Random thoughts 1: Just Sayin'

[Gori the Grey]

Hmmm . . . A 10,000 word song about CFC . . .

 

[Borachio]

Is it possible to make a car out of earwax?

Spoiler :

(Never mind making a car from scratch. I'm not even sure what kind of material scratch is.)

The commercial possibilities are, let's say, at the very least, interesting.

I understand there may be some technical difficulties with this proposition, but it just so happens that I've recently discovered an almost inexhaustible supply of the stuff.

And very close at hand, I should add.

So the transportation costs of the primary material could well be minimal.

 

[Traitorfish]

At ten thousand words, it's more of an epic poem.

 

[Borachio]

Do the words have to be different words?

Or would just the one word repeated 10,000 times be sufficient?

Because I could probably do that. And quite quickly.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Do the words have to be different words?

Or would just the one word repeated 10,000 times be sufficient?

Because I could probably do that. And quite quickly.

Yes, of course they have to be different words. NaNoWriMo has ways of detecting cheaters who just post the same stuff over and over.

And what would be the point anyway? You're not competing against other people; the point of NaNoWriMo is to do the best YOU can do. So cheating might get you the winner's badge (one of many given out to people who make it to the end) and the winners' goodies (some very generous discounts on writing supplies, reference books, and software), but you wouldn't have really earned them.

It was the most amazing feeling for me last November when, after 9 years of trying this, I finally made it to the end of 50,000 words and another 10,500 to boot. You better believe I earned it.

The Camp events let you choose your own goals, though, as long as it's the minimum of 10,000. Since I write every day, I daresay I'll probably manage it easily this time (I'm already nearly halfway done).

But I'll give some serious thought to a CFC filksong. Some possibilities are already percolating.

 

[Gori the Grey]

At ten thousand words, it's more of an epic poem.

Paradise Lost is 10,000 lines long. (Iliad and Odyssey both longer still). There gotta be four or five words in each line. So 10,000 words is a brief epic, more on the order of Paradise Regained, maybe.

 

[Traitorfish]

That's fair; CFC is worth a hundred thousand word at the very least.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

That's fair; CFC is worth a hundred thousand word at the very least.

In that case, you'll have to get somebody like Luckymoose to write it. To hear him tell it, he romps through a 50,000-word NaNoWriMo in about 2 weeks (or less).

Anyway, I've thought of one possible melody to base it on (while a lot of filksongs have original melodies, I'm not in the headspace right now for composing any new ones).

 

[Gori the Grey]

Hmmmm . . . gotta figure the stanza form. The two determinants are that it's a song and that it's that long--ten thousand words, or a hundred thousand words!

Now Paradise Lost does call itself a song (and the great classical epics invite the Muse to sing through me). So epic is one possibility.

Ballad stanza is more authentically song-like, though, and could lend itself to the more episodic nature such an undertaking might involve.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Hmmmm . . . gotta figure the stanza form. The two determinants are that it's a song and that it's that long--ten thousand words, or a hundred thousand words!

Now Paradise Lost does call itself a song (and the great classical epics invite the Muse to sing through me). So epic is one possibility.

Ballad stanza is more authentically song-like, though, and could lend itself to the more episodic nature such an undertaking might involve.

Actually, I was thinking of one that's often used in filking sessions and allows people to make up their own verses (I've heard some rather creative ones being made up on the spot).

*takes a deep breath*:

"Give me that old-time CivFanatics,
Give me that old-time CivFanatics,
Give me that old-time CivFanatics,
It's good enough for me!"

EDIT: I thought about using "CFC" but "CivFanatics" scans better for the meter.




Okay, that's the chorus (and the first 20 words - just 9,980 more to go! ). Anyone want to take a crack at a verse? The first three lines have to rhyme at the end, and the fourth line can either be "It's good enough for me!" or it could be something else that goes with the first 3, but doesn't have to rhyme.


Here's an example of a verse I wrote for a Star Trek version:

"There's a monster loose among us,
Please, no shouts, no cries, no cusses,
I don't see what all the fuss is --
It only wants to play!"

 

[Takhisis]

I'll buy a nice, safe family car like a Honda Civic and attach automated machine guns and flame throwers to the top.

Remember to paint flames along the sides.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Garbanzo bean or Chickpea?

 

[Takhisis]

In Spanish a garbanzo is a chickpea.

 

[Uncle Sparky]

Why don't Americans recognize John Hancock as their first president? July 4, 1776, he was president of the continental congress...

 

[cardgame]

President of congress =\= president of country

We didn't have the constitution written, so there was no official position of president as there is today, that's the short version why.

 

[caketastydelish]

Remember to paint flames along the sides.

Then I'm giving it away. There needs to be an element of surprise.

 

[bernie14]

President of congress =\= president of country

We didn't have the constitution written, so there was no official position of president as there is today, that's the short version why.

RANT.....WE??? you are American?....I mean, what red blooded American calls a potato chip a "crisp"????

/rant

 

[cardgame]

I was turned into a Brit.

...I got better

 

[Borachio]

Or relapsed.

 

[Borachio]

I call those efforts frauds.

They both repeat a number of words, and earlier you told me that would be cheating.