challenge request?

[valmora]

This is a challenge gacked from tea_and_snark.

Basically, what you do is give me one or two characters (specify if you want romantic relationship or no if you give me two) from any of the "fandoms" listed below. Then three words to include. Then an object.

And I'll write you a fic with those three things.

The worlds you can request CHARS from:
Kiy/AFTD (And From the Darkness)
VDD/VDD Offshoots
Iron Mage
Shadowstorm
And the Music

And if you're figletofvenice, then you can ask for The Great Escape.

(and if you really, truly want a fic and have your heart set on a fandom you know I know, then you can request it. Except Good Omens or other Neil Gaiman works (excluding Sandman), for which I do not write fanfiction, not even with thirty-nine-and-a-half pseudonyms)

Comments

[valmora.livejournal.com]

This makes me laugh. So hard.
I'm glad you're amused. XD
If I were a more unprofessional author, there would so be a minor character who gets to make pervy comments like that.

Commiserating would be so much fun!
It would. We should do that scene. Only how to get them in that situation....? ::evil plotting begins::

It makes the whole thing less...intimidating.
Intimidation is bad and scary and should be avoided.

if we at least plan out what small plots we want to use
I wouldn't dream of doing anything else. I think I would die if I went into this blind.

I assume that the Red Cross sends a lot of food, and probably letters
I went and looked this up: the RC made sure that prisoners were being treated okay, brought letters from home, and supplemented camp rations. The note on their website says, "Most [care packages] were food packages of a uniform size (10"x10"x4.5") and weight (11 pounds) that contained such nonperishable items as prunes, raisins, liver pate, coffee, corned beef, sugar, dried milk, oleomargarine, biscuits, orange concentrate, cheese, canned salmon or tuna fish, chocolate bars, cigarettes, and soap. Other packages consisted of medical supplies, clothing, toilet articles, and seeds and gardening materials. Prisoners regularly received packages in the European camps..."

can make it in the third person and still have the story from one person's pov
I am totally with you on this. And of course it's third person perspectivized (my term), because otherwise there'd be none of the emotional anxiety that we need to carry this off. XD
One note about this, though - one of my affectations when writing is to change the spellings of certain words ("humo[u]r") depending on the nationality of the character. Yeah, I'm a creep. :D I thought I should mention it before I started going through fic and adding 'u's for no apparent reason.

after 9:00, Eastern Standard Time
That's good. I'm Central time, so that works for me. My only thing is that I don't usually have to get up in the morning, so if you need to go, please do so.

[figletofvenice.livejournal.com]

It's good to know you have no problem with looking things up and doing research.

As far as spelling changes depending on accent? It's okay by me. Sounds like a good idea.

[valmora.livejournal.com]

no problem with looking things up and doing research
I'm one of those scary freaky people who have been writing stories and actually gone to the library to research random details (for example, I was writing a vampire novel at one point, and actually went to a reference librarian and had her help me look up the average height of Japanese adults in the late 1600's. No joke).

Actually, do you want to write out accents, or no? Like, for example, if you look at Robert Burns' poetry, he writes so that it's read in something approximating a Scottish accent (he knows it's 'about', he just writes 'aboot' because that's how he said it). I would navigate towards no, because as you said, approximating the accent inside your own head is hard enough, and the word choice and syntax should be enough, but I'm willing to abide by whatever you want.