The Ins and Outs of DFC (December Form Challenge)

DFC is back for a repeat of last year with a few new developments. Everyone excited? You will be as you read on about our awesome new event for 2009. Firstly we have 3 coordinators. Myself, Steph (*IrrevocableFate) and Gen (=Renegade-Angel23). Secondly we have a new account specifically for DFC. It is called ~ProjectDFC so feel free to watch this account or feature DFC yourself in your journals! We want as many people as possible to be able to participate! This will be AWESOME!

For anyone new to DFC, it was a challenge that spanned the whole month of December where poets were asked to write a poem each day using the form listed for that day. It was fantastic and there was a lot of poetry created. When it finished there were around 1200 pieces created for it. I'd love to see that amount of work this time around.

This year we are going to work off prompts for each day, and the reason for this was because some days of last year's event were too hard as we ran out of ideas to write about. So a prompt list has been created and THIS is what we are adhering to as a group.

The prompts were found and collaborated by none other than the magnificent =Renegade-Angel23. She is awesome

Our prompt list is as follows:

Prompt list for the December Form Challenge 2009 by =Renegade-Angel23

The point is to use the prompt but twist it and make it fit
what you want to write about.
(the challenge is duel, both the form and the use of imagination with the prompt)

Dec 1 - Gone Fishing
Dec 2 - Archangel
Dec 3 - To Beguile with Words
Dec 4 - I put a spell on you
Dec 5 - Breathe
Dec 6 - Fidelity
Dec 7 - Anger
Dec 8 - Insubstantial
Dec 9 - Osmosis
Dec 10 - Celebrity
Dec 11 - Insatiable
Dec 12 - Demented
Dec 13 - Emote
Dec 14 - And Nero Fiddled
Dec 15 - Mystery
Dec 16 - Thunder Rolled
Dec 17 - Love Autopsy
Dec 18 - Full Moon
Dec 19 - Beneath the skin
Dec 20 - Light and Shadow
Dec 21 - One, two, three, four.
Dec 22 - Set adrift on memory bliss
Dec 23 - Lyric
Dec 24 - The Surface of the Sun
Dec 25 - Cast away
Dec 26 - Proudly …… (fill in the blank and write)
Dec 27 - I don’t know
Dec 28 - Grace
Dec 29 - The Dance
Dec 30 - Forbidden
Dec 31 - Unforgiving.

So you see there is a prompt a day. If you are wondering where the forms come in, I will tell you right now.

The Forms of DFC '09

The form part of the challenge is different this year in that we are not setting specific forms for each day of December. This is because there are people who are absolutely insane with their fixed form torture regimens and people who haven't really touched fixed form at all before. To make sure that everyone is being challenged at their individual levels, I have created a list of 62 forms, which encompasses forms from many different nationalities and a variety of difficulty levels. With this list you are to choose your form for each day.

That doesn't mean you can do 31 sonnets and say you have completed DFC. Each form can only be used once. That way we are still doing a different form for each day, just with a lot more flexibility

Here is the form list and everything else you want to know regarding DFC!

So to recap:

DFC begins on the 1st of December 2009 at 12am GMT and ends this time again on the 1st of January 2010.

Stick to the prompt provided for that day.

Choose a form from the chart/list provided for you.

You can only choose each form once.

Like last year, you have 24 hours to complete each piece.

To be added to the list of participants featured in this and =kiwi-damnation's journal, you must note us to say you are participating.

Any piece submitted to dA as a part of the challenge should have a link to either this account or =kiwi-damnation's account, or you can link the news articles.

Please also mention in your artist's comments which form you are doing, so people know.

Fun is something we are aiming for and cultivating more skill in poetry. Please enjoy and relish the challenge, it only comes around once a year .

DFC Participants

All the people who say they really want to do DFC this year.

=kiwi-damnation
*IrrevocableFate
=Renegade-Angel23
~LadyShard
=XburiedinblackX
=peterdawes
~snopea
*ALovelyMeInside
*LadyMidnight81
=Scarlettletters
=mode-de-vie
=DragonsChest
~Progress-Regress
~teempee
=eladra18
~captain-neo-johnny
*Mistress-of-Kain
~darkrosefairy77
=MimozaBlooming
=Ferelwing
*BellaEzrebetFang
*TheAspenintheWillows
~becbecmuffin
~Tprince19

Note me or ~ProjectDFC to be put on this list.

I stole this also from ....


1. Introduction
2. Love
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again Breathe
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Cookies
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. Orly?
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can't
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation

400 Watcher Requests

1. =Renegade-Angel23
2. ~Phantomblue
3. ~EnkaOwakura
4. ~NyoSphere
5. *MaiSala

Fractal Requests

I have received all the requests from FFF and finished all Project Positivity's stuff so by count I have 4 left to complete. Please tell me if I am wrong.

*TyC113 - A raven
=Jazzman1989 - A turtle
~ComatoseEffect - Wispy and ethereal

Requests

Old requests that I have pretty much all done... I will have a look at them. I'm only a little hopeless!

1.`Flutterings: Her
2.~silent-tiger-shadow: Fire
3.~AquaEvilSoilder: Water

Clubs

I give permission to any of the clubs below to post the work I submit to them.

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