New Bingo Prompt Lists

[ysabetwordsmith]

magibrain has updated the Bingo Card Generator with three new lists of prompts that I submitted: Demifiction, People-Watching, and Problems That Can't Be Solved by Hitting. 

Demifiction is imaginary stuff written as if it were nonfiction.  This includes such things as reviews of books that don't exist, fake movie posters, heroes' shopping lists, etc.  It can be challenging to write but it makes a great way to stretch your creative skills, and a really fun way to explore your settings.

People-watching is just a bunch of traits, actions, and other features of folks within eyeshot.  You can use this to generate a random crowd of characters, to suggest people your protagonists might encounter, or other things in a story.  You can also print out a bingo card and sit down at a mall or a county fair and try to make bingo.  This trains your observational skills.

Problems That Can't Be Solved by Hitting will require both you and your characters to think things through instead of using violent action to cover up a lack of actual meaning.  Some of the prompts involve tense situations, while others are milder challenges.  Some of them also run in lower-traffic directions than the violent mainstream.  Many of them are good for gentle fiction (no sex, violence, or foul language) although you might have to edit a bit.  This list is brought to you Hollywood!Fail, by the $6 and 90 minutes I wasted on a really stupid movie, and by the letters F and U.

Comments

[vexed_wench]

Oh these look fun.

If you are taking requests maybe could we have the The Complete Ferengi Rules Of Acquisition? They are listed here.

I thought they would be fun and the basic plots would work with any fandom or original.

Well...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Yes, magibrain is taking requests for prompt lists, so anyone can submit a list. I'm not sure if all the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition would fit into the squares, but you could 1) just use the shorter ones or 2) generate a card of random numbers and match them yourself.

Re: Well...

[vexed_wench]

Thank you for the quick reply. Both options sound good.

I love the list and thought it would be fun to share. :D

Re: Well...

[ysabetwordsmith]

You should go for it. The more people who submit lists, the wider a variety of stuff we'll have to play with. You can see how mine cluster around literary objectives. I wouldn't have thought of the Rules of Acquisition but you're right about the plotty nature of them: "War is good for business." "Peace is good for business." "Never let family stand in the way of profit."

Re: Well...

[vexed_wench]

I agree the more lists we have the more fun it is.

I will think about some themed ones as well.

Did I just overlook the post where you can suggest prompts?

Real life has me crazy this week so if I had I apologize.

Re: Well...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm not sure if magistrate has a post for suggesting prompts. I've just been sending them via private message or email. They need to be in a comma-separated list without numbers.

[phantomas]

Oh, is this still do-able?
If (as I suspect) I will end up with one or two or three lists (probably character and/or fandom specific), I'd love to make them available to everyone.

Now that I think about it, I would also love to put together interesting lists just because, and have them available)