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Post by Dante on Jan 31, 2015 12:56:10 GMT -5
Aye, I think that this project can be conducted in a way which will satisfy the creative urges of people even who proposed an alternative movement (even socks). It seems popular enough, anyway, and I don't think there are any outstanding objections, so I imagine that tomorrow I will formally declare Snickety Sentences the winner and put together some guidelines for submission, examples, etc.
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Post by B. on Jan 31, 2015 17:14:50 GMT -5
One of you has on this thread and elsewhere has an avatar/signature from a buggy link; it's been messing up threads for me for a little over a week. Change it.
On topic: I support the snickety sentences, and I really think we should do more this year to work in some literacy allusions. Everyone here is very well read (or well-googled perhaps) and we'd do well to display this.
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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Jan 31, 2015 23:17:52 GMT -5
I say go for it.
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Post by Dante on Feb 1, 2015 14:15:22 GMT -5
Cross-posting here from the first post, we have our project and its guidelines! We have now decided on a project, and it is the following: Snickety Sentences. As this is the final year of All The Wrong Questions, we'll be trying our own hands at writing a line that might appear in the final volume of the series, but being fans and individuals rather than an author who knows what he's doing, the results are likely to be pretty strange, and probably funny - or intriguing... The idea is to come up with a sentence that only you can write - fun spin on an oft-repeated phrase in the series, an interesting or amusingly wrong question of your own, a witticism or aphorism, an unlikely line of dialogue, an unflattering description, a parodic event, even a birthday present Snicket could receive in the story - anything that pays homage to ATWQ in our own unique and irreverent style, or is completely off the wall and doesn't pay homage at all. There's plenty of room for manoeuvre, but what matters most is you, and what ATWQ would look like if some terrible accident left us in control of the story. In case that's not very clear, here are some suggestions me and Antenora whipped up: - There was a town, and there was a girl, and more importantly, there was me.
- There was a town, and there was a girl, and there was a statue, and there was a librarian, and there was a theft, and there was a person who had been kidnapped, and there was a fire, and I’m pretty sure there was a kitchen sink in there as well.
- I thought dragons only showed up in tedious stories that begin with 'Once upon a time...', but this story begins with 'There was a town...'
- A lighthouse without an ocean is like high-cocoa chocolate: Dark, dry, and not very popular.
- A friend with a temper is like a nail sticking out of the floor: You have to tread very carefully around them, or else.
- Victory is like a sugar bowl: It only tastes sweet to the person who gets there first.
- "Who would have tea at this hour?"
- "When did you three work last?"
- "Shouldn't you be uncool?"
- “It's time for me to tell you my greatest secret, Mr. Snicket; the truth is... my eyes aren't really green, I'm just wearing contact lenses.”
- “Also, my hair is dyed; it's actually so brown it makes the woods look like white chocolate.”
- “Your chaperone was right; actually, my name really is Eleanor...a Poe.”
Optionally, you could do a Snickety Stencilling, which is to say an illustration along similar lines: - An illustration of Snicket with an octopus on his head.
- The Stain’d Lighthouse, or the Ink Inc. building, with the Bombinating Beast coiled around it.
- Other fanart of Stain'd-by-the-Sea, preferably from an angle we haven't seen before. What makes the Clusterous Forest so frightening? How are Ellington and Qwerty passing their days in a jail cell?
We'll need 45 sentences in total - because it's a forty-fifth birthday, and that's our running theme. (We can reconsider on Mr. Handler's centenary.) Illustrations do, of course, count among that forty-five, unless you were to choose to illustrate somebody else's line, in which case it would merely be very cool. Once we have that many, preferably from a diverse range of people and preferably all good, they'll be arranged in a semi-logical order and, as usual, accompanied by a congratulatory letter I'll write. These last two items can be completed fairly quickly, so let's say last submissions are on Thursday 26th February, two days before Mr. Handler's birthday on Saturday 28th February. That gives us just under four weeks. Take some time to mull over a few ideas, get your metaphorical creative juices flowing, consider whether you have the time to draw something, and I hope everyone will turn in a good idea or several. You may begin.
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Post by gliquey on Feb 1, 2015 17:51:48 GMT -5
(I hope some of those suggestions get used - that kitchen sink one is brilliant, as is "there was me".)
Just to be clear (I've never been here for a birthday thing), we post our ideas in this thread, right, rather than PMing them to somebody?
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Post by Dante on Feb 2, 2015 3:17:43 GMT -5
Absolutely. Please post your ideas here. A good idea can always inspire others. (As for the examples, I imagine that some will end up in the final project, yes.)
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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Feb 2, 2015 3:53:51 GMT -5
1) That may be so, I thought grimly, but she's no longer in Stain'd-by-the-Sea. 2) I thought of a book my sister had meant to read, in which the heroine receives a warning from her friend, who gives her a watermelon in December.
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Post by Antenora on Feb 2, 2015 16:03:50 GMT -5
Dante and I have collaborated on a couple more:
-- -There's a German book with a difficult title ending in "Peter" about children like Stew... who get what they deserve. -The name of Killdeer Fields has nothing to do with killing deer; it's named after a bird-- and I'm pretty sure the bird doesn't kill any deer either. --
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Feb 3, 2015 3:55:53 GMT -5
I will try ad think of something
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Post by Dante on Feb 3, 2015 6:38:28 GMT -5
Please do, Mister M. I hope that a deadline nearly four weeks away will give everyone a chance to think of something suitable.
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Post by Hermes on Feb 3, 2015 8:15:14 GMT -5
Lemona: I think it might be a good idea not to mention a watermelon.
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Post by Dante on Feb 3, 2015 11:03:38 GMT -5
That had occurred to me, but on its own it's a pretty weak connection... Maybe if you could tell us what the allusion is to, Lemona? I did a little looking around, but when I started to hit on Daniel Handler references despite him not being included in the search terms at all then I gave up.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Feb 3, 2015 12:44:39 GMT -5
I actually thought Lemona's watermelon reference was intentional. To be honest I think it'd be funny to vaguely touch on that. Maybe reference Jacqueline Woodson's book "Brown Girl Dreaming" (or something a little more vague).
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Post by Dante on Feb 3, 2015 13:30:21 GMT -5
I think the fact that we can have a discussion about it says that it's a good sentence. I mean, clearly we are intrigued, right? But I'll reserve judgement for now.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Feb 3, 2015 14:30:10 GMT -5
Not sure whether that's a strong argument... a grammatically incorrect sentence could also provoke intrigue and discussion. At least think is what that I do.
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