The Hobbit Hole XXXIV - But better than rain or rippling streams...

[Lil'freeper]

I think Carl/Karl Rove would be a fun character to have in a Nano story. Just some guy named Carl who is constantly having to say, "Har har har. I'm not *that* Carl Rove!" (like the Michael Bolton character in Office Space).

[Corin Stormhands]

I could do that. He could be the weather guy at the Atlanta newspaper.

So, who’s keeping the Nano list this year. Seems like, in our conversations, we have:

1) 1 Stuck-up-sticky-beak (a.k.a. “thread dementor”) who likes to suck the life out of every party.

2) 1 Not Carl Rove.

[RosieCotton]

I may end up attempting the start of a fairly serious story...one that I’ve avoided tackling because I tend to take it too seriously. ;-) NaNo might help cure me of that, but I’d also probably skip out on any lists.

But we’ll see. Maybe I’ll do my usual last minute change of plot on about October 30th. It’s tradition.

[Corin Stormhands]

fours

[Corin Stormhands]

I’d have trouble including ninjas and llamas. But I can throw in an obscure character here and there.

[Lil'freeper]

The year we did ninjas and llamas, I had them appear on shirts. Nano dot technology has the potential to do things like computer screens in thin, flexible materials. I interpreted that into fabric which would be made into animated shirts. The character's favorite was the ninja shirt that had hordes of ninja's battling each other.

My thread dementor character is going to be the parents of a young entrepeneur in Flagstaff, AZ. The entrepeneur plays the role of a Flagstaff hippie (its an act - for marketing purposes) and owns a new age book store. She's putting herself through school that way, taking classes at night. The shop doubles as her apartment. Her parents can't see that she's in business to be in business (and its a good business in that part o' the world), not because she's embraced new age mysticism. To them it's immoral. She should own a Christian bookstore and that's that.

[JenB]

Hmm, not sure I’ll manage NaNo this year. If I get into this class I want desperately to take I may not have time.

[Corin Stormhands]

I had the grandkids talking about the llamas and the ninjas. It worked.

[Corin Stormhands]

*ahem*

IIRC you’re the one that started this nonsense in the first place.

[Ramius]

Afternoon folkses!

Here at da aeroport again. Goin’ on back to the g -er... bay area yet again.

Yip. Eee. :-)

[JenB]

Yes but I’m not sure I can work, take a class, have a life, keep my husband happy, and still do NaNo. I mean, Talon’s pretty understanding about little things like not washing dishes or vaccuuming for weeks on end but if I stop bathing he might complain.

[Corin Stormhands]

You just need the right equipment to multitask.

[Overtaxed]

Maybe I’ll do my usual last minute change of plot on about October 30th.

Plot? What plot? I don't need no steenkin' plot!

[RosieCotton]

Well...topic, then. Kinda. ;-)

Usually I kind of have a first scene in mind, anyway.

From there...well, let the pieces fall where they may.

Maybe I’ll also do NaNo on the typewriter this year. Just to be completely insane.

[RosieCotton]

So...who needs to have a life??

[Overtaxed]

How’re you going to submit it?

[RosieCotton]

Plotless in Perfect Village sounds like a good working title, actually...

[RosieCotton]

Either scan or guesstimate by counting three or four pages and then do a dummy document.

I don’t know if I’m really that crazy, though.

[JenB]

Not me I guess....

[Lil'freeper]

Exsqueeze me? I don’t want to hear any of this nanoshirking talk.