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fkficfest prompts are out. I'm looking forward to seeing what people come up with.
Writing fic has been a great creative and emotional outlet for me personally these past couple of years. Why FK in particular? I don't know. But as my country slips deeper into brazen lawlessness and breathtaking incompetence at the federal level, I'm grateful for such an outlet.
Last year, someone suggested combining prompts. And I found that combining winning prompts with losing prompts really helped with brainstorming. That exercise put different spins on the winning prompts, fueling fires in the imagination. I will be doing it again, and mention it in case anyone else might find it helpful.
Good luck, FK peeps, see y’all on the other side! 🫡
fkficfest prompts are out. I'm looking forward to seeing what people come up with. Writing fic has been a great creative and emotional outlet for me personally these past couple of years. Why FK in particular? I don't know. But as my country slips deeper into brazen lawlessness and breathtaking incompetence at the federal level, I'm grateful for such an outlet.
Last year, someone suggested combining prompts. And I found that combining winning prompts with losing prompts really helped with brainstorming. That exercise put different spins on the winning prompts, fueling fires in the imagination. I will be doing it again, and mention it in case anyone else might find it helpful.
Good luck, FK peeps, see y’all on the other side! 🫡
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Date: 2025-03-25 09:17 am (UTC)Good luck to you, too! Fanfiction has really been a good and creative way of escapism these last years. Combining winning and "losing" prompts is a cool idea. I'm surprised at the voting results, I'd have thought some other prompts would have been picked, but there are still some prompts that I have some ideas about. Is there a fave of yours among the winning prompts?
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Date: 2025-03-25 01:29 pm (UTC)My #1 choice was “heist,” which didn’t make it. I just really wanted to read some fun heist stories lol.
How about you?
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Date: 2025-03-25 02:56 pm (UTC)FK fandom is very vigorously diverse. ;-) We agree only on liking FK, not on the show's themes, characters, purpose, genre... ;-)
FWIW, the decisively top-ranked prompt this year got these votes (10, 4, 4, 11, 2, 15, 12, 15, 14, 1, 4, 19) while one of the lowest-ranked prompts got these votes (31, 1, 21, 22, 30, 21, 18, 26, (33+ NA), 31, 30, 28).
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Date: 2025-03-25 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-25 03:35 pm (UTC)Folks ranked "heist" at: 16, (33+ NA), 32, 30, 7, 3, 14, 24, 18, 9, 10, along with, as you noted above, your 1.
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Date: 2025-03-25 04:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-25 04:52 pm (UTC)Please correct me if I'm wrong, I really think I am, but you sound to me like I've attacked you with my comment. I just thought that taking into account the past final prompts, the ranking would look different. Just surprised, is all. I'm happy with the outcome. :)
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Date: 2025-03-25 05:21 pm (UTC)Just taking it all as interesting to see how things shook out with the various prompts, personal surprises and all.
I thought the brackets were fun last year to see how prompts moved in the rankings in "real time," but of course that was a lot of work to get to the same results anyway so didn't make a lot of sense to repeat.
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Date: 2025-03-26 02:21 pm (UTC)I felt that your "I'd have thought some other prompts would have been picked" sounded bewildered by the community's choices. So I tried to explain the collective mind of the community, so to speak, to the extent that I understand it -- which is: we don't widely agree on much, or widely share many inclinations, so the elected prompts each year are usually somewhere in the "upper middle" of most everyone's preferences, instead of expressing consensus.
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Date: 2025-03-26 04:31 pm (UTC)Ok, I'm glad it was just a misunderstanding. :) I wasn't bewildered, just thought that other prompts would have been more popular. But as you said, the community's preferences are very diverse. For some of the top 5 I have some vague ideas I'll mull over. How about you, are the prompts resonating with you?
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Date: 2025-03-28 02:25 pm (UTC)Thank you for asking. :-) No, no ideas yet. I need to rewatch some episodes and hope they light a spark.
The hairbrush prompt can easily be used to trigger a flashback to something a writer wants to address. It might be interesting to have it go against expectations and be a character other than Nick or Lacroix having such a flashback -- Natalie's brother Richard is blond, for example, and I believe his daughter is, too, though I should check that to confirm.
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Date: 2025-03-28 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-29 04:43 pm (UTC)So many possibilities with the blond hair, either in flashbacks or the present. That's great. Tracy would also be a good candidate. I do think Richard was blond, too. There are definitely some episodes to rewatch. :)
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Date: 2025-03-26 01:52 am (UTC)For me, I look at the prompts with the eyes of both a reader and a writer. I rank highly prompts which might develop into stories I would like to read, but I also look with the view of what stories I think I could do justice to as a writer. My nightmare would be to be faced with a slate a prompts I'd struggle to write a good story for.
Maybe that's overthinking it! I do like the idea of utilizing the non-selected prompts to get ideas flowing! And I do like the prompts that have been chosen--I think they each could go in many different directions.
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Date: 2025-03-26 04:14 am (UTC)I look forward to reading what you come up with!