Since measuringlife is crazy and keeps rubbing off on me, we've both agreed to a writing challenge in which we exchange prompt lists - 35 for fanfic and 15 for original each - and try to finish as many as possible by June 17, 2010. Whoever finishes their list first gets a request; if someone finishes both, they get another request.

No length requirements or restrictions. We're allowed to double up with other challenges we're already participating in (eg. 30 Kisses). I'll be linking to this post on the sidebar (Challenge: THE GAUNTLET HAS BEEN THROWN or something conspicuous) and crossing off prompts as I finish them.

OBVIOUSLY TEN CHALLENGE COMMUNITIES WASN'T ENOUGH RIGHT.


List from measuringlife:

For fan fiction
1) Gone at dusk through narrow streets [link]
2) I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. [link]
3) Down the passage which we did not take [link]
4) I want to be where your bare foot walks [link]
5) As it is with ghosts [link]
6) I am two fools, I know
7) I wished your dust to intermingle with mine
8) You are what I know
9) What is more arrogant than honesty? [link]
10) And you lift me up out of the two worlds.
11) Das Reich der Zwei – the nation of two
12) The kinks and the fibers of our hearts [link]
13) The world scorns us [link]
14) Hate me, hate yourself [link]
15) There is no armor against fate; death lays its icy hand upon kings
16) Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving [link]
17) One may smile and smile and still be a villain [link]
18) We all are in the gutter, but some of us are looking up at the stars
19) Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow [link]
20) Dance the silence down through the mornin'
21) Something in a shade of grey, something in-between [link]
22) You said "it's just like a full moon". [link]
23) I’ll whisper sweet words to you, and some of them may be true [link]
24) The seven autumn flowers
25) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. [link]
26) This is why we can’t have nice things [link]
27) an inflamed organ of fancy [link]
28) the stuff of lurid fiction
29) There was a never a profit to be got from love
30) and our fingers they almost touched [link]
31) so monochrome and so lukewarm [link]
32) I kept your tie [link]
33) I could feel your heartbeat across the grass
34) I should have kissed you by the water [link]
35) Love/Leave [link]

For original fiction
1) we become the stories we tell about ourselves
2) but who will guard the guardians?
3) the harsh light of day
4) you gave me yourself for just a little while
5) I carry your heart here with me (I carry it in my heart)
6) of dead loves and waning perfume
7) the beauty of transient things
8) the undiluted violence of fairytales
9) unravel me, distant cord
10) like a fitzgerald flapper
11) and now for something entirely different
12) changeling child
13) skin is such a fragile thing
14) `we are nothing but a bit of dust and shadow
15) let me tell you a story

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My List:

For Fan Fiction
1. unaware of the sadness in your heart, knowing only of the rain in mine. [locked]
2. love-soaked, rain-soaked
3. forever falling everywhere
4. I am all uncombed [link]
5. midnight has passed and she wakes
6. wetting, wetting, wetting my sleeves. [link]
7. if there were no moon or snow or fireflies
8. blush like a cherry blossom
9. I left the sea because I was seduced
10. within me my heart chars [link]
11. less than a single waking glimpse
12. a reed cut from its roots [link]
13. the flower of forgetting [link]
14. the way ripples on the water submit to an idling wing
15. the white scarves of death [link]
16. a faint quiver in the air
17. a bird cries out in sorrow [link]
18. where warriors dream
19. tangled in a thousand strands
20. a light larger than the sun and the moon
21. your river seems so deep
22. the silence a mirror that breaks the light in two
23. your darkness speaks and has eyes [link]
24. promises almost kept [link]
25. Your silence makes me hold my breath
26. I would stop running, if knew there was a chance
27. All the ones I have loved calling out my name [link]
28. thick or thin, opening its lovely angles
29. why not flirt with the moon by day [link]
30. the heavenly scales got dropped and lost [link]
31. if love is fated, you'll chew it red [link]
32. the lush dark canopies of the gnarled trees
33. the delicious pleasure in making the first move [link]
34. heavenly wine for old friends
35. nirvana is here, nine times out of ten

For original fiction
1. too delicate a sense of honor
2. cold fingers intertwined
3. prepared to die, what can they not achieve?
4. Nothing is more useless and more inconstant than the multitude.
5. We are lutes, no more, no less.
6. a prison for the stars and the host of heaven
7. old scores are settled there
8. the seven principles of governance
9. letters were concealed and hidden
10. the Heart of man as a king in warfare
11. stripped naked but wearing shoes
12. a basket full of books
13. My privilege means more to me when they die young.
14. crowned with an olive-wreath
15. when burning thunders shook the solid ground [locked]

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Both lists had annotations and/or credits, which I'm omitting here so the entry isn't insanely long. Most of mine is derived from Japanese poetry, fiction, or songs, with some exceptions, some of which came from entries you, F-list, may have made in the past on these subjects. Just so you know.

ETA: she one-upped me and posted the annotations in her entry. :P