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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Jan 13, 2013 23:56:23 GMT -5
[/li][li]Forty-three wrong questions about Daniel Handler and All the Wrong Questions[/quote] I like this idea best. It reminds me of the reasons to be concerned.
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Post by Dante on Jan 14, 2013 2:38:39 GMT -5
Unless anyone else has any fresh ideas, it seems like we're settling on either the questions/predictions, or the poem. I'm kind of leaning towards the former now myself, essentially as we can use it as a way to field a sort of first response to ATWQ to Mr. Handler, and it has opportunities to field both legitimate predictions that might clue him in to how we're receiving things, as well as joke ideas. That and we can fuse the two - send predictions in the form of questions. Maybe start with the more conservative predictions and lead up to the kind of stranger and then outright joke ones?
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jan 14, 2013 5:56:12 GMT -5
Feasibly, we could rhyme the questions such that they did form stanzas - but that rather shifts the focus away from the content of the writing. I think the arrangement from legitimate to joke is good, and 43 gives us a good range in which we can accomplish that. Possibly also we could accompany every so many questions with a visual, which could be used to reinforce a point or give the originals a new perspective.
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Post by Charlie on Jan 14, 2013 6:00:50 GMT -5
It just seems like a little too little to write a small poem. Maybe 43 individual 4 line poems/ haikus would be more IDK, substantial
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Jan 14, 2013 7:34:11 GMT -5
It just seems like a little too little to write a small poem. Maybe 43 individual 4 line poems/ haikus would be more IDK, substantial But we've done that last year! I support the questions thing.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Jan 14, 2013 7:35:29 GMT -5
I question your support!
The Question though, is do i supprot the questions?
I do. Sorry for any confusion
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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Jan 14, 2013 14:58:55 GMT -5
I like the idea of combining the two suggestions (questions and poem), because I also think one of them would be very little compared to last year.
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Post by Dante on Jan 14, 2013 16:12:57 GMT -5
Last year's gift was quite a great deal of work, though. Worth it, but I think that's not something we should attempt every year. I'll also note, though, that whatever we pick, I'll attempt to write a usual Snickety introductory letter to go with it, so that will fill things out a little. And you may find that forty-three lines of questions is actually quite long in itself!
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Post by Q.R.V. on Jan 14, 2013 16:24:13 GMT -5
Possibly also we could accompany every so many questions with a visual, which could be used to reinforce a point or give the originals a new perspective. Maybe this could form our own version of the Snicketmail teasers - 43 wrong questions, each accompanied by a cryptic illustration?
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Post by penne on Jan 14, 2013 16:26:49 GMT -5
I really like that idea, Q.R.V.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jan 14, 2013 16:29:53 GMT -5
Depending on how many artists we have willing to contribute, we could have an illustration for every fourth question, say. This would give us a bit of a buffer, too, because not every question will lend itself to a visual. Also, we could transmit the questions as images the way we did last year, picking a suitable background for the questions that don't have accompanying illustrations.
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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Jan 14, 2013 16:55:58 GMT -5
Good idea, QRV! And I also like what Sherry Ann said, because 43 illustrations would be a little too much for the number of people who can make illustrations.
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Post by Q.R.V. on Jan 14, 2013 17:14:18 GMT -5
I was thinking of a few good illustrations (done by the artists) with the remainder of the 43 as sketches (done by non-artists), thus having a variety of drawing detail level as in the real teasers. But having just good illustrations or even sketches every four questions would certainly be simpler.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jan 14, 2013 17:33:31 GMT -5
I'm not sure how closely we would be able to parallel Seth's sketches vs. his final illustrations, but I can visualize the sort of structure you're describing, and I think if people were willing to submit rough sketches, then that would work well. Other structural ideas might be to somehow incorporate Handler's 2010 allusion to The Long Goodbye, or indeed any of his references thereafter, since he's clearly fond of it. (The intro letter could be written on a crumpled yellow page, for instance.) If it were artistically possible, we could also use the endpages' octopi as borders, and state that the questions were written in real ink from Stain'd-by-the-Sea.
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Post by penne on Jan 14, 2013 20:35:23 GMT -5
I don't think every question would need to have an illustration. Perhaps some could only be typewriter font in a background that looks like an old sheet of paper.
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