A thread inspired by The Shovel of Death thread.
(For more on The Shovel of Death... http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3266137 )
There is of course, our Region's Patron Saint of NaNo Wordfiller, the highly esteemed Katherine Bloodsaw.
"Why I'm Katherine Bloodsaw and I'm (insert warm and fuzzy career choice)."
"Bloodsaw? Really? and you're a (insert profession)"
etc etc etc.
There is also the classic holdover from my NYC days, The Man Who Says Dorf.
"Main Character entered the elevator, in a rush to begin their hunt for the McGuffin. "can I press a floor for you?" he asked the oddly silent man.
"Dorf," the man said cheerfully.
"Four?"
"Dorf." He insisted, and MC stared a moment before hitting the button for the ground floor.
"So you're... foreign?"
"Dorf. Dorf dorf, dorf?"
etc etc etc
The McGuffin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin
Death, or Smut - the two biggest word-count boosters. Your characters are fully engaged in a full sensory experience that obviously needs to be described in painstaking, genre-appropriate detail.
Ninjas, also known as "Just Add Ninjas" - do as the name suggests. Ninjas will either guide the plot into a fun and interesting new dimension, or they can be a random stormcloud in an otherwise ninja-free novel.
The dream sequence - anything and everything could happen, and it's so much fun, it could *become* your novel.
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Nov 5, 2009 - 10 09
And for bonus points, make them Cyborg Ninja Kittens!
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Nov 6, 2009 - 03 14
Oh, the ninja trick! I heartily suggest this. Last year my plucky heroes walked out of the darkness of a cave into moonlight for the first time in any of their lives... and got caught up in the middle of a bunch of zombies doing their very best Thriller.
----------Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati.
-Ash