META: Fanfic Prompt Tables = WTF

[campylobacter]

 

Have yet to see a single fanfic author complete a fanfic prompt table, regardless of 9 to 100 boxes. http://is.gd/iovdZZ

Prove me wrong, people. Have any of you seen a completed table?

Maybe... the tables are not MEANT to be completed! Perhaps there's an unwritten rule that if you complete a prompt table, a clammy, monochrome Asian chick with impenetrable black hair will crawl out of your TV set and kill you.

01.	Boredom	02.	Derpage	03.	Mixed tenses	04.	Exposition	05.	Navel-gazing
06.	Cliches	07.	Plagiarism	08.	Flail	09.	Fail	10.	Bad porn
11.	Schmoop	12.	Angst	13.	Whump	14.	BDSM	15.	MPREG
16.	Character-bashing	17.	Anti-slash	18.	Misogyny	19.	Baby fic	20.	1st person
21.	Badfic	22.	Crack	23.	Cock block	24.	Song fic	25.	Non-con
26.	Gender fail	27.	Race fail	28.	Hurt/Comfort	29.	Man Pain	30.	Mary Sue

If this layout's CSS weren't so fucked, the above table would have lines and shit:

Comments

[sg-wonderland.livejournal.com]

I'm just going to confess to my complete ignorance and say I have no idea what a prompt table is. I followed the link which took me to Hemingway's Wiki page but I am still completely in the dark....

[evrymeeveryyou.livejournal.com]

Thanks...no clue either.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

D'oh! I went back and edited the entry with an example & screenshoot and a link to 100_prompts

I'm sure you've seen at least one before.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Ack! Sorry! I forget that not everyone's a Jaded Old Fanfic Queen.

I went back and edited the entry with an example & screenshoot and a link to 100_prompts

[sg-wonderland.livejournal.com]

Oh, now I get it. But, no, since I didn't know what it was, it's a pretty fair bet I've never actually used one.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

I just now ganked a table from 100_prompts and substituted my own prompts. It's kinda growing on me... I might actually use it, because my primary motivation for writing fanfic is to mock ficfail or "correct" it by imposing my worldview through fiction. ;-p

[dannysgirlsg1.livejournal.com]

Well, you know I'VE never completed one.

They haunt me sometimes, my fic tables...just KNOWING I have prompts sitting there waiting to be written.

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

Hmm, and here I've been hiding away this table I started because I wasn't finished with it yet. You mean I'm supposed to share it all half-done and stuff?

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Maybe in your case, you get haunted by the ghosts of brabbits past for having an UNfinished prompt table.

=:-o

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

I don't even wanna speculate on how many undisclosed, unfinished prompt tables there might exist!

(Don't finish it! Sadako (http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&q=ringu+sadako&bav=on.2,or.&pdl=300&um=1&ie=UTF-&biw=1428&bih=987) will kill you within 7 days of its completion!