pensive-is-not-a-noun Mouler
23 Oct 07 - 02:53
Technically not a newbie post, joy!
Challenge the First: write a version of "Overboard" (1987) starring Jane and Nathaniel. The generalities of Stroud's world must remain in tact; only Jane and Nat's social positions may change as needed to make the story work. Everything else stays! Also, Jane must (a) have something superglued to her hands, (b) look at herself in a mirror and say "you are living in a nightmare that begins at the crack of dawn," © provide massive assistance to another character by volunteering random and obscure knowledge and (d) reveal her birth name. Nat must (a) tell Jane not less than five "true stories" about her life that make her (almost) cry with horror, (b) make her perform at least three ignominious chores, like cleaning a bathroom, © buy her a ring of any kind, for any reason and (d) tell Jane his birth name.
Challenge the Second: write a version of "The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure" (1987) starring Jane as Princess Buttercup and Nathaniel as Wesley ( :wub: )... and Bartimaeus' personality as Inegio Montoya. Can be as AU as you want. Restrictions: Nat's catchphrase can NOT be "as you wish."
Challenge the Third: write a version of "Ghost" (1990) starring... well, guess.
Jane, Nat and Kitty. Jane and Nat work together in the government, as wary and ever-bickering allies. When Nathaniel is murdered, he discovers that the only person with whom he can still commune is the commoner Kitty Jones. Nat uses Kitty to communicate with Jane, and help her defeat the forces or persons directly or indirectly responsible for his death. Who killed him? Where? How? Why? How significant or insignificant is his death? That's all up in the air. Restrictions: there cannot be any romance, of any kind, between any of the three principle characters. Kitty cannot have had any prior contact with Nat. Nat must, at some point, before his death, sing "I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am" at Jane until she just about craps a pineapple and he has to enjoy it; Kitty must then sing this same song in order to convice Jane that she is for serious.
Challenge the First: write a version of "Overboard" (1987) starring Jane and Nathaniel. The generalities of Stroud's world must remain in tact; only Jane and Nat's social positions may change as needed to make the story work. Everything else stays! Also, Jane must (a) have something superglued to her hands, (b) look at herself in a mirror and say "you are living in a nightmare that begins at the crack of dawn," © provide massive assistance to another character by volunteering random and obscure knowledge and (d) reveal her birth name. Nat must (a) tell Jane not less than five "true stories" about her life that make her (almost) cry with horror, (b) make her perform at least three ignominious chores, like cleaning a bathroom, © buy her a ring of any kind, for any reason and (d) tell Jane his birth name.
Challenge the Second: write a version of "The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure" (1987) starring Jane as Princess Buttercup and Nathaniel as Wesley ( :wub: )... and Bartimaeus' personality as Inegio Montoya. Can be as AU as you want. Restrictions: Nat's catchphrase can NOT be "as you wish."
Challenge the Third: write a version of "Ghost" (1990) starring... well, guess.
Jane, Nat and Kitty. Jane and Nat work together in the government, as wary and ever-bickering allies. When Nathaniel is murdered, he discovers that the only person with whom he can still commune is the commoner Kitty Jones. Nat uses Kitty to communicate with Jane, and help her defeat the forces or persons directly or indirectly responsible for his death. Who killed him? Where? How? Why? How significant or insignificant is his death? That's all up in the air. Restrictions: there cannot be any romance, of any kind, between any of the three principle characters. Kitty cannot have had any prior contact with Nat. Nat must, at some point, before his death, sing "I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am" at Jane until she just about craps a pineapple and he has to enjoy it; Kitty must then sing this same song in order to convice Jane that she is for serious."Generally hearts are considered to be instrumental to the functions of the body, so it seems that using it as a weapon would be just as detrimental to yourself as it would be to your enemies.
Of course, perhaps it works differently for those with hearts of stone." -Dansariki
Of course, perhaps it works differently for those with hearts of stone." -Dansariki
pensive-is-not-a-noun (can I just say pinan? :D ) you love to quote people don't you?