Okay, here's the thing. Over on my
Dandy slasher community on LiveJournal, I've gotten together with a writer named
courts to try and get a 30-Prompt fic-prompt table together for the community, because she's working on a 30-prompt table of her own with the Cookleta pairing, and I thought since you can never have too much Dandy fic, well.. we should have one of our own!
I digress.
Anyway, courts is currently AFK for about a month, and I was getting bored and really haven't been feeling the next installment of the "Hard Lessons" universe fic that I started last week but have stalled out on.. so I thought, "Hey, I'll just go over to
100_prompts and case what their prompt tables look like..."
Well, turns out that they have 30, 50 and 100 prompt tables, and there's three of each quantity. (I found court's table, BTW :) But reading through them, there's no one table that I'd want to do in its entirety, because the prompts just don't grab me.
So, I made up my own. *faceplants on desk*
I went to
this Random Number Generator, and created a chart of 30 random numbers from 1-95 (since prompts 96-100 are "writer's choice" on the 100-count tables). I took the first random number, and took that number's prompt from the first 100-count table; the second random number's prompt from the second table, the third from the third, and the fourth number from the first table again, and just kept circulating through until i had a random 30-prompt table of my own to work with.
(in the event that I had a repeated number, like #36 came up from the second table twice, I went ahead and took #37 instead - tried to keep it as random as possible.)
The table I ended up with is constructed out of pure angst.
And the sad part is? Just looking at it, I can already see a couple of potential story arcs.
For instance? The fic bunny that bit me at work today (*glances @ clock* er, yesterday).
I can't escape the angst.
I've already started outlining the fics for the bunny's arc.
Now, I've never done a prompt table in earnest before, so can anyone tell me: If I write a variety of ficlets that are pieces of another complete fic as a whole -- does each ficlet count on the prompt table? Or is it just the entire fic as a whole? The ficlets would probably be fleshed out into short "chapterlets" on their own, but they would all rely on the rest to tell the complete story, and I'd probably want to put them all into the same post...
Comments? Questions? Opinions?
For your edification, here's the Angsty 30-Prompt Table of DOOOOOOM.
( A truly randomly random random table ) ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
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anxious
hungry
cold
excited
happy
tired
annoyed
