Challenge Ultimate Drabble Challenge VI: The Ultimating! (Now playing: Week Twenty: The End!)

In a world where writers found themselves limited to a hundred words, a hardy few rose to the challenge to become... DRABBLERS!

Now playing, in a message board near you, it's Ultimate Drabble Challenge VI: The Ultimating!


For those who've participated before, it's all the same as you remember. For those who're new to the UDC, it's not complicated.

1. A drabble is a self-contained work of exactly one hundred words, not counting the title. ["Self-contained" doesn't necessarily mean that a drabble must be its own complete three-act story, just that, if seen without context, it can stand on its own as something. It can be a scene, a vignette, a joke, a teaser, a whatever.]

2. Create a single thread to contain your drabbles. If you're responding in Star Wars, put the thread in the era most likely to be relevant for the highest number of drabbles. If you're responding in a non-SW fandom (or multiple non-SW fandoms), then put it on the non-SW board.

3. Each week for twenty weeks, a set of five theme words will be posted to this thread. Write one drabble to correspond to each of the themes (five drabbles total). Creative use of the themes is encouraged and appreciated. [The theme word itself does not ever need to appear in the drabble.] The drabbles do not need to be linked to each other. As always, all board rules continue to apply.

4. Once you've written the five drabbles, post them to your thread in a single post. If you complete your challenge, your thread will have twenty content posts of five drabbles each.

5. There is no deadline for completing the challenge. If you finish within twenty weeks, wonderful! If it takes you longer, that's fine. If you start late, no problem.

6. ???

7. Profit!

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The earlier UDCs:
[link=http://boards.theforce.net/fan_fiction_resource/b10304/24319852]Ultimate Drabble Challenge: Like Little Fanfiction McNuggets[/link]
[link=http://boards.theforce.net/fan_fiction_resource/b10304/27512408]Ultimate Drabble Challenge: So Nice, We Did it Twice[/link]
[link=http://boards.theforce.net/fan_fiction_resource/b10304/29080673]Ultimate Drabble Challenge: The Third Time's the Charm[/link]
[link=http://boards.theforce.net/fan_fiction_resource/b10304/29939860]Ultimate Drabble Challenge: The Fourth, All Fandom Friendly Drabble Challenge[/link]
[link=http://boards.theforce.net/fan_fiction_resource/b10304/30936933]Ultimate Drabble Challenge: UDC 5 is ON THE AIR![/link]

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NOW PLAYING!


Theater One: Scene 1, Take 1!

1. Lights!
2. Camera!
3. Action!
4. Roll!
5. Shoot!

Theater Two: Genre No!

6. Adventure
7. Romance
8. Science
9. Fiction
10. Comedy

Theater Three: Simply the Best!

11. Wings
12. Unforgiven
13. Rocky
14. Titanic
15. Crash

Theater Four: Would You Like to Play a Game?!

16. Clue
17. Operation
18. Life
19. Sorry
20. Risk

Theater Five: No One Under 65 Admitted!

21. Rated
22. Guidance
23. Suggested
24. Caution
25. Restricted

Theater Six: Adult Themes!

26. Sex
27. Graphic
28. Violence
29. Language
30. Drugs

Theater Seven: It's Not a Remake, It's a Reimagining!

31. One theme from UDC 1.
32. One theme from UDC 2.
33. One theme from UDC 3.
34. One theme from UDC 4.
35. One theme from UDC 5.


Theater Eight: In 3D!

36. Cube
37. Sphere
38. Cone
39. Cylinder
40. Pyramid

Week Nine: Answer Me!

41. Who?
42. What?
43. When?
44. Where?
45. Why?

Week Ten: Before the Of!

46. Return
47. Revenge
48. Curse
49. Wrath
50. Attack

Week Eleven: After the Of!

51. Death
52. Doom
53. Terror
54. Peril
55. Shadow

Week Twelve: The X Factors!

56. Prime
57. Composite
58. Deficient
59. Perfect
60. Abundant

Week Thirteen: Pixar!

61. Toys
62. Bugs
63. Monsters
64. Heroes
65. Rats

Theater Fouteen: It's a Reimagined Reboot!

66. One theme from UDC 1.
67. One theme from UDC 2.
68. One theme from UDC 3.
69. One theme from UDC 4.
70. One theme from UDC 5.

Week Fifteen: Five Little Deadlies!

71. Avarice
72. Envy
73. Gluttony
74. Lust
75. Pride

Week Sixteen: Onomatopoeia!

76. Pow!
77. Bang!
78. Boom!
79. Zap!
80. Pop!

Week Seventeen: It's an Honor Just to Be Nominated!

81. Inception
82. Babe
83. Network
84. Avatar
85. Traffic

Week Eighteen: Tale of the Creators!

86. Direct
87. Produce
88. Perform
89. Edit
90. Distribute

Week Nineteen: Happy Autumn!

91. Spring
92. Summer
93. Winter
94. Season
95. Change

Week Twenty: The End!

96. Cut
97. Wrap
98. Done
99. Over
100. Finish

 

Reserved

 

Starring:

brodiew (Doctor Who)

Ceillean (Star Wars)

earlybird-obi-wan (Star Wars)

FelsGoddess (Star Wars)

Idrelle_Miocovani (Tangled)

Jade_eyes (Star Wars)
JediMara77 (Star Wars)

LilyHobbitJedi (Doctor Who)

Master_Jaina1011 (Battlestar Galactica) (Star Trek)
Mira_Jade (Star Trek)

NYCitygurl (Multifandom)

Raphire (Star Wars)

Salacious_Drabb (Multifandom)
Storms_Legacy (Sanctuary)

 

Grand Champions

earlybird-obi-wan
FelsGoddess
JediMara77
Master_Jaina1011
Mira_Jade
NYCitygurl
Salacious_Drabb

Champions

Jade_eyes

 

A couple production notes:

Last time, there were complaints about the challenge, and the biggest one was based on a different understanding of the nature of the challenge itself. This is not about creating a single 500-word story every week or a 10,000-word one over the course of twenty weeks. It's about creating a hundred separate pieces that can stand on their own. Toward that end, the diversity of themes between (and sometimes within) sets is entirely intentional.

Slightly more generally, some writers like to plan ahead what they want to do, and the themes that come up may not cooperate with those plans. That doesn't mean the set is bad or that I've done something wrong. Part of the challenge is flexibility; it's about coming up with ideas inspired by the themes, not about trying to shoehorn the themes into an existing framework.

This last note is prefaced with the Ballad of Jack. In the last challenge, one theme that caused immediate wailing, gnashing of teeth, rending of clothing, and general angst - or at least a few complaints - was "Jack." People didn't know what they could possibly do with such a narrow and specific theme. This surprised me. This is its dictionary entry, and this is its Wikipedia page. Jack was easily one of the most versatile themes in any of the UDCs, and people were upset. For this challenge, if you get a theme you don't know how to use, try looking the word up. Those less-common definitions, the acronyms and brands and artworks, they're all fair game. And if you learn a thing or two along the way, that's one of the best things that can come out of this whole exercise.

 

Now Playing: Scene 1, Take 1!

1. Lights!
2. Camera!
3. Action!
4. Roll!
5. Shoot!

 

Hello!

Am I able to participate in this challenge if I completed 1-4, but not 5?

 

You can do it even if you've never done any of the earlier ones. Prior participation has never been a requirement.

 

Fragments III is up.

 

Oh goodness. looks like I need to finish up that last week of V, decide what fandom I'm doing this time and get going. Won't be able to start till May's over though most likely :/

My struggle with the promps last time was that because I was doing a fandom set all the way back in early 1800 some of the more...shall we say "futuristic or modern" promps were kind of hard to work with, But I did get through it

 

You know, I've never really written drabbles before. I might give this a go, perhaps with the characters I'm playing around with for another group project.

 

Oh yeah, none of what I said there was directed at you, Alley. I'm actually really happy that you were able to get through it.

 

Bird bits UDC VI

is up and thanks again Drab for the great challenge and the first set of prompts.

 

Thanks for this, Drab!

Here's mine - let the roses come and go (a Tangled set).

 

Yes, new sets should be coming out on Fridays. Part of the reason for the switch was just impatience, part was to avoid a couple American holidays, and part to get the last set out in September (on the 30th) instead of October.

 

I agree with Mira; Fridays are nicer because we have the weekend to write and enjoy rather than rushing on the weekend so we're not behind come Monday.


All Kinds of Magic in NSWFF. I guess it's technically multifandom, but they're all set in worlds written by Sharon Shinn.

 

So here's mine! And I definately agree. I like friadays way better!

Love Letters

 

Mine are up - Sanctuary for All, this time in Sanctuary. I may do a second set, too, depending on how things go...

 

Here's my Star Wars entry:
Incandescence

 

I haven't participated since UDC3, but I figured I would give it a try again. Mine is TARDIS Travels and is Doctor Who (obviously).

 

My own drabble thread is now up. Week One is Doctor Who, but the other weeks will be different fandoms.

 

Now Playing: Genre No!

6. Adventure
7. Romance
8. Science
9. Fiction
10. Comedy

 

Ooooh, I love these.