B2MeM 2013: Day Thirty-One

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

MARCH 31

Today is the final day of B2MeM, so we’ve decided to do something special. When writing for challenges, it is often the case that you see a prompt and think that it could inspire an amazing story or work of art … but it’s not something you feel that you can tackle. For our final B2MeM challenge, you will be able to challenge fellow participants to create a response to that prompt you loved but couldn’t find the inspiration for, didn’t feel prepared to handle, or just ran out of time for.

Final Challenge Rules

1. First, choose a B2MeM 2013 prompt that you’d like to challenge another participant to respond to.

2. Next, choose one other literary or canon element to add to your challenge. For example, you might challenge the participant to write about a particular character, or you might add the challenge to respond in a particular form or genre. Additional elements include but are not limited to characters, groups/races, eras, settings/places, textual sources, events, themes, genres, and forms.

Examples:
B2MeM Prompt: “They will think we had a very strong magic to pass through all those locked doors and disappear.” (Day One)
Additional Element: the story should be set in Angband

B2MeM Prompt: “Now let thy children beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril.” (Day 7)
Additional Element: genre: bedtime story

3. Comment here with your challenge. Your first challenge is free! For each additional challenge you leave, you must first respond to at least one other challenge here. For example, after you claim and create your response to someone else’s challenge, you can comment with a second challenge. After you claim and create your response to another challenge, you can comment with a third challenge, and so on.

4. Claim a challenge by replying to that comment. More than one person can claim a challenge.

5. Please claim only one challenge at a time. After you finish the first challenge, you may claim a second challenge, and so on. (This will hopefully prevent claiming sprees that result in piles of WiPs!)

6. You do not need to post your response to the challenge(s) you claim. You do need to make a significant start (you are the judge of what that means!) on your response before posting or claiming additional challenges. For example, if you plan to write a five-chapter story, you might consider finishing the first chapter to be a significant start.

Please remember that while you are challenging your fellow participants, this is not a ficswap. It might happen that no one claims your challenge, or those who do might not finish or publicly share their responses. The responses that are created might involve topics or characters that don’t interest you. Likewise, you’re under no obligation to read or respond to the pieces created for your challenge, although we certainly encourage you to do so, if you wish.

Please use the format below when posting your challenges.

<b>B2MeM 2013 Prompt:</b> <b>Additional Element:</b>

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Comments

[dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com]

B2MEM challenge: Our fourth and penultimate wildcard day task: Go where the stars are strange. We all have our favorites, our stories, characters, and sources that are both comfortable and familiar: the character whose name alone will make us click on a story, the authors whom we read everything they write, the chapters and books most dog-eared and worn from use. For today’s wildcard task, however, we challenge you to wander outside this comfort zone and try something new.

Additional Element: She just smiled and laughed at me and took her bruise back again. (http://grooveshark.com/#!/search?q=hard+sun+indio)

[hhimring]

I tried here:
http://b2mem.livejournal.com/240036.html
But I don't think this is quite what you intended with the additional prompt.

[moetushie]

B2MeM Prompt: "But the Great Sea is terrible, Tuor son of Huor, and it hates the Noldor, for it works the Doom of the Valar. Worse things it holds than to sink into the abyss and so perish: loathing, and loneliness and madness." (Day Twenty-Seven.)

Additional Element: I am tempted to ask for a crossover with Moby Dick, but I'll womanfully resist that urge and ask instead for a character study of Voronwë.

[independence1776]

B2MeM 2013 Prompt: “Now let thy children beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril.” (Day Seven)

Additional Element: wandering Maglor

[alasse-mirimiel.livejournal.com]

I plan to draw something for this one (hopefully it won't take too long).

[independence1776]

Awesome!

[alasse-mirimiel.livejournal.com]

Done! (http://alasse-mirimiel.livejournal.com/19428.html)

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

B2MeM 2013 Prompt: “ . . . but Galadriel, the only woman of the Noldor to stand that day tall and valiant among the contending princes, was eager to be gone.”

Additional Element: The only woman among the high Princes, but surely with ninety percent of the Noldor leaving Aman, many other Noldorin women sought new and greater opportunities?

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

B2MeM 2013 Prompt: ‘It is indeed unhappy,’ said Míriel, ‘and I would weep, if I were not so weary. But hold me blameless in this, and in all that may come after.’

Additional Element: What happened, really?

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

B2MeM 2013 Prompt: “By the Naugrim the Cirth were taken east over the mountains and passed into the knowledge of many peoples; but they were little used by the Sindar for the keeping of records, until the days of the War, and much that was held in memory perished in the ruins of Doriath.”

Additional Element: unappreciated among one’s own people

[zdenka]

B2MeM 2013 Prompt: “There cannot be any 'story' without a fall – all stories are ultimately about the fall – at least not for human minds as we know them and have them.” (Day One)
Additional Element: any part of this song by Heather Dale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMjMvrKbrYA (video part not relevant -- this is just what I could find)

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

B2MeM 2013 Prompt: “And in those days the strength of Men was added to the power of the Noldor; and their hope was high; and Morgoth was straitly enclosed.”

Additional Element: Bechdel test pass.

[hhimring]

Hello Elleth, I had an idea for a very short piece for this prompt of yours. Could I borrow your OC Idhlinn for it?

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

*squee!* Sure! Please do go ahead, as long as you link me to it when it's done! ^^ (And if you need to know anything about her beyond what's in her fics so far, please ask away!)

[hhimring]

Posted here:
http://b2mem.livejournal.com/243706.html
I do hope it works for you!

[hhimring]

B2MeM 2013 Prompt: "The ancient tongue, common to all Elves, in the form that it took in Valinor; brought to Middle-earth by the Noldorin exiles, but abandoned by them as a daily speech, especially after the edict of King Thingol against its use." (Q for Quenya)
Additional Element: Thingol's original speech would appear to have been closer to Quenya than to Sindarin.

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

I'll snag this one! There is a linguistic component to the Cuiviénen fic I'm working on anyway (the first two chapters are on SWG), and with Thingol appearing in the next chapter anyway, it will add an interesting dynamic to his character. :)

[hhimring]

Great! I'm so pleased!
I have read the first two chapters on SWG.
I'm afraid it's one of my recent comment fails--I didn't feel that "OH! WOW! YEAH!" would be quite appropriate and was trying to come up with something slightly more articulate...

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

My apologies for the delay here! Heh - I found your review there quite articulate and very interesting, but an "OH! WOW! YEAH!" would also have been more than welcome! :D Enthusiasm doesn't always have to be well-articulated. :D

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

B2MeM 2013 Prompt:"For the high men of Gondor already looked askance at the Northmen among them; and it was a thing unheard of before that the heir of the crown, or any son of the King, should wed one of lesser and alien race."

Additional Element: Faramir

[almaheart.livejournal.com]

I'll take this one! There has been a terrible lack of Faramir in my muses as of late, but they seem to like this one.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

That's great! I love your Faramir stories.

[dreamflower]

B2MeM 2013 Prompt: March 26: "Then the whole company began to run with the long loping strides of Orcs. They kept no order, thrusting, jostling, and cursing; yet their speed was very great. Each hobbit had a guard of three. Pippin was far back in the line. He wondered how long he would be able to go on at this pace: he had had no food since the morning. One of his guards had a whip. But at present the orc-liquor was still hot in him. His wits, too, were wide-awake.

Additional Element: POV shift, either Merry or one of the Uruk-hai.