The "I Just Completed a NaNoDare!" ShoutOut

Oh yeah, I forgot, I had another Dare that I got finished

- the first line of your story must be: "Where the hell are my pants?"

It was through my MC looking for his pants, that he ended up accidentally putting on his sister's yellow socks with pink bunnies on them, so I ended up using 2 dares in one with that! YAY!

and an update on the rancid yak butter - part of the dare was to use it as a weapon, well, I haven't used it as a weapon yet, but the fact that my MC's mom is using it to make Garlic Bread in a story about vampires - yeah, there's a good chance of my using rancid yak butter as a weapon at some point before Nov 30th rolls around! YAY!

YAY! I couldn't find the original rancid yak butter dare, and I couldn't remember which year's archive it was in, but at the Saco meetings we've been talking about a million and one ways to use rancid yak butter - it's like been the main topic of discussion at every meeting so far! LOL!

We've talked about using it to build Igloos with, filling the White House with it instead of jello ;), ways to use it as a weapon, etc.

I couldn't figure out what to do with it until last night when midnight struck and I started writing. My plot I was going to write was about Jack Frost and a Frost Zombie apocalypse. But it was Halloween and my shelves are full of Vincent Price and Bela Lugosi DVDs and I spent 3 days watching nothing but.

I was still watching them when midnight rolled around and I got to start typing. And that's when something strange happened - I found myself writing about 3 kids who saw this box being delivered to a deserted house and it turns out to be Dracula's coffin, and they meet up with Bela Lugosi and for some odd reason one of the boy's mother has joined a Tibetan yoga group that is lead by a monk that raises yaks and makes yak butter and so, the kids come home from discovering that Dracula has moved in next door to find their mom cooking garlic bread with rancid yak butter! LOL!

OMG! I have no idea where any of that came from, except I spent 3 meetings talking about rancid yak butter followed by three days of vampre movies and ended up writing that. I think the kids are going to end up fighting Dracula with Rancid Yak Butter Garlic Bread - and the way it's going right now, rancid yak butter is going to be a MAJOR plot element this year! LOL!

I must rush back to the Dare Thread and find more dares. OMG! I love Dares, I'm going to try to have at least one dare on every page of my entire novel this year. :)

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Well my novel is all dares, so the first dare was the "Where the hell are my pants"

Now I am working I didn't know duct tape could be used like that.

Nicole

I didn't complete any dares, and I don't intend to, but I did make several references to members and mini-memes from my favorite website.

So far?

I've included the lines "You're allowed to have the initial reaction of wanting to punch him in the face" and "Clearly, I need to watch more commercial television" as well as "Have you been borrowing my body again?" though instead of the opening line, it was the first piece of dialogue, about halfway down page one.

I've had a character say "Brillo!" but not enough to make it a regular thing. (He also says "brilliant" which is kind of cheating, but I'm trying to squeeze an absurd amount of misplaced slang into one character.)

My character's NaNo has been mentioned twice (though in-story it's still October 31). His note cards full of dares are currently being held hostage until he stops being whiney and boring.

One half of my "Two characters named after a romantic couple" has appeared - Mark Anthony is there, but Cleopatra won't appear for two more scenes. They hate each other.

My antagonist who is in love with my protagonist has made one cameo appearance. She doesn't even remotely like him yet, though, so I don't know if it counts.

The "Ghost who communicates by rearranging fridge magnets" has made his appearance, reminded everyone they are out of milk, and attacked a character who annoyed him by throwing open the fridge door. Go, Herman!

One of my characters has twice said "Four-two" instead of "everything" (not "forty-two" though, because I want to make it more clear that it's slang).

Also, same character has been regularly failing with his figures of speech (and grammar), though I've yet to get a good wordy explanation of any.

"Have a situation where two souls inhabit one body" - not quite, but I left off with my MC discussing how his incorporeal alien friend sometimes uses his body as a host, yet he doesn't find this as odd as you might expect.

Word of the day - Irenic. Totally fit right in.

I have included two tropes by name: Weirdness magnet (my title) and Badass Longcoat.

So far, 10 out of 100 correctly-used semi-colons. Boo-ya!

Also, there was a dare about having a time traveler appear in the middle of your novel, bp if it was the Doctor, etc - my time traveler has already appeared, *dressed as* the Doctor, introduced as the Doctor, goes by the name John Smith, and has been making a very long string of DW references for most of the last 15 pages. I want at least partial credit, dammit!

Title: Weirdness Magnet
Pages: 130
Semicolons: 119
Nights spent dreaming of story: 6
Geek references: 142
Capes/Badass longcoats: 5
Status: Spent the day brainstorming and is now too scared of her villain to write. Or sleep.

I am now 5100 words in and I already have: pirate language (that was a fairly easy one) and a telepathic rock.

Liberace just ran through my NaNovel as a vampire that wears pink sparkles :)

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