Exactly what I was hoping for.
Hooray!!!
I have posted to this prompt here – http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/299349.html
Baram (I was thinking as a adult…) I also have a request for something in the Dragons Next Door. (The good gentles above requested my ideas before me. I will have to go with the explanation that we all have high intelligence and insanely good taste.) A ghost story where the ghost gets rescued.
A ghost story where the ghost gets rescued. … so, when you wake up: how do you feel about the Planners’-verse Wild Tribes stuff?
Why not?
Cool! I thought of another direction to go with that while I was driving, too.
I have written to your Dragons Next Door prompt here – http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/303211.html
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Bug Invasion (Spook) — Earth is liberally supplied with spooky things. Suppose the invading bugs come from a world that hadn’t got any, and they aren’t used to encountering such things, then once they’ve bonded with humans they can’t NOT notice Earth’s spooks. The poor things are going to freak. How do they cope? Or what happens when the unbonded bugs realize that all the bonded bugs are Seeing Things? Unicorn Factory (Creep) — The people who get assigned to manage the factory seem to be creeps. I’d enjoy seeing one of them Come To A Bad End as a direct result his creep behavior. Ghost — The ghost of a transgender murder victim decides to haunt zir murderer, who is a very mainstream straight white Christian cisgendered male. What kind of traditional (or not so traditional) ghost pranks might zie play on the murderer to teach him what it’s like to be an outsider? Ghoul — Suddenly, and for no reason anyone can discover although every army in the world is trying its ass off, the bodies of the unhallowed dead rise in search of human flesh to devour. Bodies not honored with culturally proper funeral rights are now a severe health hazard, somewhat (though not exclusively) attracted to violent humans. How does humanity respond when war and other forms of violence become a great deal riskier? Or how do they feel about the fact that it’s necessary to settle the dead with their own funerary rites? Linked on my Dreamwidth and LiveJournal blogs, and the LJ echoes onto my Facebook feed. Also, I am amused by your topical ticker.
Thanks for the linkbacks; I’ve updated the chapter. And I’m glad you liked the ticker!
To your prompt about the Unicorn Factory, I wrote The Grey Line.
I had a story in which a transgender murder victim becomes the new Discordian Grim Reaper, and gets to reap the souls of her murderers. (The Discordian Grim Reaper reaps the souls of not just Discordians, Pastafarians, and SubGenii, but also atheists, and the souls of people icky enough that their own religion’s heaven doesn’t want them. The Discordian Grim Reaper before her was an old Scotsman in a kilt.)
I have written to your third prompt here – http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/306447.html
woosh! zombies are hard! I have written to your last prompt here – http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/313759.html
“No, I don’t mean walking through a ghost will give you a chill, or take ten years off your life, or any of that sort of nonsense. I mean it’s rude.”
P.S. I like your ticker too, though I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to change the background of a ticker when I clicked through to the site. Ah well, back to writing!
TickerFactory has a separate page for the background bar and for the little widget that moves. You select those one at a time as you create the ticker, by clicking on the radio button beside the version you want, and the process should take you from one step to the next as you click the “next” button.
For me, it went straight from the “pick a widget” page to the page where you set the parameters and password. What browser are you using? Maybe that makes a difference?
I’m using Google Chrome.
I could just be missing the obvious, of course! I was looking at it before I had breakfast, after all. I’ll fiddle with it another time, and if I have no luck I’ll load Chrome onto this computer and try that way.
Heee. From your prompt, I got a story of Stranded World – http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/292728.html
The Ghost of Finals Past
To this prompt I wrote: http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/301134.html
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How about something with a ghostly giraffe? And I
secondthird the request for Dragons Next Door…are there any undead in the neighbourhood?From your DND request, I got – http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/148145.html
From your prompt on ghostly giraffes, I got a Dragons Next Door story!! http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/300324.html
Any ghosts haunting Addergoole? (I’d be surprised if it never has any..) What about a haunting that isn’t a haunting..and completely by accident?
From your prompt about ghosts in Addergoole (I was actually hoping someone asked for that!) I got this – http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/293240.html
From your haunting prompt, I got this story – http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/301439.html
Alone in a movie theater showing an unpopular horror film…
I have written to your prompt here – http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/295585.html
Thanks!
The Ghost of the English Language has its revenge on all the l33t sP34kNG TXT ABusrs.
One of my unfinished stories is about a fellow who gets turned into his MMORPG character and among other problems discovers he can now only speak it l33t.
I have written to (sideways) your prompt! http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/297168.html
I usually think of dragons as some of the scariest things around, and near-fearless. What would the Smiths (or their kids?) find spooky, creepy, or scary? (What unseen/inexplicable/…? things does their not-a-dog bark at?) When Girey isn’t sulking about his fate, plotting escape, or obsessing about Rin … does anything from the war haunt him? “If only I had …” everything might have been different? Deaths on his conscience? Or smaller things? Any skeletons in the closet in Sage or Audrey’s families?
I have written to your first prompt here – http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/150942.html
Squeee! And eeeek!
Squee-eek? Squeak?
I’ve written to your second prompt here – http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/154262.html
I have written “Skeletons” to your third prompt http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/303482.html
Hmm… * Would an American find anything at all familiar about Halloween in Tir na Cali? * Trying to recall if they came up in any of the stories, but are there undead or legends of such in Reiassan? * And perhaps more psychological than an actual haunting, but anyone in the Planners verse who was around for the apocalypse haunted by decisions they were responsible for? Whether just taking on such responsibility, or now feeling that they made some poor decisions.
Hunh, chewing over these. The first one requires me making up faith stuff – since the only holidays I *know* Cali has are the season-turn ones (and those are nice and complex). Hrrrm. Did I have a date for that too-hot-for-prime-time guy’s capture? ~~ No zombies in Reiassan… there’s the priest-spirits… I don’t think a spirit-infused-totem counts, does it?
Hmm. Re-reading I’m not seeing any seasonal cues in Too Hot. Spirit infused totems? Don’t count for the scholars. Irrelevant difference for the farmhands fleeing from them. 🙂
I may have to write you a second prompt just because I want to .
Dumb question here from a country that doesn’t really ‘do’ Halloween. Is there a season turn link? (For me Halloween is two thirds of the way through spring, Easter is in autumn and Christmas is the middle of summer. Christmas dinner for my family is a salad buffet and lots of lovely chilled desserts.)
It’s actually (I think) a Catholic holiday – it’s 10/31, the day before All Saints Day.
I have written to your third prompt here – http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/151216.html
You know, thats the thing about apocalypses. They’re always so impolite as to be messy. If they’d just provided a date for the planners appointment book things could have gone much more smoothly.
*grin* they really would have. (You know, the thing about icons? That’s what you look like to me.)
Heh. Funny thing is that I’ve been having one of those roll-my-eyes at people days like like poor Pithani is in that icon (I imagine that he’s listening to some student giving an excuse as to why they are returning items late to the library — but good for him, he needs to be building up that backbone and staring down fellow students with poor excuses should help with that). But yeah, interesting how much a user icon can take on identity online.
I do that a lot, too. Clare looks like her icon in my head. This is tricky with Cluudle, whose icon is a bear.
Well, they say the thing about the internet is no one has to know you’re a dog… Maybe Cluudle is actually a bear? Hmm, does Cluudle post during hibernation months? Hmm, in that case better not upset Cluudle. 🙂
Nothing to see here. Move along, citizen.
LOL! Puffin!
*grin* Kitty!
*smile* Squirrel? I think I might win this battle if we continue – I have taken a LOT of wildlife photos over the years! ;-p
Panda! I think you will!
Ruffed lemur (and the grey squirrel I used in another cmment elsewhere) ;-p
Fictional cat-creature! 🙂 (I cede, you win)
Scottish Wildcat LOLs! *hugs*
Tentacle tree hugs?
Pixel smiles. ;-p
Upsidedown kitties! (Did I use that one already?)
I don’t think so! I guess we are carrying on, then? Um, Rapidly winging oystercatcher!
I’m just bad at ending threads.
Oh, me too. (sleepy Pixel or Muffin as a kitten)
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Oo, oo, would the invisible Libarian of Addergoole count? S/he certainly seems ghostly to the students there, at least. I wonder if s/he creeps out the staff too…
Heh. And does the librarian enjoy playing on this.
I have posted to this prompt here – http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/296438.html
** “At the end of the day… people want to be scared.” ** A haunted house where the new owners are worse than any spirit could be, especially the one guarding this house. ** A tarot deck (or seer) that is possessed by demon(s), be it one demon for the whole set, a demon for the seer or demons for each and every one of the Major Arcana. ** Eat. Prey. Love – The story of a werewolf travelling the world to find what’s missing from their life. ** Love after Death – During the Zombie Apocalypse, a devoted husband/wife/SO goes hunting for their husband/wife/SO, guided by their spirit to stop their lifeless corpse from doing more damage.
I have written to your third prompt here – http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/151952.html
To your Haunted House prompt, I wrote http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/301789.html
I have written to your fourth prompt here – http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/159452.html?#cutid1
I have written to your first prompt here – http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/307979.html
I have written to your 5th prompt here – http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/309896.html
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Oh, OKAY, I’ll leave a second prompt. 😛 How ’bout something dealing with the energy imbued into a cherished object, like a teddy bear?
was I a little pushy for you there? Sorry!!
*silly grin*
Every time I read this prompt, I think about the energy imbued in my favorite choke chain… O_O
Well, THAT was unexpected direction. 🙂
Not going to _take_ it there, but that’s the first thing that came to mind.
*chuckle* I do admire how your mind works sometimes. 🙂
*blush*
(Let’s just say that’s a rather interesting contrast to the ‘Velveteen Rabbit’-like thoughts I had for the prompt.) XD
I came up with a plan that involves neither chains nor velveteen. Now to write it!
‘Course, now you’ve got me all curious about how a ghost story about one’s favourite choke chain would turn out, but, alas, one cannot have it all. XD
We’ll see what comes up.
Choke chains aside (you might get a double header, we’ll see) I wrote to your prompt here – http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/304474.html
Yippee! 😀
And a blank reply to you, too. 🙂
I need to stop using pointy brackets to lay out actions. I think it was probably a *giggle*
Ah, I am in understanding now. *chuckle*
*grin* Loooove your icon. Pretty bird (okay, so I like vultures) Is it a turkey vulture?
Yep. It is, indeed, a turkey vulture, my spiritual animal metaphor. My very first LJ post explains why: http://the-vulture.livejournal.com/459.html
That… is far more coherent and thoughtful than I have heard from just about anyone else on the subject. And miles more thoughtful than mine (in said icon).. who is also more a metaphor than a totem.
Thank you! Of course, on rereading the post, I realize that I may have to revisit it at some point. While I still strongly identify with some aspects, others have changed. Of course, that makes sense in its own way; the vulture, after all, is a potent symbol of transformation. 🙂
*nods* I don’t give spirituality as much thought as maybe I ought to. hrrm. Transformation. terrifying.
Transformation can be terrifying, but often also exhilarating. Look at your new (to you) house; is that not a significant transformation in your lifestyle/financial situation? Yet it’s a change that’s welcome, no? 🙂 (Okay, okay, a major purchase like that can still be terrifying, but you know what I mean.) XD
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