January SNEAK PEEK! Rites of Passage
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allbingoRites of Passage
Everyone is born, and eventually, everyone dies. These can be emotionally complex, difficult experiences, but they can also be the pivotal moment in someone else's life, too. The milestones which mark a path through life can be powerful, illuminating, funny, sad, terrible, warm, or comforting, and we want to read about them.
Here is a sample public card, chosen from a list of seventy-five possible rites of passage.
Feel free to use the sample public card or generate one of your own (instructions are in the introductory post on 1 January 2015). There are no minimum fills, no requirements for form, genre, or medium. PRIZES offered!
Everyone is born, and eventually, everyone dies. These can be emotionally complex, difficult experiences, but they can also be the pivotal moment in someone else's life, too. The milestones which mark a path through life can be powerful, illuminating, funny, sad, terrible, warm, or comforting, and we want to read about them.
Here is a sample public card, chosen from a list of seventy-five possible rites of passage.
| tying a necktie | choosing a gift | first legal signature | first word | getting a license |
| killing someone | first library card | first crush | wisdom teeth | first paycheck |
| first insult | death | ??? | carrying fire | first flirt |
| parenthood | school dance | first homemade meal | new disability | walkabout |
| first kiss | loss of parent(s) | marriage or handfasting | discovering your orientation | first residence |
Feel free to use the sample public card or generate one of your own (instructions are in the introductory post on 1 January 2015). There are no minimum fills, no requirements for form, genre, or medium. PRIZES offered!
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Date: 2014-12-28 07:22 pm (UTC)Many people play two or more bingo cards simultaneously, for example, they might choose a particular square from a hurt/comfort card (there is a H/c bingo list) and a square from this card and combine prompts. Allbingo /allows/ this specifically, as long as you've directly answered a prompt on the card for each item. A bad example: a rite of passage "prom" plus the prompt "car trouble" from another list's bingo card, could be combined IF the action at the prom is intrinsic to the story/scene in the same way the car trouble is. The first line of the fill reads, "On the way to the prom, Joey's rattletrap Fiat left him stranded on the side of the road." Unless you /also/ talk about how he gets /to/ the prom (probably the resolution of the story I have in mind), you're not answering the "prom" prompt because its an incidental, throwaway bit setting the stage for the "car trouble" prompt. Clearer?
I'm hosting this one, hoping more people will give bingo cards a try even as a five-minute writing prompt to unstick the brain staring at a blank page. There will be much more information on the post on Jan 1; this was a preview to whet people's appetites.