Chaucer meme
Jun. 2nd, 2016 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anghraineI posted this at Tumblr, and then I thought it might be of more interest to the DW crowd :)
Join me, fellow fic writers, in a writing meme that has virtually nothing to do with Geoffrey Chaucer, but is how I think of it anyway.
Well, fic writers who like working within severe and arbitrary restrictions for no particular reason. If you feel like it. No pressure!—I’m just having fun, and feel like sharing it.
How does it work?
1. Write a fic with seven sections. How you divide the sections up in terms of plot/character/whatever is entirely up to you. There just need to be seven of them.
2. Each section has seven sentences. Exactly seven. Feel free to abuse semi-colons, colons, hyphens, whatever. But no more and no less than seven.
3. If you want a fancy (or not so fancy) quote at the beginning, that’s cool—as long as it’s also seven lines. But feel free to abuse the ellipsis. It just needs to be seven as quoted.
And seven shall be the number of thycounting writing!
(Inspired in part by Chaucer’s invention and incessant use of “rime royal,” strict seven-line stanzas, and in part by ye olde drabble of exactly 100 words. Ergo: rime royal the meme!)
Join me, fellow fic writers, in a writing meme that has virtually nothing to do with Geoffrey Chaucer, but is how I think of it anyway.
Well, fic writers who like working within severe and arbitrary restrictions for no particular reason. If you feel like it. No pressure!—I’m just having fun, and feel like sharing it.
How does it work?
1. Write a fic with seven sections. How you divide the sections up in terms of plot/character/whatever is entirely up to you. There just need to be seven of them.
2. Each section has seven sentences. Exactly seven. Feel free to abuse semi-colons, colons, hyphens, whatever. But no more and no less than seven.
3. If you want a fancy (or not so fancy) quote at the beginning, that’s cool—as long as it’s also seven lines. But feel free to abuse the ellipsis. It just needs to be seven as quoted.
And seven shall be the number of thy
(Inspired in part by Chaucer’s invention and incessant use of “rime royal,” strict seven-line stanzas, and in part by ye olde drabble of exactly 100 words. Ergo: rime royal the meme!)
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on 2016-06-06 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2016-06-15 03:16 am (UTC)You've read it, but if it helps at all, this fic was written to the meme. It works well for me because my tendency is to sprawl all over and it forces me to be concise, but it does go very slow.