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skidmo_fic ([personal profile] skidmo_fic) wrote2007-09-23 05:29 pm

Song Lyric Challenge

Edit: Challenge is closed. Assignments will be handed out during the first part of this week.


Okay, I think I've got this figured out.

So, this here's the sign-up post for the Song Lyric Challenge. You'll be assigned one line from a song, and you'll need to write a fic based on that line. The line does not need to appear in your fic, but there should be a very definite connection to the line. The minimum length for fics is 500 words and there is no upper limit. If you want to write an epic for this challenge, please do.

It looks like November 11th is the date that will work best for most people so that will be the deadline. Sign-ups will close September 30th, and you'll receive your assignments no later than October 4th. If you asked for an earlier deadline, you are more than welcome to post your fic before the deadline. I'll post the masterlist of fics here when they're all finished.

To sign up, please comment to this post with your lj-name (or a way to contact you if you're not on LJ) and between 1-3 lines from various songs that you might like to see spun into fics. (Just one line from each song, and please include the artist and song title.) They can be silly or serious or sad or happy. Anything goes.

When you receive your assignment, you'll be given two song lyrics to choose from, so if one doesn't jumpstart your muse, hopefully the other will.

Also, please let me know if you can pinch-hit.

If you have to drop out after receiving your assignment, please let me know as soon as possible so I can assign your prompt to someone else.

This is a multi-fandom challenge, so feel free to write any fandom and any pairing you choose. And please pimp this out to all your friends. I'm only active in the Stargate: Atlantis and Torchwood fandoms, so that's where I'm pimping this, but I'd really like to see it expand beyond that.

If you have any questions about the challenge leave them in a comment here.

A week before the deadline (so November 3rd), I'll put up a post for you to give me the links to your fics.

All right, I think that's it. Let's get this thing started, shall we?


Edit: Also, please include in your comment whether or not you'd like a reminder a week before the deadline.

Edit2: Okay, I'm slightly concerned that I wasn't terribly clear on this, so I'm going to reiterate. You give me three lyrics, and I'll give you someone else's lyrics to write to. No one will be assigned their own lyrics as a prompt. Sorry for any confusion on that score. Carry on.

Edit3: Because someone asked...You don't need to include your fandom when you sign up. The lyrics will be distributed randomly. Some of them may end up not being given out at all. I'm mostly asking you to give me some because I don't think I'd be able to come up with enough on my own. (And they'd probably all come from the same ten bands.) If someone from a fandom you don't normally read ends up with your lyrics, think of it as a chance to have a little trial run in that fandom. Who knows, maybe you'll find a brand new place to share your crazy fandom love?

[identity profile] dr-is-in.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
Yay! I was hoping you would do this challenge. Ok, 3 lyrics.....

"I really miss your hair in my face, and the way your innocence tastes. And I think you should know this, you deserve much better than me." - Better Than Me by Hinder

"I'd never want to see you unhappy, I thought you'd want the same for me." - Almost Lover by A Fine Frenzy

"If this world is wearing thin and you're thinking of escape, I'll go anywhere with you, just wrap me up in chains." - Stay by Shakespeare's Sister.



misslucyjane: poetry by hafiz (see you in ten)

[personal profile] misslucyjane 2007-09-24 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[livejournal.com profile] misslucyjane

Babe, you really turn me on, like an idea, like an atom bomb
"Babe, You Turn Me On," Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

This is how you made my heart a hunter
"Fallen Icons," Delerium

What if I'd been born fifty years before you, in a house on a street where you live?
"The Luckiest," Ben Folds

Please send me the week-before reminder.

[identity profile] garneteve.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, well, I'm Garneteve, and I'd like to participate in this :)
Songs that I'd like song line from:

Filthy Gorgeous - Scissor Sisters
What I like About you - Romantics
Candyman - Christina Agulieria

I can be reached at garneteve at bigpond dot com

I wouldn't mind having a second prompt either...but then, that's up to you :)

[identity profile] halfspokenwords.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still, and I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Space Oddity, David Bowie

The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in / Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
London Calling, The Clash

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year
Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd

Reminder, please! Do you need an email address?

[identity profile] skidmo-fic.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Oops. What I actually need from you is a line from each of those songs. You'll be assigned a line that someone else contributes.

Sorry that wasn't more clear.

[identity profile] skidmo-fic.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. Don't need an email address, unless you'd prefer your reminder that way. I'll just reply to your comment here to remind you.

[identity profile] garneteve.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry...my bad...
I can't think of any good song lyrics at the moment, so I'm up for any random one.
Also, if I could plz have a reminder? That'd be great. Do you mind if i pimp this at my lj?

[identity profile] skidmo-fic.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
No worries. If you think of any before the sign-up deadline, feel free to let me know.

And I'd love it if you pimped this anywhere you can think of. The more the merrier. :)

[identity profile] garneteve.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
omg, i'm so dense.... lol...
Okay:

"Why don't you stay for the night...or maybe a bite..I could show you my favourite obsession" - Rocky Horror

"I think I saw your body before I saw your face" - Push Up - Freestylers

"When you smile at me you know exactly what you do" - Everything - Michael Buble
oriolegirl: (moods:  ummm... (SGA))

[personal profile] oriolegirl 2007-09-24 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
I cannot resist. I'm in.

[livejournal.com profile] oriolegirl

This feels like the place between what is and might have been - "Lincoln Avenue," Train

like a star that guides a ship across the ocean / that's how your love can take me home back to you - "Back To You," Bryan Adams

Saw you across the hall / Wish I had the guts to call / Turned and went the other way - "The Day," Ben Broussard

Yes, reminder, please.
ext_2202: Bob Blog! (Default)

[identity profile] gemmi999.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Son I've made my life, out of reading people's faces, knowing what the cards were by the way they held their eyes.
The Gambler, Kenny Rogers

I think I've already lost you, I think you're already gone, I think I'm finally scared now, you think I'm weak, I think you're wrong.
If You're Gone, Matchbox 20

she finds strength in her anger, and the truth in his lies. When the last scar finally fades, she'll have a new life
Alive, SR-71
ext_2202: Bob Blog! (Default)

[identity profile] gemmi999.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Oops--forgot to mention I'll do pitch hitting.
Please contact me at gemmi999@gmail.com

Thanks for organizing this!

[identity profile] del-writes.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
I'm <lj user="del_writes" and I'd really like the reminder please. It's time to forget about the past, to wash away what happened last -- Beautiful Lie by 30 Seconds to Mars Fed up with my destiny, this place of no return -- Beautiful Goodbye by Amanda Marshall Not ready to think these thoughts in the middle of the night -- Endgame by Anthony Stewart Head

[identity profile] del-writes.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
I'm an idiot who can apparently not post in a readable format, so here it goes again.

I'm [livejournal.com profile] del_writes and I'd really like the reminder please.

It's time to forget about the past, to wash away what happened last -- Beautiful Lie by 30 Seconds to Mars

Fed up with my destiny, this place of no return -- Beautiful Goodbye by Amanda Marshall

Not ready to think these thoughts in the middle of the night -- Endgame by Anthony Stewart Head

[identity profile] lyonza.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
So, I got a bit carried away. You can use some of these for others if you want.

Jo Dee Messina - My Give A Damn Is Busted
You can crawl back home, say you were wrong
Stand out in the yard and cry all night long
go ahead and water the lawn, my give a damn's busted

I Quit - Hepburn
There was a time when
I would go walking backwards
Round the world if you said you're mine

Lucky - Bif Naked
It was a Monday, when my lover told me, "Never pay the reaper with love only."
What could i say to you, except, "I love you." and "I'd give my life for yours."

Teenage FBI - Guided by Voices
Someone tell me why I do the things
That I don't wanna do
When you're around me I'm somebody else

[identity profile] lyonza.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
*pokes holes in the brain*

Please remind me of the due date.

Thanks ;)

[identity profile] lookninjas.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
I'll give this a whirl!

So don't keep telling me that you're dying to know
'Cause you're not really listening
- "Thirty Whacks," Dresden Dolls

I haven't slept for two days; I've bathed in nothing but sweat
And I've made hallways scenes for things to regret
- "Rest My Chemistry," Interpol

Horizontally speaking, he's at his very best - "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," Cole Porter

And please do remind me; I'm an absent-minded young thing.

[identity profile] archae-ology.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
*is so in*

[livejournal.com profile] archae_ology

1)Crazy well what are you then
Give me an hour and I'll give your dream
Shhh- Frou Frou

2)I'll sell my rod, I'll sell my reel
I'll sell my only spinning wheel
To buy my love a sword of steel
Siulil A Run- Celtic Woman

3)So let me come to you
Close as I want to be
Close enough for me
To feel your heart beating fast
Eyes on Me- FFVIII OST

And reminder please and thank you!

[identity profile] vagablonde.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?

Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah

You left when I told you I was curious,
I never said that I was brave.

Leonard Cohen, So Long Marianne

When you're standing at the crossroads that you cannot comprehend
Just remember that death is not the end

Bob Dylan, Death Is Not The End

[identity profile] partofthequeue2.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
Loving your Chuck header btw :)

Hmm, lyrics:
I'm child and man and child again, the toy broken boy soldier
Broken Boy Soldier by The Raconteurs.

We like who we like, we hate who we hate, but we're all so easily swayed
Angry Mob by The Kaiser Chiefs.

Don’t you know I’m still standing better than I ever did, looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid
Still Standing by Elton John.

[identity profile] partofthequeue2.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, and can I please have a reminder a week before the due date. Thanks!

[identity profile] athousanderrors.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 10:00 am (UTC)(link)
Well, my lj name is good, and you already know my email. :P Are we allowed to give more lyrics? I have lots to spare. Hee.

"drain the veins in my head, clean out the reds in my eyes to get by security lines, dear x-ray machines, pretend you don't know me so well; I won't tell if you lie." Plane - Jason Mraz

"This is why I always wonder, I'm a pond full of regrets. I always try to not remember rather than forget." Not Going Anywhere - Keren Ann

"I think of you and the thoughts that you keep, and I wonder do you know me? Everything that I have is broken in two, everything that I am revolves around you, and you just don't understand what a girl goes through." Lullaby - Alana Davis

[identity profile] athousanderrors.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 10:00 am (UTC)(link)
ooh, and can I have a reminder too? Even if you just post it on your LJ, I'll catch it. Should catch it. Heh.

[identity profile] skidmo-fic.livejournal.com 2007-09-24 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Just have to say that I've only ever heard one song by Ben Broussard (and I don't even remember what it was), but I love you for using him here, simply because he's a Mariner.

Go M's!
oriolegirl: (baseball: baseballs)

[personal profile] oriolegirl 2007-09-24 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I *love* his CD. I really wish he'd make another one. :-)

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