Since we decided last year to make the rhino our mascot last year, I remember someone throwing out a challenge to include one in our novels in some way.
So, here I am, challenging all my fellow D/FW Region NaNoWriMos to include a Rhinocerous in your novel. How it appears and what form it takes is up to you. Some suggestions ,might include a trip to the zoo, a statuette or carving, a big statue, a painting, a piece of jewelry, or maybe one is charging at your main character, who has to jump out of the way, spilling hot coffee all over that nice neat white shirt that he had just pressed to make it look great for the job interview he was on the way to. :D
Good luck with the challenge, and I'll see you at the finish line!
Grady
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NaNoWriMo 2005/2007 Winner -- The Storm (WIP)
NaNoWriMo 2006 Winner -- Dragon Secrets (WIP)
Script Frenzy 2007 Winner -- The Choice
NaNoWriMo 2008 Winner -- The Shifter
NaNoWriMo 2009 -- The Lion's Roar
62,207 / 50,000
Okt 23, 2009 - 22 43
In anticipation of someone mentioning this mascot challenge, either here on the forums or at the kick off party, I already figured out how I'm including my rhino this year. I'm writing about star-fighter pilots, so one of them has the call-sign "Rhino". Easy-peasy.
Last year, my "rhino" was a bipedal species genetically engineered to be body guards for the bad guy. Think rhinos walking on their back legs, about 8 feet tall and weighing something around 2 tons. The two main guards that were always with my bad guy were creatively named "Nano" and "Rhimo".
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2006 - lost
2007 - "The Dytek Enterprises Field Agent Handbook" - Win! - WIP
2008 - "Rendor Paxon (working title) Win! WIP
2009 - "Hunt Starfire's Phantom Phliers" Win! WI
40,000 / 50,000
Okt 23, 2009 - 22 55
Wow rthat is going to be a huge challenge for me. I habe no idea how I'm going to incorporate rhino into my novel since well... I don't know how what I'm saying anymore since I don't want to give the story line a way bc its not set in stone just yet..
41,467 / 50,000
Okt 24, 2009 - 04 28
Easy. I just have to remember to throw one in during the middle of the story; that will be my problem.
----------2009 - A journey through linguistical mastery via a penguin.
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50,025 / 50,000
Okt 24, 2009 - 05 07
Rhino powder used in a spell. I'm writing a paranormal so it could go anywhere.
Sara
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42,218 / 50,000
Okt 24, 2009 - 07 07
Hm. Maybe I could give one of my characters a rhino stuffed animal. I think she'd like that.
----------*lures my sanity into a cage* I love you, but you'll have to stay locked up until the end of the month.
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Okt 24, 2009 - 08 18
Hmmmm.... challenging.
----------Oh, I know... I can have a stuffed Rhino found with the body of my murdered surrogate mother. Yeah, that'll work. LOL
2004: Daniel In The Lion's Den (mystery/suspense)
2005: Two Women And A Girl: EGG, MAT, and MSG (mystery/suspense)
2007: Finding Emma Jane (fictionalized memoir)
2009: Foreplay (mystery/suspense)
54,080 / 50,000
Okt 24, 2009 - 19 16
I remember this last year, and I did it, but I don't remember how. I'm up for it again :)
ais
----------I Love November
38,412 / 50,000
Okt 24, 2009 - 19 51
Should be no problem for me. Now i have too many ideas about how a rhino will fit. Maybe multiple rhinos. Nah no over kill.
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Okt 24, 2009 - 19 52
Should be no problem for me. Now i have too many ideas about how a rhino will fit. Maybe multiple rhinos. Nah no over kill.
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42,403 / 50,000
Okt 24, 2009 - 20 53
Perfect...now I have my opening lines/scene...
Thanks!
----------Shedrick
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48,276 / 50,000
Okt 24, 2009 - 21 35
I'd wondered about the Rhino thing. I think I've got the perfect place for one in my novel.
15,137 / 50,000
Okt 25, 2009 - 15 24
I most definitely know how mine is going in. I'm incorporating the story that the SciFi genre team made at the DFW kickoff party. It's gonna be awesome. Special thanks to my team mates.
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40,000 / 50,000
Okt 25, 2009 - 15 31
the one about the farmer and the ass? LOL
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Okt 25, 2009 - 15 32
last year it was a figurative rhino (male mc woke up with a migraine that felt like a herd of rhinos trampled through his skull) this year i'm not sure. perhaps a zoo. perhaps a meal. mmmmrhino
----------NaNo09 - Forsaken - Won
Screnzy09 - Darkside - Won
NaNo08 - Darkside - Won
20,010 / 50,000
Okt 25, 2009 - 16 42
Oh fun! Will try. Somehow. Hmmm.
32,248 / 50,000
Okt 25, 2009 - 17 02
I KNOW EXACTLY HOW I'M GOING TO DO THIS. Bwahahaha. Telling would be ruining the "plan nothing" golden rule I stick to for NaNo. ;)
----------'02 - Whatever
'03 - Hand written (failed)
'04 - My Immortal (failed)
'05 - Why You Should Never Trust a Man
'06 - The Spaghetti Incident
'07 - Pepper Has an Adventure
'08 - The Book of Cedar
'09 - The Wall is a Unicorn
15,137 / 50,000
Okt 25, 2009 - 18 31
Check me out on Facebook, Livejournal, and or Twitter.
Yes the one about the farmer and the ass.
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Okt 26, 2009 - 03 42
I'm going to have to stretch for it this year, as my novel is set in the (more or less) modern day world, and I think a trip to the zoo is an incredibly boring thing for my characters to do (I love the zoo, but it seems like taking the easy way out, if you know what I mean).
Last year I had a time-travelling character end up at a hunting lodge in Africa that featured two massive taxidermied (is that a word?) rhinos at the door.
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62,207 / 50,000
Okt 26, 2009 - 04 24
Last year I had a time-travelling character end up at a hunting lodge in Africa that featured two massive taxidermied (is that a word?) rhinos at the door.
Wildlife calendar?
----------Someone's nickname?
An online ad/pop up for an African photo safari?
Perhaps a comparison to an ugly gray boxy automobile?
Indecision May Or May Not Be My Problem.
2005 - "Thieves At Heart" -Lost - WIP
2006 - lost
2007 - "The Dytek Enterprises Field Agent Handbook" - Win! - WIP
2008 - "Rendor Paxon (working title) Win! WIP
2009 - "Hunt Starfire's Phantom Phliers" Win! WI
8,210 / 50,000
Okt 26, 2009 - 10 22
Sara
Powdered rhino horn was the first thing that popped into my mind, too. Now I'll have to be a little more creative...
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Nov 1, 2009 - 10 57
I just added mine. It's in the form of a tramp stamp. I can't believe it just came at me. I was going to make the tattoo a butterfly, but has anyone ever seen a rhino tat? Okay, on to the next challenge.
----------Jeannie G
NaNo 2009 The Woman Within
NaNo 2008 Bridge Over Troubled Waters
NaNo 2007 Paper Roses
NaNo 2006 Turn of The Page
NaNo 2005 Any Way The Wind Blows
NaNo 2004 Bad Moon Rising
62,207 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 11 22
“Three,” called Jason Griffin, who wore the call sign ‘Rhino’ in the squadron ready room.
“Seven,” chimed in Jones after several seconds. Four had been Hansen, and Five had been Vincent, but there was no call from Six- Hans.
And there it is, in chapter one.
----------Indecision May Or May Not Be My Problem.
2005 - "Thieves At Heart" -Lost - WIP
2006 - lost
2007 - "The Dytek Enterprises Field Agent Handbook" - Win! - WIP
2008 - "Rendor Paxon (working title) Win! WIP
2009 - "Hunt Starfire's Phantom Phliers" Win! WI
94,417 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 23 22
My demon mmc ripped through the guards like a rhinoceros through tissue paper :D
----------NaNo09 - Forsaken - Won
Screnzy09 - Darkside - Won
NaNo08 - Darkside - Won
6,668 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 23 38
Undead rhino.
Who wants to be charged down by one of those?
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Nov 2, 2009 - 02 06
I've put a rhino in my novel as well. He's a stuffed animal named Crash belonging to my FMC. :-)
Good luck and have fun with your projects everyone!
Holli
----------NaNo '04 - Crown of Thorns (won)
NaNo '05 - Shadow and Betrayal (won) - Available now at New Concepts Publishing
NaNo '06 - Balance (won)
NaNo '07 - Ashes of a Dream (won)
NaNo '08 - Lovers' Curse (won)
NaNo '09 - Out of the Fire (won)
62,207 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 04 48
Who wants to be charged down by one of those?
Zombie Rhinos? Nice!
(Won't that be some of us later this month as we try to catch up on word counts?? LOL)
----------Indecision May Or May Not Be My Problem.
2005 - "Thieves At Heart" -Lost - WIP
2006 - lost
2007 - "The Dytek Enterprises Field Agent Handbook" - Win! - WIP
2008 - "Rendor Paxon (working title) Win! WIP
2009 - "Hunt Starfire's Phantom Phliers" Win! WI
40,071 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 09 08
I think my Dead Body (mystery/thriller/paranormal) will be found with a stuffed rhino. Or perhaps one will be left at her memorial by one of her friends.
51,212 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 13 10
I have two ideas for a rhino. And this is just from the past two minutes as I read through this, because I didn't know this existed! I'm actually pretty excited now, even though I STILL don't know which of my many plots I'm actually going to pursue. (All? Yes... quite possibly.)
46,652 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 13 20
Who wants to be charged down by one of those?
Zombie Rhinos? Nice!
(Won't that be some of us later this month as we try to catch up on word counts?? LOL)
ROFL to both of you! Thanks for the laugh! It's a pretty rough time at work (closing the books for October) so I kinda needed a laugh. :)
BTW, as for my own contribution, I haven't written in the Rhino yet, but maybe I'll cheese out like I did last year and have my MC cuddling a stuffed Rhino for comfort.
----------NaNoWriMo 2008 Winner -- A Special Case (Horror/Urban Fantasy)
NaNoWriMo 2009 -- Death Can Wait (Mainstreem Fiction)
15,303 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 11 36
No idea how I'll include a Rhino in my story, but I promise to try!
----------NaNoWriMo 2009 - Man's Best Friend